| September 2007 |
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has appointed airborne troops commander Colonel General Alexander Kolmakov first deputy defense minister, the Kremlin press service said Tuesday. 
The Gabala radar Russia leases from Azerbaijan cannot be used by the U.S. in addition to planned U.S. missile defense elements in Central Europe, the Russian foreign minister said Tuesday.

Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said Tuesday he would oversee the activities of both the Finance Ministry and the Economic Development and Trade Ministry in his new post. 
The International Monetary Fund will start assessing the Russian financial sector next week, IMF Managing Director Rodrigo de Rato said Tuesday. 
Russian aircraft manufacturer Sukhoi will start making a profit on its initial investment once 300 SuperJet 100s regional aircraft have been sold, the company's CEO said Tuesday. 
The Russian delegation will arrive on Wednesday in Geneva to hold negotiations with Saudi Arabia on Russia's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO), Russia's chief WTO negotiator said. 
Alrosa [RTS: ALRS] is set to hold an initial public offering within one-and-a-half years, the Russian diamond monopoly head said Tuesday. 
The former world chess champion, Garry Kasparov, has won the second round of the Other Russia primaries in his bid to gain the opposition coalition's nomination for the 2008 presidential elections. 
The prolongation of the Kyoto Protocol on the reduction of carbon emissions, which expires in 2012, will be ineffective, the head of the Russian hydrometeorology service said. 
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree revising the structure of federal executive bodies, a presidential spokesman said Tuesday. The move comes as part of a highly-publicized campaign by the president to fight against corruption.

Israel is ready to unilaterally announce a visa-free regime for Russian tourists if no bilateral agreement is reached by the end of the year, Tourism Minister Yitzhak Aharonovich said. 



