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Gazprom will launch a test gas delivery to Europe at 10:00 a.m. Moscow time [7:00 GMT] on Tuesday, the CEO of the Russian energy giant said on Monday evening.
Russia is ready to immediately resume talks on natural gas supplies at market prices to Ukrainian consumers in 2009, the Kremlin press service quoted the Russian president as saying on Monday. 
Russian natural gas supplies to Europe, halted last Wednesday over a gas dispute with Ukraine, could resume early on Tuesday, a deputy CEO of the Russian energy giant Gazprom said Monday. 
The European Commission signed on Monday a new version of an agreement on monitoring the flow of Russian gas to Europe via Ukraine, Russia's envoy to the EU said. 
Andrei Arshavin was the highest-paid soccer player in Russia in 2008, according to the country's Total Football magazine. 
The Pyotr Veliky nuclear-powered missile cruiser has sailed into the port of Cape Town, a Russian Navy spokesman said on Monday. 
The Georgian and Swiss foreign ministers exchanged on Monday documents to grant Switzerland the right to represent Georgia's interests in Moscow. 
Ukraine is ready to continue gas talks with Russia at a governmental level, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said on Monday. 
Four people were injured in a Mi-2 helicopter crash in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area in West Siberia on Monday, local emergencies services said. 
Russian energy giant Gazprom will resume natural gas transit to Europe via Ukraine once it is sure that international monitors can fully supervise the process, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Monday. 
The Russia-NATO Council will hold an informal meeting on January 26 in Brussels, the Russian envoy to the military alliance said on Monday. 
Armenia's Defense Ministry on Monday denied a report from Baku alleging that Russian arms had been handed over to Yerevan. 
Ukraine has signed a deal on monitoring Russian natural gas transits to Europe removing its earlier conditions, Russian energy giant Gazprom said on Monday. 
Russia has delivered a U.S. Telstar telecom satellite to the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan in preparation for a scheduled launch, Russia's space agency Roscosmos said on Monday. 



