Moscow - More than 20 foreigners were among the 82 passengers and five crew members on the Boeing 737 airliner that crashed in Perm, Russia, early Sunday, the Aeroflot airline reported.

Sited by the Interfax news agency, Aeroflot said that nine Azerbaijanis, 5 Ukrainians, and a person each from Germany, Switzerland, France, Latvia, Italy, the US and Turkey.

Russian officials initially reported that no non-Russians had been aboard the plane, which was flying from Moscow to Perm near the Ural Mountains. There were no survivors.

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Moscow - An airliner flying from Moscow to Perm,

Moscow - The ceasefire between Russia and Georgia has not calmed down the Caucasus. While inhabitants of Georgia's separatist enclaves Abkhazia and South Ossetia celebrate formal recognition by Russia as independent nations, hardly a day goes by without bloodshed in Russia's North Caucasus regions Ingushetia and Dagestan.

Moscow - An arms embargo against Georgia would top the Russian agenda at international peace talks in Geneva on October 15, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Friday.

"When deliberating there on how to prevent another aggression, the task of preventing Georgia's re-militarization will be paramount," Lavrov told a discussion group of Russian foreign policy experts, news agency Ria-Novosti reported.

He said the embargo should stand, "at least as long as (Georgian President) Saakashvili remains in power."

Moscow - Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki met with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Moscow on Friday for talks, news agencies reported.

"We regularly talk and review our relations at the highest level," Lavrov said at a joint press conference in Moscow. "I mean our trade relations, questions concerning the completion of the nuclear power plant at Bushehr, and other issues."

Russia this year sent the first shipments of nuclear fuel to the plant it is building for Iran in Bushehr.