| October 2008 |
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Switzerland will represent Russian interests in Georgia, which broke diplomatic relations with Moscow, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Friday. 
The U.S. House of Representatives has approved a $700 billion bailout bill, a RIA Novosti correspondent said on Friday. 
The USS Mason, an Evarts-class destroyer escort that is part of the U.S. missile-defense system, could dock in Georgia in the next few days, a Russian intelligence source said on Friday. 
Russia's Defense Ministry has denounced a car bomb blast in Tskhinvali as an act of terror aimed at damaging a peace plan in the region. 
At least seven Russian peacekeepers were killed and three wounded Friday when a car bomb exploded near the HQ of a peacekeeping battalion in Tsikhinvali, a South Ossetian spokesman said.

Georgia's Defense Ministry is with the parliamentary committee on defense and security drafting a number of amendments to the country's law on military service, a parliamentary source said Friday. 
An Egyptian court divorced a couple after 12 years of an apparently happy marriage because the husband loved smoking strong cigars, a local newspaper reported Friday. 
At least seven people were killed and three wounded Friday when a car bomb exploded near the headquarters of the Russian peacekeeping forces in Tsikhinvali, a South Ossetian spokesman said. 
Sotheby's said Friday a painting by Russian avant-garde artist Kazimir Malevich is expected to bring at least $60 million at an evening auction in New York on November 3. 
The price Ukraine is due to pay for Russian-supplied natural gas in 2009 should be agreed within a month, Ukraine's prime minister, Yulia Tymoshenko, said on Friday. 
Ukraine's president could dissolve parliament on Monday paving the way for snap elections after the country's pro-Western alliance failed to reach a deal on a new coalition, a member of the premier's party said. 
Russian peacekeepers are preparing to withdraw from Georgian buffer zones bordering the rebel republic of South Ossetia in line with international agreements, a senior military official said on Friday. 
Russia's United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) will participate in the joint development of a new cruise missile with India only if a decision is made to adopt it for service with the Russian Air Force, the company said on Friday. 
Russia will not backtrack on its recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia as independent countries, the Russian ambassador to Georgia said Friday. 



