| August 2006 |
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Russia proposes that the UN Security Council adopt an interim resolution to demand a ceasefire in Lebanon in the event member-states fail to come to terms on the French-American draft, a deputy foreign minister said Tuesday. 
Russia will launch shipments of humanitarian aid to war-torn Lebanon on Thursday, the agency managing state material reserves said Tuesday. 
Leaders of Russia's Christian and Muslim communities joined counterparts around the world Tuesday in voicing their disapproval of a controversial section in Madonna's current world tour.
"Our embassy in Russia has started preparations for the visit," Foreign Minister Boris Tarasyuk said adding that he would attend a session of the Russian-Ukrainian committee for economic cooperation. 
A deputy Russian foreign minister said Tuesday Russia advocated revitalization of a UN-chaired coordination council set up to break a long-standing impasse over the status of a Georgia's breakaway republic. 
"The Georgian side is ready to accept UN monitoring of the gorge provided that Russia's participation in the effort is minimal - no more than one person in the team, and that no Russian helicopters are used to monitor the area," Irakly Okruashvili said. 
Two policemen have died in the hospital after an assassination attempt on the interior minister of the southern Russian republic of Daghestan, a doctor at the hospital said. 
The presidents of Russia and Moldova met Tuesday in Moscow to discuss the resolution of a conflict with Moldova's breakaway republic of Transdnestr. 
Russia's cultural heritage watchdog said Tuesday an inventory had identified the theft of drawings and graphic designs by a famous Soviet-era constructivist architect from state archives in the latest scandal to rock the country's art world. 
The interior minister of the southern Russian republic of Daghestan survived an assassination attempt Tuesday morning but a regional prosecutor was killed in an earlier car bombing, a spokesman said. 



