Branches of foreign insurance companies will be allowed to operate on Russia's market in nine years' time, the country's economics minister said Sunday.
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Russia's VimpelCom [RTS: VIMP] has finalized a deal with Hellenic Telecommunications Organization SA (OTE) to buy from the Greek telecoms group its 90% stake in Armenian telephone company Armentel for 341.9 million euros ($440 million), Russia's second largest mobile operator said Thursday.
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Boeing has extended an offer for Aeroflot [RTS: AFLT], allowing it to buy 22 long-haul Boeing-787 Dreamliner aircraft at 2005 prices, until early December, an insider source said Friday.
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Russian aluminum companies RusAl and SUAL and Switzerland's Glencore have applied to Russia's Federal Anti-Monopoly Service for authorization to merge their assets to form United Company RusAL.
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The World Bank could provide Ukraine with a loan of about $140 million to implement a project to develop municipal infrastructures, a spokesperson for the World Bank's office in Kyiv said.
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Microsoft Corp. is ready to cooperate with Russia in carrying out pilot projects to disseminate advanced communication technology in education, the company chairman said Tuesday.
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Russia and Slovakia have agreed to sign new long-term contracts on Russian natural gas deliveries and gas transit via Slovakia after 2008, the Russian president said Tuesday after a meeting with his Slovak counterpart.
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Egypt intends to set up a free economic zone for Russian companies, the country's president said Thursday after a meeting in Moscow with his Russian counterpart.
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Russian deputy Premier, Defense Minister Sergey Ivanov went on an official visit in Sweden and Norway on October 30. Ivanov’s visit will start in Stockholm where he will meet with Sweden Prime Minister Mot Olofsson, parliamentary speaker Per Vesterberg, foreign minister Carl Bildt, and defense minister Mikael Odenberg.
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Russia's nuclear power equipment and service export monopoly Atomstroiexport has won a tender to build the Belene nuclear power plant in Bulgaria, the southeast European country's electricity monopoly said Monday.
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Representatives of the Volkswagen AG Company specified models to be assembled in Kaluga (Russia) during ceremony of laying first brick into fundament of VW plant in Russia.
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Russia's external trade in the first nine months of 2006 reached $337.8 billion, up 28.9% year-on-year, and the trade surplus totaled $112.4 billion, the Russian Economics Development and Trade Ministry said Thursday.
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Vneshtorgbank plans to set up a holding company consolidating its subsidiaries in Europe, to be headquartered in London, by the end of 2006, the chief executive of Russia's state-run foreign trade bank said Thursday.
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The transition to a single currency is the most important condition for establishing a Russia-Belarus Union State, the Russian president said in a televised question-and-answer session Wednesday.
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