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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Europe should offer purchase safeguards for Russia's energy if it wants Russian producers to guarantee steady deliveries, a deputy prime minister said Tuesday.
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Russia has imposed a temporary ban on supplies of canned fish produced by two factories in Latvia, due to high levels of a dangerous substance allegedly detected in their products, the Agriculture Ministry said Friday.
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British-Russian joint venture TNK-BP and Siberia-based Surgutneftegaz have won tenders for licenses to four deposits in North Siberia, worth about 1.2 billion rubles ($43 million), a local administration official said Thursday.
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Rosneft, Russia's state-owned oil company, and China National Petroleum Corporation have signed a protocol on establishing a joint venture, the Russian company said Tuesday.
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Russia and the Czech Republic are ready to sign an agreement on the modernization of Mi helicopters, delivered earlier to the Central European country, to meet NATO standards, the head of Russia's government staff said Tuesday.
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Golden Telecom will invest $10 million to build a broadband wireless Internet network in Moscow, the company's chief executive said Tuesday.
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