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...failure to secure a pipeline from Russia has especially frustrated China's leaders. Siberian oil is transported into China at great expense on trains and trucks. For years Beijing has lobbied its former communist brother for a pipeline to refineries in Daqing. During a visit to Moscow last month, Premier Wen Jiabao repeated China's entreaties but received no promises. Meanwhile, Japan has offered to pay for part of the multibillion-dollar pipeline--as long as it terminates in the Russian port of Nakhodka, near Japan. Moscow seems inclined to take Japan's offer. "China feels betrayed," says Bernard Cole...
...failure to secure Moscow's approval to begin construction on a pipeline from Russia has especially frustrated China's leaders. In its absence, Siberian oil is currently transported into China at great expense in trains and trucks. Beijing has for years lobbied its former Communist brother for a more direct link between oil fields in Russia and refineries in Daqing. The flow could supply as much as 15% of China's imports. During a visit to Moscow last month, Premier Wen Jiabao repeated China's entreaties but received no promises. In fact, Russia's only crude-oil supplier to China...
Russia's Discount Sale Now begins the endgame for Yukos, Russia's biggest oil producer. One year after authorities arrested founder Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the Kremlin is seeking to recoup at least $4 billion in taxes by forcibly selling the firm's main asset, Yuganskneftegaz, which controls vast Siberian oil fields. The subsidiary, which pumps 1 million bbl. of oil per day - about 60% of Yukos' output - has been valued by Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein at between $14.7 and $17.3 billion. Reports last week suggested the Kremlin might hand it to a Russian rival, Gazprom, for a fraction of that price...
...Manchurian beer war took shape 104 years ago when a Russian man founded China's first beer factory just south of the Siberian border and named it after himself?Ulubulevskij Brewery. Japanese managers took over after Emperor Hirohito's forces conquered Manchuria, as that part of northeast China was known, and the company later fell into the hands of the Soviet Red Army. Only in the 1950s, after Stalin ordered the return of Chinese assets, did managers from the mainland take control; in the famine years that followed, they brewed the first Chinese beer from corn. These days the Harbin...
DIED. LARISA BOGORAZ, 74, one of seven Soviet dissidents who in 1968 participated in a risky demonstration in Red Square to protest the invasion of Czechoslovakia; of a stroke; in Moscow. The linguist and human-rights activist, who spent four years exiled in a Siberian woodworking plant, once wrote an open letter to KGB chief Yuri Andropov to inform him that she was keeping a record of Soviet oppression...