| April 2009 |
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World prices for Russia's benchmark Urals oil blend averaged $43.51 per barrel in the first quarter of 2009, a Finance Ministry official said on Wednesday. 
A statue of Vladimir Lenin near the Finlyandsky railway station in St. Petersburg was badly damaged in an explosion on Wednesday, a local police spokesman said. 
The Russian national soccer team take on minnows Liechtenstein on Wednesday evening in Vaduz in a World Cup qualifying tie that they are expected to win easily. 
Police in Dubai have a number of positive leads, which could help to uncover the mastermind behind the assassination of former military commander, Sulim Yamadayev, the Dubai police chief said on Wednesday. 
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is to meet his U.S. counterpart Barack Obama on Wednesday on the sidelines of a G20 summit in London aimed at finding ways to tackle the global financial crisis. 
A prominent Russian human rights official is in hospital after being beaten in east Moscow overnight, a police spokesman said on Wednesday. 



