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Russia’s Dinara Safina trounced Victoria Azarenka of Belarus 6-3 6-1 in the Los Angles Classic quarter-finals, and will meet top-seed Jelena Jankovic of Serbia in the semis on Saturday evening.

Moscow police have detained a Belarusian national found to be carrying a home-made bomb outside a train station in central Moscow, a police source said.

Belarus and Venezuela agreed on Wednesday to boost energy cooperation and develop projects currently being implemented by the Petrolera BeloVenezolana joint oil venture in the South American country.

Russian energy giant Gazprom reserves the right to take Belarus to court if the country fails to pay in full for Russian natural gas supplies, the company said on Wednesday.

Belarusian security officers have detained three people as part of the investigation into a July 3 explosion in the capital Minsk, the head of the capital’s state security service said on Wednesday.

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko was within the range of the explosive device that went off on the night of July 3 during Independence Day celebrations in Minsk, a national news agency said on Monday.

A Belarusian oil producer and a Venezuelan oil servicing company have signed an agreement to set up a joint venture, a spokesman for state-owned Belorusneft said Wednesday.

Russia and Belarus denounce any attempts to revise the results of World War Two, a joint declaration by the presidents of both countries said on Sunday.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will discuss the fulfillment of energy agreements and the prospects of bilateral economic cooperation with his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko, a Kremlin source said on Sunday.

Belarus will take on the rotating presidency of the CIS council of prime ministers at a session in Minsk on Friday, the country’s Foreign Ministry said on Thursday.

The Belarusian Foreign Ministry summoned on Wednesday the U.S. charge d’affaires in Minsk, Jonathan Moore, and handed him a list of U.S. diplomats considered personae non gratae by the former Soviet state.

Belarus has cut its diplomatic staff in its embassy in the U.S. to seven and is advising the U.S. to follow suit, a deputy Belarusian foreign minister said Wednesday.