- 21:21 19/12/2006
Imports to Russia of meat from the European Union will not be interrupted, and will continue as normal from January 1, 2007, the Russian agriculture minister said Tuesday. 
- 19:53 19/12/2006
Armenia's underground gas storage facilities may be empty this winter if Georgia fails to restore its pipeline pumping Russian gas on time, an official spokesman for Russian energy giant Gazprom said Tuesday.
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A Russian Cosmos 3M booster carrying Germany's SAR-Lupe satellite was launched from the Plesetsk space center in northern Russia Tuesday, a spokesman for the Space Forces said.
- 18:15 19/12/2006
Participants in six-nation talks on North Korea's nuclear program have been able to overcome some of their differences, raising hopes that the current round may produce an agreement, a high-ranking South Korean official said Tuesday.
- 17:54 19/12/2006
Syria is ready to maintain dialogue on the situation in Iraq with all concerned parties, the Syrian leader said Tuesday.
Bashar al-Assad held talks in Moscow with President Vladimir Putin, which focused on the political crisis in Lebanon and tensions among Palestinian factions.
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Russian energy giant Gazprom [RTS: GAZP] confirmed Tuesday it will charge market-based prices for natural gas it supplies to former Soviet republics
- 17:20 19/12/2006
Syria would like to see Russia, which is now a co-sponsor of the peace process in the Middle East, becoming the main sponsor, the Syrian president said Tuesday.
- 16:29 19/12/2006
Ukraine's parliament, the Supreme Rada, adopted an amended draft law on the 2007 state budget Tuesday amid speculation that it may be vetoed once again.
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Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev accepted the government's request to resign en bloc Tuesday amid the Cabinet's ongoing conflict with parliament.
- 15:32 19/12/2006
During its presidency of Europe's largest security body, Spain will pursue the same careful policy on frozen conflicts as its predecessor, Belgium, the Spanish foreign minister said in Moscow Tuesday.
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The Federal Security Service said Tuesday it has exposed 27 foreign intelligence officers and 89 Russian agents this year.
- 14:43 19/12/2006
A key witness in the Alexander Litvinenko murder investigation said Tuesday that his relations with the former Russian security service defector were strictly business-like.
