Russia has sent its proposals on a Russian-Venezuelan...

Russia has sent its proposals on a Russian-Venezuelan bank being set up by the two countries to Caracas, a deputy Russian finance minister has said.

Turkmenistan will resume natural gas supplies...

Turkmenistan will resume natural gas supplies to Russia on January 9, 2010, Gazprom spokesman Sergei Kupriyanov said on Thursday.

BRUSSELS, January 7 (RIA Novosti) - Bulgaria...

BRUSSELS, January 7 (RIA Novosti) - Bulgaria has offered the European Commission to reanimate its Kozloduy nuclear power plant, mothballed over EU accession requirements, the Belgian Libre Belgique newspaper reported on Wednesday. The Bulgarian proposal is being viewed as a way to ensure European energy security amid the gas conflict between Moscow and Kiev, which halted Russian natural gas transit via Ukraine earlier on Wednesday. Other East European states are also seeking to reduce energy dependence on Russia. Lithuania, which receives Russian gas via Belarus, is also seeking to extend the life of the second reactor of its Ingalina nuclear power plant, while Poland insists that the construction of the Nabucco pipeline project to pump Caspian gas to Europe bypassing Russia be sped up, the paper said. The authorities at the Belgian port of Zeebrugge, which has a large liquefied gas storage facility, said it could meet gas demand in Western Europe. Zeebrugge, one of Europe"s major gas terminals, receives liquefied gas shipped from Qatar and Algeria, and also has two pipelines pumping gas from Norway and Britain. The Russian gas monopoly said that so far this year, European consumers had failed to receive more than 86 million cubic meters of gas, tapped by Ukraine. Russia demanded that Ukraine make up the volume from its own reserves. Kiev closed on Wednesday the fourth, final gas pipeline pumping Russian gas to Europe. The latest closure added Austria, the Czech Republic, Romania and Slovakia to the growing list of countries receiving no Russian gas. The three other pipelines were closed on Tuesday, ending deliveries via Ukraine to Hungary, Serbia, Macedonia, Croatia, Bulgaria, Turkey, Greece, and Bosnia. Supplies to Italy, Poland, France and Slovenia are seriously disrupted.

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Russia will send two more planes with 40...

"Now the Russian Emergencies Ministry is preparing two planes, which will fly to Haiti in the next two days with medicines and first necessities," Pavel Plat, the ministry"s chief military expert, said.

At least 170,000 people were killed and some 200,000 injured on January 12 in the deadliest earthquake in the Americas since the 1970 Peru earthquake, which killed an estimated 70,000 people.

Russia has already delivered over 30 metric tons of humanitarian cargoes to Haiti.

A plane carrying Russian doctors who treated residents of quake-hit Haiti returned on Sunday to Russia. During the rescue operation, Russian medics treated over 1,700 injured people, including more than 600 children.

MOSCOW, January 31 (RIA Novosti)

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