- 15:51 09/10/2008
The U.S. has again refused entry visas to breakaway Abkhazian officials due to attend a UN Security Council meeting on the Georgian conflict, a Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Thursday.
- 15:48 09/10/2008
Russia has handed control of buffer zones adjacent to Abkhazia and South Ossetia over to an EU monitoring mission in Georgia, a spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Thursday.
- 15:38 09/10/2008
Russia said it would not supply air defense systems to volatile regions, the country's Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Thursday.
- 15:29 09/10/2008
- 15:06 09/10/2008
Lithuania could try to block EU-Russia talks on a new cooperation pact suspended last month despite the recent Russian troop pullout from Georgia, an EU diplomatic source said on Thursday.
- 14:57 09/10/2008
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Thursday that Russia was shocked the UN and NATO had secretly signed a cooperation agreement without all UN member states reading the draft.
- 14:25 09/10/2008
Russia completed Thursday the withdrawal of its peacekeepers from a buffer zone adjacent to Abkhazia ahead of the agreed deadline, the deputy commander of the CIS peacekeeping contingent in the region said.
- 13:59 09/10/2008
The presidents of Ukraine and Azerbaijan will not attend the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) summit in Kyrgyzstan on Friday, the Central Asian state's envoy to the post-Soviet alliance said Thursday.
- 13:12 09/10/2008
Russia have completed the withdrawal of its peacekeepers from a buffer zone on the border between Georgia and Abkhazia, two days ahead of the agreed deadline, a deputy commander of the CIS peacekeeping contingent in the region said Thursday.
- 12:40 09/10/2008
Georgia's withdrawal from the CIS will not harm the organization, the Russian foreign minister said on Thursday, suggesting that Tbilisi's participation in the post-Soviet alliance had been malign in recent years.
- 12:12 09/10/2008
Russia's State Property Committee has approved the transfer of the state's stakes in the embattled AirUnion alliance to the state-run Russian Technology Corporation, a Russian paper said on Thursday.
- 11:06 09/10/2008
- 10:54 09/10/2008
Russia's NATO envoy has said that Ukrainian weapons were delivered to Georgia, and that the last delivery came as Georgian forces were attacking breakaway South Ossetia.
- 10:22 09/10/2008
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko signed a decree on Thursday to officially dissolve the Supreme Rada and set December 7 as the date for snap parliamentary polls.
- 09:37 09/10/2008
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev arrived in Kyrgyzstan on Thursday for talks with his Kyrgyz counterpart, Kurmanbek Bakiyev, and to take part in meetings of CIS and Eurasec leaders, the Kremlin said.
- 00:10 09/10/2008
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko dissolved parliament on Wednesday evening and announced snap elections in the country.
