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Text of report by corporate-owned Russian news agency Interfax Almaty, 8 October: Kazakhstan and Russia need to form a common energy market, the head of the Russian Federation Council's committee for CIS affairs, Vadim Gustov, believes.

Text of report by Tajik Avesta website on 15 November Dushanbe, 15 November: Participants in the 11th session of the energy policy council under the EAEC [Eurasian Economic Community] Integration Committee discussed the further energy integration of the EAEC member states in Dushanbe on 15 November.

Excerpt from report by Tajik Television First Chan

DUSHANBE. Oct 6 (Interfax) - The Russian-Belarusian-Kazakh Customs Union should begin operating in 2010, Russian President Vladimir Putin said. "The legal base for the union has been developed.