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PACE head hopes oil dispute will boost market economy in Belarus (Russian Information Agency Novosti)
MOSCOW, January 12 (RIA Novosti) - The president of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) expressed his hope Friday that the recent oil and gas dispute between Russia and Belarus could encourage Minsk to expedite its transition to a market economy.

Daily Headline News for January 12, 2007 (Interfax)
The following is a digest of headline news as of 5:30 p.m. on January 12, 2007: RUSSIAN-BELARUSIAN TALKS STILL UNDER WAY Russian-Belarusian talks between Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov and Belarusian Prime Minister Sergei Sidorsky that began on Thursday are still under way.

West backs sanctions against Belarus (Financial Times)
Alexander Lukashenko, Belarus’ authoritarian president, was on Friday night facing coordinated sanctions from the European Union and US, hours after riot police wielding batons arrested 200 people staging a peaceful protest over Sunday’s disputed elections in the capital, Minsk.

From D.C., with Love (Metro Weekly)
Romantic relationships are often fraught with pitfalls and puzzlement -- gay relationships often more so, given social stigmas and bureaucratic obstacles. Sometimes, the added difficulties are extreme.

EU denounces Lukashenko’s poll victory (Financial Times)
Alexander Lukashenko, Belarus’ authoritarian president, declared on Monday that foreign-backed attempts to overthrow him had failed, claiming a crushing victory in elections that international observers condemned as seriously flawed.

Belarusian protest against Lukashenko ebbs away (Financial Times)
Several hundred protesters defied Alexander Lukashenko, Belarus’ authoritarian president, for a third day on Tuesday, to protest at his re-election, denounced as flawed by observers, but few believe it would turn into anything like Ukraine’s Orange Revolution in 2004.

Calendar 2007 (Daily Telegraph)
Calendar 2007

Moldovan Foreign Policy Should not be Decided by Transnistria (Moldova.org)
Author Nicu Popescu It is somehow paradoxical, but the truth is that starting with the declaration of its independence, Moldova’s foreign policy has not been architected neither by Mircea Snegur, nor Petru Lucinschi, nor Vladimir Voronin, but by Igor Smirnov. Throughout all these fifteen years, Transnistria was and remains the central element in major decisions taken by Moldova. If Moldova wants ...

UPI NewsTrack Business (UPI)
NEW YORK, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- U.S. stock indexes were mixed Tuesday morning in light trading, as investors returned from a long holiday weekend. The Dow Jones industrial average was up 7 points at 12,350 in early-morning trading.