| March 2008 |
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Russia's Foreign Ministry praised President Nicolas Sarkozy's initiative Friday to ban medium- and shorter-range nuclear missiles, which is in line with Moscow's October 2007 proposal. 
Russia will raise the price of natural gas to Belarus from $119 to $128 per 1,000 cubic meters in the second half of this year, a Russian deputy economic development and trade minister said Friday. 
Russia will deliver 24 Pantsir S1 (NATO reporting name SA-22 Greyhound) anti-aircraft surface-to-air missile systems in 2008, a first deputy prime minister said on Friday. 
Russia's prime minister said on Friday that Moscow regards U.S. sanctions against Belarus as political and urged Washington to review them. 
Ukraine's Party of Regions blocked the country's parliamentary rostrum Friday demanding the withdrawal of Ukrainian peacekeepers from Kosovo and the defense minister's resignation. 
Russia's lower house of parliament has proposed that the president and the government consider the issue of whether to recognize the independence of breakaway separatist regions in Georgia. 
Coca-Cola may buy the food producer Wimm-Bill-Dann's juice business in Russia after rival beverage Pepsi purchased a 75.5% stake in Russia's largest juice company, a business daily said on Friday. 
The agreement was reached during talks between U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Georgia's President Mikheil Saakashvili, who was on an official visit to the United States on March 17-20. 
Ukraine's Party of Regions blocked the country's parliamentary rostrum Friday demanding the withdrawal of Ukrainian peacekeepers from Kosovo and the defense minister's resignation. 



