| March 2008 |
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Serbia's parliamentary speaker Oliver Dulic said on Friday that ratification of a January gas deal with Russia to build a pipeline through Serbia has been affected by the recent dismissal of the parliament. 
Georgia's parliament on Friday called the lifting of economic sanctions by Russia from the unrecognized republic of Abkhazia an open attempt to infringe upon Georgia's territorial integrity. 
Ukraine's president criticized on Friday a new natural gas deal with Russia, saying it gave Russian state gas giant Gazprom too high a quota for direct gas sales in Ukraine, his spokeswoman said. 
Cuba's new president Raul Castro is planning to lift a country-wide ban, imposed in the 1990s, on the sale of electronic goods and household appliances. 
"The Mediterranean Union has potentially important geo-economic and geopolitical significance. We are witnessing the creation of so-called large spaces where different strategic problems can be resolved," Mikhail Margelov, the chairman of the upper house's international affairs committee, said. 
Iran's president accused the UN Security Council of attempting to influence Friday's general election by imposing sanctions on the country, but said the attempt would fail
Russia will start deliveries of MiG-29K Fulcrum-D carrier fighters to India for the Admiral Gorshkov aircraft carrier in May, the chief of the Indian Navy Staff said on Friday. 
Cars and shops were set on fire in the center of the Tibetan regional capital Lhasa, as the largest-civil protests in two decades continued, the Xinhua news agency reported Friday. 
Russia will start deliveries of MiG-29K Fulcrum-D carrier fighters to India for the Admiral Gorshkov aircraft carrier in May, the chief of the Indian Navy Staff said on Friday. 
Gazprom's CEO said on Friday that the average price for natural gas for Europe in 2008 could reach $400 per 1,000 cubic meters, 13% more than previously expected. 
Chelsea Football Club, owned by the Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, are to meet Turkish side Fenerbahce as they attempt to make the Moscow final of the Champions League, to be held in May. 



