| November 2008 |
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Russia and the U.K. should resume "normal" intergovernmental contacts, Russian First Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin said on Friday. 
The European Union and Russia have agreed to restart talks on a new partnership and cooperation agreement, the president of the European Commission said after an EU-Russia summit in Nice on Friday. 
The ministers of the world's leading gas producers will discuss in Moscow on December 23 the founding charter of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF), the Russian Energy Ministry said Friday. 
The Progress M-65 cargo spacecraft has successfully undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) to become a temporary "space lab," Russia's Mission Control said on Friday. 
A senior Russian diplomat said on Friday that he expects relations with the incoming U.S. administration to start on a strong footing, and that president-elect Barack Obama will seek to avoid an arms race. 
Sudan has bought an undisclosed number of MiG-29 fighters from Russia, the northeast African state's defense minister said on Friday. 
The terms of the so-called Medvedev-Sarkozy ceasefire plan that ended a five-day war between Russia and Georgia in August have been fully implemented, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Friday. 
The Russian Defense Ministry confirmed on Friday that Russia was looking at purchasing pilotless aircraft from Israel, but a spokesman said a final decision had not been made. 
Russia and the United States are planning to hold the next round of talks on replacing the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty by the end of the year, a Russian deputy foreign minister said on Friday. 
The European Union and Russia have agreed to restart talks on a new partnership and cooperation agreement, the president of the European Commission said after an EU-Russia summit in Nice on Friday. 



