| Sun, 5 Jul 2009 Mikheil Saakashvili: Georgia on his mind, Moscow on his back
| It's the watch that bothers me. Everything else is presidential - the pressed shirt and sharp tie; the aides tiptoeing in with overflowing bowls of cherries and mulberries, and the huge, book-lined interview room done out in soft woods inside a new, Reichstag-inspired... | Russia to warn Obama on Georgia
| Russia will seek assurances from President Barack Obama tomorrow that Washington will cease pressing for the former Soviet states of Georgia and Ukraine to join Nato - a policy that was aggressively pursued by George W Bush. | On his first visit to Russia as president... | Lenin's nose put out of joint in Kiev
| The recent damage caused to Lenin's monument in Kiev has provoked a debate about the future of the capital's only public monument to the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution. | The Ukrainian Nationalist Congress party is proud to proclaim that it smashed the statue's no... | Saturday's gossip column
| BREAKING GOSSIP | 1043 BST: Inter Milan right-back Maicon, who is wanted by Manchester City, is being lined up by Real Madrid. (Press Association) | 1008 BST: Manchester City are closing in on Barcelona striker Samuel Eto'o, with the Catalan club now appearing willing... | Ukraine continues to sell military hardware to Georgia receiving 800 million dollars of profit
| Ukraine has received about $800 million of profit from the export of arms in 2008. Sergey Bondarchuk, the chairman of the state-run company Ukrspetsexport, said that the nation’s arms export in 2007 brought the profit of $700 million and nearly $800 million – in 2008.... | Hopes high for summit by presidents
| MOSCOW — Presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev will likely sign a stack of agreements during their Moscow summit, but their chief goal may be for the United States and Russia to stop acting like adversaries — even if they can't be friends. | Over the... | Manchester City primed to step up John Terry chase
| Manchester City's pursuit of John Terry is not over and they are now considering increasing the pressure on Chelsea with a second bid for the England captain in excess of the £30m deal that was rejected on Thursday night. | Chelsea are opposed to losing their ca... | City ready to raise bid for Terry
| Manchester City's pursuit of John Terry is not over and they are now considering increasing the pressure on Chelsea with a second bid for the England captain in excess of the £30m deal that was rejected on Thursday night. Chelsea are opposed to losing their captain bu... | A moment of truth for Obama in Moscow
| By M K Bhadrakumar | In the annals of Russian-American summitry, Moscow has never before choreographed a welcoming ceremony for the visiting United States president in this fashion. The dramatic run-up to the arrival of US President Barack Obama in Moscow on Monday un... | |
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