| October 2008 |
- mo
- tu
- we
- th
- fr
- sa
- su
The quartet of mediators in the Middle East peace process could meet as early as November in a Mideast country, the Russian foreign minister said on Monday. 
Russia's foreign minister said on Monday that the country will only lift its objections to a U.S. anti-missile radar in the Czech Republic if Russian observers are permanently posted at the facilities. 
Russia's permanent mission to the UN has received a letter from U.S. Republican presidential candidate John McCain asking for financial support of his election campaign, the mission said in a statement on Monday.
President Alexander Lukashenko said on Monday that Belarus would like to have good relations with the EU, but would not sacrifice its traditional ties to Russia. 
More than 50 combat aircraft will participate in a joint command-and-staff air defense exercise conducted by members of the Commonwealth of Independent States on Thursday, a Russian Air Force spokesman said on Monday.
The Russian economy is well prepared to deal with shocks on global markets, the prime minister said on Monday at a meeting of the foreign investment council presidium. 
Polymetal, Russia's largest silver producer and one of the largest gold producers, said its gold output grew 18% year-on-year in January-September to 211,000 ounces. 
The All-Russian Athletics Federation (ARAF) handed out two-year doping bans to seven Russian women athletes after they were involved in switching their urine samples, the federation's president said on Monday. 
Russia is worried by tendencies among some political forces in Iran to have Talibs engaged in peace efforts in Afghanistan, a Russian deputy foreign minister said on Monday. 
Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao will pay an official visit to Moscow on October 27-29, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Monday. 
Russia supports involving India in the work of the Group of Eight leading industrial nations, its foreign minister said Monday. 
Russian peacekeepers from the 15th motorized infantry brigade returned to their home base in south Russia after an almost three-year mission in Abkhazia, the Volga-Urals military district press service said on Monday. 



