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The Russian-US trade in 2005 "has increased by 30 percent to reach about 20 billion dollars," spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry Mikhail Kamynin said on the eve of the first official visit to the United States of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. This figure made 14.8 billion dollars in 2004.
"The previous year became one of the most fruitful in economic relations. The definite positive result is the diversification of business exchanges and the inflow of US investments in the Russian economy," the diplomat emphasized.
"There are also real successes in the scientific and technical sphere. The agreement on scientific cooperation was extended for another decade," Kamynin pointed out. "The innovation council has been set up in June at the initiative of presidents Vladimir Putin and George Bush," the diplomat remarked. He called an important achievement "an agreement on the use of Russian spaceships to provide for the ISS operation."
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