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BRUSSELS, Belgium — The European Union, dependent on Russia for much of its energy, decided Monday to resume major economic and political negotiations with Moscow that were frozen after the invasion of Georgia.
The EU gets roughly a third of its oil and about 40 percent of its natural-gas imports from Russia.
EU foreign ministers overruled objections from Lithuania, which claimed that Russia continues to violate the EU-brokered peace deal that ended the Georgian war in early August.
France, which holds the EU presidency, had pushed hard to relaunch the talks in an effort to improve relations with Moscow.
