| October 2008 |
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The pilot of a MiG-29 Fulcrum fighter that crashed in East Siberia has ejected safely, the Russian Air Force press service said in a statement on Friday. 
Moscow's arbitration court ruled on Friday that the majority of tax claims filed against the British Council in Russia for 2004-2006 were unlawful. 
Russia's RTS and MICEX stock markets sank below the psychologically important levels of 700 and 600 points, respectively, soon after the finance minister issued a stern outlook for the markets on Friday morning. 
Russian arms manufacturers should enjoy advance payments and five-year tax breaks as part of state defense contracts, Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov said on Friday. 
Russia's Andrei Arshavin has said the success of the national side will boost interest in the country's league and attract investment, as well as bring more youngsters into the game. 
The two-times Olympic hockey champion and seven-times world champion Vyacheslav Fetisov was elected senator of Russia's Far Eastern Primorye Territory on Friday. 
An unidentified assailant fired a grenade at the home of the chief doctor of a hospital in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Ingushetia overnight, but nobody was injured, the local interior ministry said on Friday. 



