Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi has arrived in Russia for three days of talks expected to concentrate on boosting energy ties and arms trade.
It is Col Gaddafi’s first visit since Soviet times, and follows Vladimir Putin’s trip to Libya in April.
The two countries signed several big contracts at the time.

A career soldier has been appointed to run Russia’s unstable southern republic of Ingushetia, where attacks on security forces have escalated.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev named Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, a paratrooper, as acting president, to replace Murat Zyazikov, a former KGB officer.