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15:21 GMT 25.10.2008

RUSSIA

* Ordinary Russians will be not be greatly affected by the current global financial crisis, Russia's Deputy Finance Minister said

* Young Russians are less concerned than their counterparts in other countries about climate change, according to a new United Nations survey.

* Capital inflow to Russia for the first nine months of 2008 was around $800 million, a top Central Bank official said

* The Russian Central Bank has no plans to widen the ruble's trading corridor against the dollar/euro basket, a top Central Bank official said

* The Russian Central Bank will not allow sharp fluctuations in the ruble exchange rate, First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov said

* Four people were killed and five injured on Saturday when an explosion partially destroyed a gunpowder factory in Kazan, in Russia's Volga area republic of Tatarstan, a regional emergencies spokesman said

* Five people were detained for throwing smoke bombs on Saturday during a "Day of the People's Fury" opposition rally in Moscow on Saturday, a police representative said

* Clocks across Russia will be set back an hour at 3:00 a.m. local time on Sunday morning, but there will be no change for astronauts on the ISS, Russian Mission Control said

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* Talks between the EU and Russia on a new cooperation agreement can only be revived once Moscow fulfills its obligations in the Caucasus, the head of a European Parliament delegation said in Moscow

* Russian President Dmitry Medvedev opened talks with his Belarus counterpart, Alexander Lukashenko, by saying that the two leaders would discuss a joint position to the global financial crisis

* Aid pledged to Georgia at a recent international donors meeting should go to all of the country, including South Ossetia and Abkhazia, the leader of a European Parliament delegation said in Moscow

* Russian President Dmitry Medvedev discussed bilateral ties, energy issues and the financial crisis with his visiting Belarusian counterpart, Alexander Lukashenko

* Ukraine's energy regulator announced on Saturday that gas prices for domestic consumers would go up by 35% from December 1