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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday replaced the armed forces’ chief of general staff, General Yuri Baluyevsky, who had clashed with the defense minister, a former tax official with no military background. Baluyevsky’s post was a powerful one in the state hierarchy — besides the president and …

GROZNY, Russia (Reuters) – Authorities in the Chechen capital have dismantled a memorial to the victims of Soviet repression, triggering public outrage in the southern Russian region. Workmen appeared without warning last week and dismantled the monument, erected by Chechen separatist leader Dzhokbar Dudayev who fought Russia’s armies in the …

PARIS (Reuters) – Vladimir Putin was treated like a president in Paris on his first visit to a Western capital as prime minister, reinforcing an impression that he still runs Russia even after leaving the Kremlin.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Russia’s gas export monopoly Gazprom said on Tuesday it had increased gas supplies to Turkey after it asked for more gas following a stoppage of flows from Iran.

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian investigators on Monday scrapped an arrest warrant for the head of a media charity, effectively ending a prosecution that rights campaigners said was a Kremlin attack on civil society.

TBILISI (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of people protested in Georgia’s capital on Monday against President Mikheil Saakashvili, who they said had stolen victory for his ruling party in last week’s parliamentary election.

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia has released a man suspected of involvement in the 2006 murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya because he was not directly involved in the shooting, his lawyer said on Monday.

MOSCOW (Reuters) – A court in Moscow suspended the main opposition website in the troubled south Russian region of Ingushetia on Monday while prosecutors investigate regional government’s accusations it spreads extremist material.

Эксперты миссии ООН в зоне грузино-абхазского конфликта пришли у выводу, что грузинский разведывательный беспилотный летательный аппарат (БЛА) 20-го апреля был сбит российским военным самолетом, говорится в опубликованном отчете миссии 26-го мая 2008 года, сообщает «Новости-Грузия».

«После провозглашения независимости Грузия периодически сталкивается с давлением со стороны России», пишет в редакционной статье издание Turkish Weekly, оценивая лицемерную политику Москвы, как попытку сохранить свою монополию на энергоресурсы.