- 21:58 21/08/2008
The withdrawal of Russian troops from Georgia is going according to schedule, with the process due to be completed within the next 10 days, the Russian Ground Forces commander said on Thursday. 
- 21:50 21/08/2008
Russia's Defense Ministry has temporarily suspended military cooperation with NATO ahead of a political decision being made, the Russian envoy to the alliance said on Thursday.
- 21:34 21/08/2008
A requiem concert given by the Mariinsky Theatre led by the renowned Ossetian-born Russian conductor Valery Gergiev was held Thursday in South Ossetia's war-torn capital.
- 21:12 21/08/2008
Ukraine's Defense Minister Yuriy Yekhanurov signed instructions Thursday to implement an earlier presidential decree complicating the rules of deployment for Russia's Black Sea fleet.
- 21:06 21/08/2008
Georgian border guards permitted some 300 Russian citizens to cross the border and enter Russia, a spokesman for the Russian Border Guard Service in North Ossetia said Thursday.
- 20:53 21/08/2008
NATO is to help Georgia rebuild its defensive capability, the military alliance's regional representative said Thursday.
- 20:10 21/08/2008
Russia is ready to supply Syria with defensive weapons, the Russian foreign minister said on Thursday following a meeting between the two countries leaders in Russia's Black Sea resort of Sochi.
- 19:19 21/08/2008
Georgia's breakaway provinces of Abkhazia and South Ossetia sent official appeals Thursday to Russia's president and parliament to recognize their independence.
- 19:13 21/08/2008
Defending Olympic champion Andrei Moiseev won Russia's 16th gold medal on Thursday in the modern pentathlon on day 13 of the Beijing Olympics.
- 17:54 21/08/2008
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Thursday that the country's future ties with NATO depend on how the Western military alliance chooses to act.
- 17:50 21/08/2008
Russian wrestlers enjoyed mixed success in their freestyle weight categories winning gold, silver and bronze at the Beijing Olympics on Thursday.
- 17:14 21/08/2008
Ukraine's security service has been given presidential instructions to check the government - right up to Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko - for any activity that could "harm the country's national interests," the UNIAN news agency reported Thursday.
- 17:04 21/08/2008
- 15:30 21/08/2008
British pedophile rocker Garry Glitter is soon to be thrown out of Thailand again, leaving him in international limbo after a failed attempt to enter Hong Kong, the Foreign Office said on Thursday.
- 15:13 21/08/2008
Georgia's breakaway province of Abkhazia has sent an appeal to Russia to recognize its independence, the republic's president said Thursday.
- 14:55 21/08/2008
Georgia has lost the right to conduct peacekeeping operations in its breakaway republic of South Ossetia, a senior Russian military official said on Thursday.
- 13:48 21/08/2008
A truck overturned in southern Iran early on Thursday, killing at least 30 immigrants from Afghanistan and wounding 83 others, the Fars news agency reported.
- 13:17 21/08/2008
- 13:17 21/08/2008
Almost 18,000 refugees have returned to South Ossetia from Russia over the last nine days, Russia's emergencies ministry said on Thursday.
