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MOSCOW - No. 1 oil major LUKoil's dreams of being the lead operator of a vast Iraqi oil field have been slapped back because Baghdad is fuming over Russia's support for the United Nations campaign to disarm Saddam Hussein's regime, a top LUKoil executive said Sunday. Moscow turned up the heat on Baghdad on Monday, with Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov demanding that Iraq open talks to resolve a roiling dispute over a cancelled contract with Russia's largest oil company. During a visit to Manila, Ivanov said he had sent a message requesting that the Iraqi leadership reconsider its decision to break the 1997 contract with LUKoil and open negotiations, Interfax reported. |
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 MOSCOW - Psychiatrists from Moscow's Serbsky Institute on Monday made it easier for the court in Rostov-na-Donu to spare Colonel Yury Budanov a prison sentence by declaring that he was temporarily insane when he killed a young Chechen woman. |
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The City Electoral Commission (CEC) released the official results of the Dec. 8 vote to fill the 50 seats of the city's Legislative Assembly last week, but comments from politicians and analysts - as well as a couple of statements by the CEC itself - show that there are questions yet to be answered. Yelena Rakhova, the head of the CEC's Control and Inspection service, said on Monday that a possible voting irregularity in one polling station could lead to further examination of the results there. "At polling station number 138 in the second electoral district, the total number of ballots in the box was 20 higher than had been registered," Rakhova said. |
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 MOSCOW - Inspired by a government order that regions should have their own flags, Penza has designed a gold and green banner with an image of Jesus in the center. |
 MOSCOW - Every Sunday, at the Lowell House dormitory on Harvard University's Cambridge, Massachusetts campus, a klappermeister climbs to the top of a red brick tower and creates a sound that has become almost as central to dorm life there as all-night study sessions or fast food. |
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Not Just Random ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) - Vera Fokina, the 77-year-old mother of State Duma speaker Gennady Seleznyov, was attacked in the entranceway of her apartment building in St. |
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 MOSCOW - A ban on single-hulled tankers carrying fuel oil through European waters could lead to gridlock at Russian ports and push shipping fees up by as much as 40 percent, costing exporters hundreds of millions of dollars, oil traders say. "The new rules will block both loading and unloading. |
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Delta Telecom has launched its new Sky Link mobile-telephone network, which employs the CDMA2000 1X standard, Viktor Ustyuzhanin, the company's general director, announced at a press conference on Monday. |
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MOSCOW - State Duma deputies on Sunday voted overwhelmingly for a declaration urging the cabinet to act to stop a foreign company from winning Wednesday's open auction for 74.95 percent of Slavneft, which is expected to be the country's biggest privatization tender ever. |
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MOSCOW - The government introduced a new system of drug certification Sunday that opponents say could encourage corruption and counterfeiting while raising new administrative barriers. |
 MOSCOW - Huge black billboards with slogans saying "Bring Your Money Back to Russia!" and "No More Offshore!" have recently appeared on major roads in Moscow. While some of the ads refer to www.offshoram.net, there is nothing at that address to indicate to whom it belongs. |
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MOSCOW - More than a year after quietly buying up a blocking stake in Aeroflot, Chukotka Governor Roman Abramovich's holding company Millhouse Capital is looking to jettison it, sources close to the deal said Monday. |
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MOSCOW - After three years of litigation, Alfa Bank announced on Sunday that it has won a $10-million case against controversial Czech multimillionaire Viktor Kozeny. The Dec. 11 ruling in London by the Privy Council overturned a January 2001 decision by the Bahamian Court of Appeal, Alfa Bank said in a statement. The Privy Council considers appeals from former colonies, including the Bahamas. Under the final ruling, Kozeny, dubbed the "Prague Pirate" for cashing in on the first wave of Czech privatization, must repay Alfa Bank more than $6 million plus interest and costs under the terms of a 1999 credit agreement, the statement said. |
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 SYKTYVKAR, Komi Republic - If Dmitry Mendeleev had sought a region of Russia to be his workshop, he would have had to look no further than the northern Komi Republic. |
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IF oil is the question, Iraq is not the answer. Some people say that the Iraq crisis has been manufactured to cloak an "oil grab" by the United States and the American oil industry. Others believe that a liberated Iraq will flood the world market with cheap oil and provide a quick fix for concerns about our energy security. |
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WASHINGTON - Good news for the world economy! Yes, more Ford-Nixon retreads-turned-overpaid-mediocre-corporate executives have been recruited to oversee American economic policy. |
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THE government's 75-percent stake in the Slavneft oil company is set to go on the auction block Dec. 18. If the auction takes place as planned, the government will rake in at least $1.7 billion, and Slavneft will finally shed its humiliating reputation as a big state-controlled barn whose door is always open to looters. |
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In response to "Russia and Europe: The Limits of Integration," a comment by Rene Nyberg on Dec. 6. Editor, While I don't wish to take issue with any aspect of Finnish Ambassador Nyberg's excellent tour d'horizon of the current dynamic between Russia and Europe, I can't agree with his paraphrase of Alexei Malashenko and Dmitry Trenin's assertion that "Eurasia as a concept no longer exists" (quoting Ambassador Nyberg). |
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WHEN Russians went to the polls nine years ago to vote on a new constitution, they understood very well why they had been called upon to cast their ballots. But they had only a vague idea just for what they were actually voting. They were driven by hope and fear, as people usually are in such situations. |
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"WHEN I first spoke to a meeting organized by the American Chamber of Commerce in Russia in 1994, only a dozen staunch investors were present, and none of us could have imagined that we would be here today discussing foreign investment in the Russian mass media. |
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Fade to White Governing a country is largely a mundane affair: a daily grind of budgets, legislation, policy-making, appointments and so on. But underlying every government is something deeper, nobler - a greater vision of the ideal society, the best way to order the world. It's a cherished dream, a touchstone, that guides and inspires the wielders of power as they carry out their prosaic duties of public service. |
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