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...Europe, or Turkey and the Mediterranean. But after Sept. 11, the United States has become increasingly concerned that dependence on Middle Eastern oil could jeopardize national security. As a result, Russia’s five largest oil companies have been looking into constructing a pipeline from Western Siberia to Murmansk on the Arctic Ocean. From there, a supertanker could transport oil to the eastern seaboard of the United States, helping to alleviate its dependence on OPEC...
...will presumably welcome Russia’s efforts to diversify America’s oil supply. A potential stumbling block arises, though, in that the main orchestrator of the Murmansk project is Putin’s political nemesis, Mikhail Khodorovsky. Chairman of YukosSibneft and expected presidential candidate in March, Khodorovsky has been a motivating force in the industry’s drive to expand west. Given President Bush’s effusive rapprochement with Putin after Sept. 11, this places the U.S. in a tough spot: backing the project could give Khodorovsky a boost and undermine Putin?...
...help it, he will undoubtedly try to avoid the oligarchs until after the Russian presidential election (to say nothing of his own). But banking on this political moment, the anti-Putin oligarchs might try to force Bush’s hand. They know that if the Bush administration backs Murmansk and recommends that extradition charges be dropped against Gusinsky, Putin will suffer the political blows...
...crew, the wreck returned to port. Raised from 108 m down on the Barents Sea floor by a Dutch salvage company, the 155-m, 18,000-ton vessel was clamped to a giant barge for its homecoming. Experts will examine the Kursk in dry dock at Roslyakovo, near Murmansk, to establish how the submarine foundered. Officials are taking no chances that radiation from the sub?s two 190-megawatt nuclear reactors will leak out or that its 22 Granit cruise missiles will accidentally detonate. Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic for crimes during the war in Croatia. The indictment cites 32 charges...
...Saturday, Aug. 12, was to be a day of pride and triumph. The vessel, one of the Russian navy's newest and most powerful cruise-missile submarines, was at periscope depth during the second day of a 30-ship exercise in the Barents Sea, about 90 miles northeast of Murmansk. These were the biggest Russian naval maneuvers in several years, and it was a rare opportunity for Lyachin to put his boat through its paces with a full-scale task force--so rare that five high-ranking Northern Fleet staff officers were aboard to observe the exercise...