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BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers have been asked by the European Commission to impose definitive anti-dumping duties of 23.6 per cent on imports from Russia of imports of silicon (with silicon content less than 99.99 per cent by weight).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and Japanese-owned Sumitec International are creating a US$45 million facility, providing lease financing for Russian companies expanding or modernising construction equipment. The scheme will focus on Siberia and other far-east regions of Russia, which – said the bank – “are currently under-serviced by the leasing industry.”…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE European Environment Agency reports that under current policies the EU’s greenhouse gas emissions in 2010 will be only 0.5 per cent below the 1990 target instead of the Kyoto target of 8 per cent. Sweden and the UK will do better than planned, but several will miss their targets by more than 20 per cent.…

BY MARK ROWE
RUSSIA’S Vision International People Group plans to build a US$100 million plant in the Moscow region next year, initially producing drinking water and a small range of soft drinks. It will later expand to produce juices and milk.…

BY MARK ROWE
THE LARGEST museum in the world and – arguably – the grandest of them all, the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg is returning to its roots. In the middle of a long and painstaking modernisation process, the Russian museum is striving, in addition to the urgent physical restoration required to bring the museum into the 21st century, to recapture the ambience of its Imperial origins, when its vast palaces were the residence of the Tsars.…

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
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 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
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.…