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Heavy snowstorms have caused the delay of 14 flights and affected train traffic in St. Petersburg.
Azerbaijan will double natural gas supplies to Russia to 1 billion cubic meters per year from 2010, the president of the State Oil and Gas Company said on Saturday.
RIAN News Service looks back at the main events of the outgoing year; below the month-by-month review of 2009 continues, with July
Sovcomflot, Russia's largest shipping company, will start delivering Russian oil and gas in the eastern direction of its Arctic shipping lane in the summer, the company head said on Saturday.
At least five people were injured in a hotel fire in a cosmonauts' town northeast of Moscow early on Saturday, a local police source said.
Russian and the European Union should guarantee sufficient gas transit through Ukrainian territory in view of their plans to build two pipelines to bypass the ex-Soviet country.
A police officer was killed and another one was injured while trying to detain burglars in the Moscow Region in the early hours of Saturday.
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko has said his country would pay for Russian gas consumed in December on schedule.
Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych has said that should he win the country's upcoming presidential elections, he will seek for improving ties with Russia which has deteriorated during Viktor Yushchenko's presidency.
Russia's largest retail savings bank Sberbank has demanded compensation from General Motors for the failed Opel deal, threatening to sue the U.S. automaker if the demand is not met.
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili has slammed ex-Georgian premier and now opposition politician Zurab Nogaideli for his ties with Russia.



