| January 2009 |
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Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Thursday that Georgia's refusal to allow Russian inspectors access to military installations on its territory will have political consequences. 
An opinion poll said that the majority of Russians are in favor of the activities of the country's president, prime minister and government despite growing unemployment and a fall in the value of the ruble. 
Russian gas supplies to Greece via Bulgaria have resumed, the Greek state-run gas company DEPA said on Thursday. 
The Russian Navy is to receive two corvettes equipped with stealth technology in 2010 and 2011, a spokesman for the United Shipbuilding Corporation said on Thursday. 
Georgia has breached no international laws in buying weapons abroad, the country's Foreign Ministry said on Thursday in response to a Russian ban on arms sales to its South Caucasus neighbor. 
A Moscow military court adjourned on Thursday the trial of suspects in the murder of Russian investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya until February 2. 
The gas price of $450 per 1,000 cubic meters with a 20% discount agreed between Moscow and Kiev for 2009 is fair, Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said on Thursday. 
Discussions on Russian nuclear fuel supplies to Ukrainian nuclear power plants in 2009 are nearing completion, Ukraine's deputy fuel and energy minister said on Thursday. 
Russians identify Metropolitan Kirill, the interim leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, is the most likely candidate to become the next patriarch, the Russian VTsIOM pollster said on Thursday. 
Georgia has refused to allow Russian experts access to military installations on its territory, the Georgian Foreign Ministry said on Thursday. 
Arsenal chairman Peter Hill-Wood has said that the London club will not increase their offer of 12 million pounds ($16.6 million) for Zenit St. Petersburg forward Andrei Arshavin.
The Novaya Gazeta newspaper will ask Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) to issue arms licenses to its staff after one of its journalists was shot in broad daylight in downtown Moscow, a co-owner of the daily said on Thursday. 



