... 7:11pm IST MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's defence spending will grow by 27 percent in 2009, Interfax news agency quoted Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as saying on Tuesday. "Nearly 2.4 trillion roubles ($94.12 billion) will be allocated for the needs of national defence and security (in 2009)," Interfax quoted Putin as saying. "This is an increase of 27 percent." In a brief war last ...

... act after Georgia on August 7 launched an offensive to retake South Ossetia, an attack that South Ossetia's prosecutor general said today had killed 1,692 people, according to the Interfax news agency. German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier today called on Moscow to allow an international probe into the allegations of abuses. ''(Moscow) alleges that there atrocities were ...

... act after Georgia on August 7 launched an offensive to retake South Ossetia, an attack that South Ossetia's prosecutor general said today had killed 1,692 people, according to the Interfax news agency. German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier today called on Moscow to allow an international probe into the allegations of abuses. ''(Moscow) alleges that there atrocities were meted ...

... act after Georgia on August 7 launched an offensive to retake South Ossetia, an attack that South Ossetia's prosecutor general said today had killed 1,692 people, according to the Interfax news agency. German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier today called on Moscow to allow an international probe into the allegations of abuses. ''(Moscow) alleges that there atrocities were meted ...

...aid, and the U.S. planned to leave it in the Black Sea for now. A spokesman for Putin, quoted by Interfax news agency, observed: "Military ships are hardly a common way to deliver such aid." The U.S. has used military ... the Black Sea — continuously increase its group of forces and systems there? It turns out that it cannot," Nogovitsyn was quoted as saying Wednesday by Interfax.

...amerykańskiej tarczy antyrakietowej | w Czechach i Polsce będzie mieć charakter wojskowy" - powiedział Miedwiediew w | wywiadzie udzielonym arabskiej telewizji Al-Dżazira. O słowach tych | poinformowała świat rosyjska Interfax. "Te rakiety znajdują się w pobliżu naszej | granicy i stanowią dla nas zagrożenie, to pewne. To oczywiście stwarza dodatkowe | napięcie. Będziemy musieli na nie jakoś ...

...ńskiej tarczy antyrakietowej w Czechach i Polsce będzie mieć charakter wojskowy" - powiedział Miedwiediew w wywiadzie udzielonym arabskiej telewizji Al-Dżazira. O słowach tych poinformowała świat rosyjska Interfax. "Te rakiety znajdują się w pobliżu naszej granicy i stanowią dla nas zagrożenie, to pewne. To oczywiście stwarza dodatkowe napięcie. Będziemy musieli na nie jakoś zareagować, ...

... visit to Russia by Syrian President Bashar Assad, Israeli officials said. This week, Russia's Interfax news agency quoted a diplomatic source in Moscow as saying Syria and Russia were working on... visit to Russia by Syrian President Bashar Assad, Israeli officials said. This week, Russia's Interfax news agency quoted a diplomatic source in Moscow as saying Syria and Russia were working ...

..., Russia temporarily sealed its borders with Georgia and | Azerbaijan. Interfax reported that Aleksander Bortnikov, head of the | Russian Federal ... remarks on | the Caucasus military situation. According to Interfax-AVN, Nogovitsyn | said that Russia will lay claim to ... initiated this bloodshed," he said in an | interview with Interfax-AVN news. "Part of this arsenal, especially | ammunition, ...

..., Russia temporarily sealed its borders with Georgia and Azerbaijan. Interfax reported that Aleksander Bortnikov, head of the Russian Federal ...blunt-spoken remarks on the Caucasus military situation. According to Interfax-AVN, Nogovitsyn said that Russia will lay claim to ... initiated this bloodshed," he said in an interview with Interfax-AVN news. "Part of this arsenal, especially ammunition, ...