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The Indonesian Navy is planning to arm its new patrol boats with Russian and Chinese missiles, the Antara national news agency reported on Tuesday.
The Opel plant in the Belgian city of Antwerp is likely to be closed by the carmaker's new owners and production could be moved to Russia, the Belgian economic magazine Trends said on Tuesday.
Russia's international reserves comprising gold, foreign currencies and a range of other assets declined 3.2% in January-September 2009 to $413.45 billion, the Central Bank said on Tuesday.
Ukrainian state-run energy company Naftogaz is ready to meet its gas supply and gas transit obligations this winter, although its financial position is disastrous, a presidential energy envoy said on Tuesday.
Russia's foreign trade declined 45% year-on-year in January-August to $277 billion, the Federal Customs Service reported on Tuesday.
The official dollar rate set by the Russian Central Bank for October 7 is 29.8322 rubles, down 24.63 kopeks from Tuesday, the Central Bank said.
The French carmaker Renault, which holds a blocking interest in AvtoVAZ, is willing to invest in the ailing Russian auto giant, Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov said on Tuesday.
A Moscow court rejected on Tuesday an appeal from Norway's Telenor to suspend an order by Russian bailiffs to auction its 26.6% stake in Russia's second largest mobile phone operator, VimpelCom.
Russia will hold a roadshow in early November in London for Eurobonds worth $17.8 billion to be issued early next year to cover the budget deficit, Deputy Finance Minister Dmitry Pankin said on Tuesday.
Russia's largest carmaker, AvtoVAZ, urgently needs 70 billion rubles ($2.33 bln) to stay afloat, the Kommersant business daily said on Tuesday.
Russian energy giant Gazprom is expected to resume by November 1 gas imports from Turkmenistan, interrupted earlier this year, Kommersant business daily reported on Tuesday.
Russian officials have held "secret meetings" with Arab states, China and France on ending the use of the U.S. dollar in international oil trading, Britain's Independent newspaper reported on Tuesday.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will meet with his Belarusian counterpart Sergei Sidorsky in Moscow on Tuesday to discuss trade and economic issues.



