Russia's stock market extends losses in early trading

MOSCOW, February 17 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's two main stock exchanges, MICEX and the RTS, opened trading on Tuesday with their key indexes going down.

As of 10:35 a.m. Moscow time (07:35 GMT), the ruble-denominated RTS saw its index slip 1.56% to 700.91 points while the dollar-denominated RTS was down 2.02% to 597.02 points.