| October 2008 |
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President Dmitry Medvedev said on Friday that Russia had taken sufficient measures to shore up the domestic financial market against the backdrop of the ongoing global credit crisis. 
U.S. President George Bush pledged on Friday to overcome the current financial crisis, at the same time acknowledging the spiral circle of anxiety and fear feeding a plunge in stock prices. 
The Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange plans to begin trading as normal on Monday morning unless the Federal Service for Financial Markets issues instructions to do otherwise, MICEX said on Friday. 
Russia's government is to allocate up to $50 billion for companies to refinance their foreign debt, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Friday. 
Russia's budget surplus has been estimated at 2.5 trillion rubles ($96.7 billion), or 8.1% of GDP, in the first nine months of 2008, the Finance Ministry said Friday. 
Russia's Beriyev Aviation Scientific-Technical Complex (TANTK) will start test flying a new light amphibious airplane in 2010, the TANTK general director said on Friday. 
Russia's two stock exchanges, the MICEX and the RTS, did not open for full trading Friday upon instructions from the financial markets' regulator. 