Cheney praises Georgia, the end of the Soviet Union;

Russia considers playing Iran card

Medvedev lays out "

guiding principles"

of foreign policy;

Revising history in Russian textbooks

SCO fails to endorse Russian position on Georgia...;

...but Venezuela gladly backs its new ally in Moscow

Russian business climate sours, market tanks;

Tensions rise in the Black Sea

Khodorkovsky denied early parole;

Russia rethinks the WTO

Nuclear warheads for the Baltic fleet?;

Rice questions Medvedev's word

Missile shield puts Poland in Moscow's crosshairs;

Russians leave Georgia, capital leaves Russia

In Georgia war, Medvedev "

a schoolboy who repeats his teacher"

U.S. cancels naval exercises to protest Russian invasion

Georgia and Russia at war

Drums of war echo through the Caucasus;

A Russian hero laid to rest