* Mwakikagile, Godfrey Nyerere and Africa: End of an Era, Third Edition, Pretoria, South Africa, 2006, on Angola in Chapter 11, " American Involvement in Angola and Southern Africa: Nyerere's Response ", pp. 324 – 346, ISBN 978-0-9802534-1-2.

The debate continues unabated – e. g. S. Georg 2004, A. Vovin 2005, S. Georg 2005 ( anti-Altaic ); S. Starostin 2005, V. Blažek 2006, M. Robbeets 2007, A. Dybo and G. Starostin 2008 ( pro-Altaic ).

* 1908 – Robert Lee Scott, Jr., American pilot ( d. 2006 )

* 1930 – Michał Życzkowski, Polish technician ( d. 2006 )

* 1945 – Lee Jong-wook, Korean Director-General of the World Health Organization ( d. 2006 )

* 1974 – Belinda Emmett, Australian actor ( d. 2006 )

* 1923 – Al Lewis, American actor ( d. 2006 )

* 2006 – Comair Flight 5191 crashes on takeoff from Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky bound for Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia.

* 1913 – Nina Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg, Russian-German wife of Claus von Stauffenberg ( d. 2006 )

* 1925 – Darry Cowl, French actor ( d. 2006 )

* 1922 – Freddie Laker, English businessman, founded Laker Airways ( d. 2006 )

* 1924 – Samuel Bowers, American murder, co-founded White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan ( d. 2006 )

* 2006 – At least 21 suspected terrorists are arrested in the 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot that happened in the United Kingdom.

* 1971 – James Kim, American journalist and technology expert ( d. 2006 )

* 1986 – Rafaela Zanella, Brazilian model, Miss Brasil 2006

Telephones – main lines in use: 37, 500 ( 2006 )

Telephones – mobile cellular: 110, 200 ( 2006 ) ( APUA PCS, Cable & Wireless, Digicel )

* 1918 – Noor Hassanali, Trinidadian-Tobagonian politician, 2nd President of Trinidad and Tobago ( d. 2006 )

Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka ( Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2006 ), pp. 243 – 261

The wicketkeeper-batsman position was held by Ian Healy for most of the 1990s and by Adam Gilchrist from 2001 to 2006 – 07.

With several England players having retired or been injured after the 2005 series, Australia regained The Ashes in the 2006 – 07 series with a convincing 5 – 0 victory, the second time an Ashes series has been won by that margin.

* 1922 – Gábor Agárdy, Hungarian actor ( d. 2006 )

* 1932 – Lamar Hunt, American sports executive ( d. 2006 )

It was controversially shut down by the Russian authorities in June 2006, at the height of a Russian-Georgian spy scandal.

On November 1, 2006, the Armenian government handed de facto control of the Iran-Armenia gas pipeline to Russian company Gazprom and increased Gazprom's stake in the Russian-Armenian company ArmRosGazprom from 45 % to 58 % by approving an additional issue of shares worth $ 119 million.

Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko's 2006 murder by radiation poisoning is thought to have been carried out with polonium-210, an alpha emitter.

* 1958 – Anna Politkovskaya, Russian journalist ( d. 2006 )

Much of the air defense system is integrated into the Russian defense network, and in 2006 the two nations signed an agreement on the creation of a unified air defense system.

In 2006 four batteries ( divizions in Russian terminology ; about 6 systems each ) of S-300 anti-aircraft systems were acquired from Russia to reinforce the Joint CIS Air Defense System.

In the 2006 anime Black Lagoon, the nickname of the local Russian mob boss is " Balalaika ".

* Euphoria ( film ), a Russian 2006 dramatic film by Ivan Vyrypayev

* 1947 – Victor Sokolov, Russian journalist ( d. 2006 )

In April 2006, Scottish & Newcastle plc announced that it had agreed to acquire the Foster ’ s brand in Europe ( including Turkey ), the Russian Federation and other countries in the Commonwealth of Independent States from Foster ’ s Group Limited for approximately £ 309 million.

It is also a central theme of the 2006 Russian film Ostrov.

In November 2005 it was announced that Led Zeppelin, and Russian conductor Valery Gergiev, were the winners of the 2006 Polar Music Prize.

The current Ambassador of Mauritius to Russia is Mahendr Dosieah, who presented his Letters of Credence to Russian President Vladimir Putin on 25 July 2006.

The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has called the 2006 Freedom in the World report " prefabricated ", stating that the human rights issues have been turned into a political weapon in particular by the United States.

The growth of traffic between Europe and Asia is an additional opportunity ; more than 6, 000 km of international communication cables were built during the first nine months of 2007, representing a 48. 5 % increase on 2006, according to the Russian Ministry of Communication and Mass Media.

In March 2006, Russian President Vladimir Putin became the first foreign leader to visit the monastery.

* August 30 – Alexander Litvinenko, Russian ex-KGB colonel and ex-FSB lieutenant-colonel ( d. 2006 )

Nevertheless, Russian President Vladimir Putin stated in September 2006 that Russia might veto a UN Security Council proposal on Kosovo's final status that applied different standards than those applied to the separatist Georgian regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

Another 2006 book on spycraft attributes authorship to Vladimir Orlov ( 1882 – 1941 ), a former aide to Baron Wrangel during the Russian Civil War.

* Transit ( 2006 film ), a 2006 film about Russian and American pilots in World War II

* Russian — Koshkin, Nikita: " Pierrot and Harlequin ", from Masquerades, II ( 1988 ; guitar ); Voronov, Grigori: Pierrot and Harlequin ( n. d. 2006 ; saxophone and piano ).

* Set a century after the Russian Revolution, 2017 is a novel by Olga Slavnikova, and the winner of the 2006 Booker-Open Russia Literary Prize.

The Russian Federation claims to have developed the most advanced MIRV system as of 2006 for use in the RSM-56 Bulava.