Oct. 31 (Bloomberg) -- Russia is prepared to help Europe cope with its debt crisis by making a “few billion dollars” available via the International Monetary Fund, said Arkady Dvorkovich, the Kremlin’s top economic adviser.

“It is important to us for Europe to remain stable” because otherwise “Russia will enter a period of instability,” Dvorkovich told reporters in Moscow today.

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