| July 2006 |
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Russia is concerned that Georgia might be planning to make the Kodori Gorge a "beachhead" for an offensive against Abkhazia to bring the breakaway region under its control, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said Friday. 
Rosneft [LSE: ROSN] said Friday its net profit calculated to Russian Accounting Standards had increased by 11.3% to 77.5 billion rubles ($2.8 billion) year on year in the first half of 2006. 
Russia has called for European courts to issue rulings free of politics after the European Court of Human Rights obliged the government to pay compensation to a Chechen woman whose son disappeared in Chechnya.
North Korea's bilateral problems with the United States and Japan should be kept off the agenda of the six-nation talks on the Korean peninsula's nuclear problem, Russia's foreign minister said Friday. 
All possible agreements on the Middle East peace process should be coordinated with all forces in Lebanon, including with Hizbollah, Russia's foreign minister said Friday. 
Russia's Foreign Ministry said Friday it hoped the UN Security Council would act decisively to end the bloodshed in the Israeli-Lebanese conflict. 
Armenia's top civil aviation official said Friday that the May crash of an Armenian Airbus into the Black Sea had been largely because the crew panicked in the last few seconds of the flight. 
The president of Georgia's self-proclaimed republic of Abkhazia said Friday that Georgia had torpedoed four-party talks on resolving the long-running conflict. 
A warlord believed to have been involved in an attack on an army convoy in the southeast of Chechnya in early July has been killed, Russia's Interior Ministry said Friday. 
A warlord believed to have been involved in an attack on an army convoy in the southeast of Chechnya in early July has been killed, Russia's Interior Ministry said Friday. 



