| December 2008 |
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The death toll in a bus crash in southern Israel has risen to 30, a spokeswoman for the Russian Embassy in Israel said on Tuesday. 
Gazprom and Ukraine's Naftogaz have yet to make progress in talks on natural gas deliveries to Ukraine in 2009 and the settlement of the country's 2008 debt, the Russian energy giant said on Tuesday. 
Despite the recent positive tendency in Russian-U.K. relations, bilateral ties remain far too fragile, the Russian ambassador to Britain said on Tuesday. 
The death toll in a tourist bus crash in southern Israel has been put at 23, a spokesman for local paramedics said on Tuesday. 
The Russian ambassadors to South Ossetia and Abkhazia presented their credentials on Tuesday to the presidents of the two breakaway republics. 
Russian arms exports in 2008 have been worth over $8 billion, a deputy prime minister said on Tuesday. 
The death toll in a tourist bus crash in southern Israel near the Red Sea resort city of Eilat has risen to 24, a local TV channel said on Tuesday. 
State-controlled Russian Venture Company (RVC) has pooled together 15.9 billion rubles ($576 million) in venture capital funds despite the ongoing financial crisis, the RVC General Director said on Tuesday. 
Russia will supply Lebanon with 10 MiG-29 Fulcrum fighters, Lebanese Defense Minister Elias Murr said on Tuesday after a meeting with his Russian counterpart, Anatoly Serdyukov. 
A senior Russian military official expressed concern on Tuesday about what he said were U.S. plans to set up military bases in the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. 
A Russian naval group led by the Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier, en route to the Mediterranean, conducted a series of training flights over the Celtic Sea, a Navy spokesman said on Tuesday. 
Zenit St. Petersburg have granted their unsettled star Andrei Arshavin permission to speak to other clubs, Russia's Sport Express daily said on Tuesday. 
Russia will hold several more test launches of the Bulava intercontinental ballistic missile next year before a final decision to adopt it for service is made, a senior Navy official said on Tuesday. 
U.S. Republican Senator Richard Lugar will pay a visit to Moscow on Tuesday to discuss the future of the U.S.-Russian relationship, including drafting a new arms reduction treaty. 
A delegation from Ukraine's national oil and gas company Naftogaz is continuing gas talks with energy giant Gazprom in Moscow that started on Monday, the Ukrainian company said on Tuesday. 



