- 21:27 09/10/2008
Russia has officially notified the EU that it has completed the full withdrawal of its peacekeepers from buffer zones adjacent to South Ossetia and Abkhazia, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Thursday. 
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Russia's stock markets closed up 10-11% on Thursday recovering somewhat after a week of turmoil and plunging shares.
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Russian warships en route to Venezuela to take part in naval exercises are not carrying nuclear weapons, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Thursday.
- 18:43 09/10/2008
Russia is concerned about recent Ukrainian policies towards Russia's Black Sea Fleet, which the Foreign Ministry said Thursday were aimed at stoking tensions over its presence on the Crimean peninsula.
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Russian experts on Thursday completed the installation of a Soyuz TMA-13 spacecraft on a carrier rocket in preparation for the launch of the 18th Expedition to the International Space Station (ISS).
- 16:35 09/10/2008
The Russian president said Thursday that he sees positive dynamics in relations with Kyrgyzstan, including in the energy sector, as bilateral trade between the countries increased by some 60% year on year.
- 16:22 09/10/2008
Russian energy giant Gazprom [RTS: GAZP] has no plans to buy back its stock due to the ongoing global financial crisis, Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller said on Thursday.
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The U.S. has again refused entry visas to breakaway Abkhazian officials due to attend a UN Security Council meeting on the Georgian conflict, a Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Thursday.
- 15:48 09/10/2008
Russia has handed control of buffer zones adjacent to Abkhazia and South Ossetia over to an EU monitoring mission in Georgia, a spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Thursday.
- 15:47 09/10/2008
The jailed founder of Russia's Yukos oil company has been put into solitary confinement for giving an interview to Esquire magazine, his lawyers said in a statement Thursday.
- 15:38 09/10/2008
Russia said it would not supply air defense systems to volatile regions, the country's Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Thursday.
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