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"As long as the withdrawal of troops has not been respected, all meetings on the partnership accord are postponed," Jose Manuel Barroso told reporters after an emergency EU summit in Brussels. 
Georgia asked the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) on Monday to end Russia's peacekeeping mandate in Abkhazia, one of the two rebel regions that Moscow has recognized as independent, the Foreign Ministry said. 
Gazprom Neft, the oil arm of Russian energy giant Gazprom, plans to apply for permission to ship crude oil to China via Kazakhstan in the fourth quarter of this year and in 2009, the company CEO said on Monday. 
South Ossetians have sent over 300 lawsuits to the International Criminal Court, seeking to bring Georgian authorities to justice for 'genocide' committed in the August 8-12 attack, a local presidential advisor said. 
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has signed a decree on sending a Russian military contingent to Chad and the neighboring Central African Republic in support of a UN mission in the region, the Kremlin said on Monday. 
Russia may proceed with plans to sell advanced S-300 air defense systems to Iran under a secret contract believed to have been signed in 2005, a Russian analyst said on Monday. 
Russia believes an international police force should be deployed in South Ossetia to prevent further Georgian attacks, the Foreign Ministry said on Monday.
Russia's ban on poultry imports from 19 U.S. producers came into force on Monday, sparking alarm in Washington amid rising tensions over the recent Georgia conflict. 
Russia and Kazakhstan launched the first stage of a strategic exercise in the Chelyabinsk Region in Russia's Urals on Monday, the Ground Forces' press service said. 
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said on Monday he was taking steps to prevent a new standoff between the West and Russia over the recent conflict in Georgia. 
Manchester United defender Nemanja Vidic has said that Zenit St. Petersburg were the better team in Friday's Super Cup match and deserved their victory. 
Russia marks on Monday the fourth anniversary of the Beslan school tragedy during which 331 people died, including 186 children. 



