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RUSSIA

* Russia's Sberbank CEO reaffirmed on Saturday that the state bank's deal with Austrian-Canadian parts supplier Magna to buy a stake in Opel was about car technology exports to Russia

* The Defense Ministry confirmed on Saturday that Russia is set to scrap plans to deploy missiles near Poland after the U.S. shelved its nuclear missile shield plans for Europe

* Russia could delay a 80% increase in timber export duties until 2011 or even reduce the tariffs, the economics minister, Elvira Nabiullina, said

* Investigators have not found any 'compromising' cargo on board the Arctic Sea vessel, a spokesman for the Investigative Committee of the Russian Prosecutor General's Office said

* Tehran's attempts to deny the Holocaust are inadmissible and do not contribute to the establishment of an effective international dialogue on Iran, a Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman said

* A senior Russian military official confirmed on Saturday that the country's Defense Ministry was currently in talks with France to buy a Mistral class amphibious assault ship

* Russia has withdrawn its candidate for a new director general of UNESCO, the chairman of the UN organization's Executive Board said

* Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin symbolically released two rare leopards from cages to outdoor enclosures in the country's North Caucasus on Saturday to inaugurate a wildlife rehabilitation center

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* The U.S. president said on Saturday G20 countries have made "real progress" toward "breaking the back of the global economic crisis" since their last summit in April

* UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has condemned Friday's suicide car bombing in Pakistan that killed over 30 people

* Georgian authorities dropped criminal charges on Saturday against RIA Novosti's Tbilisi bureau chief Besik Pipia, the journalist himself and his lawyer Levan Buadze announced

* The U.S. Navy coastguard cutter Sycamore completed its three-day visit to Russia's Far Eastern port of Vladivostok and headed home Saturday, Russian border guards said

* Spain has again refused to accept the Arctic Sea vessel in the port of Las Palmas, a port administration official said

* Two earthquakes, each measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale, stroke off Bali and North Maluku on Saturday, injuring at least seven people and sending many others fleeing their homes in panic, the Jakarta Post said