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Russian energy giant Gazprom and Ukrainian energy company Naftogaz signed on Monday a contract on Russian gas supplies to Ukraine for 2009-2019.

Russian gas supplies to Europe via Ukraine would resume "in the next few hours," the country's prime minister, Yulia Tymoshenko, said on Monday. 
The Georgian Foreign Ministry described on Monday Russia's ban on arms exports to Georgia as being out of sync with reality. 
Ukraine's Foreign Ministry denied on Monday media reports that some Faina crew members, held captive by Somali pirates since September, have been seriously ill. 
Russian energy giant Gazprom and Ukrainian energy company Naftogaz signed on Monday a contract on Russian gas supplies to Ukraine for 2009-2019. 
Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, said on Monday it had lost 48 fighters over the three weeks of fighting with Israeli troops. 
Kyrgyzstan's government did not bring up during talks on Monday the possibility of closing a U.S. airbase in the Central Asian country, a visiting senior U.S. military official said. 
Israeli military operations to halt rocket and mortar fire from the Gaza Strip into Israel have not been completed, Israel's military attache in Moscow said on Monday at a press conference at RIA Novosti. 
A Russian Pacific Fleet destroyer on Monday started escorting three commercial ships in the Gulf of Aden during its current anti-piracy mission off Somalia, a Russian Navy spokesman said. 
The Ukrainian delegation to Moscow led by Naftogaz CEO Oleh Dubyna is fully authorized to sign contracts for Russian gas supplies in 2009, a Ukrainian presidential commissioner for energy security said on Monday. 
Saudi Arabia will donate $1 billion to rebuild the Gaza Strip after Israel's military operations in the enclave over the last three weeks, the country's king announced at a summit on Monday. 
The Ukrainian economy is unlikely to survive having to pay a gas price of over $250 per 1,000 cubic meters, the leader of Ukraine's pro-Russian opposition said on Monday. 
The U.S. is plotting and funding a "velvet revolution" to overthrow the Iranian authorities, the head of Iran's counterintelligence office announced on state television on Monday. 



