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TEHRAN (FNA)- The capacity of Iran-Armenia gas pipeline project will increase to 2.5 billion cubic meters, Armenia’s Minister of Energy Armen Movsisyan announced.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Moscow dismissed a US request for UN Security Council sanctions against Iran’s main shipping line, stressing that Russia has its own ways to be vigilant about Iran’s financial transactions.

SOCHI, Russia (Reuters) – Georgia’s breakaway region of South Ossetia plans to become part of the Russian Federation, its leader said on Thursday.

Russia has urged the United Nations’ highest court to dismiss a case brought by Georgia, accusing Moscow of human rights violations in South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s military plans to station a total of 7,600 servicemen at bases in Georgia’s South Ossetia and Abkhazia regions, Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov said on Tuesday.

WARSAW (Reuters) – Russia’s relations with Poland have rarely been easy but Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov visits Warsaw on Thursday amid particularly sharp disputes over missile defense and Moscow’s army offensive in Georgia.

Moscow says its soldiers are likely to stay in South Ossetia and Abkhazia for a long time, a day after agreeing to a deal to pull troops out of Georgia proper. 

TEHRAN (FNA)- The United States’ continued interference in the Caucuses and Central Asia has made Moscow plan or consolidate strategic alliance with regional countries to counter NATO and US presence in the region.

MEIENDORF CASTLE, Russia – (Reuters) – French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrived in Russia on Monday to seek a lasting peace deal for Georgia that will persuade Russia to pull its troops out of positions deep inside the ex-Soviet state.

MINSK (Reuters) – Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko stopped short of recognizing the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia on Monday, leaving Nicaragua the only state to join Russia in recognizing them.