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11:36 GMT, May 07, 2008 Latest Headlines...

Medvedev has assumed control of "Nuclear Button"

     MOSCOW.  May 7 (Interfax) - Control over Russia's strategic nuclear
forces has  been  handed over to Dmitry Medvedev, Russia's new president
sworn in  on  Wednesday  and  commander-in-chief  of  the  Russian armed
forces, in the Kremlin's Block 14, an Interfax correspondent reports.
     Medvedev heard a report from the officers-on-duty, colonels Nikolai
Radov and Mikhail Sirotkin.
     The "Nuclear Briefcase" was handed over to Medvedev in the presence
of Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov.

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