- 21:41 08/05/2008
Russia should give Serbia legal support with its plans to appeal to an international court Kosovo's declaration of independence, a senior Russian MP said Thursday. 
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The threat of war between Georgia and Russia is still relevant, the president of the ex-Soviet Caucasus state said on Thursday. "I believe we were very close [to war with Russia], and this threat remains in place," Mikheil Saakashvili told reporters, adding that Georgia did not want armed conflict.
- 18:36 08/05/2008
Georgia's breakaway republic of Abkhazia has shot down a Georgian surveillance drone, the fifth since the beginning of the year, the defense minister said on Thursday.
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- 17:39 08/05/2008
Thailand has received an official request from Washington to extradite an alleged Russian arms dealer to the U.S. where he has been indicted on charges of conspiracy to kill Americans, the Russian Embassy in Bangkok said.
- 17:11 08/05/2008
Russia registered a $1.3 bln trade deficit with the United States in 2007 for the first time in seven years, the economics ministry said on Thursday.
- 16:58 08/05/2008
Russia's lower house of parliament approved Vladimir Putin as prime minister on Thursday, a day after he stepped down as president following eight years as head of state.
- 16:42 08/05/2008
Georgia's defense minister denied Thursday that the country planned to wage war against its breakaway republics of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. "We are not going to attack or start a war against anyone," David Kezerashvili told Russian journalists. "I do not think Georgia looks like a country that has gone mad and suddenly decided to wage a war against Russia," he said.
- 16:27 08/05/2008
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One of Vladimir Putin's last actions as head of state was to sign a decree implementing a UN Security Council resolution imposing new sanctions against Iran.
- 14:47 08/05/2008
- 14:36 08/05/2008
Russia's lower house of parliament approved Vladimir Putin as prime minister on Thursday, a day after he stepped down as president following eight years as head of state.
- 14:25 08/05/2008
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will visit China on May 23-24, the official spokesman for China's Foreign Ministry said on Thursday.
