| October 2009 |
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Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi arrived in Russia on Wednesday to discuss bilateral investment projects, trade and economic relations and energy projects with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.
President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin congratulated on Wednesday the Israeli premier, Benjamin Netanyahu, on his 60th birthday, a Kremlin spokesman said.
Ukraine expects to sign a long-term contract for Russian nuclear fuel supplies before the end of the year, the country's deputy energy minister said on Wednesday.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev praised Russian-Indian cooperation at a meeting with the country's foreign minister on Wednesday.
Russia will sustain significant losses if it decides to tear up a contract to deliver S-300 surface-to-air missile systems to Iran, an unnamed defense industry official said on Wednesday.
Poland is ready to take part in a reconfigured U.S. missile defense system, the Polish prime minister said on Wednesday. 
Russia's Federal Customs Service said on Wednesday it was ready to sign a deal with the Bank of New York to settle its $22.5 billion money laundering suit against the U.S.-based banking giant.
Talks between Iran and three world powers on Tehran's nuclear program ended on Wednesday and a draft deal has been submitted to the sides for approval by Friday, the UN nuclear watchdog head said.
Six people were sentenced to death in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality on Wednesday on charges of connections to organized crime, state news agency Xinhua reported.
Women in Kuwait have won the right to receive passports without the permission of their husbands, national media reported on Wednesday.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday that government corporations operating in competitive industries in Russia could be transformed into joint stock companies.
VTB Group, Russia's largest banking group, announced on Wednesday a net loss of 31.5 billion rubles ($1.07 billion) in January-June 2009.
President Hamid Karzai's nearest rival, former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah, has urged Afghan authorities to provide sufficient security to ensure a high turnout during the run-off vote set for November 7.
The lower house of Kazakhstan's parliament approved on Wednesday a draft budget for 2010-212, with a deficit expected at 4.1% of GDP next year.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will host a meeting with Russian business leaders on Wednesday, to discuss a strategy to pull the economy out of the ongoing crisis, the business website BFM.ru reported.
The death toll from Wednesday morning's train collision in north India has risen to 21, the Times of India reported.
Russia's Communist Party, which earlier walked out of the lower house of parliament in protest against alleged election violations, demanded on Wednesday that the country's election chief resign.
The Russian government may introduce measures to oblige companies to invest in energy efficiency and other technology projects, a Kremlin aide said on Wednesday.
A court in Panama has ordered for a Russian-crewed cargo ship stranded off the country's coast since April to be impounded, an International Transport Workers' Federation official said on Wednesday.



