Slovenia signed an agreement on Saturday for the massive South Stream gas pipeline from Russia to Europe to pass through the country. Prime Minister Borut Pahor and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin witnessed the accord signed by their respective energy ministers Matej Lahovnik and Sergei Shmatko at Putin's residence at Novo-Ogarevo near Moscow. "We have now signed agreements with all the European partners which are vital for the South Stream project," Putin said at a joint press conference afterwards. Slovenia follows Bulgaria, Serbia, Hungary and Greece in signing up to South Stream. "We wanted to sign before our relations suffered because of our team's ...
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Russia and Georgia embark on fresh talks in Geneva Wednesday set to be dominated by the arrest of Georgians in South Ossetia, the breakaway Georgian region at the centre of the war between the two countries. Delegations from the two sides, as well as from South Ossetia and the second breakaway Georgian region Abkhazia, will meet at the United Nations in the Swiss city for talks dedicated to security and displaced people. It will be the eighth round of the discussions which started after the five-day war between Russia and Georgia in August 2008. The negotiations are resuming after a pause of almost two ...
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A Russian military plane crashed into the sea during a training exercise in Russia's Far East region, leaving all 11 crew members missing and presumed dead, officials said on Saturday. The Tupolev Tu-142 plane disappeared from radar as it was coming to the end of a training mission on Friday over the Tatarski Strait that divides Russia's Far East island of Sakhalin from the mainland, the defence ministry said. "Given the conditions under which the catastrophe took place, we can presume that all the crew aboard the Tu-142 were killed," a source in the emergencies ministry told the RIA Novosti news agency. "But search ...
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The French military Thursday dismissed as "baseless" a British newspaper report that French troops died in Afghanistan because Italy had failed to inform them of a Taliban payoff deal. The Times of London said 10 French soldiers were killed in Sarobi district in August 2008 because they were not told that Italy had been paying the Taliban not to carry out attacks and failed to properly assess risks. Admiral Christophe Prazuck, spokesman for the armed forces general staff, said he had "no information enabling us to confirm the reports published in the British press." "These are rumours, and it is not the first time ...
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