| November 2008 |
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Lithuania's Defense Ministry plans to buy two long-range radars to monitor airspace to replace Soviet-made equipment - three P-37 radars and three P-18 radars, the ministry said Tuesday. 
Italy's prime minister urged U.S. President-elect Barack Obama on Tuesday to focus on improving ties with Russia, Italian media reported. 
The Russian foreign minister said Tuesday it was necessary to clarify the role of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in reporting Georgia's possible aggression against South Ossetia. 
Russia, the United States and the European Union still have time to agree on ways of ensuring security before missiles are deployed in Poland and Russia's Kaliningrad Region, the Russian foreign minister said on Tuesday. 
Long-delayed talks on a new comprehensive cooperation pact between the European Union and Russia could resume on November 25, a senior European diplomat said on Tuesday. 
Russia will supply at least 55 billion cubic meters of natural gas to Ukraine in 2009, energy giant Gazprom said on Tuesday. 
The fire safety system that was thought to have malfunctioned and caused the deaths of 20 people on board a Russian nuclear submarine was in order, a source in the investigation commission said on Tuesday.

Fears by Western consumers that a group of natural gas producing countries that includes Russia will lead to price manipulation are ungrounded, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday. 
The Russian and Finnish prime ministers, Vladimir Putin and Matti Vanhanen, will discuss economic and energy cooperation, including the Nord Stream gas pipeline construction, a government source said Tuesday. 
Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed a 4,300-year-old pyramid in the Saqqara desert, an Egyptian culture official said on Tuesday. 
Greece is to participate in the production of the Russian MS-21 medium-haul passenger aircraft and in post-sale servicing of the Be-200 amphibious aircraft, the Russian industry minister said on Tuesday. 
Russia's peacekeeping contingent will arrive in Chad in mid-November as part of the UN peacekeeping operation, EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana said on Tuesday. 
Egypt expects to double its annual trade with Russia to $8 billion in the next few years, the Egyptian prime minister told his Russian counterpart on Tuesday. 
A Ukrainian parliamentary commission investigating illegal weapon supplies to Georgia has established that over 15 Ukrainians were involved in Tbilisi's attack on South Ossetia, the group's head said on Tuesday. 
The Cuban foreign minister met with Russia's president in Moscow on Tuesday, and said the countries must seek to build stronger economic ties. 



