Russia bids to freeze food prices
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Food producers and government sign an agreement to freeze prices for a range of basic foodstuffs.
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Russia is to allocate 2bn dollars to reduce prices of medicines within the framework of the implementation of the monetary benefits programme, [Russian] President Vladimir Putin said during a meeting with representatives of India&#39;s business circles in
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Russia pressed ahead yesterday with controversial plans to break up the country&#39;s biggest oil company Yukos, setting a date of December 19 for an auction of its main production unit at a bargain basement starting price of $8.65bn (Â£4.88bn).
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Under the edict, prices of oil products, natural gas and electricity will be frozen in the near term along with public water bills and transportation tickets.
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MOSCOW - Russia&#39;s top general threatened on Wednesday to strike terrorists &quot;in any region of the world,&quot; and the Kremlin offered a $10 million reward for information leading to the killing or capture of Chechnya&#39;s top rebel leaders.
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Russia on Thursday proposed a U.N. crackdown on the abuse of political asylum for terrorist purposes, raising pressure on Western states to hand over wanted Chechen activists.
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Russia's biggest savings bank was due to set a price Wednesday for a new domestic share offering that could rake in as much as $12 billion, as the state-controlled bank seeks to tap into the country's boom in consumer lending.
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The Russian central bank should focus less on trying to curb the ruble&#39;s strength if it is serious about keeping inflation within the government&#39;s 10 percent target for 2004.
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Chechen rebels are offering a $20 million reward for the capture of Russian President Vladimir Putin. A Chechen separatist web site posted the offer of a bounty Thursday, a day after Russia offered $10 million
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Russia is struggling to decide whether it should focus more on fighting inflation to keep goods affordable for consumers or on restraining the ruble to support local producers, the deputy prime minister, Alexander Zhukov, said Monday.
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Russia offers $10m for information leading to the arrest of two Chechen rebel leaders following the Beslan siege.
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MOSCOW  - Russia&#39;s economy minister German Gref is trying to halt plans for the Gazprom monopoly to bid for the main production unit of embattled Yukos, but is unlikely to succeed, analysts said.
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Russia signaled Thursday that it would support a proposal to hold off imposing U.N. sanctions on Iran if Tehran suspends uranium enrichment.
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Russia&#39;s Federal Security Service has offered a $10 million reward for information that would help &quot;neutralize&quot; two Chechen rebel leaders it accuses of being behind last week&#39;s deadly school hostage crisis.
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Yukos will on Thursday seek an injunction from a US court in a last-gasp bid to block the forced auction of its main operating unit by the Russian government on Sunday.
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Russia&#39;s government will take an active role in managing industry as it seeks to curb inflation and open markets to attract investment, Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov said.
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Frustrated with meager salaries that have not kept pace with inflation, teachers, doctors and other state employees rallied Wednesday across Russia to demand higher wages.