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...breaking attendance records everywhere he goes. Playing for his hometown team, HC Rabat Kladno, he scored 11 goals and made 17 assists in 17 games. (In November, he moved to Siberia's Avangard Omsk, sponsored by billionaire Roman Abramovich.) The transitions have not all been smooth. The European emphasis on elegant skating and fancy puck control, for example, has challenged some NHL players accustomed to North America's narrower rinks and more aggressive play. But many are relishing the experience. "The biggest thing is the ice surface; it gives you that much more time with the puck," says Rick Nash...
...candidate for President might spill across the border. And independent Duma Deputy Vladimir Ryzhkov insists that the danger is real: "These spontaneous protests signal the moral end of Putin's corrupt secret-police regime," he told TIME. In some regions, such as Chelyabinsk in the Urals and Kemerovo in Siberia, authorities caved in and reinstated the transport benefits, if only temporarily. But scores of protesters were also charged with misdemeanors, such as violating public order and impeding transport. Pro-Putin Duma Deputy Andrei Isayev threatened punishment to "those who seek to carry the orange illness into Russia." Elsewhere, demonstrations continued...
...under intense pressure from investors to find new reserves - now. With near record crude prices and Iraq in turmoil, Russia's vast untapped wealth of oil and gas has never looked more attractive. There are production challenges: many of the reserves are located in remote locations deep in Siberia or above the Arctic Circle. Russia's Minister for Natural Resources, Yuri Trutnev, has cautioned that extracting Russian oil will become increasingly difficult. Nonetheless, the Western oil companies are eager to export Russia's reserves, which are conservatively estimated at 70 billion bbl. - more than double those...
...companies are piling in. In addition to the Conoco deal, Britain's BP is investing a whopping $7 billion in a joint venture that controls huge fields in western Siberia, and in September, France's Total agreed to pay $1 billion for a 25% stake in Novatek, Russia's largest private gas producer. Many other companies, including ChevronTexaco, PetroCanada and Norway's Statoil, are trying to get a foothold. All three recently signed preliminary agreements to work with state-controlled Gazprom, an oil-and-gas behemoth in which German power company E.On holds a 6% stake. And there is widespread...
...collapse of the Soviet Union was accompanied by a slide in Russian oil production, from a peak of almost 11 million bbl. per day in 1987 to just 6 million in 1996. Yukos blazed the trail - and helped reverse the oil slump - by investing heavily in existing fields in Siberia, bringing in Western technology and dozens of American and other experienced foreign managers. Partnering with Schlumberger, a U.S.-based oil-field-services company, Yukos became the biggest Russian player, accounting for 20% of total production. At a presentation at a Lehman Bros. energy conference a month before Khodorkovsky was arrested...