Morning re-cap of main news, December 29
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// Dec. 30, 2005 - 05:35 GMT
Gazprom, Naftogaz to continue crucial gas talks
MOSCOW, December 30 (RIA Novosti) – Russian energy giant Gazprom and Ukrainian national gas company Naftogaz will continue their attempts to solve a bitter dispute over natural gas supplies and transit on Friday.
// Dec. 30, 2005 - 06:33 GMT
Russia-West partnership was good in 2005
MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator Vladimir Simonov.) Those who think stronger Russia-West partnership is crucial for international stability should be pleased with the results of the outgoing year.
// Dec. 30, 2005 - 07:25 GMT
Road accidents claim 9 lives in Urals
YEKATERINBURG/TYUMEN/NOVOSIBIRSK, December 30 (RIA Novosti) – Nine people died and 21 were injured in a series of road accidents in three Urals regions Friday morning.
// Dec. 30, 2005 - 07:30 GMT
Russian monetary base up $1.9bn in a week
MOSCOW, December 30 (RIA Novosti) – Russia's Central Bank announced Friday that the country's narrowly defined money supply (M1) was 2.160 trillion rubles ($75 billion), based on the current exchange rate) as of December 26, up 57.1 billion rubles ($1.9 billion) in the week from December 19.
// Dec. 30, 2005 - 07:32 GMT
Digest of the Russian press, December 30
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// Dec. 30, 2005 - 07:48 GMT
Ukraine to get 40 bln cu m of gas from Turkmenistan in 2006
KIEV, December 30 (RIA Novosti) – Ukraine will receive 40 billion cubic meters of natural gas from Turkmenistan in 2006, Prime Minister Yuriy Yekhanurov said Friday.
// Dec. 30, 2005 - 08:01 GMT
URGENT: Kiev could up price for Russian navy bases in gas dispute
KIEV, December 30 (RIA Novosti)-Prime Minister of Ukraine Yuriy Yekhanurov said Friday that Kiev could raise the rent Russia pays for naval bases on the Black Sea if the price of Russian natural gas supplies to Ukraine increases. In comments that echoed recent statement by the Ukrainian leadership, Yekhanurov told a caller-in on a radio station that the rent hike would be a natural move.
// Dec. 30, 2005 - 08:15 GMT
Ukraine to prepare resolution on gas deliveries
KIEV, December 30 (RIA Novosti) – The Ukrainian government is preparing a resolution on Russian gas deliveries to Ukraine before the signing of a corresponding contract between the Russian energy giant Gazprom and Ukraine's Naftogaz, the Ukrainian prime minister told a private radio station in Ukraine.
// Dec. 30, 2005 - 08:18 GMT