| December 2008 |
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State capital investments into serial production of armaments and military hardware in 2009-2011 will total about $35.3 billion, a first deputy chairman of Russia's military-industrial commission said Monday. 
Russia is not selling S-300 surface-to-air missile systems to Iran, the Russian federal service for military cooperation said in a statement on Monday. 
Russia and Serbia will sign an oil and gas deal this week allowing Russia's Gazprom Neft to buy a controlling stake in Serbia's NIS, Serbian Deputy Energy Minister Dusan Mrakic said on Monday. 
A Russian sailor taken hostage in Nigeria has been released, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told journalists on Monday. 
Belarus has turned to Russia for a 100 billion-ruble ($3.5 billion) loan in exchange for payment in rubles in bilateral trade, a Russian deputy finance minister said on Monday. 
Russia said it is against extending the mandate for the Organization for the Security and Cooperation in Europe mission in Georgia, which expires on December 31, Russia's OSCE envoy said on Monday. 
Russia only sells defensive weapons to Iran, in strict compliance with the international nonproliferation regime, Russia's state-run arms exporter said on Monday. 
Russia is to hold another test launch of the Bulava intercontinental ballistic missile in two days time, a source in the Russian defense industry said on Monday. 
If Ukraine doesn't pay off some of its debt for Russian-supplied gas it will owe $3.2 billion by the end of the year, a co-owner of the Swiss gas trading firm RosUkrEnergo has warned. 



