| January 2009 |
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Europe has become a hostage to Ukraine's heedless behavior, a first deputy CEO of Russian energy giant Gazprom said Tuesday. 
The speaker of the upper house of Russian parliament hailed on Tuesday the acquittal of activists charged with organizing mass riots during the dismantling of a Soviet-era statue in Estonia's capital Tallinn in April 2007. 
Europe has become a hostage to Ukraine's heedless behavior, a first deputy CEO of Russian energy giant Gazprom said Tuesday. "We have faced an undisguised theft of Russian gas by Ukraine," Alexander Medvedev told journalists, adding that an independent international company has registered the theft.

Russian-Ukrainian gas talks will resume January 8, a spokesman for Ukraine's energy company Naftogaz said Tuesday. 
Russian-Ukrainian gas talks will resume January 8, a spokesman for Ukraine's energy company Naftogaz said Tuesday. 
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has signed a federal law ratifying a convention for the avoidance of double taxation and fiscal evasion between Russia and Brazil, the Kremlin said Tuesday. 
Gazprom sought to assure jittery Europeans on Tuesday that consumers would not be affected by the ongoing gas row between Russia and Ukraine. 
Israel will continue military operations in the Gaza Strip until it stops Hamas' rocket attacks, the local media quoted on Tuesday premier Ehud Olmert as saying. 
Russian gas supplies through Ukraine to Turkey have stopped, the Turkish minister of energy and natural resources said on Tuesday. 
Gazprom has reduced deliveries of natural gas for transit through Ukraine to a third of their normal rate, which would affect Western European customers, Ukraine's state-run Naftogaz said on Tuesday. 



