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The Russian and U.S. presidents, Dmitry Medvedev and Barack Obama, agreed during a telephone conversation on Monday to hold a bilateral meeting in the near future, Russia's Channel One television reported. 
Abkhazia's deputy interior minister, Zakan Dzhugelia, was killed on Monday evening in Sukhumi, Abkhazian Foreign Minister Sergei Shamba said. 
Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski denied on Monday plans to put himself forward for the post of NATO secretary general. 
By denying Abkhazia recognition and promoting Georgia's integrity, the European Union is supporting Stalin's model of the South Caucasus country, the Abkhazian foreign minister said on Monday. 
Poland is still receiving just half the contracted volumes of Russian natural gas via Ukraine, a spokeswoman of the Polish oil and gas company PGNiG said Monday. 
Cuban leader Raul Castro will visit Russia at the invitation of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev from January 28 till February 4, the Kremlin press service said on Monday. 
The possibility of Georgian sabotage in Abkhazia makes the breakaway republic push forward talks with Russia on hosting a base for the Russian Black Sea Fleet, the Abkhazian president said on Monday. 
An international conference on rebuilding the Gaza Strip after Israel's recent military assault will be held in Cairo at the end of February, an Egyptian Foreign Ministry official said on Monday. 
The next Ukrainian presidential election should be held on January 17, 2010, a deputy head of the president's office said Monday. 
NATO's secretary general and a Russian deputy prime minister will meet on February 6 to discuss resuming cooperation frozen after the Georgia-South Ossetia conflict, Russia's envoy to the military alliance said on Monday. 
Angela Davis, famous in the Soviet Union and today's Russia as a revolutionary firebrand but virtually forgotten in her U.S. homeland, turned 65 on Monday. 
Ukraine's foreign minister revealed plans on Monday to develop and adopt in April an annual national program for NATO integration, the country's UNIAN news agency said. 
Russia will use two launch pads at the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan to send four manned missions to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2009, a Russian space agency official said on Monday. 
Gazprom lost $2 billion during its recent gas dispute with Ukraine, a senior executive at the Russian energy giant said on Monday. 
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council for Europe has said in a draft report that Russia has failed to comply with the majority of demands made in its October 2008 resolution on South Ossetia and Abkhazia. 



