| October 2009 |
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Greece's president asked George Papandreou to form a government on Monday after his Socialist party won a decisive victory over the ruling conservatives in early elections, state television reported.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin pledged on Monday to save the country's largest carmaker AvtoVAZ from closure.
Moscow authorities have resolved to build the city's first garbage reprocessing facilities instead of opening more incineration plants, a deputy mayor said on Monday.
The leader of Russia's volatile southern republic of Ingushetia dismissed the government on Monday, citing its failure to tackle socio-economic problems and corruption.
Norway's Telenor and Russia's Alfa Group said on Monday they were ending their long-running legal dispute and combining their mobile phone holdings in Russia and Ukraine into a single company.
Russia's Sevmash shipyard will start the construction of the fourth Borey class (Project 955) strategic submarine on December 22, a Sevmash press secretary said Monday.
The leader of Russia's volatile southern republic of Ingushetia dismissed the government on Monday, citing its failure to tackle socio-economic problems and corruption.
Russian coastguard patrol boats and Black Sea Fleet warships will escort freight vessels carrying supplies to Abkhazia, a source in Russia's security services said on Monday.
Alrosa, Russia's largest diamond miner, said on Monday it sold diamonds worth $1.34 billion in January-September 2009, including sales to Russia's State Depository for Precious Metals.
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned on Monday against pitting Russia's president against the prime minister.
Power Machines, Russia's leading energy equipment producer, said on Monday its net profit under International Financial Reporting Standards increased 240% year-on-year in January-June to $53.1 million.
A U.S.-based subsidiary of Yukos, declared bankrupt in 2006, intends to sue the Russian government for a record $100 billion in the Strasbourg Court, the Yukos former finance director said on Monday.
Russia is ready to extend a loan to Serbia and is considering the possibility of granting a loan to Bulgaria, the Russian finance minister said on Monday.
Russia will not disburse the last $500 million tranche of a $2 billion stabilization loan to Belarus and will not grant a $5 billion loan to Ukraine, Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said on Monday.
A "special form" of relations with Russia is anticipated when Austria chairs the UN Security Council in November, Austrian Foreign Minister Michael Spindelegger said on Monday.
Net capital outflow from Russia came in at less than $10 billion in the third quarter of the current year, the first deputy head of the Central Bank said on Monday.
Russia's largest truck maker, KamAZ, restarted its main assembly line on Monday after a freeze since September 29, the company's PR department said.
Belgrade anticipates financial aid from Moscow, Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic said in an interview with a Russian daily ahead of his Moscow visit.
Authorities from the former Georgian republic of Abkhazia will order passports in Russia giving its citizens the ability to travel abroad, a Russian daily reported on Monday.



