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General Motors, which in the United States struggles with ballooning pension and benefits payments, among other things, has more basic troubles in Russia -- the company was without engines for 11 days this month. G.M. said Monday that it had settled a dispute with a Russian business partner over the price of engines and other parts and that production would resume Tuesday. General Motors, which in the United States struggles with ballooning pension and benefits payments, has more basic troubles in Russia. G.M. said that it had settled a dispute with a Russian business partner over the price of engines and other parts, and that production would resume Tuesday. Its board was taken over by government officials amid a general trend toward greater state control of the Russian economy. That enmeshed G.M. in the politics of the domestic auto industry, which a few years ago embraced foreign investment but has since taken on a nationalistic bent. That could make G.M.'s cooperation with Avtovaz, which builds S.U.V.'s, leading analysts to speculate that there were larger issues at stake in the dispute over engine prices. A spokeswoman for the G.M. joint venture also declined to comment, as did a spokesman for the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.