| April 2008 |
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Georgia could use force in the near future over its breakaway Abkhazia and South Ossetia as the May 21 parliamentary elections approach, a senior Russian Foreign Ministry official said on Friday. 
Iran regards the decision by Azerbaijan to seize equipment en route from Russia to the Iranian Bushehr nuclear power plant nearly a month ago as "a technical problem," Iran's envoy said Friday. 
A huge beaver crashed into a food store near the south Urals city of Chelyabinsk on Friday smashing a shop window and several bottles of vodka, local officials said. 
Russia's foreign minister said Friday Georgia's NATO membership will not solve its problems with its breakaway regions which are in far deeper crisis than relations between Moscow and Tbilisi. 
Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova will visit Chernobyl this summer to draw attention to problems still facing the regions worst hit by the 1986 nuclear disaster, a UN spokesperson said on Friday. 
The first Sukhoi Superjet 100 medium-haul passenger airliner has completed ground tests and been cleared for its maiden flight, the manufacturer's press service said on Friday. 
The European Commission expects to receive a mandate for talks on a new partnership deal with Russia in Luxembourg on April 29, the head of the commission's delegation to Russia said on Friday. 
Japan's prime minister will arrive in Moscow on Friday on an official visit, and will seek to establish ties with the country's president-elect ahead of the Group of Eight summit to be held Japan in July.
The Council of Europe's commissioner for human rights, Thomas Hammarberg, will meet with Russia's outgoing President Vladimir Putin and president-elect Dmitry Medvedev on Friday. 



