Russian President Dmitry Medvedev held a trilateral meeting on Thursday with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and US Vice President Joe Biden

Mourning for the late President Bagapsh has been declared in Abkhazia. The state flag on the building of the presidential administration has been lowered. All programs were cancelled on state television.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, US President Barack Obama and French President Nicolas Sarkozy call upon Armenian and Azerbaijani leaders to demonstrate their political will and to make some progress in peacemaking during the upcoming Armenian-Azerbaijani summit in June

The Ukrainian oil company Ukrtransnafta has started pumping Azeri Light oil through the Odessa-Brody pipeline in the designed averse direction for refineries in Western Ukraine