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Russia and Venezuela signed on Thursday a package of deals, including one to develop the Latin American country's Orinoco oil belt, with estimated reserves of 235 billion barrels of heavy oil.
Two Russian mini-subs that have spent the past two summers researching Lake Baikal will join an international scientific project in the Atlantic in 2010.
Russia is ready to supply Venezuela with tanks and other types of military equipment.
U.S. auto giant General Motors is prepared to sell the ailing German automaker Opel to a consortium of Austrian-Canadian Magna and Russia's Sberbank, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday.
Russia's October 11 regional elections are expected to require some 900 million rubles ($29 million) from the state budget.
North Korea's uranium enrichment experiments could further complicate the situation on the Korean Peninsula.
Russia and Venezuela signed on Thursday a package of deals, including one to develop the Latin American country's Orinoco oil belt, with estimated reserves of 235 billion barrels of heavy oil.
Russia's Foreign Ministry has no official information on an alleged unannounced visit to Moscow by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Russia is currently studying a package of nuclear proposals that Iran has submitted to six world powers.
Russia's double Olympic pole vault champion Yelena Isinbayeva says she has plans to retire from top-flight sport until after the 2013 world athletic championships in Moscow.
Abkhazia and South Ossetia plan to create a joint media project, reporting on life in the republics since their independence from Georgia.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Thursday his country recognizes Georgia's two former breakaway republics as independent states.

Businessman Yevgeny Chichvarkin, wanted in Russia on kidnapping and extortion charges, was arrested in London on Monday but released on bail the same day.
Russia's president highlighted economic backwardness and corruption as the key reasons for the country's problems, and urged the nation to unite in tackling them.
A monument dedicated to Chechnya's first President Akhmad Kadyrov was dismantled in the early hours of Thursday in the Russian republic's capital, Grozny.
Two Russian Tu-95 Bear strategic bombers have carried out a routine patrol flight over the Arctic Ocean.
The Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK) announced on Thursday a $59 million net consolidated profit calculated to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) for the second quarter of 2009.
A special commission has announced the composition of the main and backup crews for the next mission to the International Space Station (ISS).
Sberbank announced on Thursday a net profit under International Financial Reporting Standards of 6 billion rubles ($194 million) in January-June 2009, compared to 67 billion rubles ($2 billion) a year earlier.



