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* Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel met Monday, with Putin committing to ensuring gas supplies and the fair treatment of non-governmental organizations working in Russia

* Russian energy giant Gazprom's deputy board chairman said the company did not fear possible attempts to contest the contract on the transit and supplies of Russian natural gas signed by Gazprom and Ukrainian national natural gas company Naftogaz

* The speaker of the Ukrainian parliament dismissed as unrealistic calls for the reversal of its decision last week to dismiss Yuriy Yekhanurov's government, but said that the resolution could be cancelled if changes were made to the Cabinet

* Moscow authorities said the city would have uninterrupted supplies of heat this week as the region faced temperatures that were forecasted to fall to about -30 degrees Celsius

* Members of Russia's upper house of parliament said the UN could impose sanctions against Iran in the wake of its decision to resume its nuclear research program, while stressing that talks with the country should continue

* Vadim Gustov, the chairman of the upper house of parliament's CIS committee, said Ukrainian authorities' seizure of a Russian Black Sea Fleet lighthouse in the Crimea was meant to destabilize bilateral relations before Ukrainian parliamentary elections in March

* Georgian Minister for Separatist Conflicts Georgy Khaindrava said a January 18-20 session of the Joint Control Commission for the resolution of the conflict between his country and the self-proclaimed republic of South Ossetia had been called off and that the latter should be held responsible

* President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, currently on her first official visit to Moscow, that Russian-German trade had reached a new high of $32 billion in 2005

* Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov said inflows of private capital into Russia in 2005 exceeded outflows for the first time in recent history

* Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mikhail Kamynin said the escalating dispute around Iran's nuclear research would be the focus of talks between French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Moscow January 18

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