A planned rotation of a battalion of the Russian peacekeepers from the Collective Peacekeeping Forces in the Georgian-Ossetian conflict zone is scheduled to take place from May 27 to 31. The announcement was made by Commandant Assistant in charge for

Establishment of the Federal Agency for CIS Affairs is a ripe and necessary thing. It is astonishing that the Russian government was so slow in doing so," a political analyst, member of the Union of Orthodox Citizens in Moldova and