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Sberbank has not raised its limits on the stock it owns but is getting more active in the market, deputy chief executive Bella Zlatkis said Wednesday.

The Moscow Arbitration Court called a break in hearings in a $22.5 billion lawsuit brought by the Federal Customs Service against the Bank of New York as wrangling continued over a document the bank's lawyers say was forged.

It stands like a victory for Moscow architectural preservationists who have witnessed the disappearance of so many historic buildings in recent years.

RosUkrEnergo, the murky gas-trading vehicle half-owned by Gazprom, will continue to handle sales from Russia to Ukraine until a replacement can be set up, company officials said Wednesday.

Authorities are coercing advertisers into giving billboard space to United Russia ahead of the March 2 presidential election, executives with two ad firms said.

A lawyer for jailed former Yukos executive Vasily Aleksanyan said Wednesday that his transfer to a civilian hospital failed to comply with the European Court of Human Rights' demands.

President Vladimir Putin on Thursday is to give his last annual Kremlin news conference before stepping down from office in May.

British banking giant Barclays, whose investment-banking arm left Russia in 1999 nursing $250 million in losses, could be poised to enter the country's fragmented market with the acquisition of small-size lender Expobank as it looks to tap the country's underdeveloped mortgage market.