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Main news of February 21

21:30 21/02/2009

RUSSIA

* Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Saturday that the events in South Ossetia have conditioned the necessity to work out new approaches to ensuring global security

* The use of weapons by Russian border guards against Chinese cargo vessel The New Star was legal, the Russian Foreign Ministry said

* Russian movement Solidarity, founded in December 2008 to unite scattered opposition forces, held its first rally in central Moscow

* Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin held an economic meeting on Saturday to work on changes to the 2009 budget, the government press secretary said

* Four people died and the chairman of the regional court of appeal was injured in a road accident in the Tula Region some 200 km (120 miles) south of Moscow, a law enforcement source said

WORLD

* A total of 64 Russian soldiers were killed and 283 wounded in the war with Georgia in 2008, a deputy Russian defense minister said

* About a thousand activists of a number of political and public movements held a rally Saturday in the Ukrainian city of Sevastopol demanding extraordinary parliamentary and presidential elections

* Latvian political leaders try to form a new coalition following the prime minister's resignation, the largest pro-Russian party said it could join the government

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