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The French hypermarket chain, Carrefour, the world's second largest retailer, has pulled out of Russia, the company said on Thursday.
Russian steelmaker Evraz Group said its production fell 13.2% in the third quarter of 2009 year-on-year to 4.2 million tons. 
Russia's state-owned oil producer Rosneft plans to bid for 30 Arctic offshore oil deposits, Rosneft CEO Sergei Bogdanchikov said on Thursday.
Recently Arctic
has attracted a great deal of attention. The region is rich in hydrocarbon
reserves and has a vast transit potential. The Murmansk
ice-free port will play a major role as the essential access point to the North
Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. 

The speaker of Ukraine's parliament urged the ex-Soviet state on Thursday to resume talks with its neighbors on the establishment of a single economic space within the CIS.
Russia's state-owned oil producer Rosneft plans to bid for 30 Arctic offshore oil deposits, Rosneft CEO Sergei Bogdanchikov said on Thursday.
The French oil company Total has received approval from a Russian regulator to purchase a 49% stake in the operator of a gas condensate field in northwest Russia, Total E&P Russia CEO Pierre Nerguararian said on Thursday.
Russia is set to resume talks on a $150 million loan with Moldova's new government, the president's press secretary said on Thursday.
Russia's natural gas production declined 18.6%, year-on-year, in January-September to 403 billion cubic meters, the country's top statistics body Rosstat said on Thursday.
Russia's GDP may grow 3.1% year-on-year in 2010 as the economy picks up after the problems of 2009, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) said in an updated forecast on Thursday.
Russia's president met on Thursday with the sultan of Brunei in Moscow for talks focusing on boosting bilateral trade.
A Russian specialized auto parts trader will take part in an international industrial fair in Vietnam later this month, the parent company said on Thursday.
Russia will spend an estimated 400 billion rubles ($13.5 billion) on the construction of the new Vostochny space center in its Far Eastern Amur Region, federal space agency Roscosmos said on Thursday.
Russia's international reserves comprising gold, foreign exchange and a range of other assets grew by $7.2 billion to $418.7 billion in the week of October 2 - October 8, the Central Bank said on Thursday.
Russia's Industry Ministry has concluded that the government should not bail out AvtoVAZ, the country's largest carmaker, a business paper reported on Thursday.
Russian energy giant Gazprom and Serbia's state gas company have initialed an agreement to set up a joint venture to develop a Serbian underground gas depot, Srbijagas said on Thursday.



