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The International Energy Agency has accepted lead responsibility for preparing input for the regulatory review on Russian electricity sector reform, and as part of this process has prepared this discussion paper for forthcoming meetings with Russian officials and experts scheduled for late November 2003. The Russian Government has embarked on...
The Russian government has now identified the 19 U.S. poultry plants from which it will not accept exports. As I wrote Thursday, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin says the ban is based on "health and safety" grounds, but it's quite clearly payback for the federal government's excoriation of Russia's recent actions...
Bolivia: Ties with Russia? LA PAZ -- Bolivia's plan to purchase five Russian civil defense helicopters is a "first step" in deepening ties between the two countries as Russia looks to expand its role across Latin America, Russia's top diplomat in Bolivia said Tuesday. ...
Magomed Yevloyev The journalist, businessman and lawyer Magomed Yevloyev, who died in police custody on 31 August, was a thorn in the side of the regime in Ingushetia, a republic under Russian control bordering Chechnya. His website ingushetiya.ru had been critical of the president, Murat Zyazikov, and...
MOGADISHU, Somalia -- As a heavily armed U.S. destroyer patrolled nearby and planes flew overhead Sunday, a Somali pirate spokesman told The Associated Press his group was demanding a $20 million ransom to release a cargo ship loaded with Russian tanks. The spokesman also warned that the...
World in brief MOGADISHU A US Navy destroyer was stationed off Somalia yesterday to ensure that Somali pirates did not remove tanks, ammunition and other heavy weapons from a hijacked Ukrainian cargo ship. The pirates have demanded $35m (19m) to release the cargo ship Faina and...
SOMALI pirates who seized a Ukrainian ship carrying 33 T-72 battle tanks - apparently bound for the autonomous government of South Sudan - yesterday warned against any attempt by Western navies to rescue the vessel's weapons cargo or its crew. Januna Ali Jama, a spokesman for the...
The US Secretaries of State and Defence have doctorates in Russian studies. A fat lot of good that's done us. Robert Gates, US Defence Secretary, on worsening relations between Russia and the United States Miliband bid for the leadership and there was a silent...
MOSCOW AFP — Pornographic, extremist and immoral -- that's how Russian prosecutors are describing popular US cartoons like The Simpsons, Family Guy and South Park. The channel that carries them has been forced to suspend broadcasts of the offending programmes pending legal action and throngs of teenagers have...
Nobody wants to have radioactive materials stored in their own backyard. But is shipping the waste from nuclear power plants all the way to Siberia a viable or even ethical solution? Some 65 miles downstream from Lake Baikal, the city of Angarsk, Russia is shaping up to become...
See Government Grow: Education Politics from Johnson to Reagan By Gareth Davies University Press of Kansas, 2007, $39.95; 387 pages. Gareth Davies, a historian at Oxford University, brings care and precision to his study of the process that produced federal education legislation and regulation...
MOSCOW AFP — Trading was suspended Friday on Russian stock markets when share prices soared minutes after the exchanges opened following a massive Russian government rescue plan, market officials said. "We've suspended trading from 11:05 am (0705 GMT). It was because of the sharp rise" in...
MOSCOW AFP — Russian shares soared Friday, regaining much of the value they lost earlier this week, after the government injected tens of billions of dollars into the markets to stave off a financial massive crisis. The main RTS index had gained 22.39 percent by the end of...
Secession is a worrisome precedent in international politics. In Kashmir, it would worsen the violence. The trigger seemed benign enough. In July, the state government in Jammu and Kashmir tried to transfer land that it owned to the Shri Amarnath Shrine Board, which was seeking to create shelters...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] TBILISI, Georgia -- While the world's attention was focused on China and the athletic "wars" at the Olympic Games this summer, soldiers on the other side of the continent were fighting a real war. President Mikheil Saakashvili of the country of Georgia ordered his troops to...
Aug 31, 2008 A source within Russian Technologies said on Monday the group planned to acquire these stakes, but was counting on financial assistance from the government. KrasAir, the largest airline in the AiRUnion group, bought Hungarian airline Malev last year. The alliance also includes Domodedovo Airlines and...
Russia's Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko and LUKoil on Aug. 29 denied they were preparing to cut energy flows to Europe in response to threatened EU sanctions, a step Moscow never took even at the height of the Cold War. As Europe prepared its response to Russia's invasion of neighbouring Georgia,...
"It's absolutely insane. You'll realise it in four years time when you guys are there - it's absolutely crazy." - Double swimming gold medallist Rebecca Adlington on the Olympic Games. "The danger of being in fashion is that one day you'll be out of fashion" -...
GEORGE Bush has committed a grave error of judgement by agreeing a missile defence deal in Poland. This has greatly angered the Russian government who see it as a threat to their security. He has also encouraged Nato to expand its borders well into Eastern Europe and this...
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