TNK-BP will increase crude output to 72 million metric tons (529 mln bbl) in 2010 from this year"s 70 million tons (514 mln bbl), a senior official at the Russian-British joint oil venture said on Thursday.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov expressed the hope on Tuesday that Ukraine"s next president will not play politics with relations between Kiev and Moscow.
Russia is preparing to send two planes carrying doctors, supplies and equipment, including a mobile air hospital, to earthquake-stricken Chile, a Russian emergencies official said on Friday.