| September 2008 |
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The Russian economy is strong enough to see out the current global financial crisis, the Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Tuesday.

The United Nations Security Council has expressed an interest in meeting with representatives of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, but says the visa issue must be decided first, Russia's envoy to the UN said Tuesday. 
There is one Russian among 22 crewmembers of a Hong Kong tanker seized Monday off the coast of Somalia, an Internet publication said Tuesday. 
The Russian economy is strong enough to see out the current global financial crisis, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Tuesday. 
The Russian Prosecutor General's Office will on Wednesday start checking the compliance of Russian flagship air carrier Aeroflot with flight safety regulations, the airline said Tuesday. 
Russia is to speed up the construction of a new gas pipeline to the South Ossetian capital, Tskhinvali, Russia's deputy energy minister said Tuesday. 
Almost all the refugees who fled South Ossetia during Georgia's attack on the republic have returned, and the situation in the province is stabilizing, the Russian prime minister said Tuesday. 
A court decision on granting parole to jailed Yukos founder Mikhail Khodorkovsly cannot be made for at least six months, a penitentiary official said Tuesday. 
Kazakhstan is proposing the creation of what amounts to an international uranium market, the president of the country's national uranium producer said on Tuesday.
The two Russian Tu-160 Blackjack strategic bombers that landed in Venezuela last week have successfully carried out a patrol mission along the South American coast, a Russian Air Force spokesman said on Tuesday. 
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his Azerbaijani counterpart, Ilkham Aliyev, met in Moscow on Tuesday to discuss economic cooperation and the situation in the Caucasus. 
The U.S. Pathfinder ship entered on Tuesday the Sevastopol harbor that is home to the Ukrainian navy and Russia's Black Sea Fleet, a Russian naval source said. 
A Russian governmental delegation has arrived in Venezuela to hold talks on bilateral cooperation. 
The Russian Prosecutor General's Office has ordered an inquiry into flagship air carrier Aeroflot's compliance with flight safety regulations, after a plane owned by its subsidiary crashed killing 88 people on board. 



