News From Russia: December 26th, 2008!

quality of transboundary waters and their protection, the Russian Natural Resources and Ecology Ministry’s press office reported today. A joint Russian-Chinese commission for the rational use and protection of transboundary waters will hold a meeting in Khabarovsk on December 26-28, with a protocol establishing the working groups to be signed following the meeting. RBC, 26.12.2008,

News From Russia: December 23rd, 2008!

Prosecutor’s Office has registered 162 civilian deaths caused by the military operations in South Ossetia that began on the night of August 7-8, the committee’s chief Alexander Bastrykin told journalists today. He added that 157 servicemen had been wounded, and 10 of the 48 soldiers killed were Russian peacekeepers. Bastrykin specified that the figures included