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2012.05.07 | ALL NEWS

NEWS OF WEEK

● Belarus’ internal debt up 2.2% in March to Br33.557 tln 

● Belarus’ foreign debt up 0.4% in March 2012 to $13.5 bn 

● Belarus posts republican budget surplus at 0.8% of GDP in January-March 2012 

● Belarus posts 1.4% inflation for April’s first 25 days 

● Belarus’ average wage up 6.6% on month in March 2012 to Br3,159,600 

● Belarus gets sovereign credit rating assigned by China’s Dagong 

METAL PRODUCTION

● Russia’s Mechel opens $500 million credit line with Gazprombank 

● Russia’s Metalloinvest IFRS net profit rises 19.4% in 2011 

● Russia’s Mechel swings to 85 mln rbl RAS net profit in Jan–Mar 

● Russia’s Severstal steel output rises 9% to 4 mln tns in Jan–Mar 

● Russia’s Metalloinvest key hldr has no plans to buy stk from VTB 

● Russia’s Metalloinvest iron ore output falls 0.3% in Jan–Mar 

● Russia’s MMK steel output rises 11% to 3.4 mln tns in Jan–Mar 

FOREST AND WOODWORKING

● Russia approves 2 greenhouse projects under Kyoto Protocol 

AGRICULTURE AND FOOD

● Russian watchdog sees 1st Egyptian potato batch delivered soon 

● Russian Union: Control over Norwegian fish imports inadequate 

● Russia’s Cherkizovo to suspend pork projects on WTO accession 

● Russia to allocate 2 bln rbl in subsidies to new farmers in ‘12 

● Russia’s Tula Region registers new outbreak of African swine fever 

● Russia’s agricultural production up 4% to 350 bln rbl in Q1 

● Russian Agriculture Ministry to reallocate budget, support regions in trouble 

● Agency: Russian fisheries’ catch falls 0.3% on year in Jan–Apr 

● Russia, Customs Union jointly ban import of livestock products 

● Russia’s Rusagro IFRS net profit down 53% to 2.42 bln rbl in 2011 

● Russia bans pig imports from Germany, Czech Rep from Friday 

● Russia’s AFK Sistema interested in buying stake in UGC 

● US Bunge to take part in auction for stake in Russia’s UGC 

● Nestle to launch 1.6 bln rbl production in Russia in Jun–Aug 

● Belarus’ dairy industry gets $124m credit support 

● Belarus’ govt stakes on Minsk Sparkling Wines Plant 

● Belarus’s food industries edge exports 25.3% in Q1 

● Belarus’ government seeking investor for Grodno Azot 

● Belarus’ government raises production quotas on brandy 11.4%, whiskey – 19.6% 

● Belarus raises minimum prices for vodka, alcohol 

● Belarus’ government caps bread, milk prices 

● Minsk Sparkling Wines Plant’s IPO to yield 9.4% interest in 2012 

● BPC raises price of potash fertilizer supplies to Brazil to $550 per tonne