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The United States is concerned by the recent violation of Georgian airspace by Russian military aircraft over the rebellious Georgian region of South Ossetia, Sean McCormack, spokesman for the US State Department says.

YEKATERINBURG, Russia (Reuters) – Russia said on Wednesday that charred remains found in a pit belonged to Tsar Nicholas II’s only son and his daughter, exactly 90 years after the Bolsheviks shocked the world by murdering the last Tsar.

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia will robustly defend its interests abroad, President Dmitry Medvedev said on Tuesday in a speech that made clear he would not soften the assertive policies that irked the West under his predecessor.

MOSCOW (Reuters) – On wooded hillsides where Georgian and separatist troops eye each other through the sights of their guns, the smallest spark could set off a war. Last week the detention of four Georgian soldiers in the breakaway South Ossetia region quickly escalated into a crisis. Georgia threatened an …

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has approved a plan to hand control of hundreds of state-owned assets to a single Kremlin corporation despite resistance from inside his government.

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia made no commitment at last week’s Group of Eight summit to back U.N. sanctions against Zimbabwe so it cannot be accused of a U-turn, a senior Russian diplomat said on Monday.

Chechen pro-Russian accomplices (whom we call murtadin/apostates) from the Zapad (“West”) and Vostok (“East”) gangs have left the ranks of the troops of Russian invaders in Abkhazia without any permission. Georgia-based Rustavi-2 TV channel reported that yesterday up to 90 Chechen pro-Russian accomplices left Russian checkpoints 304 and 204 in …

Russia is not interested in settlement of conflicts in Georgia and this country’s entrance to NATO, and therefore, provokes Georgian- Abkhazian and Georgian-Ossetia conflicts, experts consider. ” Moscow appears to think that so long as Georgia is in conflict with its breakaway regions and Russia, Georgia will not be allowed …

After a guerrilla attack on the village of Muzhichi, members of the “Memorial” human rights centre conducted a painstaking survey of village residents, gathering comprehensive information about the raid. Tamerlan Akiyev, head of Memorial’s Nazran office, has kindly provided an article written specially for Prague Watchdog about the results of …

Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of state, has urged Russia to help resolve tension in Georgia’s rebel regions rather than “contributing to it”.   Rice was in Tbilisi, the country’s capital, on Thursday in a show of support for Georgia, an ex-Soviet state which wants to join Nato and is …