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KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development is promoting on-site power generation in Russia, developing plans to lend a major potassium salt producer US$75 million, which it would use to build its own power plant. Located in the city of Berezniki, the Perm Region, in the Urals, OAO Uralkaly would use the new generator to make “improvements in energy efficiency and environmental compliance.”…

BY MARK ROWE
THE RUSSIAN government has threatened barring Turkish construction companies from operating in Russia unless Ankara reverses its refusal to buy gas via Gazprom’s US$3 billion Blue Stream pipeline. Ankara cut imports of Russian gas through the pipeline in a payment dispute.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
BONDUELLE is combining Euro 15 million from the EBRD with its own money to build a Euro 41 million plant producing 60,000 tonnes of fresh packaged vegetables a year, in Krasnodar, southwest Russia.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ROYAL Dutch/Shell Group has said its US$1.16 billion joint venture with Sibir Energy to tap west Siberian oil fields was told by Russia to halt work because of alleged breaches of licence conditions and Russian objections to changes in the companies’ development plans.…

BY MARK ROWE
RUSSIA’S Natural Resources Ministry has ordered the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company, the world’s largest chewing gum producer, to stop work at its St. Petersburg factory for unspecified ecological violations. Ministry officials have not disclosed what regulations Wrigley has allegedly violated but the company vigorously denies any wrongdoing and is continuing to operate.…

BY MARK ROWE
THE LONG-RUNNING row between Russia and the United States has taken another twist with Moscow reducing the number of its approved American suppliers from 341 to 266. The Russian government cited concerns about health standards in the US poultry industry, the reason for an earlier blanket ban, which was lifted recently.…

Keith Nuthall
FRANCE is giving Euro 40 million to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) to help it fund Russia’s cleansing of the radioactive contamination in the Barents Sea caused by its aging decommissioned nuclear fleet. The money will be channelled through the nuclear-related budgets of the EBRD-managed Northern Dimension Environmental Partnership (NDEP) Support Fund, the principal financing arm of European Union policies aimed at cleaning up pollution in its neighbours to the north.…

Keith Nuthall
FRANCE is giving Euro 40 million to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) to help it fund Russia’s cleansing of the radioactive contamination in the Barents Sea caused by its aging decommissioned nuclear fleet. The money will be channelled through the nuclear-related budgets of the EBRD-managed Northern Dimension Environmental Partnership (NDEP) Support Fund, the principal financing arm of European Union policies aimed at cleaning up pollution in its neighbours to the north.…

BY MARK ROWE
THE GERMAN plastic container caps producer Loeffler Kunststoffwerk has announced plans to open a new plant in Russia to create greater capacity for its major clients n the region, which include Proctor & Gamble. Loeffler Kunststoffwerk, a unit of US Seaquist, will open the new plant in Vladimir, just outside Moscow, in the late autumn.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE NEED for greater openness in the management of scarce water resources in Europe, north Africa, the Middle East and central Asia is required, to better highlight the growing costs of ensuring reliable supplies and persuade the public that more investment is needed to guarantee them.…