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International financial institutions will grant 7 million euros ($10 million) to the northwestern Russian city of Veliky Novgorod in 2010 to modernize its water supply system, the city’s administration said on Tuesday
Azerbaijan and Iran have set an ambitious goal of expanding bilateral trade to $1 billion from the current $600 million, the countries' foreign ministers said on Monday.
Croatian President Stjepan Mesic said on Monday that road construction, ship-building and engineering were priority areas for cooperation between Croatia and Russia.
Russia's federal budget revenues from energy product exports have reached 1.8 trillion rubles ($60 billion) so far this year, 31% more than for the whole of 2008, Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin said on Monday.

Russian and French delegations will meet later this month to discuss the possible sale of a French warship.
The leaders of China and three Central Asian countries inaugurated on Monday a natural gas pipeline from Turkmenistan to China
The official dollar rate set by the Russian Central Bank for December 15 is 30.0481 rubles, down 16.26 kopeks, the Central Bank said on Monday
The government of Abu-Dhabi on Monday provided a $10 billion loan to neighboring Dubai, to save a state-run property company from a looming debt crisis.