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...Gazprom, the national energy monolith, just two days after Shell's setback, fueled speculation that it was trying to get a big piece of the Sakhalin projects; in a speech, deputy director Aleksandr Ananenkov laid out a broad vision for that company to link oil fields in eastern Siberia with the Sakhalin project to create one vast network. The affected oil firms have reacted guardedly, but others have been blunt in their criticism - most notably Shinzo Abe, Japan's next Prime Minister. The Sakhalin projects are supposed to become a major source of liquefied natural gas for Japan...
...basis." Even so, love may not conquer all. China is Russia's biggest customer for military equipment, but Moscow still has enough concern about China's intentions that it won't sell Beijing its best stuff. China wanted a new 4,100-km oil pipeline to go from Siberia directly into its territory, to ensure control over supplies; instead, Russia is building the main line to Nakhodka on the Pacific, from where it can sell to Japan, the U.S. and Korea, with just a branch to China. Perhaps the greatest potential deal the two could strike is on manpower. Russia...
...firm uses U.S. accounting standards. Rosneft's [an error occurred while processing this directive] goal, Bogdanchikov promises investors, is "to set a new standard of corporate governance in Russian oil and gas." Try telling that to Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a former Russian oligarch currently serving a jail sentence in Siberia. The Kremlin broke up his oil company, Yukos, in 2004 with a combination of criminal fraud charges against executives and massive back-tax claims that far exceeded the firm's revenue. Yukos' main oil-production unit was auctioned off to a single low bidder that turned out to be a front...
...North America and Asia had roiled those waters; swells had blown the Brunswick-the now-listing ship from New Bedford, Massachusetts-against one of the ice floes. During the summer, these chunks of ice drift northward from the Pacific to the Arctic through this fifty-mile-wide passage between Siberia's eastern and Alaska's western shores...
...Beers chain. At the time I bought it in 2000, the cartel controlled up to 75% of the world's rough diamonds. The most likely point of origin-statistically speaking-was the mine at Orapa in Botswana. But the symbol of my love also could have come from Russian Siberia or the Premier Mine in South Africa or from the war spoils of Angola. There was no way to trace its history, except to say De Beers' office in London was the probable point of transfer to America. The diamond easily outlasted my busted engagement, but retracing its trip from...