| October 2008 |
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Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao will pay an official visit to Moscow on October 27-29, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Monday. 
Russia supports involving India in the work of the Group of Eight leading industrial nations, its foreign minister said Monday. 
Russian peacekeepers from the 15th motorized infantry brigade returned to their home base in south Russia after an almost three-year mission in Abkhazia, the Volga-Urals military district press service said on Monday. 
Talks scheduled for Tuesday between Cambodia and Thailand to address recent clashes near the 11th century Preah Vihear Temple have been postponed on Phnom Penh's request, local media said on Monday. 
The Iranian Air Force completed on Monday a five-day series of large-scale exercises in the northwest of the country, the IAF press service said in a statement. 
There are no political obstacles in the way of the completion of the $1 billion Bushehr nuclear power plant being built by Russia in southern Iran, a Russian deputy foreign minister said on Monday. 
Vietnamese President Nguyen Minh Triet will arrive on an official visit to Russia on October 26-29 at the invitation of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, the Kremlin press service said on Monday. 
Over 20,000 Georgians displaced by an armed conflict between Tbilisi and Moscow over breakaway South Ossetia have returned to their home villages in buffer zones, the UN refugee agency said on Monday. 
Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi will pay his first visit to Russia in more than 20 years in late October, a Russian business daily said on Monday, citing a Foreign Ministry source. 
Cuban leader Raul Castro and his brother Fidel have been honored by the Russian Orthodox Church for their contributions to the construction of the first Russian Orthodox cathedral on the Caribbean island. 
Tzipi Livni, the new leader of Israel's Kadima party, is expected to ask on Monday for two more weeks from President Shimon Peres to attempt to form a coalition government. 



