| September 2008 |
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Russia's foreign minister urged Thursday the deployment of "unbiased" observers in South Ossetia. 
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev will receive Liberty Medal Award in 2008 for his role in ending the Cold War, the U.S. National Constitution Center said. 
Russian archaeologists could discover another site where the remains of the children of Russia's last tsar are buried, a Russian forensic expert said. 
Japan's accumulated investment in Russia has reached $4-6 billion, a senior Russian economics ministry official said on Thursday. 
A Moscow court sanctioned on Thursday the arrest of a vice president and a deputy security chief at the Euroset company, Russia's largest mobile handset retailer, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported. 
U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney urged the "free world" on Thursday to rally with Georgia against what he called Russia's invasion, and pledged to bring Georgia into NATO. 
BP and Russian shareholders at TNK-BP approved a deal Thursday to end their protracted dispute over the joint oil venture's management, including agreeing to remove the CEO and appoint independent executives. 
Israel imposed an embargo on arms supplies to Tbilisi a week before Georgia attacked its breakaway region of South Ossetia, the Israeli ambassador to Russia said on Thursday. 
NLMK, one of Russia's largest steel producers, said on Thursday it will acquire the U.S. hot-rolled steel producer Beta Steel from a group of private shareholders for an all-cash payment of $400 million. 
Vanity Fair magazine has ranked Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin the world's most influential person in its 'New Establishment' top-100 to be published in the next issue, the magazine said in a statement. 
Tu-142MK aircraft from Russia's Northern Fleet conducted on September 2-3 reconnaissance flights over the Barents and Laptev seas and successfully tested new electronic on-board equipment, the fleet's press service said Thursday. 



