| January 2009 |
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Cuban leader Raul Castro will visit Moscow later this month, with the official part of his visit scheduled for January 30, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin announced on Friday. 
Russia plans to increase its participation in UN-led peacekeeping operations, Russia's envoy to the UN said on Friday. 
A Russian national oil consortium created to run oil projects in Venezuela will also cooperate with Cuba's state-run oil company Cubapetroleo, a memorandum signed between the two companies stated on Friday. 
Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili said on Friday he did not consider the Russian people enemies of Georgia. 
Bulgaria estimates its losses from recent cuts in Russian gas supplies at about $320 million and is demanding compensation from Russia's Gazprom, the country's economy and energy ministry said on Friday. 
The Russian Foreign Ministry said on Friday Georgia's expanding military presence on the borders of Abkhazia and South Ossetia continued to be a matter for grave concern. 
A painting by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will go on display in an exclusive area just outside Moscow on Saturday, the gallery's procurator told RIA Novosti on Friday. 
Gazprom plans to sell $9.5 billion worth of gas to Ukraine in 2009, a senior official at the Russian gas monopoly said on Friday. 
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Friday that Moscow was ready to cooperate with NATO over Afghanistan. 
Ukraine and Russia will hold a further round of talks on demarcating maritime boundaries between the two countries in the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov in Moscow in June, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Friday. 
The Moscow police chief said on Friday that he was against granting journalists permission to carry arms.
A Zenit St. Petersburg board meeting is to discuss Arsenal's bid for Andrei Arshavin today, with the club's general director telling Sport Express that a decision would be taken in the next 48 hours. 
The Russian Navy has rejected media reports that the Baltic Fleet's Neustrashimy missile frigate is in an unsatisfactory technical condition, a Navy spokesman said on Friday. 
Uzbekistan is ready to sell Russia up to 31 billion cubic meters of natural gas this year, the country's president said on Friday. 



