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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Dmitry Medvedev told his new government on Wednesday to step up efforts to help small- and medium-size businesses choked by red tape and corruption.

Хвала Аллаху Господу миров! Мир и благословение посланнику Аллаха Мухаммаду, его семье и сподвижникам. Кого направил Аллах, того никто не собьет, а кого Аллах сбивает с пути, того никому не направить.

Предчувствие, что должно произойти что-то неотвратимое, не покидало все последние дни. Сколько наших братьев ушло в мир иной на этом маленьком клочке земли, что зовётся Нохчичоь, Нана ДегIаста. Но мысль о возможной смерти в неравном бою больше успокаивает, нежели страшит. Тревожило, что-то другое, более нежеланное. Неужели ещё одна большая потеря?

The parade, organized by the Kremlin in Moscow, did not make an impression as expected on foreign observers, – many Western media write in their comments on the theatrical event in the Russian capital on May 9 (Victory Day), which was broadcast live on Russian television channels.

The Lebanese army has said that it is revoking measures taken by the government against Hezbollah, the Shia opposition group, and asked all armed fighters to withdraw from the streets of Beirut.

During a briefing in Georgian capital Tbilisi US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Matthew Bryza avoided answering the question whether the US intends to sign a military assistance treaty with Georgia.

In the name of Allah, Most Benevolent, Most Compassionate!   Peace and blessings of Allah be on Prophet Muhammad, His family and all who followed Him until the Day of Judgment.

Experts and analysts have actually reaffirmed the statements made by US officials, who before the parade of Russian troops in Moscow were speaking in the same spirit, – that Russia can go ahead and show its old hardware, and Washington does not see any problem with that. “The US does …

In what appears to be an ongoing campaign by Chechnya’s pro-Moscow administration against the Vostok Battalion of the GRU (Russian military intelligence), investigators with the republic’s law-enforcement bodies are looking into the battalion’s possible involvement in the murder of the Arsamakov brothers (Chechnya Weekly, April 17 and 24; May 1).

A battle between rebels and security forces took place in Chechnya’s Urus-Martan district on May 6. Kavkazky Uzel on May 7 quoted a Chechen Interior Ministry source as saying of the incident: “Yesterday at around 1400 in a forest tract at the village of Komsomolskoe in Urus-Martan district servicemen from …