| July 2008 |
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Russia submitted a draft resolution to the UN Security Council on Tuesday on the situation in Georgia, amid escalating tensions in the country's breakaway regions, Russia's envoy to the UN said. 
Russia's Foreign Ministry said Tuesday that Moscow would be forced to respond to U.S. plans to place a missile defense radar in the Czech Republic, after the two sides signed an agreement earlier in the day. 
Russia's nuclear power equipment and service export monopoly is looking at working in Chile and Ecuador, a high-ranking Atomstroyexport official said Tuesday. 
Russia's top investigators said on Tuesday they have made substantial progress in investigating the 2006 killing of a Russian security service defector in London, and rejected claims of the Kremlin's role in his death. 
The Russian president's desire for an improvement in relations with Britain does not mean that Moscow will review its position on a series of disputes that have soured bilateral ties of late, a senior lawmaker said on Tuesday. 
Proton collisions at the world's most powerful particle accelerator that some theorists say could create matter-consuming black holes should not be expected until the fall, a Russian physicist said Tuesday. 
Russia and Japan have failed to make progress on the territorial dispute over the Kuril Islands, a Kremlin aide said on Tuesday after a meeting between Russia's president and the Japanese PM. 
Leaders of the G8 group of industrialized nations have agreed at a summit in Japan on joint efforts to fight a growth in global food prices, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Tuesday. 
Russia is preparing an application to the UN in order to gain the right to widen the country's territorial borders in the Arctic, a Russian lawmaker said on Tuesday. 
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev voiced alarm over the United States' increasing tendency to seek military solutions to political problems, in an appeal to presidential candidates published on Tuesday.
Georgia's breakaway republic of Abkhazia will never agree to a U.S. proposal to replace Russian peacekeepers currently serving in the region with an international police force, the Abkhaz foreign minister said on Tuesday. 



