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* President Vladimir Putin said Russia had increased its military hardware exports to more than $6 billion in 2005, supplying 61 countries

* Commander of Land Forces Alexei Maslov said Russia's military base near the southern Georgian city of Akhalkalaki would be withdrawn by October 1, 2007

* Russian Industry and Energy Minister Viktor Khristenko said the country's oil-refining sector could soon face a crisis

* Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller said oil company Sibneft would change its name to Gazpromneft on May 13 and would move to St. Petersburg in late 2006-early 2007

* Energy giant Gazprom said it would maintain current prices for natural gas supplies to Moldova through the second quarter of 2006

* Gazpromexport, the export arm of Russian natural gas giant Gazprom, said it had exported 38.69 billion cubic meters of natural gas in the first two months of 2006, up 27.5% year-on-year

* The Russian Foreign Ministry said Moscow was not against the establishment of an international tribunal on the case of Lebanon's former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri's assassination last year

* Russia's Emergency Situations Ministry said one of its planes bound for earthquake-hit Iran would take off Saturday morning

* Protestors in Kyrgyzstan's capital Bishkek demanding the resignation of the prime minister and to support the opposition candidate decided to suspend their rally after President Kurmanbek Bakiyev urged them to wait for a court to ruling

* Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said Tehran had not given up considering Russia's uranium enrichment proposal

* Ukraine's national oil and gas company Naftogaz said it had ironed out all its problems concerning payment owed to its main natural gas supplier, the former Soviet republic of Turkmenistan

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