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BY MARK ROWE
THE RUSSIAN agriculture minister Alexei Gordeyev is flying to the United States later this month (May) to secure a formal end the poultry dispute between the two countries. Russia banned US chicken imports last year over health concerns.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
RUSSIA has unambiguously staked its claim to territorial rights to wide swathes of the Arctic Ocean between its northern coast and the North Pole, waters that are currently frozen for most of the year, but which may become more navigable thanks to global warming.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union is granting 512 meat processing establishments in six eastern European countries additional time to bring their health standards in line with European Union law once their home states join the EU next May.

A memorandum released by the European Commission’s enlargement directorate general, says that 332 of these operations are in Poland, where the deadline for compliance has been extended to December 2007; 14 establishments in Lithuania have until January 2007.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WITH the European Union’s eastern border set to move a few 100 miles eastwards on May 1 next year, preparations are under way to set up tough frontier controls against the food hygiene badlands of Russia, the Ukraine and Belarus.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNATIONAL financing consortium is to fund a previously abandoned Euro 166 million project to build a waste water treatment plant in St Petersburg, Russia. Its aim is to prevent pollution in the Gulf of Finland, which causes environmental health problems in neighbouring Finland and Estonia.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROGAS and the European Commission have welcomed a deal between two of Europe’s historic enemies – Greece and Turkey – to bury the hatchet and build a Euro 250 million, 285 kilometre, gas pipeline between Komotini in Greek Thrace, with Karacabey, in Turkey, near Istanbul.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union gas federation Eurogas is hopeful that the proposed EU directive on securing Europe’s gas supplies will be substantially recast, after opposition from the industry to proposals allowing the European Commission to intervene in the market to depress high prices.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON, ALAN OSBORN, PHILIP FINE and KEITH NUTHALL

IF there had been feelings bubbling under the surface of the British civil nuclear industry that the regulations governing its security were due for an overhaul, the events of September 11, 2001 – becoming universally known by its American shorthand 9/11 – certainly brought everybody to the table.…

BY MARK ROWE
RUSSIA’S nuclear security is compromised by “serious flaws”, according to a report by the country’s federal nuclear and radiation supervisory board. The memorandum concluded that “the unauthorised use of radioactive materials and their theft cannot be ruled out”, adding that “the system of accounting, control, storage and transportation contains serious flaws in the physical protection of risky nuclear facilities”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament’s transport committee has recommended that a financial carrot is dangled before the Russian government to try and end the practice of paying its national carrier Aeroflot for over-flying rights on trans-Siberian, trans-polar and trans-Asian routes.…