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Saakashvili: Georgia will enter NATO and EU and return "occupied" lands

GEORGIA-PRESIDENT-LANDS-NATO TBILISI. Aug 6 (Interfax) – Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili visited several Georgian villages near the South Ossetian border on Monday evening and promised their residents that Georgia …

British MP criticizes Pussy Riot trial

RUSSIA-PUNK/BAND-UK-MP MOSCOW. Aug 6 (Interfax) – British MP Kerry McCarthy has said she was unpleasantly surprised by the course of the trial in the Pussy Riot case. Addressing …

Brothers Gakayev could be behind Grozny blast – Kadyrov (Part 2)

RUSSIA-CHECHNYA-BLASTS-KADYROV-2 GROZNY. Aug 6 (Interfax) – Chechnya’s head Ramzan Kadyrov has visited the scene of twin blasts on the outskirts of Grozny and met with police officials and …

Court investigation of Pussy Riot case completed

RUSSIA-PUNK/GROUP-TRIAL MOSCOW. Aug 6 (Interfax) – The court investigation of the Pussy Riot punk group has been completed, an Interfax correspondent reports. Judge Marina Syrova announced this to …

Ukrainian central bank’s official forex rate changes

UKRAINE-CENTRAL-BANK-FOREX-RATE-CHANGES Rate06/08/1207/08/12Change, % Official exchange rate of the hryvnia to the US dollar (UAH/$)7.99307.99300.000 Official exchange rate of the hryvnia to EURO (UAH/EUR1)9.7874289.894535+1.094 Official exchange r…

Sevastopol receives five fire engines from Moscow government

UKRAINE-SEVASTOPOL-MOSCOW Sevastopol, August 6 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Sevastopol has received five fire engines from Moscow City Government, according to Head of Sevastopol City State Administration Volodymyr Yatsuba. “We agreed …

Minsk should not be fifth wheel on Moscow-Beijing axis – Lukashenko

BELARUS-RUSSIA-LUKASHENKO-STATEMENT MINSK. Aug 6 (Interfax) – Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko speaks of strategic partnership with Russia and counts on involvement in the expanding cooperation between Moscow and Beijing. …

Kazakh terrorists receive long prison terms

KAZAKHSTAN-TERRORISM-VERIDCT URALSK. Aug 6 (Interfax) – A special interregional criminal court in the West Kazakhstan region of Kazakhstan has handed down guilty verdicts to eight defendants who stood …

Pussy Riot member insists their action was politically-motivated

RUSSIA-PUNK-GROUP-ACTION-MOTIVES Moscow, August 6 (Interfax) – The third member of Pussy Riot punk group Nadezhda Tolokonnikova said in court that group members had not sought fame and therefore …

Memorandum on fair and transparent elections signed in Crimea

UKRAINE-CRIMEA-ELECTIONS Simferopol, August 6 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Crimean Prime Minister Anatoliy Mohyliov and representatives of Crimean republican organizations of 13 political parties have signed a memorandum on fair and …

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