The capitalization of the Russian stock market, based on Russian Trading System trading, increases 3.06%, or by $28.903 billion from the previous session, to $972.199 billion on Thursday. The leaders in market value were Gazprom (RTS: GAZP), with $214.635 billion,

Among its participants are the delegation from Republic of Korea, including over 40 people, among them - the Councilor of the President of Republic of Korea, the Special Envoy in the sphere of safety Mun Chun IN, the General Secretary

The meeting of the vice-Governor of the Area with delegation of the Chinese company "PetroChina" and concern "Shell" was held.VLADIVOSTOK, May 31, vladivostoktimes.com The vice-Governor of Sakhalin Area Vladimir SHPAKOVSKIY held a meeting with representatives of the concern "Shell" and

Own means of the enterprises are not sufficient for development of capacity of the financing sources existing nowadays.KHABAROVSK, May 31, vladivostoktimes.com Development of heat-power engineering complex of the Far East needs investments. It was reported to journalists by the participants

Russia's federal budget surplus amounted to RUR1.994 trillion (approx. USD76.99bn), or 7.4 percent of GDP, in 2006, which is 0.1 percentage point lower than in 2005, the Russian Finance Ministry stated in its report prepared for today's government meeting. Budget