The latest: Russia Calls for Emergency Meeting to Discuss Middle East Crisis

22.07.2006
Russia Calls for Emergency Meeting to Discuss Middle East Crisis
Russia proposed on Saturday holding an urgent meeting of foreign ministers of the world’s leading nations and regional states in Beirut or Rome, in an attempt to stop the bloodshed in the Middle East.

22.07.2006
Putin Hosts Informal Summit of Ex-Soviet Leaders in Russian Capital
Leaders of several former Soviet republics arrived in Moscow Friday for meetings billed as an informal summit of the Commonwealth of Independent States, but the planned talks were overshadowed when Georgia’s leader postponed plans to attend. Ukraine’s Viktor Yushchenko, too, refused to attend the summit amid the crisis his government faces at home.

22.07.2006
Russia’s Putin Fires Governor Charged With Fraud
Russian President Vladimir Putin has sacked the governor of the far-northern Nenets Autonomous Okrug. Alexei Barinov was detained in May on suspicion of misappropriating 19 million rubles ($700,000) in his former capacity as chief executive of a geological prospecting company.

22.07.2006
Madonna to Give First-Ever Concert in Russia
US pop queen Madonna will perform in Russia for the first time on September 11 and 12 as part of her Confessions world tour, a Russian organizer said.