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BY KEITH NUTHALL
ENHANCED powers, responsibilities and resources are being proposed for the new European Maritime Safety Agency to enable it to fight tanker pollution. The European Commission has proposed that it should buy or lease specialist anti-pollution vessels. It also wants its work expanded to cover maritime security and seafarer training.…

BY MARK ROWE
THE RUSSIAN timber company Ilim Pulp plans to build a US$50m timber processing plant in the northern Arkhangelsk region of the country, with a projected annual output of up to 700,000 cubic meters of processed timber annually. The company expects to prepare the construction project for the new plant and decide on an exact location by the end of the year.…

BY MARK ROWE
SIBNEFT, Russia’s sixth largest oil producer, has opened a subsidiary in St. Petersburg with the aim of seizing a significant share of the city’s retail-gasoline market. The move is also expected to enable Sibneft to use its refinery capacity to secure a larger stake in the local wholesale petroleum-products sector.…

BY MARK ROWE
RUSSIAN counterfeit goods manufacturers, who have traditionally regarded clothes and textile goods as prime and lucrative targets, have seen a six-fold fall in the number of goods they sell. The country’s State Customs Committee says Russia lost US$600 million last year in the sale of fake goods of all kinds, compared with US$1 billion in 1999.…

BY MARK ROWE
RUSSIA has called on Thailand to cut import tariffs on non-ferrous and ferrous metals to help boost trade between the two countries. Alexei Kudrin, Russian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance said that if tariffs were lowered, Russia would increase imports, particularly of non-ferrous metals, steel and iron, which constitute the lion’s share of Thai imports from Russia.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THERE has been a lot of talk about water in international meetings and organisations this year. Report after report has spelt out that we are all using too much water and if reforms do not make systems more sustainable, then a thirsty future beckons.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development is promoting on-site power generation in Russia, developing plans to lend a major potassium salt producer US$75 million, which it would use to build its own power plant. Located in the city of Berezniki, the Perm Region, in the Urals, OAO Uralkaly would use the new generator to make “improvements in energy efficiency and environmental compliance.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE BOARD of Russia’s Gazprom has approved the creation of an offshoot company that will participate in an US$18 billion West-East multinational joint venture helping to build a 4,000 kilometre trunk-line to pump gas across China, from west to east.…

BY MARK ROWE
THE RUSSIAN Tax Ministry has recommended the reintroduction of licensing for cigarette and tobacco wholesalers, which was abolished last year. Officials say the move would reduce the market share of low-quality cigarettes. The ministry also wants to start charging excise tax on cigarettes and tobacco at a rate based on the product’s maximum retail price instead of on the wholesale price.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THERE has been a lot of talk about water in international meetings and organisations this year. Report after report has spelt out a gloomy message: we are all using too much water and if reforms do not make systems more sustainable, then a thirsty future beckons.…