| February 2008 |
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Russia could possibly recognize the independence of Georgia's breakaway republics of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, but a serious crisis in the CIS would follow, a top Russian lawmaker said on Tuesday. 
Russia and Algeria should evaluate trade and economic relations and resolve all issues preventing their further development, the Algerian president said on Tuesday at a meeting with his Russian counterpart. 
Russia should be able to destroy all its stockpiles of chemical weapons by 2012, a first deputy prime minister said on Tuesday. 
Russia's ambassador to India said Tuesday that the Defexpo 2008 exhibition is a good opportunity for Russia to broaden its military and technical cooperation with India and Asia Pacific countries. 
Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence will destroy the entire system of international law and cause a chain reaction of similar moves, a Russian first deputy prime minister said on Tuesday. 
Kosovo's declaration of independence on Sunday will not affect Russian peacekeepers in Georgia's breakaway republics of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, the chief of the General Staff said on Tuesday. 
The deployment of a EU mission to Kosovo without the permission of the UN Security Council violates UN resolution 1244, Russia's envoy to the UN said on Tuesday. 



