| November 2008 |
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Russia and the United States plan to hold talks in the near future on replacing the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, which expires in December 2009, a deputy chief of the government staff said. 
The prime ministers of Russia and Ukraine, Vladimir Putin and Yulia Tymoshenko, will meet on Friday in Chisinau, the capital of Moldova, a Russian official said on Wednesday. 
The Nord Stream company will provide Finland with the results of an environmental assessment of its gas pipeline construction project in early 2009, the Finnish prime minister said on Wednesday. 
Georgia is ready to reestablish bilateral relations with Russia, the Georgian economics minister said on Wednesday. 
The Russian frigate Neustrashimy (Fearless) and Britain's HMS Cumberland frigate have prevented the seizure of a Danish merchant vessel by pirates off Somalia's coast, a Russian Navy spokesman said on Wednesday. 
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin supports President Dmitry Medvedev's suggestion that presidential and parliamentary terms should be increased to six and five years, respectively. 
Russian energy giant Gazprom is considering buying a 20% share in Repsol, Spain's largest private oil and gas company, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov said on Wednesday. 
Russia believes that a compromise on a controversial U.S. missile shield in Europe is still possible, but is waiting for more constructive proposals from the new U.S. administration, a Kremlin source said on Wednesday.

Russia will test fire another Bulava sea-based intercontinental ballistic missile before the end of the year, a source in the Navy headquarters said on Wednesday. 
The St. Petersburg Baltiysky Zavod shipyard has completed sea trials of a new diesel-electric icebreaker in the Baltic Sea, the company said on Wednesday. 
The new James Bond film Quantum of Solace broke box office records over the weekend as Daniel Craig's second outing as 007 topped the international charts with $106.5 million in ticket sales. 
Ukraine is increasing its marine group and forming three air defense units in Sevastopol following the conflict between Georgia and Russia in the South Caucasus, a naval officer said on Wednesday. 
A Russian defense industry official denied on Wednesday that talks had been held with India on the delivery of the nuclear submarine on board which 20 people died last weekend. 



