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/ 15 September 2009
Shokri Ghanem has left his post as chairperson of Libya’s state oil firm, confirmed a source in the country’s Parliament.
Russian gas supplies to Europe through Ukraine shut down on Wednesday, leaving growing numbers of EU members without fuel in freezing temperatures.
Russia halts gas supplies to the Balkans, Turkey and south-eastern Europe, while flows to Austria drop by 90% in a deepening price row
Russia cut off the gas to its neighbour Ukraine on Thursday after a contract dispute but increased supplies to other European states.
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/ 14 September 2008
A Russian Boeing 737-500 airliner crashed near the Ural mountains on Sunday, killing all 88 people on board, officials said.
Russia accused the Group of Seven nations of ”bias” on Friday in a fresh attempt to counter condemnation of Russia’s actions in Georgia.
On wooded hillsides where Georgian and separatist troops eye each other through the sights of their guns, the smallest spark could set off a war.
Russia’s next president Dmitry Medvedev pledged to uphold Vladimir Putin’s policies on Monday after a big election win that critics said was stage-managed to let the outgoing Kremlin leader keep his grip on power. Medvedev (42) who will be the youngest Russian leader since Tsar Nicholas II when he is sworn in on May 7, has asked former KGB spy Putin to be his prime minister.
Dmitry Medvedev was elected as Russia’s next president, early results showed on Sunday, after a vote that will preserve the power of his mentor President Vladimir Putin but which opponents said was unfair. Medvedev, a 42-year-old former lawyer who has worked at Putin’s side since the 1990s, will take over the trappings of the Presidency from his patron in May.
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/ 7 February 2008
Russia’s prison service bowed to international pressure on Thursday by saying it would transfer Vasily Alexanian, an inmate gravely ill with HIV/Aids, to a specialist clinic. A former vice-president of the now-defunct Yukos oil company, Alexanian says he is nearly blind, has cancer of the lymph nodes and suspected tuberculosis.