- 22:05 14/08/2008
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- 19:57 14/08/2008
Europe's main security and human rights watchdog said Thursday it planned to increase its military monitors in Georgia from the current eight to 100 in the wake of fighting between Russia and Georgia over breakaway South Ossetia.
- 19:33 14/08/2008
South Ossetia and Abkhazia will seek independence from Tbilisi under international law, the leaders of Georgia's two rebel regions said Thursday at a joint news conference in Moscow.
- 19:18 14/08/2008
Russia's General Staff said Thursday it was concerned by the nature of cargoes the United States was airlifting to Georgia, questioning if they were really humanitarian aid.
- 18:43 14/08/2008
A Russia-NATO naval exercise in the Sea of Japan has been canceled after the United States and Britain refused to send their warships, a spokesman for Russia's Pacific Fleet said Thursday.
- 18:07 14/08/2008
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- 17:40 14/08/2008
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is due to travel to Sochi on Friday for a meeting with the Russian president to discuss the recent Georgian-South Ossetian conflict, a Kremlin source said on Thursday.
- 16:59 14/08/2008
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U.S. oceanologists will dive to the floor of Siberia's Lake Baikal next week aboard the Mir-1 and Mir-2 mini-submarines, a spokesman for the Baikal preservation foundation said Thursday.
- 16:31 14/08/2008
Libya said the conflict in Georgia and its breakaway republic of South Ossetia has signaled an end to the dominance of the United States in global affairs, a Russian daily reported on Thursday.
- 15:58 14/08/2008
- 15:03 14/08/2008
The leaders of South Ossetia and Abkhazia signed on Thursday a peace plan to resolve their conflict with Georgia at a meeting in Moscow with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.
- 13:52 14/08/2008
A Russia-NATO naval exercise in the Sea of Japan has been cancelled after the United States and Britain refused to send their warships, a spokesman for Russia's Pacific Fleet said on Thursday.
- 13:45 14/08/2008
- 12:58 14/08/2008
Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation (JOGMEC) has said it plans to join oil deposit exploration and development in the Republic of Yakutia in northeast Russia, the republic's administration said on Thursday.
- 12:36 14/08/2008
The West's stance on the situation in Georgia is certain to affect Russia's relations with NATO, Moscow's ambassador to the North Atlantic organization said on Thursday.
