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Gazprom sees significant progress in Ukraine talks
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Gazprom sees significant progress in Ukraine talkshttp://af.reuters.com/article/commoditiesNews/idAFL5E7N105X20111201 Thu Dec 1, 2011 6:11am GMT MOSCOW Dec 1 (Reuters) - Russian gas export monopoly Gazprom said on Thursday it had made "significant progress" in talks with Ukraine, a key export market and transit route to Europe, and hoped to agree on future supply terms by year end. Gazprom gave the upbeat assessment in a statement after its chief executive, Alexei Miller, met Ukrainian Energy Minister Yuri Boiko for talks in Moscow on Wednesday. "At the talks significant progress was achieved," Gazprom quoted Miller in a statement as saying. "It can be expected that we will finalise agreements on the development of our cooperation in the gas sector by the end of the year." Ukraine has been in talks with Russia for over a year in an attempt to negotiate a lower price, saying it cannot afford the price it has to pay under a Jan. 2009 deal struck after Russia cut off its western neighbour, disrupting supplies to Europe. Ukrainian officials have warned that, under a contract formula linked to oil, the price Ukraine pays for gas imports could jump to $485 per thousand cubic metres from around $400 now, unless a new deal can be worked out. Ukraine is already borrowing from Russia to pay for its gas, officials have said, and a new tranche of a $15 billion aid package from the International Monetary Fund is blocked because Kiev has not passed on gas price hikes to consumers. Sources have said that in return for gas price concessions, Kiev may be willing to cede an ownership stake in its gas pipeline network to Gazprom, with a further stake earmarked for an energy company from the European Union. EU Energy Commissioner Gunther Oettinger was due in Moscow on Thursday for talks likely to focus on market rules -- opposed by Russia -- that would restrict gas producers from controlling pipeline infrastructure on the bloc's territory. Russian gas exports cover around a quarter of the EU's gas needs. Of that, 80 percent traverses Ukraine, with the remaining 20 percent going via Belarus, which sold its pipeline network to Gazprom last week in return for a 40 percent price cut. Gazprom forecasts that its exports to Europe will rise by 8 percent next year to 164 billion cubic metres. The European export market accounted for 52 percent of the revenues of state-controlled Gazprom last year. (Reporting by Douglas Busvine; editing by Miral Fahmy) Poland introduces five-year visas for Russianshttp://english.ruvr.ru/2011/12/01/61296632.html Dec 1, 2011 12:00 Moscow Time The Polish Consulate in Moscow will start issuing 5-year visas for Russian tourists. The Russian Union of Travel Industry’s official spokeswoman Irina Tyurina has said that in order to obtain a long-term Polish visa for tourism purposes, the applicant must have two previously granted Schengen visas. Poland has become increasingly popular with Russian travelers. This year, the consulate has issued 67,000 visas, 13,000 more than in 2010. (TASS) Russia bids to build nuclear power station in Polandhttp://www.thenews.pl/1/12/Artykul/59478,Russia-bids-to-build-nuclear-power-station-in-Poland 01.12.2011 08:52 The Russian state-backed Rosatom company is bidding for a contract to build a nuclear power station in Poland. Earlier this month, Sergei Kirienko, Rosatom's president, noted that the nuclear power industry suffered a huge setback following the damage to the reactor in Fukushima in Japan during the earthquake. “Competition has become much tougher [between nuclear power companies] but we have doubled our order book.” Rosatom, which accounts for 20 percent of new reactors being constructed globally, joins the French Areva, the US-based Westinghouse and the Japanese-American GE Hitachi in bidding for the contract to build Poland's first nuclear power station, scheduled to come on line by 2020, writes the Rzeczpospolita daily. Last Friday, Zarnowiec, Choczewo and Gaski were confirmed as candidate locations for the power plant Polska Grupa Energetyczna (PGE), the country's largest power producing company and the key investor in the project. Rostatom was to form an alliance with Germany's Siemens, but that has fallen through after Chancellor Merkel announced a halt to the nuclear programme there following the Fukushima disaster. (pg) 05:43 01/12/2011ALL NEWS
http://www.itar-tass.com/en/c154/285942.html MOSCOW, December 1 (Itar-Tass) —— A meeting of the Russia-EU Permanent Partnership Council /PPC/ on energy is due in Moscow on December 1, Russia’s permanent representative at the EU Vladimir Chizhov said on Thursday. “The programme of this PPC will unite practical issues. For example, we shall discuss the EU’s plans to finance the Trans-Caspian gas pipeline, the third energy packet, and contents of the energy section of the future agreement on the Russia-EU partnership and cooperation,” he said. Chizhov stated earlier that the negotiations on the agreement for partnership and cooperation will enter the final stage after Russia’s accession to the World Trade Organisation (WTO), because this document “was initially developed proceeding from the prerequisite that our trade and economic relations will be regulated by the WTO rules for the period of the agreement validity.” As for the third energy package, it compels the European countries to complete the division of production and transmission assets of energy concerns, which operate in the EU, next year. This measure may result in court deliberations over the scope of Russian projects in Europe and daughter companies of Russian energy enterprises. 06:45 01/12/2011ALL NEWS
http://www.itar-tass.com/en/c154/285967.html MOSCOW, December 1 (Itar-Tass) —— Composite materials, production of which started in Moscow on November 23,have the first big client. “A delegation of the European aerospace and defence concern /EADS/, which featured representatives of basic directions: construction of planes, helicopters and rockets, visited the new production facilities in the territory of the Moskvich innovation development centre,” Russia’s Compozit Holding Company told Itar-Tass. “During the meeting, the sides agreed on cooperation in supplies of Russian carbonaceous fibre materials and on organization of a working group to qualify and certify the production.” According to the EADS regulations, the certification may take up to two years. “This process is quite cost-based – up to a million euros,” the holding company’s Commercial Director Kirill Vasilyev said. “The supplier will have to cover the expenses, but the certification expenses will be repaid in future.” In aviation construction modern composite carbonaceous fibre materials lower weight of planes and improve strength and aerodynamic features, which will raise a lot competitiveness of Russian planes in the international market. Nowadays, the share of composite materials in promising passenger planes makes about 30-50 percent. Kompozit carries out research, experiments, development and production of materials for advanced and general applications. Its products include aluminium, beryllium, titan, nickel alloys; constructional steels, carbon-carbon and ceramic-matrix composites, metal-matrix composites reinforced with boric and carbon fibres, constructional glass, organic and carbon fibres plastics, coverings, glues, compounds and enamels. The company has been involved in several spacecraft programs, such as Salyut, Soyuz, Proton, Mir, Energiya - Buran, Sojuz - Apollon, Vega, Fobos and the International Space Station. It has delivered some elements of the beryllium ion guide of CERN's Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland. EADS – is the world’s second largest aerospace company after Boeing. The concern is Europe’s second largest producer of weapons and military machinery. The company designs, produces and sells civil and military planes, rocket-carriers and their systems. EADS is the sole shareholder / 100 percent shares/of Airbus S.A.S., which producers passenger, cargo and military transporting planes. Thursday, December 01, 2011 Directory: gifiles -> attach attach -> British Forces – Akrioti, Greece Griffin Fighter Squadron (84 Squadron raf) MoD announced possible Typhoon and Tornado arrivals to the base France attach -> Russia 110204 Basic Political Developments attach -> Unclassified//for official use only attach -> Adaptability Sustainment attach -> Pop-up 1 ("C" Chechnya) Header Text: Emir of the Caucasus Emirate Doku Umarov Image attach -> Russia and Islam are not Separate attach -> Chapter 13: The Northern Caucasus attach -> Russia 100209 Basic Political Developments attach -> The evolution attach -> The devolution Download 320.89 Kb. Share with your friends:
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