Zee Beam News

09.02.2005 17:09 MSK MosNews - The state-owned enterprise Rosoboronexport is looking at accepting hydrocarbons as payment for defense export, its general director, Sergei Chemezov, told the RBC news agency.Chemezov is currently engaged in talks with Russian oil companies about the possibility of foreign energy companies handing over oil wells to Russian companies in exchange for weapons to that country. Thailand - where officials are in talks over supplying the country with aviation technology - is paying for Russian defense equipment with poultry and other products, for example.