| December 2008 |
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Terminally ill ex-Yukos official Vasily Aleksanyan has been released at 50 million ruble ($1.8 million) bail, his lawyer said on Tuesday.
Ukraine will pay its natural gas debt to Russia within the next few hours, the country's national oil and gas company Naftogaz said on Tuesday. 
One cash courier was killed and another injured by armed robbers in the south of Moscow on Tuesday evening, police said. 
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice spoke by phone on Tuesday, calling for an end to the violence in the Gaza Strip, the Russian Foreign Ministry said. 
Ukraine will pay its natural gas debt to Russia within the next few hours, the country's national oil and gas company Naftogaz said on Tuesday. 
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has signed into law constitutional amendments extending presidential and parliamentary terms to six and five years, respectively, the Kremlin said on Tuesday. 
Gazprom is unsure whether Ukraine will fulfill its commitments on the transit of gas to Europe after January 1, the official spokesman for the Russian energy giant said on Tuesday. 
Sea trials of Russia's first Borey-class strategic nuclear submarine have been postponed until spring 2009, a high-ranking Navy source said on Tuesday. 
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has invited U.S. President-elect Barack Obama to launch a joint effort to deal with global problems. 
Russia and the United States have signed a new 2009 meat deal, cutting U.S. poultry imports and increasing import duties on poultry and pork supplies above quotas, the Economic Development Ministry said on Tuesday. 
The Russian Baltic Fleet's frigate Neustrashimy (Fearless) protected over 50 commercial ships from pirates off the Somali coast in 2008, a Russian Navy spokesman said on Tuesday. 



