| June 2008 |
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Russia has proposed hosting the 21st World Petroleum Congress, the chief executive of Russia's state-controlled oil producer Rosneft said Monday. 
Moscow is deeply concerned over a series of explosions in Georgia's breakaway republic of Abkhazia, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Monday. 
China's worst earthquake in three decades has inflicted damage on country's agricultural sector totaling around $6 billion, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization said in its report on Monday. 
Enemies of Iran attempted to kill President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with high-intensity X-ray radiation during his recent trip to Italy, Iran's former ambassador in Rome said on Monday. 
Zimbabwe's newly re-elected president, Robert Mugabe, joined his fellow African leaders Monday for a two-day African Union summit in Egypt amid protests from the West over unfair elections. 
Four Russian players were included in the Euro 2008 Team of the Tournament, with only winners Spain better-represented, UEFA announced Monday on its web site. 
The next round of six-party talks on the North Korean nuclear problem will take place in the near future, the U.S. secretary of state said on Monday. 
The unrecognized republic of Abkhazia will close its border with Georgia on Tuesday, Abkhaz president Sergei Bagapsh said. 
The unrecognized republic of Abkhazia will close its border with Georgia on Tuesday, Abkhaz president Sergei Bagapsh said.
Wanted, an American studio movie directed by Russia's Timur Bekmambetov and starring Angelina Jolie, beat box office records at its worldwide premiere, Universal Pictures said on Monday. 
Experts from the Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC), a civil aviation body for ex-Soviet states, will take part in a probe into recent crashes of Soviet-made transport planes in Sudan, the IAC said on Monday. 
Russia's state-controlled oil producer Rosneft [RTS: ROSN] is considering setting up a full-cycle joint venture in Eastern Europe, Rosneft CEO Sergei Bogdanchikov said Monday. 
China's worst earthquake in three decades has left 372,000 town dwellers unemployed in the worst-hit province of Sichuan, the China Daily reported on Monday. 
Spain lifted the European Championship trophy Sunday night, their first major soccer title for 44 years in a deserved 1-0 win over Germany in the Euro-2008 finals at the Ernst Happel Stadion in Vienna. 



