- 22:07 18/08/2008
President Mikheil Saakashvili said Monday Georgia was ready to settle all issues with Russia through dialogue "based on civilized relations" only after Russian troops withdraw from the ex-Soviet republic.
- 21:50 18/08/2008
A senior Russian cabinet minister accused Georgia's leadership and Orthodox Church on Monday of preventing Russian peacekeepers from delivering aid to Georgian regions caught up in last week's conflict.
- 21:27 18/08/2008
Georgia could not be allowed to act with impunity in its breakaway province of South Ossetia, Russia's president said Monday.
- 21:15 18/08/2008
The United States and Britain are hindering work on a UN Security Council resolution on South Ossetia, whitewashing Georgia's role and ignoring the need for talks on the status of its breakaway republics, Russia's Foreign Ministry said Monday.
- 21:02 18/08/2008
Moscow is ready to negotiate with Ukraine on the use of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in the Crimea, but will not let Kiev dictate terms, the Russian president said on Monday.
- 20:01 18/08/2008
Russia has withdrawn its request for an emergency session of the Russia-NATO Council to address the situation in Georgia's breakaway province of South Ossetia, Moscow's envoy to the military alliance said Monday.
- 19:54 18/08/2008
Russia's Yelena Isinbayeva won gold in the women's pole vault at the 2008 Beijing Olympics on Monday, repeating her feat of four years ago in Athens and setting a new world record.
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- 17:19 18/08/2008
The president of Russia promised on Monday a tough response to any aggression against its nationals, saying that Moscow had the political, economic and military means to back up its words.
- 17:16 18/08/2008
Russia began pulling back troops from Georgia on Monday in accordance with a plan to resolve the South Ossetia conflict drawn up by the Russian and French presidents, a senior military official said.
- 16:57 18/08/2008
Antiaircraft units from the Far East Military District start a tactical drill Monday at the Yeisk test site in southern Russia's Krasnodar Territory, a spokesman for the Russian Ground Forces said.
- 16:28 18/08/2008
Two mini-submarines made 26 dives to the floor of Siberia's Lake Baikal to complete the first stage of a two-year scientific expedition, a spokesman for the Baikal preservation foundation said Monday.
- 16:02 18/08/2008
- 15:53 18/08/2008
A senior Russian military official said on Monday that Georgia has pulled out of a prisoner swap agreement under which Moscow was to hand over 11 Georgians in exchange for five Russians.
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Russian armored vehicles have started to pull out of the South Ossetian capital of Tskhinvali toward the Russian Republic of North Ossetia.
- 14:44 18/08/2008
President Mikheil Saakashvili said Monday Georgia was ready to settle all issues with Russia through dialogue "based on civilized relations" only after Russian troops withdraw from the ex-Soviet republic.
