| June 2008 |
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U.S. President George Bush will arrive on a two-day official visit to Germany on Tuesday after attending an annual U.S.-EU summit in Brdo, Slovenia. 
The Russian Foreign Ministry has condemned Sunday's terrorist bomb attacks in the Algerian capital that local media say killed 12 people. 
The Russian Foreign Ministry said on Monday that the resumption of Georgia-Abkhazia peace talks, suspended two years ago after Tbilisi deployed troops close to the breakaway republic's border, depends on Georgia. 
British intelligence is making attempts to establish control over EU political institutions by means of a series of accusations that allege widespread Russian spying, a high-ranking Russian security official said on Monday. 
Russia has received three plots of land in Jericho in the West Bank, a RIA Novosti correspondent said on Monday from a ceremony in Moscow to hand over land ownership deeds. 
Moscow is considering resuming deliveries of Russian arms to Afghanistan, Russia's first deputy foreign minister said on Monday. 
The permanent U.S. representative to NATO said on Monday she would like to see Russia as a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. 
Global military spending totaled almost $1.34 trillion in 2007, a real-term increase of 45% since 1998, or some $200 a year for every person in the world, a prominent political think-tank said on Monday. 
G8 finance ministers will discuss possible funds to help poor countries overcome their food crisis, and to support emissions-free technology, when they meet in Japan on June 13-14, the Russian finance minister said on Monday. 
Russia and the EU have agreed to cooperate on seven border area development programs, worth a total of over 600 million euros, the Russian regional development minister said on Monday. 
St. Petersburg will launch a raw materials and commodity exchange in July-August, expected to have turnover of around 1.5 trillion rubles ($63 billion) by the end of the year, a first deputy prime minister said on Monday. 
A pair of Russian Tu-95 Bear strategic bombers took off Monday from the Engels airbase in central Russia on a routine patrol flight over the Arctic Ocean, an Air Force spokesman said. 
TNK-BP's chief executive, who was summoned to a Moscow district prosecutor's office to answer new allegations against the company on Monday, failed to show up at the designated time. 
Kosovo's internationally backed independence has failed to promote stability in the region, the Russian foreign minister said after a meeting with his Cypriot counterpart on Monday. 



