| January 2009 |
- mo
- tu
- we
- th
- fr
- sa
- su
The Russian Foreign Ministry expressed on Tuesday disappointment over its "Ukrainian colleagues'" reaction to recently-signed contracts on gas supplies and transit. 
A bid by English Premier League side Arsenal to sign Russian international and Zenit St. Petersburg forward Andrei Arshavin appears to have stalled, media reports said on Tuesday. 
Bulgaria has started receiving Russian natural gas, Bulgaria's economics and energy ministry said Tuesday. 
Russia's triumphant Team Kamaz Dakar 2009 is to return to Russia on January 21, the team's website said on Tuesday. 
Russia hopes that the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip will be observed, and Israeli troops withdrawn from the Hamas-controlled enclave, the Russian foreign minister said on Tuesday. 
The recent dispute between Russia and Ukraine that resulted in the disruption of gas supplies to Europe proved that Moscow and Kiev are unreliable gas suppliers, the Czech Foreign Minister said on Tuesday. 
Hungary has started receiving Russian natural gas via Ukraine on Tuesday, following the resolution of a gas conflict between Moscow and Kiev, Hungary's gas transit company FGSz said. 
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev could talk by telephone with Barack Obama soon after his inauguration as the 44th U.S. president, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Tuesday. 
RIA Novosti was the most frequently mentioned brand on Runet websites in 2008, Webscan Technologies said on its website on Tuesday, citing its own research. 
A group of 60 youth activists gathered in front of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow to celebrate the inauguration of Barack Obama as U.S. president on Tuesday, a RIA Novosti correspondent said. 
An opinion poll has shown that two thirds of Russians believe that the embalmed body of the Russian communist leader should be removed from its mausoleum on Red Square and buried. 
A friendship and cooperation agreement between Russia and the breakaway Georgian province of South Ossetia has come into force, the Russian foreign minister said on Tuesday.
Ukraine's gas transit system started receiving Russian gas for Europe at 07:24 GMT on Tuesday, a Gazprom spokesman reported from Russia's Sudzha gas exit point.




