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An elderly man was killed during a fire in an apartment in west Moscow early on Saturday, emergency services said.


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Russia and China still call for a diplomatic solution of Iran"s nuclear issue, which has been in the center of international attention due to Islamic republic"s continuing nuclear developments.


MOSCOW, May 19 (RIA Novosti) - Zenit St...

MOSCOW, May 19 (RIA Novosti) - Zenit St. Petersburg trainer Dick Advocaat will definitely leave the club at the end of the season, Sport Express said on Tuesday, citing a source in the Belgian FA. Francois De Keersmaeker, the head of Belgian football"s governing body. earlier said that a deal had been agreed with Advocaat, 61, that would see the Dutch coach take over the national side at the end of this year, when his contract with Zenit expires. However, Advocaat has yet to put pen to paper. The Belgian FA dismissed national coach Rene Vandereycken in April after a series of results in World Cup qualifiers left Belgium with little hope of qualifying for the final stages of the 2010 tournament. Zenit earlier hinted that they would agree to Advocaat combining club and national side posts next year, but De Keersmaeker has said that, "the distance between Belgium and St. Petersburg is too great" to make this is a realistic possibility. Sport Express earlier said that Advocaat"s salary would be 2 million euros ($2.7 million) a year. Advocaat, who took over at Zenit in 2006 and has led them to the Russian title and the UEFA Cup, has previously managed his native Netherlands (twice), South Korea and the United Arab Emirates, as well as Glasgow Rangers and Germany"s Borussia Monchengladbach.

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to Russia, which have become frequent, have infuriated the Georgian government. Relations between the two countries came to a standstill after the five-day war between Russia and Georgia over the former Georgian republic of South Ossetia in August 2008.

Following the war, Russian recognized the independence of South Ossetia and another former Georgian republic, Abkhazia.

Nogaideli, who has visited Moscow several times in recent months, is expected to arrive in the Russian capital in early May to continue discussions on the resumption of regular flights between Georgia and Russia, which have been halted since the war.

In early March, Nino Burdzhanadze, the former speaker of the Georgian parliament and the leader of the opposition Democratic Movement-United Georgia, visited Moscow for talks with Russian political leaders, saying that such dialogue was crucial for Georgia.

During her stay in Moscow, Burdzhanadze, once an ally of President

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