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The St. Petersburg international raw material and commodity exchange will start trading oil products this August and oil futures in 2009, the exchange's first deputy president said on Saturday. 
Russia's largest independent oil producer LUKoil is hoping for success in negotiations with Iraq on a deal to develop Iraq's largest oil field, West Qurna-2, the company's CEO said on Saturday. 
Russia's finance minister Alexei Kudrin urged on Saturday the European Union and the United States to make a decision on supporting agricultural producers under the Doha development round of world trade talks. 
Euro 2008 kicks off on Saturday with a Group A match between hosts Switzerland and the Czech Republic. 
Prevailing air currents will not bring deadly gas released in a recent leak in northeast China to Russia's borders , top weathermen in Russia said on Saturday. 
Russia's president said on Saturday that the role the U.S. has taken on in the world economy does not correspond to its true capabilities which was a major factor in the current global financial crisis. 
The Russian automaker Sollers, previously known as Severstal-Avto, and Italy's Fiat Group signed agreements on Saturday to set up two joint ventures. 
The Kremlin chief of staff, Sergei Naryshkin, denied on Saturday reports that Russia's Security Council would be reformed and its powers increased. 
Russia's largest independent oil producer LUKoil [RTS: LKOH] intends to boost oil output 1.2-1.7%, year-on-year, in 2008, the company's CEO said on Saturday. 
Thieves in southwest Moscow have stolen a Porsche sports car belonging to Russian Olympic champion figure skater Alexei Yagudin, a police source said on Saturday. 
Over 7 kg of heroin has been seized from a Tajik national in Moscow, a police spokeswoman said on Saturday. 
Six vehicles caught fire in Moscow on Saturday, a police source said, in what is believed to be the work of the infamous 'car arsonist' who has burnt over 25 cars since the start of the month in the Russian capital. 



