(1) Russian banks rushed to buy as many dollars as they could.

(2) Russian bank invested 20 million US dollars into kinematographing the movie 'Stalingrad'.

(3) The board of directors at General Motors made a surprise decision cancelling the planned sale of Opel , the carmaker's European arm, to Magna, a car-parts supplier, and Sberbank, a big Russian bank.

(4) On Saturday it was announced that a Canadian parts supplier and a Russian bank had finally reached an agreement to take control of GM's European assets, which include Opel and Vauxhall.

(5) 'Make no mistake, it's moving over to the real economy, ' said a senior official at a major Russian bank.

(6) Instead, the Russian government stepped in, making available a Russian bank to transfer the $25 million from a U.S. Federal Bank to North Korea.

(7) General Motors is selling its European operation to Magna, the Canadian car parts supplier, which is backed by the Russian bank Sparebank.