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Russia's state defense orders will grow by 8.5% to 1.175 trillion rubles ($40.5 billion) in 2010, the prime minister told the ruling party on Saturday.
Russia's prime minister has called for modernization programs and more responsible attitudes among the business community, to reduce the economy's dependence on raw materials.
Russian companies will be able to obtain state-guaranteed loans totaling 500 billion rubles ($17 billion) in 2010, the prime minister told the ruling party on Saturday.
Russia has suffered from the global economic downturn but has managed to keep the damage to a minimum, the president told the ruling party on Saturday.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev arrived in St. Petersburg on Saturday for a congress of the pro-Kremlin United Russia party. 
A man in Russia's southwest Urals has been arrested for trying to sell a hand grenade at a bus stop to buy alcohol, local police said.
A resident of the Russian republic of Bashkortostan in the southern Urals hit two girls with his car, killing one of them, investigators said Saturday.
The death toll in a fire in a southeast Moscow apartment block, most likely caused by a gas cylinder leak, has risen to three.
Two people died in fire after a household gas explosion in the southeast of the Russian capital
Eight people have been injured in a household gas explosion in a residential building in Moscow's southeast.



