However, the relationship appeared to be mended last week when Russia agreed to drop duties on oil exports to Belarus and keep natural gas prices low.
"We want to have a dignified life in a safe Poland, which needs to be mended in many areas," he said.
This has meant that, on two occasions recently, we have had to shut off parts of the building so that leaks can be mended safely, which led to girls' education being disrupted".
She mended the glasses with blue tape and put them ready for the next day.
That hard-line camp, with Mr Rumsfeld at its head, feels pretty well vindicated now.The damage to European and European-American ties will not be quickly mended.
But these little courtesies, and China's friendly gesture in allowing his aeroplane (unlike a predecessor's in 1989) to use Chinese airspace, had already sparked hopes that relations between China and the Vatican, broken in 1951, might be mended.
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Many fear that the Tigers, with their appalling history of terrorist atrocities, have neither dropped their dream of full independence, nor mended their brutal authoritarian ways.
Turkey has just mended its fences with Israel, which shares some of the gasfield.
She has cut down on presidential limousines and jets and has mended relations with aid-giving foreign governments such as Britain's, whose ambassador was kicked out after a leaked cable revealed a dim view of Mr Mutharika.
Dr Gizis hopes that studying them will help astronomers understand the whims and fancies of the powerful magnetic fields that all stars, including the sun, generate, and which are presumed to produce the flares.Even if Kepler cannot be mended, planet-hunters need not despair.
