- 21:32 08/12/2006
Georgia will receive ten million cu m of Azerbaijani natural gas in 2006 via the South Caucasus Pipeline, operated by BP and Statoil, at a discounted price, the Georgian energy minister said Friday. 
- 19:21 08/12/2006
Warsaw will lift its veto on Russia-EU talks on a new partnership deal if Moscow ends its ban on meat imports from Poland within 50 days, the foreign minister said Friday.
- 19:05 08/12/2006
A senior Russian diplomat said Friday Moscow will not ratify the Energy Charter, but will resolve contentious issues with the European Union through the Russia-EU cooperation agreement currently being prepared.
- 18:09 08/12/2006
Russia's federal security service chief denied Friday claims by a Chechen separatist emissary living in London that Russian special forces use radioactive materials in Chechnya.
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Russian and British investigators have started questioning a key witness in the case of Russian security service defector Alexander Litvinenko's murder by radiation poisoning, a source close to investigators said Friday.
- 17:00 08/12/2006
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- 15:31 08/12/2006
Russia's state-run gas monopoly Gazprom [RTS: GAZP] said it expects to charge market gas prices for all former Soviet republics by 2008.
- 15:26 08/12/2006
Foreign companies will be able to participate in Russian energy giant Gazprom's ambitious Shtokman project off Russia's Arctic coast, the Russian industry and energy minister said Friday.
- 15:22 08/12/2006
A senior Russian government official said Friday that dividing energy giant Gazprom into smaller companies would reduce its ability to compete on the world market, and damage a key source of state revenue.
- 14:41 08/12/2006
Russia's top health official said Friday that passengers on Moscow-London and London-Moscow flights had no need to fear radiation exposure.
- 14:31 08/12/2006
- 13:55 08/12/2006
A unilateral and imposed approach to the solution of the Kosovo issue would almost certainly result in a chain reaction involving other "frozen conflicts," a Russian Foreign Ministry official said Friday.
- 13:22 08/12/2006
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The president of the unrecognized Moldovan republic of Transdnestr, Igor Smirnov, who is running for a fourth five-year term, has urged the republic's residents to come to the polls Sunday.
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- 12:05 08/12/2006
The U.S. airman who killed a Kyrgyz national Wednesday acted in self-defense and in accordance with security instructions, the U.S. airbase in Kyrgyzstan said in a news release Friday.
