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16:04 GMT 24.01.2009

RUSSIA

* Russia's foreign minister expects to talk to newly-appointed U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton over the phone by January 26, an official foreign ministry spokesman said

* Russia and Hungary should find new ways to manage the risks connected with gas transits via Ukraine following the recent "gas crisis" between Kiev and Moscow, a Russian first deputy premier

* Russia's Igor Andreev, seeded 18, lost his third-round singles match to James Blake from the U.S. at the Australian Open in Melbourne

* Russia's Svetlana Kuznetsova struggled to win her third-round match (7:6, 6:4) against Ukraine's Alona Bondarenko at the Australian Open in Melbourne

* The Beijing Olympic gold medalist Elena Dementieva's winning streak continued as she won her third round match at the Australian Open in Melbourne to go through to the fourth round

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* The head of Ukraine state-run gas company Naftogaz, Oleh Dubyna, who played a central role in ending the recent gas dispute between Kiev and Moscow, has undergone heart surgery, the county's premier said

* A Ukrainian energy expert said Russia came out on top in the recent gas dispute with Ukraine but believes that Turkey could prove to be the outright winner as the EU seeks alternative gas routes

* A 31-year-old Chinese woman has become the fourth person to die from the deadly bird flu virus this year in the country, Xinhua said

* Georgia has resumed Russian gas transits to South Ossetia suspended before a five-day war between Moscow and Tbilisi in August, a source in the South Ossetian government told RIA Novosti