Croatian President Stjepan Mesic said on...

Croatian President Stjepan Mesic said on Monday that road construction, ship-building and engineering were priority areas for cooperation between Croatia and Russia.

MINSK, October 2 (RIA Novosti) - Belarus...

MINSK, October 2 (RIA Novosti) - Belarus has completed the procedures necessary to sign documents on joining a post-Soviet regional security bloc"s rapid reaction force, President Alexander Lukashenko said on Friday.

MOSCOW, May 12 (RIA Novosti) - The Russian...

MOSCOW, May 12 (RIA Novosti) - The Russian government"s foreign debt, including liabilities of the former Soviet Union, declined 2.7% in January-March 2009 to $39.5 billion, the Finance Ministry reported on Tuesday. However, exchange rate differences mean that when calculated in euros, the government"s foreign debt increased 3.8% to 29.9 billion euros, the ministry said. Non-restructured debts to official creditors that are parties to the Paris Club of creditor nations declined $100 million to $1.3 billion in the reporting period, the ministry said. Debts to official creditors outside the Paris Club ($1.9 billion), former Communist bloc countries ($1.4 billion) and also former Soviet debts to foreign commercial creditors ($1.2 billion) were unchanged in January-March 2009, the ministry said. Also unchanged in the reporting period were outstanding government domestic foreign currency-denominated bonds (OVGVZ) at $1.8 billion and Russia"s foreign currency denominated government guarantees at $0.6 billion. The Russian government"s liabilities to international financial institutions shrank by $300 million to $4.3 billion, and the amount of Russia"s outstanding Eurobonds declined from $27.7 billion as of January 1 to $27 billion as of April 1, the ministry said.