| September 2008 |
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The Russian economy is strong enough to see out the current global financial crisis, the Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Tuesday.

The United Nations Security Council has expressed an interest in meeting with representatives of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, but says the visa issue must be decided first, Russia's envoy to the UN said Tuesday. 
There is one Russian among 22 crewmembers of a Hong Kong tanker seized Monday off the coast of Somalia, an Internet publication said Tuesday. 
The Russian economy is strong enough to see out the current global financial crisis, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Tuesday. 
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday that the Caucasus does not need NATO interference in the region in the wake of the recent conflict in Georgia. 
France has urged new UN sanctions against Iran following the latest IAEA report saying Tehran had not halted its uranium enrichment program, but the proposal ran into immediate opposition from China. 
Ukraine's parliamentary speaker announced on Tuesday the collapse of the country's ruling pro-Western coalition, paving the way for possible early parliamentary elections.

Russia is to speed up the construction of a new gas pipeline to the South Ossetian capital, Tskhinvali, Russia's deputy energy minister said Tuesday. 
Almost all the refugees who fled South Ossetia during Georgia's attack on the republic have returned, and the situation in the province is stabilizing, the Russian prime minister said Tuesday. 
A painting by current Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has been sold at an auction in Venezuela for $255,000, congresswoman Hiroshima Bravo said on Tuesday. 
Israel and the United States lack the ability to commit an act of aggression against Iran in an effort to destroy its nuclear installations, the Iranian president's senior military advisor said Tuesday. 
Kazakhstan is proposing the creation of what amounts to an international uranium market, the president of the country's national uranium producer said on Tuesday.



