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 "Case materials are being prepared to be submitted to a court tomorrow to choose a measure of restraint for the man," Anatoly Bagmet said. Inna Chernysheva and her daughters Margarita, 12, and Yekaterina, 7, were killed on Saturday in southeastern Moscow. Chernysheva"s son discovered the bodies. The businessman, Yury Merkind, said his debts made him kill his family. Merkind turned himself in to police in the city of Vladimir east of Moscow on Saturday evening.
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The Cosmos-3M rocket lifted off earlier on Tuesday from the Plesetsk space center in northwest Russia. The military satellite is a new addition to a Russian network of about 60-70 military reconnaissance satellites. The Cosmos-3M is a liquid-fueled two-stage rocket, first launched in 1967, with over 410 successful launches to date. The booster has been designed to lift a payload of up to 1,500 kg (3,300 lbs) into low, medium, and high orbits. 
Maxim Surayev has manually piloted the Soyuz TMA-16 from its usual docking port on the ISS to the new Poisk module, a Russian Mission Control spokesman said. He was assisted by U.S. astronaut Jeff Williams who was also on board the Soyuz spacecraft during the 25-minute operation. The task has been carried out to free up a docking port on the Russian Zvezda module and to test for the first time the performance of a docking port on the new scientific Poisk module that arrived
on the ISS in November last year. 
The Admiral Chabanenko destroyer from Russia"s Northern Fleet, which is presently replenishing its supplies from the Lena tanker, began escorting commercial ships in the Gulf of Aden on December 4. "The warship is expected to start escorting a regular convoy off the Horn of Africa on Tuesday," the spokesman said. A Russian task force comprising the Admiral Chabanenko and a support ship arrived in the Gulf of Aden in late November 2009 to resume Russia"s
anti-piracy mission.