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Brussels - The current row over gas supplies between Russia and Ukraine risks "discrediting" both countries as reliable energy partners, European Union diplomats meeting in Brussels said Monday.

At the emergency meeting of EU national representatives, "more and more countries" said that "Russia and Ukraine are discrediting themselves as reliable energy sources," an EU diplomat close to the talks told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.

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Moscow - Russia on Monday said it will further cut gas to Ukraine by 65 million cubic metres per day, the amount Moscow says Kiev is stealing from European clients further downstream.

Gazprom cheif executive Alexei Miller proposed the measure while briefing Prime Minsiter Vladimir Putin on the standoff since the company shut off supplies to Ukraine on Janurary 1 over non-payments and a pricing dispute.

"Good, I agree. Let's begin the cuts from today," Putin was reported to have responded.

Philips has made announcement about the launching of Xenium X710 dual SIM phone in the Russian market.

The Xenium X710 dual SIM phone has dimensions of 113.6 x 49.1 x 16.9 mm. Also the weight of this phone is just 114 grams.

With 2.4 inch TFT display screen, the newly launched phone can produce 262 thousand colors.

This new phone from Philips has got an internal memory of 20 MB. Its memory can also be expanded up to 8 giga bytes (GB) through microSD card.

Moreover, the phone is compatible with tri-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE networks.

Moscow/Kiev/Prague  - Russian natural gas deliveries fell in downstream markets on Saturday, drawing a sharp European Union demand that the Kremlin and Ukraine end a row over energy.

The volumes of Russian natural gas pumped via Ukrainian pipelines to Romania, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia were all were reportedly down, with Romania registering a 33 per cent cut in deliveries.