July, 2008

• 14 July

  Medvedev promises not to listen to advises of the U.S.

  The New York Times writes that Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev said during his meeting with the foreign journalists the other day that the United States is now in “deep crisis” and the US has no right to give any advises to other countries on how to conduct their policies.

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• 14 July

  Self-made bomb set off on launchpad at Russian missile base

  Blasts and arsons in the gang formations called the “Russian Army” are continuing. July 1 an “unidentified explosive device” was set off on one of the launchpads of the Russian invaders’ missile base 40 km away from the city of Barnaul in Altai, which Russia invaded and is now retaining …

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• 14 July

  SCANDAL. Presidents of Estonia, Hungary and Finland demonstratively leave Russia

  For censorship considerations, Russian media have concealed from their readers the fact that Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves left not only the conference room in protest of the slander against Estonia voiced at the so-called “Fifth World Congress of Finno-Ugric Peoples”, but he also left Russia and returned to Tallinn …

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• 14 July

  British ‘super-spy’ in coma amid fears of poisoning by Russian assassin

  Britain’s leading spy was today fighting for his life after he mysteriously fell into a coma. Alex Allan, the head of MI5, MI6 and GCHQ, was found unconscious at his west London home on Monday and taken to hospital.

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• 14 July

  Case of gas attack in Nord Ost Moscow theater seizure gets classified

  The Strasbourg Court has classified the case about the events that happened in the fall of 2002 in the theatrical center in Moscow. Moscow-based RIA-Novosti news agency reported that this information came from the attorney of the victims of the theater seizure, Igor Trunov.   “From the negotiations with the …

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• 12 July

  Russia rebuffs U.S. over Georgia mediation

  MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia will reject a call by the United States for international mediators to take a bigger role in defusing a row with Georgia, Interfax news agency quoted a Russian diplomatic source as saying on Friday.

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• 12 July

  Syrian, Lebanese presidents to meet in Paris

  PARIS (Reuters) – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his Lebanese counterpart Michel Suleiman will meet in Paris on Saturday ahead of a summit of EU and Mediterranean leaders, the French president’s office said on Friday.

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• 12 July

  TIMELINE: Political breakthrough in Lebanon

  (Reuters) – Lebanese leaders agreed on a unity government on Friday that gave Hezbollah and its allies a blocking minority as agreed under a deal that ended a paralyzing political conflict in the country. Here is a chronology of Lebanon in the last 20 months.

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• 12 July

  Lebanon forms unity government: official

  BEIRUT (Reuters) – Lebanon formed on Friday a unity government that gave Hezbollah and its allies effective veto power as agreed under a deal that ended a political crisis in the country.

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• 12 July

  U.S. air strike kills 47 civilians: official

  JALALABAD, Afghanistan (Reuters) – A U.S. coalition force air strike on Sunday killed 47 civilians, including 39 women and children, in the eastern province of Nangarhar, an Afghan official said on Friday.

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