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Bank of Russia starts buying gold directly from mines
Submitted by cpowell on Sat, 2008-04-19 00:10
Section: Daily Dispatches
From Interfax News Service
Friday, April 18, 2008
http://www.interfax.com/3/386119/news.aspx
MOSCOW -- For the first time, the Bank of Russia purchased gold for its international reserves from gold producers, a source in banking circles told Interfax.
Previously the central bank had always purchased gold on the interbank market.
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