11:11
VLADIMIR PUTIN THANKED BERLINERS FOR THEIR BEFITTING AND RESPECTFUL ATTITUDE TO SOVIET SOLDIERS' GRAVES
On Tuesday President Putin of Russia expressed gratitude to the municipal authorities of Berlin, to the Berliners and all Germans for "the befitting and respectful attitude to Soviet soldiers' graves," reports the RIA Novosti correspondent. More details...

20:17
G-8 TO CONVENE EMERGENCY SUMMIT, RUSSIA APPROVES
Russia approves the idea for an emergency G-8 summit to debate anti-terrorist efforts and make a related statement, said Vyacheslav Trubnikov, First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, as he held conference with Minoru Tamba, Japanese Ambassador to Russia. More details...

16:13
G8 TO ELABORATE MEASURES TO STEP UP ANTI-TERROR COOPERATION
The G8 member-states' leaders charged the foreign, finance and justice ministers and heads of other competent bodies with elaborating a range of measures that would aim to improve cooperation in fighting terrorism, says the statement of the G8 heads of state and government issued by the Kremlin press service Thursday. More details...

20:35
RUSSIA PROPOSES GROUP OF EIGHT SUMMIT ON COMBATING TERRORISM
Russia considers that a Group of Eight high-level meeting would now be useful for discussing questions connected with countering international terrorism, Russia's Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov said on Thursday after talks with his French opposite number Hubert Vedrine in Moscow. More details...

17:34
LEADERS OF THREE SLAV NATIONS DISCUSS LATEST G8 SUMMIT
This Belarusian city hosted Wednesday a trilateral meeting between the presidents of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine. Among other things, Russia's Vladimir Putin told his Slav counterparts about the Genoa summit of the Group of Seven leading industrial nations plus Russia. More details...

15:50
PANTELIS BOUKALAS: THE GLOBE'S EIGHT DOGES
The gun was raised and it killed, legitimately. And then came a second assassination, as the jeep ran over the dead body (in ancient times, the victor would drag the dead person with his chariot) to confirm that the dead who belong to this class have the same rights that they had when they were still alive- none. The eight self-styled doges of the planet, however, "expressed their grief," despite the fact that they had "more important things to deal with" as Tony Blair, the politician furthest to the left, put it. More details...

14:30
RICE: POSITIVE MOVES ON NMD TAKEN IN GENOA
US National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice said at a Wednesday meeting with Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma that positive steps had been taken during the G8 Genoa summit in the search for a compromise with Russia on US plans to deploy a national missile shield. More details...

15:50
RUSSIAN MILITARY DELEGATION TO TRAVEL TO U.S. AUGUST 7-8 TO FOLLOW UP ON GENOA AGREEMENTS
Building on the agreements the Presidents of Russia and the US reached in Genoa, a Russian military delegation will travel to the US on August 7-8, under Yuri Baluyevsky, First Deputy Chief of General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, said Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov Tuesday. More details...

21:00
ANOTHER GLOBAL PROBLEM OF TODAY: HOW TO DEAL WITH ANTI-GLOBALISTS?
Intending to solve the urgent problems, which humankind is concerned with, leaders of the most developed capitalist countries have inadvertently generated another global problem: how to deal with anti-globalists? A motley crowd of globalization opponents have acquired a taste for it and seem to take relish in studying the schedules of the world’s respective forums. More details...

20:19
PARLIAMENT TAKES NOTE OF RUSSIA'S SUCCESSFUL PARTICIPATION IN GROUP OF EIGHT
Real economic results, continued structural reforms, Russia's fulfilment of obligations to its creditors and adoption of civilised laws, all these have ensured Russia's successful participation in the Group of Eight summit in Genoa. This was the view expressed in a RIA Novosti interview Monday by Mikhail Margelov, deputy chairman of the Federation Council's committee on international affairs. More details...

18:09
PUTIN: “BUSH’S THOUGHTS AND ARGUMENT WAS VERY PROFOUND”
Meeting between Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and US President George W. Bush proved a highlight of the G8 summit in Genoa. The talks proceeded in 3 stages. First, the 2 countries’ heads talked in a narrow circle – Vladimir Rushailo, Russia’ Security Council chief joined Russian president with Condoleesa Rice, national security advisor being his counterpart. More details...

17:02
G8 GENOA SUMMIT OVER. IT WAS DECIDED TO GET POOREST COUNTRIES “INVOLVED IN GLOBAL ECONOMY”
So, the Genoa G8 summit is over. One may say that it major result is a document signed by G8 countries’ leaders of getting the poorest countries (largely, African countries) involved in the global economy. The “Big Eight” has recognized 23 countries of the 3d world as those "meeting the criteria for easing the debt burden.” More details...

16:30
RUSSIAN PRESIDENT'S ADVISER HAILS G8 SUMMIT RESULTS IN GENOA
Russia's participation in G8 gatherings is no longer a formality. This is the opinion of the Russian president's economics adviser Andrey Illarionov, who has made a point of Vladimir Putin's having been on a par with the other world leaders at the Genoa summit as outstanding world problems were discussed. More details...

13:33
G-8 LEADERS READY TO SUPPORT RUSSIA'S ENTRY INTO THE WORLD TRADE ORGANISATION
The heads of the leading industrial nations are ready to support Russia's entry into the World Trade Organisation (WTO) on the terms advantageous for us, stated Vladimir Putin on Monday at the traditional conference with members of the Cabinet of Ministers in the Kremlin. More details...

15:56
G8 MORNING SESSION OVER
The morning session of the G8 heads of states has concluded in Genoa. The national leaders signed their names in the Golden Book of honorary guests at the end of the session. More details...

15:00
G8 LEADERS DENOUNCE ALL FORMS OF VIOLENCE
A communique adopted by the G8 forum participants in connection with the Friday death of an anti-globalisation protester stated that the G8 leaders resolutely denounced all forms of violence. More details...

15:00
G-8 LEADERS RESOLUTELY DENOUNCE ALL FORMS OF VIOLENCE
That is the subject of the communique passed by Genoa summit’s participants on Friday in connection with one of the anti-globalisation protester death. More details...

14:47
SECRETARY OF THE RUSSIAN SECURITY COUNCIL MEETS G8 COUNTERPARTS
On Friday night Vladimir Rushailo, Secretary of the Russian Security Council had an informal meeting with his counterparts from the G8 countries. According to information provided on Saturday by sources in the Russian delegation, this was the first meeting of its kind in the history of summit meetings. More details...

14:24
PUTIN DISCUSSES GERMAN VISIT WITH SCHROEDER
Russian president Vladimir Putin held a working meeting with Chancellor of Germany Gerhard Schroeder on Friday evening. Presidential press secretary Alexei Gromov announced that the two men had talked after the evening G8 summit meeting. More details...

13:57
G-8 LEADERS HOLD FIRST ROUTINE SESSION IN GENOA
The G-8 leaders are holding their first routine session in the Italian city of Genoa. The leaders of the eight industrialised nations are discussing poverty problems. More details...

13:06
G8 SUMMIT CONTINUES WORK ON SATURDAY
Despite attempts by antiglobalists and thugs to wreck the Group of Eight summit in Genoa, it is on with its work on Saturday. In the first half of Saturday, G8 leaders will consider foreign policy problems, such as the United States' national antimissile shield, which is causing serious apprehensions in Europe. More details...

13:00
G-8: FEAR AND HATRED IN GENOA
In spite of intensified security measures, in Genoa, where G-8 summit takes place, anti-globalists’ demonstration have transformed into disorders and violence acts. More details...

11:39
ANTIGLOBALISTS IN GERMANY EXPRESS PROTEST OVER DEATH OF A DEMONSTRATOR IN GENOA
A spontaneous action of protest by 150 antiglobalists and left extremists took place on the night of July 20-21 in Cologne near the building of the Italian consulate because of the death of one of the demonstrators in Genoa during the G-8 summit. More details...

11:27
SITUATION IN GENOA, VENUE OF G8 SUMMIT, IS TENSE
In Genoa, where the heads of the Group of Eight are holding a meeting, the situation is getting out of control, local observers say. In clashes between demonstrators, the police and carabiniers, one rallyman was killed on Friday afternoon. The 20-year-old man was mortally wounded in the head after he had thrown a flame extinguisher into a police car. More details...

11:16
ITALIAN PRESIDENT AND PRIME MINISTER URGE PROTESTERS TO STOP VIOLENCE
Italian President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi and Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi have expressed their sincere condolences over the death of a young protester during the clashes in Genoa. The President of Italy and the Prime Minister have urged anti-globalists to stop violence on the streets. Poverty problems cannot be resolved by such methods, the country's leaders believe. More details...

11:10
ALARM AT GENOA SUMMIT PRESS CENTER, WHERE POLICE DISCOVERED SUSPICIOUSLY LOOKING BAG, PROVES TO BE FALSE
The alarm, on Friday, at the international press center of the Genoa G8 summit has proved to be false. The police urgently evacuated everybody from one of the halls of the press center in Genoa's Old Port after they discovered a suspiciously looking bag in a disposal bin near the press center's information panel. More details...

11:06
RUSSIAN PRESIDENT TO PARTICIPATE IN G8 SUMMIT ROUTINE SESSIONS SATURDAY
On Saturday, the second day of the Group of Eight summit meeting in Genoa, Russian President Vladimir Putin will participate in routine sessions and hold a series of bilateral meetings. The main theme of the summit, whose sessions are held in the Palazzo Ducale, is elimination of poverty. More details...

20:57
U.N. SECRETARY GENERAL PRESENTS GLOBAL FUND AGAINST AIDS, MALARIA, TUBERCULOSIS
On Friday at Palazzo Ducale in Genoa, the United Nations' Secretary General Kofi Annan has presented the Global Fund against AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis. More details...

19:50
VLADIMIR PUTIN ATTENDS PRESENTATION OF GLOBAL ANTI-AIDS, -MALARIA, -TB FUND
Russian President Vladimir Putin has arrived to Palazzo Ducale in Genoa for attending the presentation of the Global Fund against AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis. Formation of the fund will be announced by the United Nations' Secretary General Kofi Annan. More details...

18:59
VLADIMIR PUTIN ARRIVES IN GENOA FOR G8 SUMMIT
Russian President Vladimir Putin has arrived at Genoa for a summit of the Group of Eight. The RIA Novosti correspondent reports that the presidential airliner landed in the airport Christopher Columbus of Genoa at around 6:20 p.m., Moscow time. More details...