| October 2008 |
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The prime ministers of Russia, China, and four Central Asian countries will meet on October 29-30 in Kazakhstan's capital to discuss measures to overcome the ongoing financial crisis, the Kremlin press service said on Wednesday. 
Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi will pay an official visit to Russia at the invitation of President Dmitry Medvedev from October 31 to November 2, the Kremlin said on Wednesday. 
Russia's next round of talks on a stabilization loan to Iceland could be held soon in Reykjavik, Icelandic Minister of Commerce Bjorgvin Sigurdsson said on Wednesday. 
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili has rejected reports by Britain's BBC that his country's troops were guilty of war crimes during Georgia's attack on South Ossetia in August. 
A shareholder of Russia's state-run oil giant Rosneft has applied to the country's top prosecutors to probe the company's current contract for oil sales to China at below-market rates, Vedomosti said on Wednesday. 
An earthquake of magnitude 6.4 struck southwestern Pakistan early on Wednesday morning, destroying homes and killing at least 100 people, local officials reported. 



