| October 2008 |
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Moscow hopes that countries pledging funds to rebuild Georgia will ensure the aid is not spent on rearming the former Soviet state, a source in the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Thursday. 
In a break with tradition, the Thai government has decided to buy several transport helicopters from Russia, a Russian business daily reported on Thursday. 
Georgia has not lived up to its commitment to return troops to their bases after the armed conflict over South Ossetia in August, Russia's foreign minister said on Thursday. 
Russia's Anti-Monopoly Service has denied the international Internet search engine Google the purchase of a contextual advertising system from the Russian Rambler Web search company. 
The Russian and South Korean chief representatives at the six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear disarmament met in Moscow on Thursday to coordinate their negotiating positions. 
Three children in the southern Russia city of Rostov-on-Don have beaten a kangaroo to death, a police spokesman said on Thursday. 
CSKA Moscow kick off their UEFA Cup group stage campaign on Thursday evening with a home match against Spanish side Deportivo, described by the Russian club's manager as an "average" team. 
The Chita district court in East Siberia rejected on Thursday an appeal by lawyers of jailed Yukos founder Mikhail Khodorkovsky against a ruling of another local court. 
Vietnam is seeking to expand cooperation with Russia in all spheres, the country's president has said ahead of a visit to Moscow and St. Petersburg. 
A 28-year-old resident of a village in East Siberia's Krasnoyarsk Territory shot four people including a teenager dead with a hunting rifle before attempting suicide, a police source said on Thursday. 
Russia saw a net capital outflow of around $18 billion in the first two weeks of October, continuing the trend of the past few months amid the financial crisis, a government source said. 



