| August 2008 |
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The six countries trying to persuade Iran to halt its uranium enrichment will continue attempts to resolve the dispute over Tehran's nuclear program by diplomatic means, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Wednesday. 
The leader of Georgia's rebel province of South Ossetia said on Wednesday that Georgia is planning a full-scale invasion of the region before the start of September. 
A group of renegade army officers staged a coup, detaining Mauritania's president and prime minister, a Russian diplomat in the northwestern African nation said citing local media on Wednesday. 
The INS Sindhuvijay diesel-electric submarine departed for India early Wednesday after an extensive overhaul at a shipyard in northern Russia, the Zvezdochka shipbuilding company said. 
The body of Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn was laid to rest at Moscow's Donskoi monastery on Wednesday in a ceremony attended by hundreds of people.

The body of Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn was laid to rest at Moscow's Donskoi monastery on Wednesday in a ceremony attended by hundreds of people. 
Russia may review military cooperation with Belarus in response to U.S. missile defense plans in Central Europe, but will not return nuclear weapons to the country, the Russian ambassador to Minsk said Wednesday. 
The price of natural gas sold by Russia to Belarus will exceed $200 per 1,000 cubic meters in 2009, Russia's ambassador in Minsk said on Wednesday. 
Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov's office rejected on Wednesday media reports that he will resign this fall, three years before the expiry of his current fifth term. 
The launch of a converted RS-20 Voyevoda intercontinental ballistic missile to put a Thai earth observation satellite in orbit has been postponed, a spokesman for the launch company said Wednesday. 
Russia has officially presented six Mi-17-B5 Hip H medium assault/transport helicopters to Indonesia, the Russian ambassador said on Wednesday. 
The Russian national soccer team is in the top 10 of the FIFA rankings for the first time since 1997. 
Russia's economics ministry said on Wednesday that a best case scenario would see oil output grow slowly until 2020, with a projected 9% growth for 12 years to 535 mln metric tons (3.9 billion bbls) a year. 
Russia's prime minister will attend the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics on Friday as well as meet with Russian athletes, a government source said on Wednesday. 



