Russia's stock market opens with share decline

MOSCOW, March 16 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's two main stock exchanges, MICEX and the RTS, opened on Monday with their key indexes going down.

As of 10:34 a.m. Moscow time (07:34 GMT), the index of the ruble-denominated MICEX decreased 0.62% from Friday's close to 744.68 points while the index of the dollar-denominated RTS was down 0.48% to 649.40 points.