| November 2006 |
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The growth of Russia's gross domestic product in 2006 will be 6.5%, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development said in its annual Transition Report Monday. 
Russia must fulfill the obligations it made to Georgia as part of talks on its accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO), and Tbilisi will, in turn, make no further demands, the Georgian prime minister said Monday. 
Russia's Natural Resources Ministry said Monday it is dissatisfied with the environmental measures taken so far by the operator of the Sakhalin II oil and gas project in Russia's Far East. 
Russia must fulfill the obligations it made to Georgia as part of talks on its accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO), and Tbilisi will, in turn, make no further demands, the Georgian prime minister said Monday. 
Russia will lift all precision restrictions from 2007 in the use of military-controlled Glonass to enable accurate and unlimited commercial use of the global positioning system, the defense minister said Monday. 
Russia will lift all precision restrictions from 2007 in the use of military-controlled Glonass to enable accurate and unlimited commercial use of the global positioning system, the defense minister said Monday. 
A plane with Russian military observers will make an inspection flight over the United States under the Open Skies Treaty, the Russian Air Force's spokesman said Monday. 
A bilateral agreement with the U.S. on Russia's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) could be signed by the two countries' leaders at an Asia-Pacific summit in Vietnam November 18-19, Russia's economics minister said Monday. 
A court in St. Petersburg Monday sentenced three people accused of killing a Vietnamese student to two and a half to three and a half years in prison for instigating race hate. 
Bureaucracy, the 'criminal factor', and environmental regulations are discouraging Chinese investors from investing in Russia's economy, the governor of the Far Eastern Khabarovsk Territory said Monday. 
Russian aluminum companies RusAl and SUAL [RTS: SUAL] and Switzerland's Glencore have applied to Russia's Federal Anti-Monopoly Service for authorization to merge their assets to form United Company RusAL. 
A court in Russia's Far East ruled Monday to fine a South Korean national 500,000 rubles (about $19,000) for illegally shipping radioactive equipment from Libya in 2004. 
South Ossetians gave their resounding support for independence at Sunday's referendum and presidential elections, with preliminary results showing 99% of voters in favor of autonomy, the Central Election Commission of Georgia's un-recognized republic said Monday. 



