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MOSCOW, February 21 (RIA Novosti) - Gazprom...

MOSCOW, February 21 (RIA Novosti) - Gazprom, Total and StatoilHydro signed on Thursday a deal on a joint venture to develop the Shtokman gas field in the Barents Sea. The ambitious project to develop the Arctic gas field, with estimated gas reserves of 3.7 trillion cubic meters, is intended to supply the Nord Stream pipeline from Russia to Germany currently being built under the Baltic Sea. The Shtokman project cost is estimated at $30 billion. Gazprom has a 51% stake in the project, while France"s Total and Norway"s StatoilHydro have 25% and 24%, respectively. The newly created JV will own the infrastructure of the Shtokman first stage during 25 years after the deposit is put into operation, following which Total and StatoilHydro will cede their stakes to Gazprom. Investment in the Shtokman first stage will be determined in the second half of 2009, Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller said. "Work will start today to prepare technical documentation and this work will be completed in the second half of 2009 when an investment decision is made," Miller said. The first pipeline gas supplies from the Shtokman deposit will begin in late 2013 and liquefied gas supplies in 2014. The project"s first phase is expected to produce a total of 23.7 billion cubic meters of natural gas annually.


ASTANA, September 25 (RIA Novosti) - The...

ASTANA, September 25 (RIA Novosti) - The Nabucco pipeline project will be promising if it pumps Iranian natural gas, former German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder told a Eurasian energy forum underway in Kazakhstan"s capital, Astana.


MOSCOW. (Political commentator Leonid Mlechin...

MOSCOW. (Political commentator Leonid Mlechin, member of the RIA Novosti Expert Council) - Many post-Soviet governments tend to embellish the history of their countries.

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Ingushetia, unemployment reaches 53%, in Kabardino-Balkaria 27%, Karachai-Circassia 20%, and Adygea 16%.

In Chechnya, only every third resident has a job, while it is obvious that unemployment creates a nourishing environment for terrorism.

Other important reasons for instability in southern Russian regions include obsolete structures for local economies, ineffective government systems, flagrant discrepancies between social and economic classes, lack of highly qualified personnel, and most importantly, historic interethnic and clan differences.

President Dmitry Medvedev said at a Stavropol meeting on the situation in the region on August 19, "The main problem is, sadly, rooted in our country. You know exactly when conditions for the development of crime and religious extremism were established: following the disintegration of the state. The roots of the problem are in the makeup of our lives: in unemployment, poverty, in clans who don"t give a damn about

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