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Talks with Ukraine end in deadlock, Gazprom to cut gas supplies

22:33 31/12/2008 *RUSSIA * GAS * UKRAINE *

Gazprom's CEO said on Wednesday night that last-ditch gas talks with Kiev in Moscow had failed and the Russian energy giant would cut supplies to Ukraine on Thursday.

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