| July 2006 |
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Russia has conducted a launch of an RS-20 Voyevoda (SS-18 Satan) intercontinental ballistic missile from a silo in the Urals to launch a U.S. civilian satellite into orbit, the press service of the Strategic Missile Forces said Wednesday. 
Russia's Federal Security Service said Wednesday it had received a warning that Georgia had been planning a provocation in its breakaway region of South Ossetia during the Group of Eight summit to be held this weekend in St. Petersburg. 
Russian President Vladimir Putin urged the European Union to review the human rights implications of its current policy in the Baltic States, and warned against "double standards", in a statement released by the Kremlin press service Wednesday. 
Russia's leadership went on the diplomatic offensive Wednesday with the foreign minister launching an attack on a draft UN resolution on North Korea and the president urging caution to avoid wrecking progress on the Iranian nuclear problem. 
Russia is a "natural member" of the Group of Eight but the country will never submit to foreign pressure on its way to democracy or in pursuing its energy policy, the president told Western media Wednesday. 



