| October 2008 |
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Talks on the Georgia conflict in Geneva this week will produce no meaningful results if officials from breakaway South Ossetia and Abkhazia do not participate, the Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Tuesday. 
NATO has ignored numerous Russian proposals for cooperation via the Collective Security Treaty Organization in the fight against drugs and terrorism in Afghanistan, Russia's UN envoy said on Tuesday. 
Italian Admiral Andrea Toscano proposes that Italy's navy make more calls at Russian ports and practice tasks in the Black Sea together with Russian ships, a Black Sea Fleet spokesman said Tuesday. 
A newly-wed man in Russia's Volga republic of Urdmurtia fatally stabbed his bride with a kitchen knife on their wedding night, local investigators said on Tuesday. 
Russia started talks with Iceland on Tuesday on granting a 4 billion euro ($5.4 billion) loan to help the Nordic country through its financial woes, the Russian Finance Ministry said. 
French police have opened a criminal case into an attempted poisoning of Russia's leading human rights lawyer, the representative of murdered investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya said Tuesday. 
Russian strategic bombers have successfully completed a series of large-scale, week-long exercises, the Long-Range Aviation commander said on Tuesday. 
The world of Russian ice hockey was in mourning on Tuesday after the death of one of its brightest young talents.

The Russian Armed Forces will total 1 million servicemen, including 150,000 officers by 2012, the defense minister said on Tuesday. 
EU member states have yet to agree on whether to resume talks on a new cooperation pact with Russia, temporarily put on hold last month over Russia's military operation in Georgia, an EU diplomatic source said. 
Over 35 terrorist attacks in Russia have been prevented and more than 350 militants detained since the start of the year, the head of the National Antiterrorism Committee said on Tuesday. 
The United States has no plans to provide Georgia with military assistance in 2009, Congressman Howard Berman, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, told journalists in Moscow on Tuesday. 
The Russian president and prime minister agreed on Tuesday to appoint another deputy prime minister, the country's eighth, to be charged with preparations for the Sochi-2014 Olympics. 



