MOSCOW, Sept. 6 - The guided missile cruiser of project 1164 (formerly Ukraina) which remains at a shipyard in Mykolaiv, Ukraine, will be completed there before the end of the year and offered to Russia for 1 billion rubles, a representative of the Military-Industrial Commission with the Russian government told Interfax-AVN on Friday.

"We agreed that by the end of the year the Ukrainian cruiser will be completed in conjunction with the interests of our Navy. We offered 1 billion rubles for it. This is a very good price for an incomplete ship, and if we do modify it, then only to reduce it," he said.