* A new Project 21630 (Buyan-class) corvette has arrived at a naval base hosting Russia’s Caspian Flotilla to boost the country’s maritime defenses in the region, a flotilla’s spokesman said
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* A group of Georgian nationalists has burnt a Russian flag during a rally in Tbilisi demanding the return of breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia to Georgia, the Georgia Online news agency reported
* An ultra-rare Fabergé statuette depicting a royal Russian bodyguard that was long thought lost has been discovered in an attic in New York State and could fetch up to $800,000 at auction later this month, The New York Times has reported
