| August 2008 |
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Russia had made the right decision by recognizing Georgia's breakaway regions, local media reported. 
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev told the British premier on Saturday that Russia wants to hold constructive talks with the EU and international groups on the Georgian crisis. 
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe has accumulated evidence pointing to "numerous wrong decisions" made by Georgian leaders that led to a military crisis with Russia, Der Spiegel said on Saturday. 
Russian and U.S. airliners were a minute away from a midair collision over the Atlantic Ocean when the Russian Boeing 747 descended avoiding a crash, a spokesman for the Russian air company said. 
Georgia's reintegration minister said on Saturday that Tbilisi was formally pulling out of a 1994 UN-approved agreement signed in Moscow by Abkhazia and Georgia following a bloody conflict. 
Russia's Emergencies Ministry said on Saturday that a missing An-2 aircraft with four people on board had been forced to make an emergency landing and had not crashed. 
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin warned European countries against following U.S. foreign policy ahead of an EU emergency meeting on Monday on the recent conflict between Russia and Georgia. 
Over 50% of Poles think that economic sanctions should be imposed on Russia following the conflict in South Ossetia, the Gfk Polonia research center said on Saturday. 
Russian human rights groups will gather in central Moscow in memory of murdered investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya, who would have celebrated her 50th birthday on Saturday. 
Zenit St. Petersburg have beaten Manchester United 2-1 to lift the Super Cup, the annual fixture between the holders of the Champions League and the UEFA Cup.



