| October 2008 |
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Gazprom Sbyt Ukraine, a subsidiary of the Russian energy giant, will deliver about 5 billion cubic meters of natural gas to industrial consumers in Ukraine this year, the company's general director said Tuesday. 
More than 1,000 refugees, who fled South Ossetia after Georgia's offensive on its breakaway republic two months ago, remain in Russia's North Ossetia, a human rights activist said Tuesday. 
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev told Israeli interim Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Tuesday that Russia would continue to play a constructive role in the Middle East peace process. 
Russia has responded positively to a request from Iceland for a loan, Russia's finance minister said Tuesday. 
The U.S. Department of Defense denied Tuesday reports that Iran forced a U.S. warplane to land in Tehran. 
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will address an international forum on global politics and security in France to propose the creation of a new European security system, the Kremlin website said on Tuesday.

EU observers in Georgia will be monitoring the withdrawal of Russian peacekeepers from the buffer zone next to South Ossetia, a source in the Russian Defense Ministry said Tuesday. 
The launch of India's first unmanned mission to the Moon has been scheduled for October 22, an Indian space official said on Tuesday. 
Russia's foreign minister said Tuesday following a meeting with his Venezuelan counterpart in Moscow that weapons sold to the Latin American state were only to improve its defense capability. 
A public opinion poll held in Ukraine has said that 50% of the country approves of Russia's recent recognition of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. 
The Vatican was accepted into Interpol after the unanimous approval of its membership by the organization's supreme governing body on Tuesday. 
NASA said Tuesday that its scientists had calculated a meteorite's trajectory and tracked its entry into Earth's atmosphere for the first time in the history of space exploration. 
Turkish bomber planes carried out airstrikes Tuesday in northern Iraq, targeting suspected bases of the separatist Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), the country's General Staff said. 
Russia's MICEX and RTS stock exchanges resumed trading as of 1:00 p.m. Moscow time (09:00 GMT) Tuesday, with shares showing moderate growth. 
Iceland's Central Bank said Tuesday that Russia had agreed to grant it a 4 billion-euro ($5.4 billion) loan, prompting a senior Russian Finance Ministry official to deny any deal had been made. 



