Russian foreign minister to visit China
Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov will pay an official visit to China on February 26-28 per an invitation from Chinese counterpart Tang Jiaxuan.

Russia's trade with non-CIS countries expands by 8.5% in 2002
Russia's volume of trade with countries outside the CIS increased in 2002 by 8.5% to $126 billion

Russia, Germany post 24.7 billion euros in trade turnover in 2002
Trade turnover between Russia and Germany has dropped by 0.4% to 24.7 billion euros from 2001 to 2002.

Russian-French trade reaches $3.2 bln in first 9 months of 2002
Trade between Russia and France in the first nine months of 2002 amounted to $3.167 billion, the press service at the Russian Economic Development and Trade Ministry said Friday in connection with a visit to France by Russian President Vladimir Putin, planned for February 10.

Russia's foreign trade turnover up by 25.2% in January
Russia's foreign trade turnover in January 2003 grew by 25.2% to $12.9 billion against January 2002. This information is contained in a review of Russia's socioeconomic development in January, which has been drawn up by the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade.