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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
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 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
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 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
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 KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has approved the extension of an existing steel market access deal with Russia, widening it to cover two boron-alloyed flat products. As a result, for 2003, EU import quotas of 20,000 tonnes are to be opened for alloyed quarto plates, rising to 20,500 tonnes next year, while quotas for 95,000 tonnes of alloyed cold rolled and coated sheets will be opened for 2003, rising to 97,375 next year.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations (UN) ‘fourth committee’ (on special political affairs) has started debating atomic radiation, based on a report on the subject by the UN scientific committee. It warns that ill health is still being created worldwide by environmental ionizing radiation, notably in the Ukraine, Russia and Belarus because of the Chernobyl disaster.…

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
THE EUROPEAN Union must not only build additional electricity interconnection capacity between its own Member States, but also with countries to the south in north Africa and to the east in eastern Europe, the latest EU heads of government meeting in Brussels has concluded.…