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Ukraine's government said on Monday Russia would continue natural gas deliveries on February 12, although Gazprom's official spokesman denied the two sides had reached a compromise. 
Gazprom said on Monday it has postponed until Tuesday evening its deadline for Ukraine to pay its $1.5 billion natural gas debt, after which the Russian company is threatening to reduce supplies. 
Russian companies are interested in large-scale projects to build oil and gas pipelines in India, a source in the Russian delegation about to travel to the Asian country said on Monday. 
Moscow has cancelled $12 billion of Iraq's debt, or 93% of the total sum owed by the Middle East state, Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said on Monday. 
Gazprom said on Monday it has postponed until Tuesday evening its deadline for Ukraine to pay its $1.5 billion natural gas debt, after which the Russian company has threatened to reduce supplies. 
Russia plans to showcase its range of new small arms and light weapons (SALW) at an International arms exhibition in India, defense industry officials said on Monday. 
Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said on Monday she would press for an independent audit of intermediary companies involved in Ukrainian-Russian natural gas deals. 
Jailed ex-Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky on Monday ended a hunger strike he began almost two weeks ago in support of a terminally-ill former colleague, a lawyer for the ex-Yukos chief said.

Moscow has cancelled $12 billion of Iraq's debt, or 93% of the total sum owed by the Middle East state, Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said on Monday. 
Ukrainian and Russian energy companies will hold talks on Monday aimed at resolving their latest gas debt row that has prompted Gazprom to threaten a supply cutoff on February 12. 
Russia's GDP could grow by 7% in 2008 instead of the planned 6.6%, while food prices are unlikely to follow last year's trend of sharp increases, Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said. 
France's Societe Generale plans to complete a deal to consolidate a controlling stake in a leading Russian bank on February 11, the president of the bank's Russian subsidiary said on Monday. 
Russia will submit to a UN disarmament conference a joint Sino-Russian proposal for an international treaty to ban the deployment of weapons in outer space. 



