| October 2009 |
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Kazakhstan's president confirmed on Thursday that his country is willing to pump crude into a planned $1.5-billion pipeline to bring Caspian oil to the Mediterranean via Turkey.
ItAli Airlines S.p.A., which has signed a contract with Russia's Sukhoi aircraft maker for 10 Superjet regional airliners, will receive the first planes next year, a Russian government spokesman said on Thursday.
Russia's energy minister said on Thursday that no decision has yet been taken on privatizing the country's largest oil producer, Rosneft, but that the issue has been discussed in general terms.
Russia has no plans to stop military cooperation with Iran, a federal military cooperation body said on Thursday.
The South Stream natural gas pipeline to the Balkans could be completed before the Russian-German Nord Stream pipeline, the Russian prime minister said on Thursday.
The Russian Interior Ministry will buy two Israeli-built unmanned aerial vehicles in 2010, a senior police official said on Thursday.
A Moscow Arbitration Court on Thursday terminated proceedings instituted on a $22.5 billion lawsuit brought by the Federal Customs Service against the Bank of New York Mellon.
The official dollar rate set by the Russian Central Bank for October 23 is 29.0858 rubles, down 7.83 kopeks from Thursday, the Central Bank said.
Russia's international reserves comprising gold, foreign exchange and a range of other assets grew by $4.7 billion to $423.4 billion in the week of October 9 - October 16, the Central Bank said on Thursday.
Cuban rum producers intend to increase supplies to Russia to more than a million liters a year, a vice-president of a Cuban rum producing company said.



