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Russian natural gas giant Gazprom resumed on Wednesday full gas supplies to Ukraine after a two-day reduction in deliveries, the company's spokesman said. 
President Viktor Yushchenko gave assurances on Wednesday that Ukraine would not reduce Russian natural gas transit shipments to Europe despite Russia's gas cuts to Ukraine. 
Governments in Georgia's breakaway republics, South Ossetia and Abkhazia, are stepping up efforts to get their claims for independence recognized by the international community. 
Sophisticated military hardware will be paraded during May's Victory Day Parade in Moscow for the first time since the split up of the U.S.S.R, a military official said on Wednesday. 
Moscow insists that the international peacekeeping force in Kosovo operates strictly under the UN mandate, and that it shows "impartiality" and "objectivity," Russia's envoy to NATO said on Wednesday. 
Ukraine's prime minister said on Wednesday she would order the country's national oil and gas company Naftogaz to calculate and pay its debt to Russia for natural gas supplied without contracts. 
Exactly 55 years ago Joseph Stalin, the dictator who dragged the Soviet Union to superpower status, passed away in mysterious circumstances at his dacha just outside Moscow. 
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko demanded on Wednesday that the government resume talks on the repayment of the country's natural gas debt to Russia following Gazprom's decision to cut supplies to Ukraine. 



