| February 2008 |
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Tbilisi views Moscow's plans to organize voting in Georgia's breakaway republics during the March 2 Russian presidential polls as a sign of disrespect, its foreign minister said on Tuesday. 
Russian presidential front-runner Dmitry Medvedev said on Tuesday that Serbia had been engaged in the South Stream gas pipeline project to show support for Belgrade in the ongoing Kosovo dispute. 
Gazprom will reduce natural gas supplies to Ukraine by 25% on March 3 at 7:00 a.m. GMT, if problems, primarily debts, are not settled, a spokesman for Russia's energy giant said on Tuesday. 
Russia will work with any new U.S. administration formed after presidential elections in November, a Russian first deputy prime minister and the man favorite to succeed President Putin said on Tuesday. 
Russia's Defense Ministry will spend around one trillion rubles ($40 bln) of federal budget funds in 2008, 20% more than in 2007, a ministry official said on Tuesday. 
The country's parliamentary speaker, Bronislaw Komorowski, had earlier said that "I believe that Poland will be among those states to recognize the independence of Kosovo, guided, in principle, by the fact that no one has found an effective way to bring together two mortal ethnic enemies." 
North Korean authorities have not released a Russian cargo ship seized on Saturday in the Sea of Japan, a Russian diplomatic official said on Tuesday. 



