- 20:09 09/08/2006
Ukraine's fuel and energy minister and the chief executive of Russia's natural gas giant Gazprom met in Moscow Wednesday to discuss gas cooperation, a company spokesman said. 
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Russia will raise military spending by 70 billion rubles ($2.6 billion) in 2007, the finance minister said Wednesday. "Defense spending will increase primarily to meet army equipment needs," Alexei Kudrin said during a meeting with President Vladimir Putin.
- 17:05 09/08/2006
Ukraine's ambassador to Russia said Wednesday that the new prime minister, Viktor Yanukovych, will visit Moscow next week. "He will focus on economic issues," Oleg Diomin told reporters.
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Sukhoi's ambitious project to build the Russian Regional Jet, renamed the Sukhoi SuperJet-100 recently, has been implemented in cooperation with Boeing and a series of other foreign companies. But the Boeing official said the SuperJet would be unaffected as the U.S. concern only acted as an adviser to the project.
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- 14:46 09/08/2006
Russia will establish a state venture company by the end of October as part of efforts to diversify the economy and encourage investment in innovation, a senior economics ministry official said Wednesday.
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A Russian military intelligence colonel sentenced to 13 years in prison Wednesday spied for the United Kingdom, Russia's main security service said.
- 13:29 09/08/2006
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A colonel in Russia's security services was sentenced to 13 years in prison Wednesday for spying, a RIA Novosti correspondent reports from the courtroom.
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