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Russia's prime minister said on Sunday Europe should press Kiev, not Moscow, for the resumption of Russian natural gas supplies via Ukrainian territory. 
The Russian president warned Ukraine on Sunday that if international monitors find it tapping gas destined for European consumers, transit volumes would be cut by an equal amount or halted again. 
Seven people including the Russian president's envoy to the State Duma, Alexander Kosopkin, died in a helicopter crash in Altai, south Siberia, an Emergency Situations Ministry spokesman said Sunday.

A spokeswoman for Latvian President Valdis Zatlers confirmed on Sunday that the head of state would not use Russian when speaking with Russian journalists. 
Six Russian warships, led by the Pyotr Veliky nuclear-powered missile cruiser, will participate in a joint naval exercise with the Indian navy this month, the chief of the Russian General Staff said on Sunday. 
Seven people including the Russian president's envoy to the State Duma died in a helicopter crash in Altai, south Siberia, an Emergency Situations Ministry spokesman said on Sunday. 
The 2008 Australian Open champion, Russia's Maria Sharapova, said on Sunday she would be not able to defend her Grand Slam title in Melbourne next week. 
Implementation of an anti-crisis program in Russia is proceeding more slowly than planned, and work should be sped up, the Russian president said Sunday. 
Gazprom said on Sunday it had not yet received even a copy of the document signed by Ukraine on an international gas transit monitoring commission, a key condition for resuming Russian gas supplies to Europe. 
Georgia has rejected Gazprom's offer of assistance in restoring gas supplies to Armenia, the Russian energy monopoly said on Sunday. 
English Premier League side Manchester City are close to signing Russian international Andrei Arshavin for $27.4 million, according to a report in the British Sunday Mirror newspaper. 
A Moscow military court adjourned on Sunday the trial of suspects in the murder of Russian investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya until January 19. 
Four suspected militants have been killed in a special police operation in the southern Russian Republic of Ingushetia, a police spokesman said on Sunday. 



