| October 2008 |
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Checks on North Korea's denuclearization will be carried out jointly by the countries involved in the six-party talks on the issue and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), a Russian senior official said. 
A deputy Georgian foreign minister denied on Thursday Russia's accusations that Georgia is not meeting its commitments on troop withdrawal following the conflict over South Ossetia. 
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday that Russia has not been fully affected by the global financial crisis, which may help the country to develop a stronger economy and speed up reforms. 
Ukraine has reiterated its position that it will not permit an extension of Russia's naval presence at its Sevastopol base after 2017, the country's Foreign Ministry said on Thursday. 
A South Korean government official said Thursday it would be counterproductive to exclude Japan from the six-way negotiations on North Korea's denuclearization. 
A Russian political analyst said on Thursday that a win for Illinois Senator Barack Obama in the U.S. presidential elections on November 4 is a "foregone conclusion," and would be good for Russia. 
Russia's Security Council chief, Nikolai Patrushev, said in New Delhi on Thursday that Russia is India's most important strategic partner. 
Surface ships and submarines from Russia's Pacific Fleet have completed a three-day anti-submarine exercise, the fleet's press service said on Thursday. 
Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro called the newly-built Russian Orthodox cathedral, which opened in Havana on Sunday, "an honor" for the Caribbean island. 
Russia's Air Force is ready to send a helicopter group with more than 100 servicemen to Chad, the Air Force commander said Thursday. 
The manufacturer of Kalashnikov assault rifles has sent the first shipment of equipment to Venezuela for the licensed production of AK-103 rifles, the company said on Thursday. 
European parliamentarians will visit Moscow later this week to discuss prospects for a new Russia-EU framework agreement, the European Commission's delegation to Russia said on Thursday. 
Members of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) successfully conducted on Thursday a joint command-and-staff air defense exercise as part of the integrated air defense network. 
A lawyer for victims of the Nord-Ost siege that took place in Moscow in October, 2002 said again on Thursday that his clients had large sums of cash stolen from them in the aftermath of the rescue operation. 



