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* Russian natural gas monopoly Gazprom signed a $13.1 billion deal, the country's largest to date, taking control over Sibneft oil major

* Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said Russia was ready to pay its entire $28 billion debt to the Paris Club of Creditor Nations early

* A Moscow court upheld creditors' claim against Yukos but lowered the amount by $6.72 million

* Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov praised tests of the new Bulava missile system, which the Armed Forces will get by the end of 2007

* The Central Bank of Russia said the 10% inflation rate target for 2005 could be hit

* Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said he saw no need to change oil taxation despite differences in the government

* The governing bureau of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs said it would recommend Alexander Shokhin as the union's new president

* The earnings of Svyazinvest, a big Russian telecommunications holding, in 2005 may increase 17% on last year to reach 7.6 billion rubles ($266.03 million)

* Russian energy giant Gazprom said it had decided to increase its 2005 investment program by 92.4 billion rubles ($3.23 billion), to 305 billion rubles ($10.68 billion)

* The Belarusian opposition said it would put forward a single candidate for the 2006 presidential elections on October 2

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