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	22 May 2008
	Current Affairs

	An exit poll suggests President Mikhail Saakashvili's governing party has won parliamentary elections in Georgia.

	Ending an 18-month impasse, European Union countries agreed Wednesday to begin wide-ranging new negotiations with Russia, raising hopes that an era of tension and confrontation with Moscow could give way to an improved relationship.

	When Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's plane touches down in Kazakhstan on May 22, he will be sending a message to the European Union and the United States that Russia's interests lie East as well as West.

	Report

	A senior adviser and close ally of Russia's president Dmitry Medvedev became the first official to admit publicly that Vladimir Putin remains the country's real power.

	Business & Economics

	TMK, Russia's largest producer of steel pipes for the oil and gas sector, expects its sales to rise by 5 to 6 percent this year.

	Russia wants to delay the annual summit of gas export countries, often dubbed the gas OPEC, to October from June because it has just appointed a new government, a newspaper reported on Thursday.

	Ukraine said Wednesday it was canceling a contract with a U.S. oil company to explore for oil and gas on a deep-water shelf off the Crimean peninsula in the Black Sea.

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