Search Results for: Russian
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EBRD GRAIN
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development is lending US$15 million to the Russian and Ukrainian subsidiaries of Dutch grain and oilseed trader Nidera Handelscompagnie, to boost primary production in the ex-USSR.…
RUSSIAN FEES
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.…
NUCLEAR SECURITY
BY MARK ROWE and ALAN OSBORN, in London, PHILIP FINE and MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal, and RICHARD HURST, in Johannesburg
RATCHETING up security has been a prime concern of the nuclear industry since the September 11 attacks, with all countries possessing commercial reactors addressing the issue to some extent.…
RUSSIA PORT SAFETY
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development is lending US$5.4 million to the Maritime Port Authority of St Petersburg to fund the construction of a maritime navigation safety system in the main Russian sector of the Baltic Sea, where a future surge in tanker traffic is anticipated.…
EU ROUND UP
KEITH NUTHALL
THE MOST important driver of reform in the institutions of the European Union today is the impending enlargement of the EU eastwards, to take in (Greek) Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia.…
VODKA WINDSCREEN CLEANER
BY MARK ROWE AND KEITH NUTHALL
A RUSSIAN entrepreneur, Oleg Udolin, is making a tidy living out of making windscreen-cleaning fluid out from confiscated contraband vodka. In a neat reversal of the traditional Russian penchant for drinking anti-freeze, the Moscow region man’s company Spiritprompererabotka has been extracting ethyl alcohol under licence from bottles of vodka confiscated by Russia’s police and customs forces.…
LUKOIL - KAZAKHSTAN
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Financial Corporation has persuaded a band of top commercial banks to join it in investing in Russian oil giant Lukoil, so it can exploit the Karachaganak oil, gas, and condensate field. The banks involved are ABN-AMRO Bank, Bayerische Hypo- und Vereinsbank Aktiengesellschaft, Crédit Lyonnais, ING Bank, Natexis Banques Populaires, RZB-Austria, SG Investment Banking, and WestLB.…
FINLAND DISEASE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FISH Diseases Commission of the Office International des Epizooties has confirmed an outbreak of Epizootic Haematopoietic Necrosis on a Finland fish farm. The international organisation has warned of 2,600 possible cases of European Sheatfish Virus on the farm, in south-eastern Finland, near the Russian border, on the River Vuoksi.…
RUSSIA PORT SAFETY
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development is lending US$5.4 million to the Maritime Port Authority of St Petersburg to fund the construction of a maritime navigation safety system in the main Russian sector of the Baltic Sea, where a future surge in tanker traffic is anticipated.…
RUSSIA SHEET STEEL DUTY
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed the reimposition of definitive anti-dumping duties on imports into the European Union (EU) of grain oriented cold-rolled sheets (GOES) and strips of silicon-electrical steel with a width or more than 500 mm from Russia.…