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The Moscow City Court ruled on Monday against the appeals of jailed Yukos founder Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev in the second case against the business partners, a lawyer said.
Russia and Israel should work out a common approach on arms supplies to the Middle East and the Caucasus, the Israeli foreign minister said on Monday.
Russia will not go back on its promise to lend Belarus $500 million, but expects effective steps on the part of its neighbor, the Russian finance minister said on Monday.
The Russian carmaker GAZ could start producing Opel cars within nine months if a consortium of investors taking over the German auto producer give their backing, GAZ said on Monday.
Russia's Reserve Fund dropped by 11.9% to 3.127 trillion rubles ($100.95 billion), and the National Prosperity Fund declined 3% to 2.784 trillion rubles ($89.86 billion) in May, the Finance Ministry said on Monday.
Flight attendants of the bankrupt Siberian airline KrasAir ended their 19-day hunger strike over unpaid wages on Monday due to health risks, but pledged to bring their case to court.
Rubin's 1-0 defeat to CSKA Moscow in the final of the Russian Cup on Sunday was sweetened slightly for the Kazan side by the failure of their rivals to overtake them at the top of the Premier League.
Russia's navy has 12 nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines in service, but only eight of them are combat-capable, a Russian military analyst said on Monday.
Investigators in Moscow are trying to trace a surgeon, whose patient recently died as a result of an alleged fatal medical error made some 14 years ago, the head of the Moscow Investigation department said on Monday.
About 170 Russian and foreign firms will take part in an international arms exhibition in the southwest Siberian city of Omsk, a regional government spokesman said on Monday.
Gazprom Neft increased crude exports by 4.6% year-on-year to 5.36 million metric tons in January-April 2009, the oil arm of Russian energy giant Gazprom said on Monday.
At least 13 Russian students, detained by Egyptian authorities, will be deported to Russia for breaking local laws, including visa regulations, a Russian Embassy spokesman in Egypt said on Monday.
The average price of the benchmark Urals oil blend stood at $47.05 per barrel in Russia in January-May 2009 against $100.78 in the first five months of 2008, a Finance Ministry official said on Monday.
Israel's newly-appointed foreign minister will start on Monday his first visit to Russia since taking office on March 31, the Russian foreign ministry said in a statement.
The second round of full-format Russia-U.S. talks on a new strategic arms reduction agreement to replace the START 1 treaty, which is set to expire on December 5, 2009, will be held on June 1-3 in Geneva.
Seven people have died in two separate fires in the Urals district of Sverdlovsk, the regional Investigative Committee said on its website on Monday.



