| February 2009 |
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Russia has paid in full a more than $53 million contribution to various structures of the United Nations, Russia's permanent UN mission said. 
North Korea released on Thursday a Russian ship seized off the coast of the secretive communist state over a week ago, a spokesman for the Russian consulate in Chongjin said. 
A delegation from the upper house of Russia's parliament led by speaker Sergei Mironov begins on Thursday a two-day official visit to Sweden. 
U.S. Patriot air defense systems will be placed in Poland regardless of the prospects of the deployment of a U.S. missile defense base in the country, the Polish foreign minister said. 
Denmark's foreign minister begins a Russian visit on Thursday to discuss NATO enlargement and a proposed pan-European security pact, a Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman said. 
Russian energy giant Gazprom could cut gas deliveries to Ukraine from March 8 if Naftogaz does not pay for supplies received in February, Russian business daily Kommersant reported on Thursday. 
Russia is planning to launch on Thursday a U.S. Telstar telecom satellite on a Zenith carrier rocket from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, a spokesman for the Russian Space Agency said. 
Kazakhstan has decided to quit a unified energy system of Central Asian states, leaving its southern neighbor Kyrgyzstan short of electricity, a spokesman for the Kyrgyz energy ministry said on Thursday. 



