| October 2008 |
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The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) plans to invest $975 million in Georgia in 2008-2010, the bank said on Thursday. 
The manufacturer of Kalashnikov assault rifles has sent the first shipment of equipment to Venezuela for the licensed production of AK-103 rifles, the company said on Thursday. 
Syria will host an international conference in Damascus in mid-November to discuss the global financial crisis and its affect on Arab economies, the official SANA news agency said. 
In a break with tradition, the Thai government has decided to buy several transport helicopters from Russia, a Russian business daily reported on Thursday. 
Asian and European leaders plan to draw up common responses to deal with the global financial crisis as they gather in China later this week, the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Thursday. 
Russia's Anti-Monopoly Service has denied the international Internet search engine Google the purchase of a contextual advertising system from the Russian Rambler Web search company. 
Russia saw a net capital outflow of around $18 billion in the first two weeks of October, continuing the trend of the past few months amid the financial crisis, a government source said. 