(Xinhua) -- Funds of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) defrozen from a Macao-based bank have been transferred into a Russian bank where it has accounts, Russian news agencies reported on Saturday. "The transfer of DPRK's money from Macao to a Russian commercial bank has been completed. We expect that the participants in the six-party talks can address practical steps aimed at the implementation of the Beijing agreements of Feb. 13 "Mikhail Kamynin, a Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman, was quoted as saying by the Interfax news agency. The expected 25 million U.S. dollars have been put into DPRK accounts at the Dalcombank based in Russia's Far Eastern city of Khabarovsk, Itar-Tass and Interfax cited sources from the Russian Finance Ministry. "The money was transferred to Russia not directly but by way ofthe Federal Reserve Bank of New York," the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.