| July 2006 |
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President Vladimir Putin as chairman of the G8 summit does not intend to avoid discussing the problem of corruption, but there are no plans to adopt a formal document on the issue, a presidential aide said Friday. 
Washington hopes to iron out the remaining differences at the negotiations on Russia's accession to the World Trade Organization, the U.S. undersecretary of state for economic, business and agricultural affairs said Friday. 
Representatives of Russian non-governmental organizations said a meeting held on Friday in advance of this weekend's Group of Eight summit in St. Petersburg with United States President George W. Bush was successful. 
Georgia has denounced a bilateral protocol on Russia's accession to the globe's biggest trade body in the wake of an escalating border conflict with its northern neighbor, the foreign minister said Friday. 
Putin has appointed Dmitry Medvedev as chairman of a presidential council that will oversee the Kremlin's heavily financed projects in health care, housing, education, science and agriculture. 
The number of bids has exceeded the offer 50% and totaled over $15 billion, the largest amount in the history of Russian IPOs, Rosneft said 



