| November 2007 |
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A Faberge egg went under the hammer for $18.5 million on Wednesday, as London auction houses smashed all previous records during a week of Russian art sales. 
Russia's foreign minister said his country had highly professional experts capable of responding to potential threats posed by a European missile shield the United States is planning to deploy. 
Poland is ready for talks on ending Russia's two-year meat ban at any time and without any prior conditions, the agriculture minister said Wednesday. 
"We have done a lot to end internal crises in Russia, and firmly set the country on an evolutionary development track... We will not allow the process to be changed from the outside," Putin said. 
Shareholders of Russia's largest savings bank Sberbank elected former economics minister German Gref as chief executive officer on Wednesday. 
The presidential election campaign formally kicked off in Russia on Wednesday as a government newspaper published an upper house resolution announcing the date of next year's polls. 
Ukraine's acting fuel and energy minister said on Wednesday that talks with Russia on natural gas deliveries would resume shortly following a price hike for Turkmen gas.
Russia's Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said on Wednesday that the Stabilization Fund is expected to reach 3.836 trillion rubles ($158 billion) as of January 1. 
A Moscow court will announce on Thursday its verdict in the case of Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky, who is charged with embezzling millions of rubles from flagship air carrier Aeroflot. 
A treaty to replace a key Russia-U.S. nuclear arms reduction pact must set lower ceilings for nuclear arsenals and limit the development of new atomic weapons, Russia's foreign minister said.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov welcomed the results of the Mideast peace conference held in the United States, and announced that the next conference would be hosted by Moscow. 



