| September 2008 |
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The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) will form a working group to monitor the situation in the zone of the Georgia-South Ossetia conflict, a senior Russian lawmaker said Friday. 
Leaders of a post-Soviet regional security bloc have censured Georgia over its actions in South Ossetia and backed Moscow, the Russian president said Friday. 
The third U.S. Navy vessel to bring humanitarian aid to Georgia arrived in the Black Sea port of Poti on Friday, a Russian navy source said. 
Russian arms exports may reach at least $6.1 billion by the end of 2008, a senior official at Rosoboronexport, Russia's largest state arms exporter, said on Friday. 
It will take at least nine months to form a new Russian national carrier on the basis of the crisis-hit AiRUnion alliance, the state-run Russian Technology Corporation said Friday. 
Russia will continue negotiations on a contract to deliver 34 transport planes and four aerial tankers to China earlier frozen due to a disagreement over prices, Russia's state-run arms exporter said on Friday. 
Statements made by U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney on support for Georgia are only encouraging Tbilisi's aggressive intentions, a Russian Foreign Ministry official spokesman said on Friday. 
Russia supports the idea of international cooperation to deal with the threat of an asteroid collision, the head of the federal space agency said on Friday. 
A total of 502 refugees returned to South Ossetia from North Ossetia during the previous 24 hours, a spokesman for the Russian republic's Emergencies Ministry said Friday. 
Russia's largest operator MTS has signed an agreement with U.S. company Apple Inc. to sell the popular iPhone 3G handset in Russia, the company said on Friday. 
Russia will deliver the modernized Admiral Gorshkov aircraft carrier to India after 2011, Russia's state-run arms exporter said on Friday. 



