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The Russian and U.S. presidents, Dmitry Medvedev and Barack Obama, agreed during a telephone conversation on Monday to hold a bilateral meeting in the near future, Russia's Channel One television reported. 
Poland is still receiving just half the contracted volumes of Russian natural gas via Ukraine, a spokeswoman of the Polish oil and gas company PGNiG said Monday. 
Cuban leader Raul Castro will visit Russia at the invitation of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev from January 28 till February 4, the Kremlin press service said on Monday. 
The possibility of Georgian sabotage in Abkhazia makes the breakaway republic push forward talks with Russia on hosting a base for the Russian Black Sea Fleet, the Abkhazian president said on Monday. 
NATO's secretary general and a Russian deputy prime minister will meet on February 6 to discuss resuming cooperation frozen after the Georgia-South Ossetia conflict, Russia's envoy to the military alliance said on Monday. 
Angela Davis, famous in the Soviet Union and today's Russia as a revolutionary firebrand but virtually forgotten in her U.S. homeland, turned 65 on Monday. 
Russia will use two launch pads at the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan to send four manned missions to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2009, a Russian space agency official said on Monday. 
Gazprom lost $2 billion during its recent gas dispute with Ukraine, a senior executive at the Russian energy giant said on Monday. 
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council for Europe has said in a draft report that Russia has failed to comply with the majority of demands made in its October 2008 resolution on South Ossetia and Abkhazia. 
Actor Tom Cruise said on Monday his role as a WWII officer in the new thriller Valkyrie, based on the 1944 plot to kill Hitler, had given him the chance to fulfill a childhood dream of visiting Russia
Russia's envoy to NATO resumed informal talks on Monday with NATO ambassadors in Brussels, the Russian mission at NATO headquarters said. 
Russia's Sukhoi holding said on Monday that a third Su-30MK2 fighter, delivered to Indonesia last week, had passed flight tests at an airfield on the island of Sulawesi. 
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has said he is "cautiously optimistic" about future relations with the United States under President Barack Obama. 
The guided missile cruiser Moskva, the flagship of Russia's Black Sea Fleet, has conducted computer-simulated missile attack drills in the Mediterranean, the fleet's spokesman said on Monday. 



