- 21:49 26/08/2008
Russia is convinced that the Georgian people will eventually be ruled by what it called more "worthy" leaders, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday.
- 21:38 26/08/2008
- 21:33 26/08/2008
Foreign leaders spoke out Tuesday against Russia's decision to recognize Abkhazia and South Ossetia, while people in the Georgian breakaway regions greeted the news with raucous celebrations.
- 21:24 26/08/2008
Russia's foreign minister said on Tuesday Moscow's decision to recognize Abkhazia and South Ossetia as independent states has no parallel with Kosovo's declaration of independence made earlier this year.
- 20:44 26/08/2008
NATO countries are starting new arms deliveries to Georgia, the Russian foreign minister said Tuesday.
- 20:27 26/08/2008
Russia will defend Abkhazia and South Ossetia with all necessary support if they come under attack, President Dmitry Medvedev said on Tuesday.
- 19:04 26/08/2008
Russia does not want a new Cold War but is not afraid of one should it occur, the Russian president told the Russia Today international news channel on Tuesday.
- 18:03 26/08/2008
President Dmitry Medvedev has issued instructions for Russia's Foreign Ministry to begin work on establishing diplomatic contacts with Abkhazia and South Ossetia, a Kremlin spokesman said Tuesday.
- 17:34 26/08/2008
Russia's president signed decrees on Tuesday recognizing Georgia's breakaway South Ossetia and Abkhazia as independent states despite warnings by Western leaders not to do so.
- 16:56 26/08/2008
Russia has suspended all peacekeeping operations with NATO for at least six months, the Russian envoy to the military alliance said Tuesday.
- 15:53 26/08/2008
Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov instructed on Tuesday that restoration work to a 1930s Soviet-era statue, The Worker and the Peasant Woman, be speeded up.
- 15:27 26/08/2008
Russia's president signed decrees on Tuesday recognizing Georgia's breakaway South Ossetia and Abkhazia as independent states and called on other countries to follow suit.
- 15:10 26/08/2008
NATO is helping to restore Georgia's air defenses and has deployed 10 warships in the Black Sea, with another eight expected soon, the deputy chief of the Russian General Staff said Tuesday.
- 14:53 26/08/2008
- 14:06 26/08/2008
- 13:59 26/08/2008
Russia's Pacific Fleet, Naval Aviation and coastal defense troops have launched a joint exercise off the Far East's Kamchatka Peninsula, a spokesman for the fleet said on Tuesday.
- 13:49 26/08/2008
Russia's prime minister has ordered fuel to be provided to air alliance AiRUnion from state reserves to end mass flight delays caused by a payment crisis plaguing the carrier, a government spokesman said on Tuesday.
- 12:33 26/08/2008
Scientists have found two more cracks in the bedrock of Siberia's Lake Baikal from which crude oil seeps into the lake, bringing the total to three, an expedition member said on Tuesday.
- 12:24 26/08/2008
An international motor show that opens on Tuesday through September 7 in Moscow will see nine global premieres.
