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Gazprom spokesman Sergei Kupriyanov checks his wrist-watch during a live TV spot for a Russian television channel at the headquarters of Russia's natural gas monopoly Gazprom in Moscow, Sunday, Dec. 31, 2006. With just hours to go before a threatened cutoff of natural gas to Belarus, Russia's gas monopoly and Belarusian officials on Sunday resumed tense talks over Russia's demand for a 125-percent rate hike. Cutting off gas to Belarus would leave the country of 10 million people scrambling to find alternative ways of cooking and keeping warm and could shut down the country's energy-intensive heavy industries. Much of the Russian gas consumed by Western Europe passes through Belarus, and concerns were high that a cutoff could sap European supplies. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)
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2006-12-31
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Associated Press
MIKHAIL METZEL
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