- 22:11 15/08/2008
Ukraine's President Viktor Yushchenko sent an urgent proposal to Russia on Friday to draft a bilateral agreement on the Russian Black Sea fleet deployed in Ukraine. 
- 22:03 15/08/2008
Moscow intends to send an official request to Kiev to identify Ukrainian diplomatic license plates discovered by Russian intelligence officers at a Georgian military base, Russia's NATO envoy said Friday.
- 21:03 15/08/2008
Russia's ambassador to NATO has compared the U.S. missile defense system to "a dead cat," since its effectiveness can only be verified as a result of reciprocal thermonuclear missile strikes.
- 20:53 15/08/2008
President Mikheil Saakashvili said Friday he had signed the peace plan to resolve Georgia's conflict with its breakaway republic of South Ossetia earlier in the day.
- 20:22 15/08/2008
The peacekeeping force in Georgia's breakaway province of South Ossetia will be reinforced with armored vehicles, including tanks, a spokesman for Russia's Defense Ministry said Friday.
- 19:41 15/08/2008
Russia's president expressed doubt Friday that Georgia's rebel regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia could remain under the control of Tbilisi, and said any decision on their future status should reflect the people's will.
- 18:49 15/08/2008
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Friday he has no doubt that a planned U.S. missile defense shield for Central Europe is aimed against Russia, but Moscow is ready to continue talks with all parties concerned.
- 18:42 15/08/2008
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez believes that Georgian forces launched their attack on South Ossetia on the orders of the U.S. president, the Union radio station reported Friday.
- 18:33 15/08/2008
Over 118,000 people have been forced to flee their homes in Georgia due to the recent conflict over breakaway South Ossetia, a spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees said on Friday.
- 17:36 15/08/2008
A Russian Proton-M rocket carrying an Inmarsat communications satellite will be launched August 19, a spokesman for the Russian space agency said Friday.
- 17:23 15/08/2008
Two journalists were killed and 10 wounded covering the fighting in Georgia's breakaway republic of South Ossetia, an official with the Russian Union of Journalists said on Friday.
- 17:11 15/08/2008
Russia's top military official denied on Friday claims by a U.S.-based human rights group that Moscow had used cluster bombs in its recent military conflict with Georgia.
- 17:02 15/08/2008
New regulations for the movement of ships from Russia's Black Sea Fleet out of Ukrainian waters will only come into force after bilateral talks, the Ukrainian parliamentary speaker said Friday.
- 15:12 15/08/2008
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- 14:43 15/08/2008
The majority of Russians (80%) believe the breakaway republic of South Ossetia will never be a part of Georgia again, while 39% say they are ready to see it become a part of Russia, a pollster said on Friday.
- 14:41 15/08/2008
A total of 528 refugees from South Ossetia have received medical assistance in North Ossetia since Georgia's attack on the rebel republic's capital on August 8, the Russian health ministry said on Friday.
- 14:07 15/08/2008
Georgia has not yet filed a formal statement on its withdrawal from the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), a senior official in the alliance of former Soviet republics said on Friday.
- 13:54 15/08/2008
