| October 2008 |
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A jury took more than five hours to find former banker Alexei Frenkel guilty on Tuesday of organizing the murder of the first deputy head of Russia's Central Bank, a spokeswoman for the Moscow City Court said. 
Ukraine is using the issue of the 1932-33 famine to divert the nation's attention from the ongoing political and economic crisis, Russia's envoy to the UN said on Tuesday. 
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Tuesday he expected to meet with his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao at a summit of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation organization in Peru on November 22-23. 
The board of directors of Russian flagship air carrier Aeroflot has elected Transportation Minister Igor Levitin as its chairman, Aeroflot said on Tuesday. 
Russia's foreign minister warned Georgia on Tuesday that its refusal to attend Geneva talks along with South Ossetian and Abkhazian representatives would threaten regional security. 
The first Russian-made freight plane built for China by the Aviastar-SP aircraft maker has landed at Tianjin Airport, a spokesman for a Russian air company said on Tuesday. 
Russia and the European Union have agreed to continue unofficial talks on a pan-European security treaty, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday. 
Russia is planning to expand military-technical cooperation with members of the Collective Security Treaty Organization and build a CSTO integrated air defense network, the president said on Tuesday. 
Russia and China signed on Tuesday an agreement for the construction of a pipeline branch to China as part of the East Siberia-Pacific Ocean (ESPO) oil pipeline. 
Russia's foreign minister warned Georgia on Tuesday that its possible refusal to attend Geneva talks along with South Ossetian and Abkhazian representatives would threaten regional security. 
Russia's Admiralty Shipyard will move a new enhanced ice-class tanker, the Mikhail Ulyanov, from a dry dock to a wet dock on Friday for the final stages of construction work, its press service said on Tuesday. 
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Tuesday that sanctions imposed by the U.S. on Russia's state-run arms exporter are shortsighted, and will not have any negative impact on Russia. 
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin proposed on Tuesday that Russia and China gradually switch over to national currency payments in bilateral trade, expected to total $50 billion in 2008. 
During his upcoming visit to the Netherlands on October 30, Russia's foreign minister will give priority to trade and economic ties between the two countries, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Tuesday. 



