| February 2008 |
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Russian energy giant Gazprom warned Friday that it could halt natural gas supplies to Ukraine at 10:00 a.m. [7 a.m. GMT] on February 12 over Kiev's outstanding debt for gas deliveries. 
President Vladimir Putin told Poland's prime minister at talks in Moscow on Friday that Russia hopes to build a strong, businesslike relationship with its former Eastern Bloc ally. 
NATO's plans to integrate U.S. missile defense elements into a North Atlantic security system would harm relations with Moscow, Russia's first deputy defense minister said on Friday. 
Russia's Central Election Commission said on Friday it expects about 350 international observers for the country's March 2 presidential polls. 
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that a new arms race had begun, but that Russia would not allow itself to be drawn into it. 
Russian President Vladimir Putin offered a new development strategy for the country at a State Council session on Friday. 
Russian President Vladimir Putin offered a new development strategy for the country at a State Council session on Friday. 
The recent launch of an Iranian research rocket was strictly for peaceful purposes, and was designed to obtain meteorological data, the Islamic republic's ambassador to Moscow said on Friday. 
Russia's unemployment rate declined by 10% to 6% in 2007 year on year, the head of the Russian delegation to a session of the UN Commission on Social Development said. 
Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold his seventh and final annual press conference as president on February 14, ahead of the March 2 presidential elections, the Kremlin press service said. 
Rescuers pulled a second body from debris following a gas explosion at an apartment building early Friday in the Krasnodar Region, south Russia, a local emergencies official said. 



