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TBILISI (Reuters) – Georgia will tighten visa requirements for Russian citizens following the Kremlin’s decision to recognize two Georgian rebel regions, the government said on Saturday.

MOSCOW (Reuters) – At least two Russian soldiers have been killed in bombings in Chechnya, including a suicide attack on a government camp, Russian news agencies reported on Saturday.

Georgia’s president has been visiting the Black Sea port of Poti – inspecting the damage caused during the conflict with Russia over the breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia and maintaining the pressure ahead of Monday’s European Union summit on the situation.

TEHRAN (FNA)- A delegation from a Russian nuclear power construction company Atomstroyexport will discuss the completion of the Bushehr nuclear power plant in Iran on September 1, a company spokesman said on Friday.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday blamed foreign interference for the crisis in Georgia and called on regional powers to come to a peaceful resolution.

TEHRAN (FNA)- A Russian delegation is scheduled to visit Iran to discuss the completion of Iran’s first nuclear power plant in Bushehr, Russian officials said.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran will start gas exports to Armenia by Oct. 1st, head of the gas export operation office of the National Iranian Gas Company (NIOC) said following the latest round of talks between the two sides.

PARIS/MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia and European powers took a step back from confrontation over Georgia on Friday, with Moscow urging the EU not to rush into punitive action and France saying now was not the time for sanctions.

MOSCOW (Reuters) – A keen sense the West cheated Moscow out of promised warmer ties after the Cold War explains why Russia, recovered from post-Soviet collapse, has refused to be cowed over Georgia and demanded its views be heard.

RIGA (Reuters) – Latvia favors the suspension of talks on a new cooperation pact between the European Union and Russia until Moscow has withdrawn its troops from Georgia, the Baltic state’s foreign minister said on Friday.