Text of report by Russian state news agency RIA Novosti Moscow, 9 September (RIA-Novosti): Dmitriy Medvedev believes that "without a doubt, the more observers from the OSCE and EU there are on Georgian territory, the better".

Text of commentary by Dmitriy Butrin, chief of the Economic Policy Desk at the Kommersant Publishing House: "A specific Kremlin" by Russian Gazeta.ru news website, often critical of the government, on 20 August The confidence that Russia's actions in the war over South Ossetia were controlled from start to finish by the Kremlin and the White House [Russian Government] would make it possible to speak of the start of radical changes in foreign policy and the transition from unprincipled dealings with the theoretical world community to certain principles.

TASHKENT. Oct 29 (Interfax-AVN) - Russian and Uzbek defense ministers Anatoly Serdyukov and Ruslan Mirzayev met in Tashkent on Monday to discuss the use of Uzbekistan's desert areas as a site for the falling stages of the Russian RS-20 (Voyevoda) rocket which is used to put spacecraft into orbit.

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