| May 2006 |
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"We fought together against fascism, and, besides, we are linked by human relations. Georgia and Russia are neighbors... and we are destined to have good-neighborly relations," Saakashvili said.
The family of Chechen separatist leader Aslan Maskhadov, killed in a security operation by Russia's FSB in March 2005, asked Finland for political asylum, a Helsinki-based Caucasus organization said Tuesday.
The Bezymyanny volcano has erupted on the Kamchatka peninsula in Russia's Far East, a local seismology official said Tuesday.
"It is my personal opinion that the main goal of the Russian army is to prevent a war similar to the one that our ancestors lived through, because, God forbid, if we allow this war to happen, it will be much worse than the previous one," Yury Baluyevsky said. 
Rescue teams are continuing Tuesday an international effort to retrieve the flight recorders of an Armenian plane that crashed off Russia's Black Sea coast last week. 
Speaking during a military parade at Moscow's Red Square dedicated to the 61st anniversary of the Great Victory, the president said that the defeat of fascism should serve as a lesson and a warning to those who incite race hate and xenophobia.
Lavrov said the foreign ministers of the Iran Six had agreed that direct negotiations on Iran's nuclear program should be resumed and the provisions of the Non-Proliferation Treaty should be observed by all means. 
Commemorative events will be held all across Russia Tuesday to mark the end of World War II.



