| February 2009 |
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Ukraine and the European Union have agreed on the priorities for their bilateral relations in 2009, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said on Thursday. 
The implementation of bilateral Russian and Bulgarian energy projects is particularly important in these times of global financial crisis, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Thursday. 
A Ukrainian cargo ship captured by Somali pirates in September with 20 crewmembers on board was released on Thursday after a ransom was paid, the head of Ukraine's external intelligence service said. 
Ukraine's parliament has voted against a motion of no-confidence in Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko's government initiated by the opposition Party of Regions.
Kyrgyzstan's parliament could vote on the closure of a U.S. military base next week, a senior Kyrgyz lawmaker said on Thursday. 
The Russian Navy dismissed on Thursday media reports claiming that the Russian Black Sea Fleet, based in Ukraine, had been put on alert and was preparing to urgently go to sea. 
Hamas left the latest round of talks in Cairo on a lasting Israeli-Palestinian ceasefire with no agreement in place, the militant Palestinian movement said on its website on Thursday.
A trial run of the Bushehr nuclear power plant in southern Iran is scheduled for this year, the head of Russia's state nuclear power corporation Rosatom said on Thursday. 
Russia and its International Space Station partners have an oral agreement to continue using the orbiter until 2020, the president of leading Russian spacecraft maker RSC Energia said on Thursday. 
The Russian government is to allocate 200 billion rubles ($5.5 billion) to state-controlled VTB Bank, Russia's second largest bank, to increase its charter capital, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Thursday. 
Russia and Bulgaria signed on Thursday an agreement to speed up the construction of the South Stream gas pipeline in a bid to diversify routes after last months' crisis led to supply disruptions to Europe. 



