| March 2009 |
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Serbian President Boris Tadic and Kosovan Foreign Minister Skender Hyseni took part on Monday in an open session of the UN Security Council on the situation in Kosovo. 
Russia will start reviewing its relations with the European Union should Moscow's interests be ignored, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Monday. 
The Russian government has adopted a resolution reducing the list of arms and military equipment subject to export control, the government press service said on Monday. 
The modernization of Ukraine's gas transportation system could cost $16 billion, not the some $3 billion suggested by European Commission experts, a Gazprom deputy chairman said Monday. 
Serbian President Boris Tadic and Kosovan Foreign Minister Skender Hyseni took part on Monday in an open session of the UN Security Council on the situation in Kosovo. 
Four people were arrested on Monday in the Indian resort of Goa on charges of assaulting police who tried to break up an unauthorized beach party, a police spokesman told RIA Novosti. 
The construction of all sports facilities in Sochi, a resort city on the Black Sea, for the 2014 Winter Olympics will be financed in full despite the global financial crisis, the Russian president said on Monday. 
Ukraine will join the treaty on the common European energy system soon, President Viktor Yushchenko said Monday at an international investment conference on modernization of Ukraine's gas pipeline network. 
A task force from Russia's Pacific Fleet is getting ready to travel from Vladivostok to the Gulf of Aden in late March to take part in ongoing anti-piracy operations, a fleet spokesman said on Monday. 
Russia's flagship air carrier Aeroflot has filed a bid for a tender to purchase a 91.5% stake in Czech Airlines (CSA), Aeroflot's press office said on Monday. 
China's defense minister has reaffirmed the country's plans to build its own aircraft carrier, the Sina news agency reported on Monday. 
The kidnapped three-year-old daughter of a divorced Russian and French couple is believed to be in Russia, an interior ministry spokeswoman for transportation told RIA Novosti on Monday. 
Russia-NATO relations, bilateral ties and the future of the Arctic will be discussed at a meeting between the Russian and Norwegian foreign ministers this week, a foreign ministry spokesman said on Monday. 
The European Union plans to seal on Monday a $2.5 billion loan for Ukraine to modernize its natural gas pipeline network if the system is made more open and transparent, a Russian business daily said. 
China is ready to discuss Russia's proposal of a new global reserve currency as an alternative to the U.S. dollar at the G20 summit in London, a vice governor of the country's Central Bank said on Monday. 
Rescuers and environmentalists are in a race against time to try and save a pod of over 80 whales and dolphins beached on a southwest Australian beach, local media said on Monday. 



