MOSCOW, October 11 (RIA Novosti) – Officials from the Belarusian Energy Ministry and state-owned gas transit company Beltransgaz will negotiate 2008 natural gas prices with Russia's Gazprom in Moscow on Thursday.
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MOSCOW, October 11 (RIA Novosti) – Russia's investment index will open Thursday at 860.06 points, up 0.03% following Wednesday evening's sessions on major world trading floors.
// Oct. 11, 2007 - 06:04 GMT
MOSCOW, October 11 (RIA Novosti) – Credit institutions' balances on correspondent accounts with the Russian Central Bank totaled 603.0 billion rubles ($24.1 billion at the current exchange rates) at the beginning of the business day, up 7.8% from Wednesday, the CBR said Thursday.
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MOSCOW, October 11 (RIA Novosti) – Russia's gold and foreign currency reserves dropped $0.3 billion, to $424.8 billion, in the week of September 28 -October 5, the Central Bank of Russia said Thursday.
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WASHINGTON, October 11 (RIA Novosti) – North Korea could have accumulated up to 60 kg of plutonium since the early 1990s, Robert Gallucci, a former chief U.S. negotiator with Pyongyang, told a seminar in Washington.
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WASHINGTON, October 11 (RIA Novosti) – A committee in the United States Congress backed a resolution recognizing the 1915 massacre of around 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman Turks as genocide, rejecting protests from the U.S. president.
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YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, October 11 (RIA Novosti) – Sakhalin Energy, the operator of the Sakhalin II oil and gas project in Russia's Far East, said on Thursday it has so far signed $10 billion worth of contracts with Russian companies under the project.
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