One of the stranger questions to emerge after the August conflict between Russia and Georgia: Did Russians go to war wearing a camouflage design filched from Finland?
Ségolène Royal, the former presidential candidate, and Martine Aubry, the architect of the 35-hour workweek, will face each other in a runoff election on Friday.
In a keynote speech to the ruling party congress, Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin announced tax cuts to spur the economy and increased spending on social programs.
The jury in the trial of three men accused in the killing of the journalist Anna Politkovskaya did not demand that journalists be barred from the proceedings, as a judge said a day earlier.
Vowing to protect French industry from foreign predators and a worsening economic slump, President Nicolas Sarkozy introduced an investment fund of 20 billion euros ($25 billion) on Thursday.
According to a report released by Amnesty International, Russian, Georgian and South Ossetian forces failed to protect civilians during the war in Georgia.
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