It is necessary to abolish annual allocation of quotas for sea biological resources as they are inefficient and lead to corruption growth and low capitalization of production enterprises, declared the RF Minister for Agriculture Alexey Gordeev in the course of his visit to Sakhalin

The Russian Ministry of Finance has allotted around EUR 50.11mln to pay the debt to the International Monetary Fund (IMF)

According to the Federal Statistics Service, inflation amounted to 0.4 percent in Russia in August 2004 as compared to July 2004 and to 7.6 percent in January to August this year

President Putin signed in the late August the decree about merger of air companies “Russia” and “Pulkovo”. Thus, there appears on the Russian market an air carrier that ranks second after “Aeroflot” as far as the fleet size is concerned

Trade turnover between Russia and Turkey within the nearest two – three years will exceed $ 10 bln, or $ 12 – 13 bln with consideration of suitcase trading

Trade turnover between Russia and Germany grew more than 18 per cent in the second quarter of this year

Administration of the antimonopoly service for Omsk region has initiated proceedings against “Sibneft”.

The State Duma is working out amendments to legislation that will enable to keep suspicious citizens out of flights and to confiscate their luggage

Russian President Valdimir Putin has affirmed the list of instructions for the Cabinet concerning development of resorts and tourism in Russia