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"Some ten contracts [were signed] with foreign and Russian investors, and we can talk about investments worth at least $1 billion," German Gref told the forum's final news conference, calling the event Russia's "key international economic forum."
Defense and industrial ties between Ukraine and Russia will be torn in a painful and expensive process if Ukraine joins NATO, Russia's defense minister said Wednesday.
Russia's first fifth-generation plane could make its maiden flight as early as in 2009, the defense minister said Wednesday.
Speaking to reporters at the close of an international business forum in St. Petersburg, German Gref said: "I don't think there will be any implications for the Russian economy." 
Georgia and Russia should concentrate on rebuilding currently strained relations, the president of the South Caucasus nation said Wednesday after talks with his Russian counterpart in St. Petersburg.
Several thousand former Chechen gunmen have joined federal forces operating in the troubled North Caucasus republic, the region's president said Wednesday.



