| September 2008 |
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Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili said on Tuesday that he expected the situation in his country to stabilize with the upcoming withdrawal of Russian peacekeepers. 
Russia banned on Tuesday imports of all Chinese food products containing milk derivatives following cases of melamine poisoning in China, and over a lack of official information from Beijing, the chief sanitary official said. 
A converted intercontinental ballistic missile will be launched on October 1 from a rocket launch site in Russia's southern Urals to put a Thai earth observation satellite into orbit, the launch company said on Tuesday. 
The Russian Central Bank's international reserves, which saw strong growth for most of this year, have lost $40 billion in the past few weeks, an analyst at a leading brokerage said on Tuesday. 
Under amendments to the Russian constitutional law on government, state officials from the prime minister down to city authorities will have to declare their incomes and assets, the Kremlin said on Tuesday. 
Troops from Russia and Kazakhstan will conduct joint maneuvers near the Kazakh city of Almaty on October 3, the Central Asian country's Defense Ministry said on Tuesday.

Russian Ambassador Vyacheslav Kovalenko left Georgia along with 22 embassy officials on Tuesday, a month after Tbilisi severed diplomatic ties with Moscow.

Abkhazia thanked Russia on Tuesday for the economic and political support it has provided since a separatist war with Georgia 15 years ago. 
Russia is planning to increase its spending on defense by 50% in the next three years, a senior MP said Tuesday. 
A Russian warship from the Pacific Fleet has made a port call at the Maizuru naval base in Japan's Kyoto Prefecture, a Navy spokesman said on Tuesday.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin approved on Tuesday a program worth 2.084 trillion rubles ($83 billion) to finance the state nuclear corporation Rosatom between 2009 and 2015. 
Russian Ambassador Vyacheslav Kovalenko left Georgia along with 22 embassy officials on Tuesday, a month after Tbilisi severed diplomatic ties with Moscow. 
British Ambassador to Russia Tony Brenton leaves Moscow on Tuesday and will be replaced in early October by Anne Pringle, a former envoy to Prague, a source in the embassy said on Tuesday. 
Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) has terminated the activities of 120 terrorist and extremist organizations this year, Russia's president said on Tuesday. 



