- 18:40 23/08/2008
Russian heavyweight Rakhim Chakhkiev claimed Saturday his country's 21st gold of the Beijing Olympics. Chakhkiev, 25, defeated 2007 world champion Clemente Russo from Italy 4-2 in the heavyweight final.
- 17:12 23/08/2008
Georgia planned the military operation against its breakaway republic of South Ossetia a year in advance, a source in one of Russia's security bodies said Saturday.
- 16:54 23/08/2008
One more Russian ship returned Saturday from Georgian waters to the Black Sea Fleet's base in the Ukrainian port of Sevastopol.
- 16:28 23/08/2008
A criminal case was launched Saturday over an attack on vehicles in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Ingushetia that left one person dead and several others injured, a local investigation spokesman said.
- 15:28 23/08/2008
MOSCOW, August 23 (RIA Novosti) - Russian troops will patrol the Georgian Black Sea port of Poti, the deputy chief of Russia's General Staff said at a news conference Saturday.
- 13:38 23/08/2008
NATO has sent a Polish frigate and a U.S. destroyer through the Bosporus to boost its presence in the Black Sea, where it is delivering humanitarian cargoes to Georgia, a source in the Turkish navy said.
- 12:13 23/08/2008
NATO has sent a Polish frigate and a U.S. destroyer through the Bosporus to boost its presence in the Black Sea, where it is delivering humanitarian cargoes to Georgia, a source in the Turkish navy said.
- 12:04 23/08/2008
South Ossetia's president and parliamentary leadership will fly to Moscow on Saturday to deliver the republic's sovereignty appeal to the Russian authorities in person.
