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Three Russian oil companies signed an agreement on Monday with Turkey's Calik Enerji and Italy's Eni on a pipeline project to pump Caspian oil to the Mediterranean via Turkey.
Serbia is close to signing a deal for a $1.5-billion Russian loan, the Balkan country's first deputy prime minister Bozidar Djelic said on Monday.
The oil arm of Russian energy giant Gazprom has obtained a medium-term unsecured $500 million loan from a syndicate of banks, Gazprom Neft said in a statement on Monday.
Russia's largest car producer, AvtoVAZ, said on Monday it may have to file for bankruptcy due to losses and spiraling debts, but that production will not be halted.
Russia guarantees uninterrupted natural gas supplies to Europe, and will solve gas transit problems taking into account the interests of all parties, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday.
Russian-Chinese trade fell almost 34.9% to $28.04 billion in the first nine months of 2009, Xinhua said on Monday, citing data from China's customs authorities.
Russia's agricultural watchdog said on Monday it was putting temporary limitations on the import of German and Dutch poultry and Moldovan dry milk containing prohibited and harmful substances.
Azerbaijan's trade with Russia in the first nine months of the current year rose 28.5% year-on-year to $1.345 billion, Azerbaijan's State Customs Committee said on Monday.
French retailer Carrefour, which announced plans last week to pull out of the Russian market, said on Monday it would still keep its hypermarket chain in Russia.
Russia's gross domestic product resumed month-on-month growth in September after a stutter in August, a deputy economics minister said on Monday.
Russian metals giant Norilsk Nickel said on Monday its net profit under International Financial Reporting Standards declined 84%, year-on-year, in January-June 2009 to $439 million.
The first Asia-Europe Transport Development Forum, initiated by Lithuania, will begin on Monday in Vilnius.



