| June 2006 |
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Russian President Vladimir Putin accepted his Georgian counterpart Mikheil Saakashvili's proposal to hold a bilateral meeting during a telephone conversation Saturday, the Kremlin press service said. 
The Russian embassy in Baghdad confirmed media reports Saturday that one of its officials had been killed and four abducted in the Iraqi capital. "A group of unidentified gunmen attacked the [Russian] embassy's vehicle at 1:45 p.m. Moscow time [9:45 a.m. GMT] in Baghdad's eastern Mansour district," embassy spokesman Igor Markov told RIA Novosti on the phone. Markov said one embassy employee had been killed and four kidnapped, but did not specify whether these people were diplomats.
Europe's ban on incoming flights by Russian jets failing to comply with its new noise and safety standards is aimed at making the country's aircraft industry less competitive, the Russian Air Force commander said Saturday.
Russia completed the biannual rotation of its peacekeeping contingent in South Ossetia Saturday as a motorcade with 500 troops left Georgia's breakaway province after being replaced with fresh personnel. 



