- 22:07 22/08/2008
Russia's defense minister said on Friday the military had completed the withdrawal of troops from Georgia as stipulated in a peace deal brokered by the French president last week. 
- 19:17 22/08/2008
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- 18:04 22/08/2008
Russian athletes stormed home on Friday to win the women's 4x100 meters relay and take Russia's 17th gold at the Beijing Olympics.
- 17:45 22/08/2008
- 17:38 22/08/2008
Ukraine's opposition party has pledged to send 365 neckties to Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, who was recently caught on camera nervously chewing his garment while discussing the Georgian-Russian conflict.
- 17:09 22/08/2008
Russia's Mirazh guided missile corvette returned Friday to its Black Sea Fleet base at Sevastopol, which Russia rents from Ukraine, after patrolling waters off the Georgian coast.
- 16:37 22/08/2008
Sulim Yamadayev has been officially dismissed from his post as commander of the Defense Ministry's Vostok battalion in Chechnya, a military source said on Friday.
- 16:31 22/08/2008
The joint Rubezh-2008 command-and-staff exercises of the Collective Security Treaty Organization finished Friday in Armenia.
- 16:24 22/08/2008
About 50 protesters gathered in the Crimean capital of Simferopol on Friday, urging Russia to pull out of a friendship agreement with Ukraine and to make a territorial claim on the peninsula.
- 16:13 22/08/2008
A Siberian court rejected on Friday a request for parole from Yukos founder Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who is serving an eight-year prison term for fraud and tax evasion.
- 15:29 22/08/2008
The United States has refused to participate with Russia in NATO's Operation Active Endeavour naval antiterrorism exercise, a source in the Russian Black Sea Fleet said Friday.
- 15:23 22/08/2008
Georgia is preparing for military action in its breakaway provinces of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, a senior Russian military official warned Friday.
- 13:34 22/08/2008
Russia's Mirazh guided missile corvette returned Friday to its Black Sea Fleet base at Sevastopol, which Russia rents from Ukraine, after patrolling waters off the Georgian coast.
- 12:54 22/08/2008
Russia's three largest cell phone operators have struck a deal with Apple which could see the U.S. company's hugely popular iPhone 3G go on sale in Russia in October, a business daily said on Friday.
- 11:40 22/08/2008
A Siberian court has denied parole to Yukos founder Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who is serving an eight-year term for fraud and tax evasion.
- 11:07 22/08/2008
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