| January 2009 |
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Russia and its European customers are close to a solution to the natural gas transit dispute that led to a cutoff of supplies to the EU via Ukraine, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Friday. 
Lawyers for energy giant Gazprom will complete filing a lawsuit on Friday with the Stockholm Arbitration Court in regard to its gas transit dispute with Ukraine, a Russian deputy prime minister said. 
A spokesman for the Russian Navy denied on Friday media rumors about the possible establishment of Russian naval facilities in several countries in the Mediterranean. 
Germany's E.ON and France's GDF Suez have agreed to enter a consortium for the provision of technical gas to Ukraine, a senior Gazprom official said on Friday. 
The European Commission said on Friday that the EU could review ties with Russia and Ukraine if they failed to promptly resolve their gas dispute, which has led to a cutoff in supplies to Europe. 
Russia believes it is too early to name any countries where its Navy would like to deploy "basing points," the deputy chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces said on Friday. 
Russia is ready to hold a Middle East conference in Moscow, but its agenda needs to take into account the latest events in Gaza, the Russian president said Friday. 
Russia will complete later in January its fuel shipments to North Korea under international agreements, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday. 
Moscow is hoping that U.S. President-elect Barack Obama will review Russia's proposal for a collective Russian-American-European missile defense network, the Russian foreign minister said on Friday. 
Ukraine has increased domestic natural gas output in the absence of Russian supplies, the CEO of national energy company Naftogaz said on Friday.
Cuba leader Raul Castro is set to visit Moscow in the near future, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Friday. 
Russia is concerned by the buildup of Georgian forces near the borders of the breakaway provinces of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday. 
A salvage tug from Russia's Pacific Fleet is escorting a Danish ship that was earlier released by Somali pirates to Oman, a Pacific Fleet spokesman said on Friday. 



