| March 2008 |
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Russia's Central Election Commission (CEC) announced the official results Friday of the March 2 presidential elections with Kremlin-backed Dmitry Medvedev gaining 70.28% of the vote. 
The parliament of Georgia's breakaway republic of Abkhazia appealed on Friday to the United Nations and Russia to recognize its independence, citing Kosovo as a precedent. 
Ukraine's president again criticized on Friday his prime minister's role in a long-running dispute with Russia on natural gas supplies. 
Russia strongly condemns a devastating double bombing in the Iraqi capital which killed at least 68 people and injured over 130, Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Friday. 
Foreign and defense ministers from Russia and France are to meet in Paris on March 11 for a session of the Russian-French Council for Security Cooperation. 
The Georgian Foreign Ministry said on Friday it was seriously concerned over Russia's decision to lift sanctions against Georgia's breakaway republic of Abkhazia. 
A Palestinian gunman shot at least eight people dead in the library of a Jewish seminary in Jerusalem, in the worst terrorist attack to hit the city in four years. 



