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Finland to announce final Nord Stream decision.
HELSINKI, February 12 (Itar-Tass) -- Finland's Uusimaa Regional
Environment Center has to announce on Friday its final decision regarding the construction of Nord Stream gas pipeline that is to link Russia and Germany across the Baltic Sea bed.
Last summer the authority approved the Nord Stream, but said more
information on potential environmental damage must be supplied by the
project's backers, Gazprom, Wintershall, E.On Ruhrgas, and Nederlandse
Gasunie.
If Uusimaa issues a positive decision, the construction of the project
may begin.
In 2009 Finland issued two of the three necessary permissions for Nord
Stream construction in its territorial waters. The first one allowed to
clear mines in the Gulf of Finland and the second okayed pipeline
construction in the economic zone of Finland.
Also on Friday Finland will present new high-speed train Allegro that
is scheduled to run between Helsinki and St. Petersburg from December 2010.
The VR transport company said the first of the four trains produced by
the French Alstom Company on joint orders from VR and Russian Railways
Company will be displayed.
The train is owned by the Oy Karelian Trains Ltd, a joint
Russian-Finnish venture.
The contract for four Allegro trains worth 120 million euro was signed
in September 2007.
.Russia, Mongolia, China revive Great Tea Route.
ULAN UDE, February 12 (Itar-Tass) -- The ancient merchant town of
Kyakhta in Buryatia near the Russian border with Mongolia will on Friday
re-launch the 18th century Great Tea Route that traded Russian furs for
Chinese tea in compliance with the Kyakhta Treaty of 1727.
The route also known as Siberian or Moscow route is being revived as a
joint Russian-Mongolian-Chinese tourist project.
The route started in Moscow and went to Kyakhta where it linked to
camel caravans that crossed Mongolia to a Great Wall gate at Kalgan.
According to some data, in 1915 China exported to Siberia 70,297 tons
of tea, which accounted for 65% of the country's overall tea exports.
The route closed down in early 20th century after the TransSiberian
railway was constructed.
The initiators of the project from China and Mongolia brought a big
pack of tea that used to be delivered via the route to Europe in ancient
times. They will cross the frozen Lake Baikal to Irkutsk where the tea
carried by the caravan will be auctioned.
"Thus, project initiators will announce the start of a new tourist
route," a spokesman of the Tourism agency of Buryatia told Tass.
.Russia to ratify duty-free oil shipments to Belarus.
MOSCOW, February 12 (Itar-Tass) -- The Russian State Duma will ratify
on Friday the agreement on duty-free oil deliveries to Belarus for
domestic consumption.
The upper house (Federation Council) will also vote the document on
Friday, as the agreement has to come into force on Monday.
In January the two countries agreed that Russia will supply 6.3
million tons of crude oil for 2010 domestic consumption in Belarus
duty-free, while Russia will determine customs duties charged on crude
shipped in excess of the amount.
.Russian-born indicted in Goldman Sachs data theft.
NEW YORK, February 12 (Itar-Tass) -- A Russian-born computer engineer
has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Manhattan for stealing trade
secrets from Goldman Sachs, the Associated Press reported on Friday.
It said Sergei Aleinikov, 40, of North Caldwell, New Jersey, was
accused of downloading software and sending computer codes to an Internet
account in Germany. He also stored information at home to take to a new
job in Chicago last year.
Aleinikov resigned from Goldman Sachs last summer.
.Russia launches U.S. communications satellite.
MOSCOW, February 12 (Itar-Tass) -- Russia staged its first commercial
space launch on Friday and lifted off the U.S. Intelsat-16 communications
satellite on Proton-M vehicle from Baikonur.
It will take nine and a half hours to place the satellite in the
geostationary orbit after the liftoff at 03:39 hours Moscow time.
In November a Zenit-3SLB rocket successfully lifted off from Baikonur
and placed the Intelsat-15 satellite in orbit.
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Environment Center has to announce on Friday its final decision regarding the construction of Nord Stream gas pipeline that is to link Russia and Germany across the Baltic Sea bed.
Last summer the authority approved the Nord Stream, but said more
information on potential environmental damage must be supplied by the
project's backers, Gazprom, Wintershall, E.On Ruhrgas, and Nederlandse
Gasunie.
If Uusimaa issues a positive decision, the construction of the project
may begin.
In 2009 Finland issued two of the three necessary permissions for Nord
Stream construction in its territorial waters. The first one allowed to
clear mines in the Gulf of Finland and the second okayed pipeline
construction in the economic zone of Finland.
Also on Friday Finland will present new high-speed train Allegro that
is scheduled to run between Helsinki and St. Petersburg from December 2010.
The VR transport company said the first of the four trains produced by
the French Alstom Company on joint orders from VR and Russian Railways
Company will be displayed.
The train is owned by the Oy Karelian Trains Ltd, a joint
Russian-Finnish venture.
The contract for four Allegro trains worth 120 million euro was signed
in September 2007.
.Russia, Mongolia, China revive Great Tea Route.
ULAN UDE, February 12 (Itar-Tass) -- The ancient merchant town of
Kyakhta in Buryatia near the Russian border with Mongolia will on Friday
re-launch the 18th century Great Tea Route that traded Russian furs for
Chinese tea in compliance with the Kyakhta Treaty of 1727.
The route also known as Siberian or Moscow route is being revived as a
joint Russian-Mongolian-Chinese tourist project.
The route started in Moscow and went to Kyakhta where it linked to
camel caravans that crossed Mongolia to a Great Wall gate at Kalgan.
According to some data, in 1915 China exported to Siberia 70,297 tons
of tea, which accounted for 65% of the country's overall tea exports.
The route closed down in early 20th century after the TransSiberian
railway was constructed.
The initiators of the project from China and Mongolia brought a big
pack of tea that used to be delivered via the route to Europe in ancient
times. They will cross the frozen Lake Baikal to Irkutsk where the tea
carried by the caravan will be auctioned.
"Thus, project initiators will announce the start of a new tourist
route," a spokesman of the Tourism agency of Buryatia told Tass.
.Russia to ratify duty-free oil shipments to Belarus.
MOSCOW, February 12 (Itar-Tass) -- The Russian State Duma will ratify
on Friday the agreement on duty-free oil deliveries to Belarus for
domestic consumption.
The upper house (Federation Council) will also vote the document on
Friday, as the agreement has to come into force on Monday.
In January the two countries agreed that Russia will supply 6.3
million tons of crude oil for 2010 domestic consumption in Belarus
duty-free, while Russia will determine customs duties charged on crude
shipped in excess of the amount.
.Russian-born indicted in Goldman Sachs data theft.
NEW YORK, February 12 (Itar-Tass) -- A Russian-born computer engineer
has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Manhattan for stealing trade
secrets from Goldman Sachs, the Associated Press reported on Friday.
It said Sergei Aleinikov, 40, of North Caldwell, New Jersey, was
accused of downloading software and sending computer codes to an Internet
account in Germany. He also stored information at home to take to a new
job in Chicago last year.
Aleinikov resigned from Goldman Sachs last summer.
.Russia launches U.S. communications satellite.
MOSCOW, February 12 (Itar-Tass) -- Russia staged its first commercial
space launch on Friday and lifted off the U.S. Intelsat-16 communications
satellite on Proton-M vehicle from Baikonur.
It will take nine and a half hours to place the satellite in the
geostationary orbit after the liftoff at 03:39 hours Moscow time.
In November a Zenit-3SLB rocket successfully lifted off from Baikonur
and placed the Intelsat-15 satellite in orbit.
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