 "If Gazprom has a" northern "and" South "flows and control of Ukraine's GTS, it will be ideal for manipulating the system. If the" Nabucco "will be uncontrolled Gazprom gas, Europe is not play by the rules of the Kremlin and the laws market.Photo zimbio.comRozrobka concept of the EU energy sector and its content of specific projects has recently become one of the most important directions of the main institutions of the European Union.It is devoted to this topic European Council, which in official circles in Brussels received the unofficial name "Energy EU summit. This event, scheduled for February 4, could be a landmark event for the European Union.For Brussels reached a defining moment when you need to make important decisions on investing in large-scale projects aimed at diversifying energy supplies, development of internal infrastructure, development of cooperation between EU m
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The report issued by the Federal Service for Environmental,
Technological and Atomic Inspection on the cause of the
Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric plant accident is chock full of
senseless data designed to divert attention away from the core issues.
In plain English, the report’s findings read as follows:
Following repairs, an unbalanced GA-2 turbine unit was labeled as
“satisfactory” and installed at the plant in March. The GA-2 unit
reached the maximum allowable level of vibration from the moment it
began operation, with the vibrations increasing fourfold by August. For
this reason, an effort was made not to use the GA-2 unit at all. But a
fire at the Bratsk hydroelectric plant on the evening of Aug. 16
prompted dispatchers to increase demand on the Sayano-Shushenskaya
facility.
The GA-2 unit was brought on line at 11:05 p.m. and operated for
exactly nine hours and nine minutes before the disaster occurred.
During those hours, the GA-2 lost power three times
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14.10.2009
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An Omsk region police officer shot dead his girlfriend and a taxi
driver before turning his service pistol on himself, raising new
concerns about the psychological fitness of the country’s police force
after a Moscow policeman went on a shooting spree in April.
Alexander Mets, 21, a police lieutenant from the town of
Nazyvayevsk, located 150 kilometers northwest of the city of Omsk, is
suspected of acting out of jealousy when he killed his 21-year-old
girlfriend on Monday afternoon in Omsk, the Investigative Committee
said in a statement Tuesday.
Mets had a spotless service record before the shootings, Omsk region police said in a statement.
Mets left work in Nazyvayevsk without permission at about 5 p.m.
Monday, taking his service Makarov pistol and 16 bullets, the
Investigative Committee said. He departed to Omsk in a gypsy taxi car
driven by an acquaintance, a 33-year-old resident of Nazyvayevsk, it
said.
Mets met his girl
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14.10.2009
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 Artist Tony Matelli is on show for the second year running in Moscow
at the Gary Tatintsian Gallery with his exhibition “The Idiot.”
Those who remember the previous installation, “Survival,” may be
disappointed. Most people remember “Survival” for “Old Enemy, New
Victim,” a sculpture that consisted of two skinny monkeys attacking a
much larger variety of their kind in what looked like a fight to the
death.
“In ‘Survival,’ every item was shocking. Now visitors look at the
installation and wonder where the exhibition is. They ask if it was
called off,” gallery director Victoria Pukemova said.
Looking around “The Idiot,” you could think it was just a couple of boxes, a small flame and some plants.
Matelli is known for his attention to details. A sculpture of a
topless women that stood in the Tatintsian gallery has fooled many a
visitor into thinking it
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14.10.2009
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 JERUSALEM — The Palestinian
president's political party says all hopes in the Obama administration
have "evaporated," accusing the White House of caving in to pressure
from the pro-Israel lobby and backing off a demand to freeze Jewish
settlement.
Mahmoud
Abbas' Fatah Party also accused the U.S. of failing to set a clear
agenda for a new round of Mideast peace talks, according to an internal
memo obtained by The Associated Press on Tuesday.
"All
hopes placed in the new U.S. administration and President Obama have
evaporated," the document said. Obama "couldn't withstand the pressure
of the Zionist lobby, which led to a retreat from his previous
positions on halting settlement construction and defining an agenda for
the negotiations and peace."
The
Palestinians initially greeted Obam
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 As many as 37.4 percent of Belarusians would like Alyaksandr Lukashenka to be reelected for a new presidential term, according to a survey conducted in September by the Vilnius-based Independent Institute of Social, Economic and Political Studies (IISEPS). However, 50.2 percent of the interviewed suggested that "a new person should be given a chance." When asked, "If Alyaksandr Lukashenka runs for President for the fourth time and a candidate representing a pro-democratic force competes with him, which of them will you vote for?" 25.2 percent of the interviewed said that they would vote for the pro-democratic candidate and 42.9 percent said that they would vote for Mr. Lukashenka. When asked whether the fact that "almost all power in the country is in the hands of Alyaksandr Lukashenka is for the good of Belarus or gives nothing to the nation," 44.2 percent opte
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12.10.2009
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 Hundreds
of people called on the authorities to find and punish the killers of
journalists and human rights activists in Russia, rallying Wednesday to
commemorate the third anniversary of the killing of Anna Politkovskaya.
“The authorities are incapable of solving such crimes,” former Prime
Minister Mikhail Kasyanov said. “Even the most honest investigator
cannot solve the crime because the government won’t let him.”
Prosecutors have said little about who might have ordered the
contract-style killing on Oct. 7, 2006, while the suspected gunman is
believed to be hiding in Europe. Three men accused of playing minor
roles in the killing remain under investigation.
Since Politkovskaya’s death, at least seven journalists and human
rights activists have been killed in Russia, including one who wrote
for the same newspaper, Novaya Gazeta. “There is a political will
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08.10.2009
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 Maxim has contacts in the customs department as, it seems, do a lot of people.
Not long after Cherkizovsky Market was closed down, shops offering
customs goods started appearing all over Moscow. All the brands you
could desire and all at prices that made you wonder why anyone would
ever pay more than 600 rubles ($20) for Adodas trainers, let alone Noke
or Ribok.
The shops’ names hinted that they were trading in confiscated
customs goods, but it was just a way to get rid of goods leftover from
the market, according to a charmingly in-depth investigation by
Komsomolskaya Pravda, which tracked down the owner, a former
Cherkizovsky trader, and asked him if they could sell dodgy tracksuits
in his shops.
He said, “Yes, of course,” but only after threatening to burn down
their shop if they dared to open a similar kind of operation. So, here
we have a sel
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08.10.2009
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A ``Robin Hood`` banker who stole
$340,000 (£214,000) and apparently gave it all away to needy customers
has been sentenced to a year and a day in jail, according to Telegraph.co.uk. Patricia
Keezer, 53, embezzled cash over an eight-year period while managing a
bank branch near Detroit, giving customers $2,000 (£1,257) at a time
for car repairs, mortgage payments and other such concerns. In
court, district judge Marianne Battani imposed a more lenient sentence
than prosecutors wanted, stating that the thief was ``like a modern day
Robin Hood``. But she added that the days of stealing from the rich to
give to the poor were ``long over``. Keezer`s crime spree ended last year when the embezzlement was uncovered. Authorities
said she covered her tracks by falsifyi
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08.10.2009
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There is flap in the Hundred Acre Wood
at the arrival of an otter called Lottie. No one can dislike an otter,
it is just that everything in the Hundred Acre Wood has been unchanged
– the bridge where they played Poohsticks, the name-board Sanders over
Pooh`s house – since A A Milne brought it to public notice in the
1920s, according to Telegraph.co.uk.
Now an official sequel, Return to the Hundred Acre Wood, has been
written by David Benedictus. In his "exposition" of the sequel, he has
Christopher Robin asking: "Are you really going to write us new
adventures, because we rather liked the old ones?" A good question. Classic
children`s stories are known by heart. They have limits. Are otters
also to be introduced into Alice or The Tale of Peter Rabbit? Sometimes
we want smaller worlds not bigger ones. A Hundred Acres
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06.10.2009
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President of Ukraine Victor Yushchenko approved the Measures Plan on preparation of his official visit to Belgium. The
relevant Decree “On preparation of official visit of the President of
Ukraine to Belgium” is posted at official web site of the head of the
state. According to this document, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has to provide fulfillment of indicated measures.
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Lawmaker, member from the Party of
Regions Mykhaylo Chechetov proposes after presidential election to
carry out a round table between a winner and defeated party. The new
format of coalition has to be a result of this round table. According
to an UNIAN correspondent, he said this at the session of the
Discussion club under Inter-regional Human Resource Management Academy. Delivering
a speech before the students of the Inter-regional Human Resource
Management Academy M. Chechetov expressed a confidence that leader of
the Party of Regions Victor Yanukovych or Prime Minister of Ukraine
Yulia Tymoshenko will be a winner of the presidential election. As a
result of this, M. Chechetov forecasts regular political split and
confrontation in Ukraine, because, according to his opinion, East and
South will vote for V. Yanukovych and West will vote for Yu. Tymoshenko. The
lawmaker believes that the single way out from this situation is
carrying out
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06.10.2009
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Helsinki has found a novel solution to the
age-old problem of urban rabbits. They will soon be on the menu for the
city zoo’s vultures, wolverines and lions, according to IceNews. The
zoo, located on Korkeasaari Island, will introduce the new bunny
offerings at the end of the month, according to a report by the
Helsingin Sanomat. The domestic diet will be sourced from greens and
parks patrolled by the city’s Building Services Unit. The zoo system
will play an important part in maintaining Helsinki’s fragile
ecosystem, which has often come under threat from the city’s resilient
rabbit population. The bunny proposal had been in discussion
since springtime this year and was finalised when zoo veterinarian Eeva
Rudback sent an email confirmation to Building Services project planner
Antti Rautiainen. Rautiainen’s proposal stated
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06.10.2009
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 After Iran's acknowledgment that it is developing a second
uranium-enrichment facility, "Israel" must consider not just whether to
proceed with a strike against Iran-but how, The Wall Street Journal
declares.
According to the newspaper, Iran has all of the technology and
production and manufacturing capabilities needed for fission weapons.
It has put massive resources into a medium-range missile program that
has the range payload to carry nuclear warheads.
"These capabilities are dispersed in many facilities in many cities and
remote areas, and often into many buildings in each facility-each of
which would have to be a target in an Israeli military strike", the
edition notes.
According to the newspaper, "Israel" is considering military options,
but considering them carefully and with an understanding
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06.10.2009
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A cow died from mad cow disease in Mokraya village of the Pecherinskyi region of the Zakarpattya. The
press service of the Emergency Ministry disclosed to UNIAN that it was
defined by laboratory researches of the Oblast laboratory of the
veterinary medicine. According to the preliminary data, some sick
animal could bite the cow. The cow’s carcass was burnt,
decontamination and vaccination about 60 head of other cattle was
carried out. 11 people, who contacted with animals, are at examination
in hospital.
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06.10.2009
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 Russia has created secret training base in Crimea for its terrorists according to Ukrainian magazine "Glavred".
"Every year, incognito, Russian Navy's Special Forces units based in
city of Tuapse and belonging to GRU (army's main intelligence service)
visits the city of Sevastopol for training purposes.
Having training bases on Russia's Caucasian coastline, twice a year
Moscow prefers to send its military intelligence divisions to Ukraine
to fulfill their skills. With the help of those units Russia has
destroyed Georgia's main naval base in the city of Poti in August 2009"
- says the magazine.
The edition also notes that from the beginning of 90's the number of
Russian terrorists from FSB on the Black Sea fleet has considerably
increased.
Also, there are 5 structural division
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06.10.2009
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LUKOIL (LKOH.MM), Russia`s
second-largest oil producer, has stopped oil product output at its
Odessa refinery in Ukraine due to crude shortages, a company spokesman
said on Friday, according to Reuters. "Oil
products output has stopped," the spokesman, Dmitry Dolgov, said,
adding that the company was preparing a statement to clarify its
position. On Thursday, market sources said crude deliveries to
the Odessa refinery were halted on Oct. 1, as Ukrainian state pipeline
operator Ukrtransnafta refused to supply crude to the refinery via the
Kremenchug-Odessa pipeline. [ID:nL1604033] Ukrtransnafta said on
Friday it had proposed LUKOIL change supply routes to Odessa, citing
"national interests" and the need to feed Ukraine`s Kremenchug
refinery, owned by Ukrtatnafta. LUKOIL has argued that alternative supply routes would comp
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06.10.2009
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 Praise be to Allah Who has created us Muslims, blessed us by an
opportunity to do Jihad and enabled us to earn our path to Heaven.
May peace and blessings be upon the Leader of all Mujahideen, Prophet
Muhammad, his family, his associates and all those who would follow him
to the Judgment Day.
And then...
Brothers and sisters Muslims! Today disbelievers intimidate people that
we plan to conduct explosions on markets, hospitals and other places
where peaceful population is gathered, seizure of schools and other
operations. We officially declare that we do not plan any operations in
locations wherein peaceful Muslims may gather; it is a slander and
propaganda of disbelievers. They plan closure of markets, conduct
""exercises" in the hospital, although they clearly know that these
(methods counter-measure drills to which are being exer
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06.10.2009
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Blackburn Rovers manager Sam Allardyce
believes that Chelsea made a mistake by giving Andriy Shevchenko very
little time to settle down in the Premier League. Allardyce says
that the situation is similar with Rovers` new defender Michel Salgado,
who needs time to adapt to the physical nature of football in England. "I give you the perfect example," he told The Lancashire Telegraph. "This [Shevchenko] wasn`t a young man, this was an old, experienced player. "Because
Chelsea put him in too quickly, and because he wasn’t ready, he became
a complete flop – and that was Andriy Shevchenko. "That was £30
million and however much grand a week. They continued to play him
because he cost that much when he was never ready to play in the
Premier League. "It was far too quick for him, far too physical and the lad`s confidence just drained away. He never, ever got to it. "It is the same with Michel Salgado – he found it tough at
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06.10.2009
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Floods and landslides were expected to
hit Vietnam and nearby nations on Thursday after a typhoon cut a
destructive path through South East Asia, killing nearly 350 people,
according to Reuters. State
media in Vietnam said 85 people had died and 12 were missing after
typhoon Ketsana swept through the country late on Tuesday. The
government initially estimated damages in five of 12 affected provinces
at more than $120 million. Eleven people died in Cambodia and the
Philippines where the typhoon first struck last weekend, with 246
reported deaths. Thailand was sending troops to provide humanitarian
assistance in anticipation of floods. River waters in Vietnam`s
eight coastal and central highland provinces were receding on Thursday,
but the national weather bureau warned of more flash floods and
landslides in mountainous areas and high waters
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