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MOSCOW, October 18 (RIA Novosti) - Russia"s United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) said on Thursday it intended to hold an initial public offering on Russian bourses in late 2009 and early 2010 to the sum of $1-1.5 billion. The UAC was established earlier this year to help overcome the crisis in Russia"s aircraft industry, and incorporates many of the country"s best-known aircraft builders, including Mikoyan, Ilyushin, Irkut, Sukhoi, Tupolev, Yakovlev and other enterprises in the industry. A UAC official also said the corporation would float newly issued shares representing 10-15% of its charter capital by closed subscription in 2008, adding that Russia"s government-controlled foreign economic bank Vnesheconombank could participate in the offer. The UAC, which is 90% state owned, incorporates aircraft building companies and state assets engaged in the manufacture, design and sale of military, non-military, transport and unmanned aircraft in a bid to streamline the Russian aviation industry. The UAC official also said the company would borrow about 120 billion rubles (about $4.8 billion) by 2012.

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Moscow mayor Yury Luzhkov has thanked the...

Two deadly suicide bombings hit the Moscow metro on Monday, killing at least 39 people and injuring more than 80. The blasts ripped through the rush-hour Lubyanka and Park Kultury stations with an interval of about 40 minutes.

"I want to not only apologize but also thank Muscovites for holding back their panic. It was hard and dangerous [in the subway]... [but] most people displayed restraint and understanding, and did not panic," Luzhkov said live on the TVC channel on Tuesday.

Moscow observed a day of mourning on Tuesday as Prime Minister Vladimir Putin vowed those behind the attack would be dragged "out of the sewers into the light of God."

The Federal Security Service (FSB) has said female suicide bombers were responsible for both blasts.

The explosions came four months after a terrorist bomb derailed a Moscow-St. Petersburg train, killing 27.

Russia has been fighting militants in the North Caucasus for almost two decades, including two brutal

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