| April 2008 |
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Two girls aged 7 and 8 were killed after unidentified assailants attacked a car in southern Chechnya, local police said on Sunday. 
Russian weightlifter Dmitry Berestov won the gold medal at the 2008 European Weightlifting Championship in Lignano, Italy, on Sunday. 
UNESCO experts are arriving in Sochi to assess environmental risks of the construction of sport and infrastructure facilities for the 2014 Winter Olympics, the natural resources ministry said on Sunday. 
Police found a cache full of arms and ammunition in Daghestan in Russia's troubled North Caucasus region, a local police source said on Sunday. 
At least nine people, including a 7-year-old girl, were killed and another 22 injured after a bush full of Finnish tourists crashed in southern Spain, the local media reported on Sunday
One Russian officer was wounded in a clash with Kyrgyz road traffic police near the Russian airbase at Kant in Kyrgyzstan, the republic's interior ministry said on Sunday. 
The air defense forces of Georgia's breakaway province of Abkhazia have shot down a Georgian pilotless reconnaissance aircraft, Abkhaz President Sergei Bagapsh said over the phone on Sunday. 
One Russian officer was wounded in an attack by unidentified assailants near the Russian airbase in Kyrgyzstan, a spokesman for the Russian embassy in the Central Asian country said on Sunday. 
Russia has signed a protocol on completing bilateral talks with the United Arab Emirates on its accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO), Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said on Sunday. 



