| July 2008 |
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At least one police officer and one gunman were killed Monday in a shootout in the center of Nazran, the largest city in the southern Russian republic of Ingushetia, a local law enforcement source said. 
Russia's Foreign Minister told his Zimbabwean counterpart on Monday that the African country's leadership and opposition must show restraint to bring an end to the conflict. 
Russia may launch a joint venture with China to continue the development of a new passenger airliner, MS-21, the head of a Russian state-run aviation corporation said on Monday. 
Georgia plans to increase the strength of its armed forces by 5,000 personnel to 37,000 amid growing tensions with Russia over two breakaway provinces, a senior lawmaker said Monday. 
More than 60 Russian defense-industry companies are taking part in the Farnborough air show that opened on Monday, southwest of the British capital. 
The Russian Navy has resumed a military presence around the Arctic Ocean archipelago of Spitsbergen, which belongs to Norway, a navy statement said on Monday. 
Russia and Kazakhstan will hold joint military exercises in 2009-2011, the two countries' defense ministers announced in Moscow on Monday. 
Russia's leading aircraft maker Sukhoi plans to produce its new state-of-the-art Su-35 Flanker-E multirole fighter plane over a period of 10 years up to 2020, the company's general director said. 
Over 30 people who attended an open air music festival near Moscow in early July have suffered eyesight damage, with doctors fearing the effect could be permanent, the Kommersant daily reported on Monday. 
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has said he will discuss plans to set up a joint Russian-Venezuelan banking venture during his visit to Moscow on July 22. 
U.S. President George W. Bush has ordered the Treasury to immediately launch a plan to strengthen the country's two largest mortgage finance firms, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the White House said.
Two more children were diagnosed with yersiniosis over the weekend in Russia's East Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, bringing the total number of infected to 141, a local official said on Monday. 



