Russian oil exchange to launch in late 2006 - minister 11:29 | 15/ 03/ 2006
MOSCOW, March 15 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's economic development and trade minister said Wednesday that an oil futures exchange would be opened in Russia in the second half of 2006. German Gref told a government session that the Economic Development and Trade Ministry and the country's antimonopoly bodies were to complete work on necessary documentation in the first half of 2006.