| August 2008 |
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Russian Foreign Minster Sergei Lavrov said Tuesday that NATO had taken Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili under its protection. 
NATO foreign ministers said after talks on Tuesday that the alliance is freezing contacts with Russia until it pulls its troops out of Georgia, but stopped short of harsh measures against Moscow. 
Russia said on Tuesday it will not participate in the NATO-led Open Spirit 2008 naval exercise in the Baltic Sea, and will refuse to receive a U.S. warship in the Far East port of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. 
Russia's Andrei Silnov took Olympic gold with teammate Yaroslav Rybakov picking up the bronze in the men's high jump on Tuesday in Beijing's Bird Nest Stadium. 
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) decided on Tuesday to immediately send 20 unarmed military observers to Georgia's buffer zone near the border with South Ossetia. 
Russia and Belarus will sign an agreement this fall on creating a unified air defense system, a Russian presidential aide said Tuesday. 
Georgian troops are not implementing President Mikheil Saakashvili's orders on their withdrawal from the South Ossetian conflict zone, a senior Russian military official said Tuesday. 
India could consider plans to produce a new-generation tank jointly with Russia, the managing director of the BrahMos Aerospace joint venture said on Tuesday. 
The main suspect in the murder of a top Russian banking regulator has been placed in an isolation cell for the second time this year, a court source said on Tuesday. 
Russia is boosting security measures, mostly in its southern areas, over reports that Georgian special forces may be plotting terrorist acts, the head of Russia's anti-terror committee said on Tuesday. 



