By Amie Ferris-Rotman and Vladimir Soldatkin MOSCOW (Reuters UK) - The banned chief executive of BP's BP Russian oil venture TNK-BP has lodged an official complaint with Russian authorities over treatment of the firm in a letter, a copy of which was obtained by Reuters on...
By Tom Bergin LONDON (Reuters UK) - India's biggest oil producer, ONGC ONGC, said it had agreed a 1.4 billion pounds takeover of Russia-focused Imperial Energy IEC on Tuesday in a bid to secure supplies for India's booming economy. State-owned ONGC beat China's Sinopec to snatch...
Based on a 20-year rotation schedule for military ammunition in the former Soviet Bloc countries, we may be on the verge of seeing a new wave of inexpensive surplus ammunition arrive on our shores plus some new milsurp models to shoot it in. This time though it won't be the...
THOUGH the order "Lights, camera, action!" was given by Georgian president Mikhail Saakashvili, the wartime drama now unfolding in the Caucasus was devised, scripted, directed, and produced in Moscow by Vladimir Putin and his fellow siloviki (former-KGB kleptocrats). The Russians say their invasion was meant to protect the rights of...
THE headline in the Times a few weeks ago--SOLZHENITSYN, LITERARY GIANT WHO DEFIED SOVIETS, DIES AT 89--seemed to come out of nowhere. It was almost I say this blushingly as if he had already died. "Giant" is in his case precisely accurate, and yet ... wasn't the last time he...
Russia is glaring under the spotlight ofcurrent events and politics this summer, as Russia and Georgia playtug-of-war with the separatist province of South Ossetia. Each side isdownplaying their own involvement and pointing to the involvement of theother; each is claiming more unwarranted casualties at the hand of theother. In...
TOTTENHAM have told Dimitar Berbatov that he can only leave if they sign two strikers before the transfer deadline on Monday - Roman Pavlyuchenko and Andrei Arshavin. Spurs have revived their interest in Arshavin, who they now believe they can sign for less than 20m. With Pavlyuchenko...
UKRAINE'S Crimean peninsula, home to the Russian Black Sea Fleet, could be the next flashpoint in the new Cold War. And any violent disturbance in Crimea could provide the political seismic shock to split Ukraine itself along its existing fault lines of ethnicity, language and religion. The...
Delphi Corporation (PINKSHEETS: DPHIQ) has beenawarded new business from Dimitrovgrad Avtoagregat Plant DAAZ to supplyengine cooling radiator cores to the final assembly of radiator fan modulesfor the AVTOVAZ Lada Kalina. In January 2009, DAAZ will begin deliveringmodules to the AVTOVAZ plant in Togliatti, Russia. "This win underscores Delphi's continued growth...
A former bodyguard for the alleged kingpin of a massive $3 million immigration-fraud scheme pleaded guilty yesterday in federal district court. Ilya Zherelyev, 46, formerly of Northeast Philadelphia, has been in federal custody since April 2007, after he failed to show up in court on charges that he fraudulently tried...
SUMMER SALES Transfer news and managerial manoeuvres *TOTTENHAM Roman Pavlyuchenko, the Russia striker, last night claimed he was on his way to White Hart Lane after insisting that a verbal agreement had been reached between the north Londoners and his club, Spartak Moscow. ...
Nobody has the right to address parliament before talks are completed. MDC spokesman Nelson Chamisa on the embattled Zimbabwean president When John Kennedy thought of going to the moon, he didn't say it's too far to get there. Edward Kennedy endorses...
-- March 21: Russian parliament urges Kremlin to consider recognizing South Ossetia and Abkhazia as independent states because Georgia seeks NATO membership. -- April 16: Russia vows to build up peacekeeping forces in two regions, citing fears Georgia preparing attack. Georgia accuses Russia of trying to provoke...
Andrei Arshavin, the striker who helped Zenit St. Petersburg capture the UEFA Cup last season, probably will move to Tottenham before the transfer window closes at the end of the month, Zenit coach Dick Advocaat said. Zenit is in talks with the North London club about the...
WASHINGTON -- Three images from the Beijing Olympics linger in my mind: Becky Hammon, as American as they come, winning a bronze medal with the Russian women's basketball team; Liang Chow, the Chinese coach of the U.S. women's gymnastics team, embracing his pupil Shawn Johnson, who won a gold medal...
*TENNIS Michael Llodra once prepared for a match in Miami by sitting naked in Ivan Ljubicic's dressing-room locker. "I'm trying to get positive energy from you because you're winning a lot of matches this year," he told a bemused Ljubicic, who had returned from a shower...
Celebrate the heritage and history of theformer Soviet Union's republics during the "Russian Mosaic" Festival atPenn's Landing. For the fifth year, the Russian speaking community ofPhiladelphia will join together to rejoice in the rich traditions of theirculture. This FREE festival will take place at the Great Plaza at Penn'sLanding, on...
East-West relations hit new low as Medvedev backs breakaway states Russia's relations with the West have plunged to a new low after President Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree officially recognising two breakaway territories in Georgia as independent states. "We are not afraid of...
*TENNIS Michael Llodra once prepared for a match in Miami by sitting naked in Ivan Ljubicic's dressing-room locker. "I'm trying to get positive energy from you because you're winning a lot of matches this year," he told a bemused Ljubicic, who had returned from a shower...
NEW YORK AFP — World number two Jelena Jankovic struggled but held on to beat Sofia Arvidsson 6-3, 6-7 (5/7), 7-5 in the second round of the 20.6 million dollar US Open on Wednesday. The 23-year-old Serbian has reached two semi-finals in Grand Slams this year (French Open...
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