| October 2008 |
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Ukraine and Russia will switch to a new pricing scheme for Russian gas based on European market prices in the next three years, Ukraine's prime minister said on Thursday. 
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that he considered alleged Ukrainian arms supplies to Georgia during the recent war over South Ossetia 'a crime.' 
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe adopted on Thursday a resolution calling on Russia to annul its recognition of Georgia's breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. 
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will travel to India on Friday following the approval of a landmark U.S.-Indian nuclear cooperation deal, the State Department said on Thursday. 
Georgia has asked Sweden to represent its interests in Russia, a Swedish newspaper quoted the Georgian ambassador to the Scandinavian country as saying Thursday.
Ukraine is ready to support Russia's bid to join the World Trade Organization (WTO), the Ukrainian prime minister said on Thursday. 
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said during her visit to Russia on Thursday that Georgia's territorial integrity was not an issue that was open for discussion. 
Several thousand ethnic Serbs protested on Thursday against the deployment of an EU police and justice mission in Kosovo, regional media said. 
Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko told her Russian counterpart on Thursday that her country is ready to discuss a new pricing scheme for its natural gas imports from Russia, based on market principles.
Ukraine's parliament voted on Thursday to revoke controversial laws backed by the premier reducing the president's powers, in a move to revive the country's pro-Western coalition amid the ongoing parliamentary crisis. 
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe started discussions on Thursday on whether to refuse Russia the right to vote at the January session unless it annuls its recognition of Georgia's rebel regions.

Turkish archaeologists have found artifacts showing that Istanbul, earlier believed to be founded 2,700 years ago by the Greeks as Byzantium, is 8,500 years old, local media said. 
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe started discussions on Thursday on whether to refuse Russia the right to vote at the January session unless it annuls its recognition of Georgia's rebel regions. 
Israel and the Palestinian Authority will brief the members of the Middle East Quartet on progress in ongoing peace talks at an international summit in November, an Israeli newspaper reported Thursday. 



