| August 2008 |
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Georgian authorities are concealing the deaths of 29 servicemen during recent clashes, a source in the South Ossetian defense ministry said on Monday. 
Russia will launch on August 6 a converted RS-20 Voyevoda intercontinental ballistic missile to put a Thai earth observation satellite into orbit, the Strategic Missile Forces said on Monday. 
Russia may resume a military presence in Cuba in response to growing military-political pressure from the West, a Russian political analyst said on Monday.
The death toll following a stampede at a Hindu temple in northern India has reached almost 150, police and local media said on Monday. 
Iran's top nuclear negotiator and the European Union's foreign policy supremo talked by telephone Monday about the country's controversial nuclear program. 
Russia counts on the United States to exert a positive influence on Georgia following the latest surge in violence in the breakaway province of South Ossetia, a Russian diplomat said on Monday. 
Russia counts on the United States to exert a positive influence on Georgia following the latest surge in violence in the breakaway province of South Ossetia, a Russian diplomat said on Monday. 
Total investment in the 2008 Beijing Olympics has hit 295 billion yuan ($43.13 billion) since 2001, a city administration spokesman said Monday. 
"As we compared his [DiCaprio's] photos with those of Lenin... the similarity was striking. I should even say that Leo could play the role of the revolutionary leader without make-up," said Russian screenwriter Alexander Borodyansky on Sunday.
TNK-BP Chief Financial Officer James Owen has resigned amid an ongoing shareholder dispute, the Russian-British oil company said Monday. 
More than 2,000 homes remain flooded in the six worst-hit areas in western Ukraine, the country's Emergency Situations Ministry said Monday. 



