| October 2008 |
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Switzerland will represent Russian interests in Georgia, which broke diplomatic relations with Moscow, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Friday. 
Russia's Defense Ministry has denounced a car bomb blast in Tskhinvali as an act of terror aimed at damaging a peace plan in the region. 
At least seven Russian peacekeepers were killed and three wounded Friday when a car bomb exploded near the HQ of a peacekeeping battalion in Tsikhinvali, a South Ossetian spokesman said.

At least seven people were killed and three wounded Friday when a car bomb exploded near the headquarters of the Russian peacekeeping forces in Tsikhinvali, a South Ossetian spokesman said. 
Sotheby's said Friday a painting by Russian avant-garde artist Kazimir Malevich is expected to bring at least $60 million at an evening auction in New York on November 3. 
The price Ukraine is due to pay for Russian-supplied natural gas in 2009 should be agreed within a month, Ukraine's prime minister, Yulia Tymoshenko, said on Friday. 
Russian peacekeepers are preparing to withdraw from Georgian buffer zones bordering the rebel republic of South Ossetia in line with international agreements, a senior military official said on Friday. 
The president of the Russian republic of Chechnya has posed for a glossy magazine wearing designer clothes from a number of leading fashion houses, the Klub Regionov website reported on Friday. 
Russia's United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) will participate in the joint development of a new cruise missile with India only if a decision is made to adopt it for service with the Russian Air Force, the company said on Friday. 
Russia will not backtrack on its recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia as independent countries, the Russian ambassador to Georgia said Friday. 
Kamov, one of Russia's largest helicopter producers, is hoping to sign an agreement by the end of the year to export its helicopters to Iran, the company's director said on Friday. 



