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BY KEITH NUTHALL
BINDING energy conservation targets have been proposed for European Union (EU) Member States by the European Commission, a move that could further tighten fuel economy rules for Europe’s transport sector. Brussels has proposed a general energy saving target of one per cent a year from 2006-12, measured against average energy distribution from the previous five years.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
BINDING energy conservation targets have been proposed for European Union (EU) Member States by the European Commission, a move that could further tighten fuel economy rules for Europe’s transport sector. Brussels has proposed a general energy saving target of one per cent a year from 2006-12, measured against average energy distribution from the previous five years.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE RUSSIAN and Ukraine government are staging regular talks to solve a territorial dispute over the Kerch Strait, linking the Black and Azov seas, providing access to the key Russian city of Rostov. The two governments are also disputing their rights to the strait’s Tuzla island, currently being eroded rapidly because of a Russian dike.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE RUSSIAN and Ukraine government are staging regular talks to solve a territorial dispute over the Kerch Strait, linking the Black and Azov seas, providing access to the key Russian city of Rostov. The two governments are also disputing their rights to the strait’s Tuzla island, currently being eroded rapidly because of a Russian dike.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
RUSSIAN iron pellet maker Karelsky Okatysh is likely to receive a US$60 million loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) to refinance short-term indebtedness and improve the standard of its machinery.

The money would pay for the “maintenance, modernisation and upgrade (increased efficiency)” of existing plant, said an EBRD note, which added that the debt relief would help the restructuring of Karelsky.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
RUSSIAN iron pellet producer Karelsky Okatysh is likely to receive a US$60 million loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) to refinance short-term indebtedness and improve the standard of its machinery. The money would pay for the “maintenance, modernisation and upgrade (increased efficiency)” of existing plant, said the EBRD, and help restructure Karelsky.…

BY MARK ROWE
THE 19th century saw imperial rivalry create the “Great Game”, when Russia and the British Empire tweaked one another’s tails in the region that following Russia’s Bolshevik revolution became known as Soviet Central Asia. The old Great Game was tied to control of India, and to gems and gold.…

BY MARK ROWE
UZBEKISTAN has been at the forefront of international AML efforts in the central Asia region, a spokesman for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) told the Money Laundering Bulletin. Uzbekistan has the most advanced AML legislation and apparatus of all the former Soviet Central Asia and has signed more than 20 bilateral and multilateral agreements on cooperation in fighting illicit drug trafficking with its Central Asian neighbours, as well as with Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Pakistan, Russia and Turkey, according to the International Money Laundering Information Network (IMOLIN), (whose contributing members include the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the Asia Pacific Group on Money Laundering, the United Nations and the World Customs Organisation).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A HIGH level meeting involving the European Union’s (EU) most senior energy official and Russia’s vice-prime minister has kick-started moves to interconnect the EU and Russian power grids, leading to a final decision on the technical means by 2007.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union competition Commissioner Mario Monti has called for close cooperation between international business regulators such as the European Commission and their opposite numbers in national governments and in north America. Speaking to the World Forum on Energy Regulation, in Rome, Monti said that by combining their efforts, competition authorities would “achieve more than each would be able to achieve on its own.”…