According to the American pro-Russian “dissidents” in the person of a journalist Wayne Madsen in the American edition of Online Journal, a group of American neoconservatives, led by McCain foreign policy adviser Randy Scheunemann and George Soros, lobbying Washington’s recognition of Chechnya, Dagestan and Ingushetia as independent states in response …

NATO should re-consider where it has bases and other infrastructure and the European Union should take concrete steps in response to Russia’s actions in Georgia, Estonia’s foreign minister said.

Israeli police beef up presence for Ramadan prayers in occupied Arab Jerusalem.