| February 2009 |
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Saturday that the events in South Ossetia have conditioned the necessity to work out new approaches to ensuring global security. 
The use of weapons by Russian border guards against Chinese cargo vessel The New Star was legal, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Saturday. 
Russian movement Solidarity, founded in December 2008 to unite scattered opposition forces, held its first rally in central Moscow on Saturday. 
A total of 64 Russian soldiers were killed and 283 wounded in the war with Georgia in 2008, a deputy Russian defense minister said Saturday. 
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin held an economic meeting on Saturday to work on changes to the 2009 budget, the government press secretary said. 
Around 200 people protested in Krasnodar on Saturday against a proposal to change the city's name to the pre-Soviet Yekaterinodar, saying the authorities should focus on anti-crisis measures. 
One militant was killed and three injured in a special operation in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Daghestan on Friday morning, a Federal Security Service (FSB) source said. 



