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Maxim Petlin heads a prominent political party in a major Russian province straddling the Ural mountains, but he will not be on the ballot for regional parliamentary elections on Sunday.

Smithfield Foods Inc. and Tyson Foods Inc. pork plants may resume shipments to Russia, after the government in Moscow ended bans on the processors, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said.

VILNIUS (Reuters) - Lithuania, marking 20 years since its declaration of independence from the Soviet Union on Thursday, remains wary of huge neighbour Russia and is looking forward to the "health insurance" of a new NATO Baltic defence plan, President Dalia Grybauskaite said.

RBC, 11.03.2010, Moscow 18:44:00. According to official spokesperson for the Russian Foreign Ministry Andrei Nesterenko's announcement at a press briefing today, Russian airlines have not received any official requests from Iranian authorities to leave the country within a specific timeframe.

RBC, 11.03.2010, Moscow 17:28:17. According to preliminary data, the federal budget deficit amounted to RUB 194.62bn (approx. USD 6.55bn) in January-February 2010, the Russian Finance Ministry announced today. In January alone, Russia's budget deficit stood at RUB 66.1bn (approx. USD 2.22bn).

RBC, 11.03.2010, Moscow 16:51:06. Russia's inflation stood at 0.2 percent between March 2 and 9, and at 2.7 percent for the year to date, the Russian Federal Statistics Service (Rosstat) announced today.

MOSCOW: A top Russian official said Thursday there should be no "crude expropriation" of a huge Siberian gas field owned by a unit of British energy giant BP amid a dispute over its license.

Outgoing Russia coach Guus Hiddink wants to end his contract with the Russian FA as soon as possible so he can consider an offer to coach Ivory Coast at this year's World Cup, his adviser said on Thursday.

KIEV | In a sign of cooling relations between Tehran and Moscow, Iranian Transportation Minister Hamid Behbahani has ordered all Russian commercial pilots working in the country to leave within 60 days. "Upon an order from the president, the Road and Transportation Ministry has set a two-month deadline, upon the expiry of which all Russian pilots will have to leave the country," Mr. Behbahani.

NIZHNEVARTOVSK, Russia, March 11 (Reuters) - Russia's top energy official said on Thursday that any decision to strip TNK-BP of its licence for the Kovykta gas field in Siberia should be "fair" and that costs should be compensated.

MOSCOW, March 11 (Reuters) - Russia's central bank on Thursday let the rouble scale fresh peaks against a euro-dollar basket by shifting its floating trading band by another 5 kopecks -- the 14th such move since mid-February, dealers said. In line with the previous moves, the central bank shifted the band to 34.30-37.30 roubles from 34.35-37.35 after $700 million of interventions, dealers said.

The US and Russia are currently negotiating a successor to the START nuclear disarmament treaty. But continued American plans for a missile shield in Europe have proven to be a major stumbling block. President Obama's vision of a nuclear-free world is in danger.

MOSCOW March 11 (Reuters) - The following are some of the leading stories in Russia's newspapers on XX. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.

Shares in Finnish electronics firm Elcoteq jump 14.2 percent after a report in Russian paper Kommersant says the firm is in talks with China's TPV Technology Ltd and Philips about making computer and television monitors in Russia.

The number of jobless in Russia has decreased for the first time since October 2009, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov said at the Cabinet's visiting session held in the administrative center of the Urals Federal District.

The fresh acquiring price of Russian aircraft carrier(AC) Admiral Gorshkov was approved at 2.35 billion U.S. dollars by the Indian government on Wednesday, said an official of the Indian Defense Ministry. The Cabinet Committee on Security approved the new deal a day ahead of Russian Premier Vladimir Putin's visit to India, the official said. India and Russia are expected to sign a new agreement.

Drug addiction, which has spread significantly across Russia over the past decade, poses a serious threat to the country's security.

MOSCOW, March 10 (Itar-Tass) -- Japan's major car maker Nissan will start producing the Murano sport utility vehicles (SUVs) at its Russia-located plant near St. Petersburg at the beginning of 2011, Managing Director of Nissan Manufacturing Rus Fujio Hosaka told a news conference on Wednesday.

The High Court in London has awarded damages to the Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky after ruling he had been unfairly accused of the murder of a former Russian spy.

Russia this week launched a cash-for-clunkers program as part of a commitment to revive the country's hard-hit auto industry, which could benefit Detroit automakers -- especially General Motors.