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Moscow - Russia has withdrawn its last troops from western Georgia in accordance with a deal agreed with the European Union, reports said Saturday.

Russian soldiers on Saturday left the Georgian Black Sea port of Poti as well as five checkpoints between Poti and Senaki, Georgian media reports quoted the Georgian authorities and witnesses as saying.

Russian television showed the troops dismantling checkpoints at Poti before leaving in trucks. Around 150 Russian soldiers and ten tanks had been stationed in the port, locals said.

"This proves that the Russian state can strictly keep agreements," Russian Foreign Office spokesman Andrei Nesterenko told the Interfax news agency.

London, Sept. 13: Russia has described Georgia’s attack on South Ossetia and Abkhazia in August as its 9/11, and claimed that Russia would have attacked Georgia even if it was a member of the NATO.

In a strikingly self-possessed three-hour meeting in Moscow, President Dmitry Medvedev made clear he would be prepared to defend Russians militarily wherever they were in the world.

Medvedev said he never imagined he would be confronted with such a foreign policy crisis so early in his tenure, but said it had irrevocably changed him and his country.

Moscow - Russia has withdrawn its last troops from the Georgian port of Poti, reports said Saturday.

Russian television showed the troops dismantling checkpoints at the Black Sea port before leaving in trucks. Around 150 Russian soldiers and ten tanks had been stationed in Poti, locals said.

On Monday French President Nicolas Sarkozy, the current holder of the EU's rotating presidency, brokered in Moscow a deal to end Russia's current military occupation of Georgia.