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.

Colonel Gaddafi has been the de facto leader of Libya since a 1969 coup.

Libya has paid $1.5bn into a US compensation fund for relatives of victims of terror attacks blamed on Tripoli, the US state department says.
The fund was agreed in August to settle remaining lawsuits in the US.
The attacks include the 1988 Lockerbie bombing that killed 270 people and the 1986 bombing of a Berlin disco which killed three and wounded more than 200