| August 2008 |
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Georgia said Tuesday it was alarmed by reports that volunteers from Russia had started arriving in South Ossetia obviously in preparation for military action. 
Georgia dismissed Tuesday reports that Israel had halted military equipment sales to the Caucasus state over objections from Russia, which is locked in a feud with its ex-Soviet neighbor. 
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator, will be officially unveiled on October 21, a Russian scientist said Tuesday. 
Russian Tu-160 Blackjack and Tu-95 Bear strategic bombers will join the Russian navy in a series of exercises in the Indian Ocean, the Air Force commander said on Tuesday. 
Russians lined up in the rain in Moscow on Tuesday to pay their last respects to Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the writer whose books did much to reveal the truth about the Soviet system of labor camps. 
The Russian Air Force will commission over 100 upgraded combat helicopters over a period of five years, from 2011 until 2015, the AF commander said on Tuesday. 
The Russian Air Force is ready to contribute Su-27 Flanker or MiG-29 Fulcrum fighter jets to an upcoming drill in Belarus, the Air Force commander said Tuesday. 
Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov's investment vehicle Onexim will sell its 16.6% stake in metals giant Norilsk Nickel to Interros chief Vladimir Potanin for around $10 billion, Onexim said on Tuesday. 
Russia's military exports will exceed $8.5 billion in 2008, a senior government official said on Tuesday. 
Russia will supply a Tu-204CE cargo airplane to Cuba in the third quarter of this year, a spokesman for a Russian leasing company said Tuesday. 
Prosecutors said on Tuesday that the former mayor of the southern Russian city of Stavropol was to be charged with stealing some 19 million rubles ($810,000). 



