| May 2006 |
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President Vladimir Putin said Monday he hoped that car-making plants in Russia of U.S.-based General Motors and Germany's Volkswagen would be a success. 
Russia's government has adjusted upward its forecast for oil prices over the next three years, an economics official said Monday.
Russia's prime minister said Monday he hoped that the merger of Severstal (RTS: CHMF), Russia's largest steelmaker, and world No. 2 Arcelor, would be finished by July 20.
On an initiative from a Liberal Democratic Party deputy, Russia's State Duma Friday instructed two of its committees to ask the government about steps being taken to return the Crimea to Russia. A bilateral agreement under which Russia recognizes Ukraine's current borders expires in 2007. 
Ministers from the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany will meet in Vienna June 1 to continue efforts to break the impasse over Iran's controversial nuclear program, diplomatic sources said.
Russia plans to complete a program to remove spent nuclear fuel from research reactors in 17 countries by 2012-2013, the state-controlled uranium supplier and provider of uranium enrichment services said Monday. 
"Today our three-day visit to Latvia's hospitable soil ends," Alexy II said. "And we have felt throughout these days that people are craving for unity." 
Cardiovascular diseases and diabetes could cause the Russian economy damage of up to $300 billion by 2015, Russia's chief cardiac surgeon said Monday, citing WHO figures. 



