| October 2008 |
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has signed a bill on insurance of bank deposits, increasing the amount guaranteed to 700,000 rubles ($26,800) from 200,000 rubles, the Kremlin said Monday. 
French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said Monday that representatives from Georgia's breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia would take part in security talks scheduled for Wednesday. 
The Progress aircraft maker, based in Russia's Far East, will start production of a new model of the Ka-52 Hokum-B attack/reconnaissance helicopter in October 2008, a company official said Monday.
The tough economic situation in Russia and the world will not affect Russian natural gas projects, such as the Nord Stream and South Stream pipelines, the president of the Russian Gas Union said on Monday. 
Ukraine's energy ministry has approved a Russian company's winning bid to construct a nuclear power plant (NPP), Ukraine's UNIAN news agency reported on Monday. 
Russia's future military presence in South Ossetia and Abkhazia is an issue that should be decided by Moscow and the two Georgian breakaway republics, Russia's envoy to the European Union said on Monday. 
Russia's chief mufti has become the first Muslim cleric to receive an Orthodox award, an Orthodox Church leader said on Monday. 
Moscow will hold an international forum devoted to nanotechnology on December 3-5, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov said on Monday. 
The upper house of Russia's parliament approved on Monday a law on extra measures to support the country's financial system, allowing the issue of subordinated loans to the largest banks and lending to rated Russian banks.
A naval task force from Russia's Northern Fleet, led by the nuclear-powered missile cruiser Pyotr Veliky, is leaving the Libyan capital, Tripoli, after a three-day official visit, a Navy spokesman said on Monday. 
Judges at the Chita District Court overturned a previous court ruling and upheld a joint appeal by former Yukos owner, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, and his business partner Platon Lebedev against a new investigation. 
Five Russian tennis players are in the top 10 of the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) ratings published on Monday. 



