RUSSIA
WORLD
* Malaysian transportation holding company CRECOM Burj Resources is to buy 50 MS-21 passenger airliners from Russian aircraft producer Irkut in the largest post-Soviet sale of Russia-made new generation planes abroad
EX-SOVIET STATES
BUSINESS
* Russia may increase taxes on natural gas and oil extraction, a Finance Ministry official has said
* Russia may introduce a new scale of nickel export duties in 2011 or earlier, the head of tax and customs at the Russian Finance Ministry has said