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BY MARK ROWE
RUSSIA has tightened its meat import quotas for 2004 as part of a policy to cut food imports and encourage domestic livestock breeding. The Russian Meat Union said the approach had helped its poultry sector in 2003 and was being now being extended.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INSTITUTE for Energy, (part of the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre), has signed a deal with the EuropeAid Cooperation Office to help implement large scale on-site modernisation projects at Russian and Ukrainian nuclear power plants, that include making improvements to design safety.…

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
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 NETHERLANDS has secured the help of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) to reduce its greenhouse gas emission targets by investing in eastern European projects aimed at fighting global warming. The bank and the Dutch government are creating a carbon fund, which will draw on Euro 32 million of Netherlands’ funds.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers have been formally asked by the European Commission to sign the revised European Convention for the Protection of Animals during International Transport. This (non-EU) Council of Europe agreement includes detailed rules on the most widely traded livestock, with variations for different types of transport.…

BY MARK ROWE
POLYMETAL – Russia’s largest silver mining company – has started production at a new deposit in the country’s Far East. The Khakandzha mine and mill complex in the Khabarovsk region will produce 85 tons of silver and four tons of gold per year.…

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 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.…