| October 2008 |
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Russia may decide to create a state corporation for the rocket and space industry next year, a deputy prime minister said on Tuesday. 
Russia is currently not involved in talks with Ukraine over the purchase of an unfinished missile cruiser for the Russian Navy, Russia's state arms exporter Rosoboronexport said on Tuesday. 
Zenit St. Petersburg host Belarus' top side, BATE Borisov, in a must-win Champions League fixture on Tuesday evening. 
Russia has offered Cuba assistance in renovating its transportation system, rebuilding its energy sector and acquiring a fleet of oil tankers, Russia's deputy minister of industry and trade said on Tuesday. 
Senior members of Britain's opposition Conservative Party solicited Russia's richest man Oleg Deripaska this summer for a donation, a mutual acquaintance told The Times newspaper in a letter. 
Foreign orders for Russian naval hardware for the next three years exceed $5 billion, a state arms export monopoly senior official said on Tuesday. 
The average price of Russia's benchmark Urals blend will not fall below $70 per barrel in 2009 despite the ongoing global financial crisis, Russia's finance minister said on Tuesday. 
Ukraine is set to sign three nuclear fuel deals with Russia by the end of this year, the president of the Ukrainian nuclear power plant operator Energoatom said on Tuesday. 
Indonesia's navy chief of staff will start an official visit to Russia on Wednesday to discuss bilateral military-technical cooperation. 
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov confirmed on Tuesday that Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi will visit Moscow in the near future. 
A former executive of the now defunct Yukos oil company has pleaded guilty to embezzlement and tax evasion and requested to be pardoned, her lawyer said on Tuesday. 
John McCain's campaign has taken a brief time out from pushing his case to be the next U.S. president to admit a mistake - sending a letter to Russia's UN envoy soliciting donations. 
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will discuss trade, energy and conflict in the South Caucasus with his Armenian counterpart, Serzh Sargisyan, at talks in Armenia on October 21, a Kremlin official said. 
A missile frigate from Russia's Baltic Fleet will pass through the Suez Canal on Tuesday en route to the Somalia coast to join an international naval group fighting sea piracy in the region, a senior Navy official said. 
A 40-year-old Russian pilot was killed in a helicopter crash in southern Kazakhstan, the Central Asian country's emergency ministry said on Tuesday. 



