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Russia has invited Iran to sell crude oil on the St. Petersburg Commodity Exchange, the Russian energy minister said on Monday. 
Russia will donate food, medication, armored vehicles and civilian helicopters to the Palestinian National Authority to help rebuild the Gaza Strip, Russia's foreign minister said on Monday. 
Russia's major political party, led by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, topped Sunday's polls to legislatures in all nine participating regions, its first election test since the country was hit by a financial crisis last year. 
Russia has invited Iran to sell crude oil on the St. Petersburg Commodity Exchange, the Russian energy minister said on Monday. 
The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) plans to establish several different types of regional integration military systems, the post-Soviet security grouping's general secretary said Monday. 
Russian arms export monopoly Rosoboronexport has a portfolio of orders worth a total of $27 billion, the head of the state-run Russian Technology Corporation said on Monday. 
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev congratulated former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev on his 78th birthday on Monday. 
The Swiss embassy in Georgia will start issuing Russian entry visas to Georgian nationals from March 5, the Georgian Foreign Ministry said on Monday. 
Washington has told Moscow that Russian help in resolving Iran's nuclear program would make its missile shield plans for Europe unnecessary, a Russian daily said on Monday, citing White House sources. 
Russia will donate food, medication, armored vehicles and civilian helicopters to the Palestinian National Authority to help rebuild the Gaza Strip, Russia's foreign minister said on Monday. 
The second and final group of service personnel from Russia's aviation group will head for Sudan on Monday as part of a UN operation in the region, an Air Force spokesman said. 
The Moscow City Court ruled legal on Monday the decision to issue an arrest warrant for Yevgeny Chichvarkin, the former co-owner of top Russian cell phone retailer Euroset. 
The Admiral Panteleyev destroyer will replace the Admiral Vinogradov destroyer on an anti-piracy mission off the Somali coast, a spokesman for Russia's Pacific Fleet said on Monday. 
A new treaty between Russia and the U.S. on the reduction of strategic nuclear arsenals could be prepared by the end of 2009, a senior Russian diplomat has said. 



