| August 2008 |
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Russia wants to join the WTO, but doubts it will be accepted into the global trade body within the next 12 months, the country's first deputy prime minister said on Monday. 
As current European Union president, France "keeps insisting" Russia withdraw its troops from the Poti-Senaki corridor, the French Foreign Ministry said Monday. 
The Latvian government has decided not to send troops to take part in a regional military exercise in Russia's Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad, the government press service said Monday. 
President Dmitry Medvedev warned on Monday that Russia could sever all ties with NATO amid a standoff over Russia's response to Georgia's offensive in breakaway South Ossetia. 
Russia has to be concerned that NATO is continuing to get a stronger foothold in the Black Sea, the deputy chief of General Staff said Monday. 
Russia's parliament Monday called on President Dmitry Medvedev to recognize and establish formal ties with Georgia's breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. 
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Monday that Georgia’s attack on the breakaway republic of South Ossetia inflicted material damages of more than $1 billion.
The upper house of the Russian parliament has agreed to the use of Russian peacekeepers in Chad, a deputy foreign minister said on Monday. 
Russia's upper house of parliament voted unanimously on Monday for a resolution calling on President Dmitry Medvedev to recognize the independence of Georgia's two breakaway regions. 
Georgia has handed 41 Russian civilians, who became stranded as a result of the recent conflict in South Ossetia, to Russia, a border service spokesman said on Monday. 
Israel will hand over on Monday a total of 198 Palestinian prisoners as a goodwill gesture to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas ahead of a visit by Condoleezza Rice, a spokesperson for the prison service said. 



