SMOOTH SAILING SEEN FOR IMF LOAN.

No problem is foreseen over the payment of this month’s tranche of the IMF’s extended Fund facility to Russia, economists say. IMF officials claim Russia is broadly fulfilling the terms of its $10.1 billion loan agreement and the Fund’s board of directors is expected to pay the August tranche in the first half of September. (Reuters, August 27)

Korzhakov’s Replacement Named.