MOSCOW. Nov 9 - The duty on raw sugar being imported into Russia in December 2005 will remain at $140 per tonne in December, the Economic Development and Trade Ministry`s press service said.
IRKUTSK, November 8 - Russia`s East Siberian Railroad Company said Tuesday that it increased its oil shipments to China nearly threefold in October.
MOSCOW. Nov 8 - Retail pries for drugs have risen by 23% since the beginning of 2005, Health and Social Development Minister Mikhail Zurabov told Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov during Monday`s discussion of social welfare issues.
BRUSSELS, November 8 - The foreign ministers of the European Union`s 25 member states expressed concern over ongoing human rights abuses in Belarus as they met in Brussels Monday.
"Rusneft" plans to issue package of global deposit receipts (GDR) on sum of $ 6 milliards in middle of 2006.
New major oilfield has been found in Iraq.
The annual inflation rate in Russia for 2005 could be 11-11.5%, Economic Development and Trade Minister German Gref said Monday. The minister said inflation grew 0.6% in October, whereas inflation in the first ten months of the year was down 0.1% at 9.2% in comparison with 2004.
International monitoring UNO bureau finished audit of American company Halliburton`s activity during 2003-2004.
From the beginning of current month Russia prohibited import of poultry meat from such European countries as France and Denmark. In some regions of these countries was registered Newcastle illness.
Russian premier-minister Michael Fradkov couldn`t participate in grand ceremony of starting of Bureiskaya hydroelectric power station`s 4-th energetic block. Trip was cancelled because of non-flying weather.
This was declared by Russian premier-minister Michael Fradkov after meeting at Komsomolsk-on-Amur aviation production association.
Premier-minister of Russia Michael Fradkov reported about inflation situation in Russia.
Vneshtorgbank, Russia’s second largest bank, issued a record bond issue of RUR 15 billion at an interest rate of 6.2 percent per annum. An effective yield on the bonds is 6.35 percent.
Ukraine experienced a significant price decrease as for poultry products in October, e. g. one may notice a drop in prices by 1,7-22,4% (that is about 11,04-14,50 grivnas per kg) in 22 Ukrainian regions.
Russian sugar producers have found the way to decrease its prime cost by 15%. They are going to change import stuff sugar-beet and they will cultivate it on their own.
LVOV, November 4 - An auction selling the Ternopol airport was not held in Ukraine on Friday, as not a single bid had been made, press secretary of the regional department of the Ukrainian State Property Fund Larisa Shumilo told Itar-Tass.
Culminating 18 months of intense and often controversial investigations into allegations of corruption involving the Oil for Food program in Saddam Hussein`s Iraq, the UN`s Independent Inquiry Committee presented its report last week revealing how Russian companies topped a list of 2,500 that paid illegal surcharges and kickbacks to Hussein for the privilege of siphoning off his oil.
KIEV, November 4 - Managers of Germany`s Mittal Steel company that recently won an auction for Kryvorizhstal, have visited the Ukrainian steel giant and met with its workers, the German company said Friday.
YEREVAN, November 4 - The Armenian government said Friday it had allowed the energy ministry to spend over $190,000 to build a new dry storage of spent nuclear fuel.
MOSCOW, November 3 - The Federal Financial Markets Service of Russia (FFMS) said Thursday that it has registered two bond issues of Uralsvyazinform worth 5 billion rubles (about $175 million).
Russia’s gold and foreign currency reserves were $164.3 billion on October 28, up $1.6 billion from $162.7 billion a week earlier, the Central Bank of Russia reported.
MOSCOW, November 3 - Russian and Chinese military and civil rockets and spacecraft have begun to be equipped with devices of the global navigation satellite system (GLONASS).
Russia and the European Union have signed a trade agreement for certain kinds of steel today, the press service of the European Mission in Russia said.
MOSCOW, November 3 - Golden Telecom, Inc. ("GLDN"), a leading facilities-based provider of integrated telecommunications and Internet services in major cities in Russia and the CIS, said Thursday its net income under U.S. GAAP in 9M05 totaled $58.2 million, a 22% increase year on year.
The amount of mortgages will increase 7.6-fold by 2008 compared with 2004, to RUR 151 billion (about $5.3 billion) according to the "Affordable and Comfortable Housing for Russians" project, Yuri Tyrtyshov, deputy head of Russia’s federal agency for construction and housing and communal services, said at a conference on Wednesday.