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Russia says will restore gas when monitors in place (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Russia said on Thursday it would restore gas supplies to Europe through Ukraine once international monitors were in place, but Moscow and Kiev remained at odds over the terms of any supervision.
8 January 2009
Crisis chills Europe's ties to Russia (The Christian Science Monitor)
A cold, divided, and annoyed Europe struggles to find a way to prevent Russia from turning down the heat. Eastern Europe, meanwhile, continues to shiver.
8 January 2009
Putin: Russia will charge Ukraine market gas price (AP via Yahoo! News)
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin says Russia will charge Ukraine full market price for natural gas and will agree to pay a higher, market-based fee to ship that gas over Ukrainian pipelines.
8 January 2009
Russia, Ukraine back off energy war, will send gas (AP via Yahoo! News)
Russia and Ukraine backed off from their energy war Thursday, promising to start resending Russian gas over Ukrainian pipelines to EU customers shivering through a widespread cold snap.
8 January 2009
Russia, Slovakia to meet in final (International Herald Tribune)
The brother and sister combination of Dinara Safina and Marat Safin won the deciding mixed doubles match against France on Thursday to secure Russia a place in the final against Slovakia at the Hopman Cup. Slovakia, also 3-0, advanced earlier when Dominika Cibulkova and Dominik Hrbaty won their singles matches over Germany, aided by an injury to Nicolas Kiefer.
8 January 2009
Russia to pump gas to Europe if monitors are there (AP via Yahoo! News)
The head of Russia's natural gas monopoly Gazprom says it will resume pumping gas to Europe once international monitors are in place to check the flow through Ukraine's pipelines.
8 January 2009
Gas chiefs for Ukraine, Russia hold urgent talks (AP via Yahoo! News)
The natural gas chiefs for Russia and Ukraine met twice in the last 24 hours Thursday to try to resolve a bitter dispute that halted energy supplies to Europe, while outrage swelled across the continent as factories closed, schools shut down and hundreds of thousands faced winter without heat.
8 January 2009
Russia and Ukraine still deadlocked after gas talks (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Russia and Ukraine failed to resolve a gas row at a meeting in Moscow but will continue talks to end the dispute which has choked off supplies to Europe, a senior Ukrainian gas official said on Thursday.
8 January 2009
Russia and Ukraine hold gas row talks in Moscow (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
The two top gas executives from Russia and Ukraine held talks in Moscow on Thursday, in the first face-to-face contact since their row choked off supplies to EU countries in bitter winter weather.
8 January 2009
Ukraine-Russia talks ended with no result: Naftogaz (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Gas talks overnight between Ukraine's state energy firm Naftogaz and Russia's gas export monopoly, Gazprom, ended with no concrete results, the head of Naftogaz was quoted as saying on Thursday.
8 January 2009
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