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/ 8 September 2008
The 100 000th Land Rover Freelander 2 recently rolled off the company’s production line at Halewood on Merseyside, north west England.
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/ 6 September 2008
For Russia’s leadership, it seemed everything had gone right. But victory in Georgia has been undermined by an alarming flight of capital.
The scale of ethnic cleansing is strikingly apparent, writes Luke Harding.
European leaders warned Russia on Sunday to withdraw its forces rapidly from Georgia or face unspecified consequences.
What began as a skirmish has become a tragedy of global importance.
The risk of a new era of East-West confrontation triggered by Russia’s invasion of Georgia heightened on Friday.
The Kremlin on Tuesday night dictated humiliating peace terms to Georgia as the price for halting the Russian invasion of the small Black Sea country.
Venezuela’s President, Hugo Chávez, arrived in Moscow on Tuesday on his latest arms-buying spree.
Owning a car in Russia can present more problems than it solves. First there is the import duty, which pushes the cost of a top-range marque up a hefty 50% to more than R4million. Then there are the ubiquitous traffic jams in Moscow, where cars move at a sedate average of 19kph — slightly faster than in London, though, which clocks in at 18kph.
United States President George Bush’s attempts to patch up the US’s battered relationship with Russia failed on Sunday when Vladimir Putin said he continued to oppose the US’s European missile defence plans. Bush and Putin held talks in the Black Sea resort of Sochi. It was their last encounter before Putin steps down as president.