- 21:17 17/07/2008
The Serbian parliament failed to vote on the ratification of a number of important international agreements, including an energy agreement with Russia, on Thursday. 
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Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili said on Thursday that there was no need for Georgia and its breakaway republic of Abkhazia to sign a non-aggression pact proposed by Russia as the Caucasus state had no plans for an invasion of the region.
- 19:41 17/07/2008
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said on Thursday that he hoped the plan proposed by his country on the resolution of the Georgian- Abkhazian conflict would find wide support.
- 19:41 17/07/2008
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that a review of the ruling United Russia party's membership list should avoid "excesses".
- 18:18 17/07/2008
British oil major BP criticized on Thursday Russian migration officials' statements that a new visa for Robert Dudley, CEO of joint venture TNK-BP, may not be renewed.
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev called on Thursday for the country's law enforcement agencies to step up their work in the sphere of IT security.
- 16:57 17/07/2008
A Russian ASW ship, the Severomorsk, arrived on Thursday in Norway's main naval base of Haakonsvern on its way to participate in a joint U.S.-Russian naval exercise in the Barents Sea, a Navy spokesman said.
- 16:51 17/07/2008
- 16:45 17/07/2008
A court in the Astrakhan Region, south Russia, will consider a criminal case against an Uzbek man accused of trying to smuggle items into Iran used in the production of weapons of mass destruction, Russian prosecutors said.
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Zenit St. Petersburg forward Andrei Arshavin wants his club to lower his 30-million-euro price tag so he can fulfill a childhood dream to play for Spanish giants Barcelona, the Sporting Life website said on Thursday.
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Russia's foreign minister said on Thursday that Western nations are blocking Moscow's plans for a non-violence pact between Georgia and its rebel region of Abkhazia by insisting on the return of Georgian refugees.
- 14:30 17/07/2008
A top U.S. Coast Guard official has told lawmakers that Russia is getting ahead of the United States in the "Arctic race" and the current U.S. administration must urgently revise its approach to Arctic exploration.
- 14:28 17/07/2008
Moscow still believes in the necessity of direct negotiations between Belgrade and Pristina, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Thursday, five months after Kosovo unilaterally declared independence from Serbia.
