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Georgia’s breakaway regions, saying it had evidence Tbilisi was readying its forces for an attack. Georgia denied it had any plans to attack the separatist Abkhazia and South Ossetia regions, but the Russian move marks a new escalation in a crisis between the two ex-Soviet neighbors that has already alarmed …

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia said on Thursday an extra contingent of its troops had begun arriving in Georgia’s breakaway region of Abkhazia, a move Tbilisi said was an illegal act of military aggression.

(Reuters) – Diplomatic novice Dmitry Medvedev will take over next week as Russian president with a thick stack of foreign policy challenges in his in-tray.

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Next week a lawyer with little foreign policy experience will become Russian president and lead a country with a nuclear arsenal, a UN veto and volatile relations with its neighbors and an energy-dependent West.

TBILISI (Reuters) – Moscow’s sabre-rattling over two disputed regions of Georgia is driven by Kremlin hardliners who want to push Russia’s next president into an anti-Western stance, diplomats in both countries said.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Authorities in Azerbaijan are still demanding more complete documentation before they will release a consignment of Russian equipment destined for an Iranian nuclear power plant under construction at Bushehr.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran discussed with Russia on Monday the general outlines of a package of proposals aimed at defusing concerns about Tehran’s peaceful nuclear activities and programs.

President Vladimir Putin hinted at last few week’s NATO summit in Romania that Russia would work to break up Ukraine, should the former Soviet republic join the military alliance, Kommersant reported Monday.

Russia’s armed forces chief warned Friday that Georgia and Ukraine’s desire to join NATO will force Russia to take military steps, Russian news agencies reported.

A ringleader of “Vostok” (East) gang Sulim Yamadayev has came out with his first comment on events in the occupied by Russian invaders Wilayah Nokhchicho (Ichkeria) of the Caucasus Emirate, a standoff between the Yamadayev and Kadyrov gangs.