| January 2010 |
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Two suspected militants were killed on Monday by police in Makhachkala, the capital of Russia's North Caucasus republic of Dagestan, a local police official said.
A Russian shipyard will float out the last two of three frigates for India's Navy by the end of the year, a Yantar spokesman said on Monday.
Ukraine's national energy company Naftogaz, which pays for Russian natural gas deliveries, will balance on the brink of a default in 2010, the Ukrainian president's energy security envoy said on Monday.
Five people died on Monday in a road traffic accident involving a truck and a minivan in Russia's western Bryansk Region, local emergency service spokesman said.
Russian oil output increased 1.2% year-on-year to a post-Soviet record of 494.228 million metric tons (3.63 billion barrels) in 2009, the Energy Ministry said on Monday.
A Russian warship on Monday escorted a three-vessel convoy through a pirate-infested area off the Horn of Africa and the Gulf of Aden, a Navy spokesman said.
Russian oil supplies are continuing to and via Belarus to Europe despite the two countries' failure to sign an agreement for 2010, Belarus's state energy firm Belneftekhim said on Monday.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan will pay a two-day working visit to Moscow on Tuesday to discuss economic cooperation, primarily joint energy projects, the Turkish government said on Monday.
U.S. car giants General Motors and Ford and Japanese automaker Nissan on Monday restarted car output at their facilities in northwest Russia. 
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will discuss Nagorny Karabakh during his visit to Armenia on January 13-14, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Monday.
An Uzbek chambermaid has been found hanged to death in the Moscow hotel where she worked and lived, a police source said on Monday.
Russia's two main stock exchanges opened on Monday with their key indexes showing strong growth after the 10-day New Year break.
Police in Russia's Far East have seized almost 7 tons of sturgeon, the fishing of which is banned under Russian law, a Khabarovsk Territory police spokesman said on Monday.
Police in southeast Greenland have stopped the search for a Russian diplomat who has gone missing since January 3, local television reported on Monday.
The lower house of the Russian parliament, the State Duma, will start its spring session on Monday following the New Year's break, Duma speaker Boris Gryzlov said.



