| March 2006 |
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Russian energy giant Gazprom will receive a $1.526-billion syndicated loan from foreign banks ABN AMRO and Calyon, an ABN AMRO news release said Tuesday.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said Tuesday that the March 25 events in the Belarusian capital of Minsk were a failed attempt to repeat the tactics used by opposition forces in several other former Soviet republics to protest election results. 
The Moscow Arbitration Court has appointed a temporary external manager to oversee beleaguered oil company Yukos during its ongoing bankruptcy case.
Mikhail Fradkov spoke to journalists after visiting the plant that will process gas from the Ormen Lange field in the Norwegian Sea: "Russia and Norway maintain cooperation in many spheres, oil and gas being the most interesting of them to us as partners." 
The creditor banks of embattled oil giant Yukos have asked to replace a claimant in the company's bankruptcy case, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported from the courtroom Tuesday. 
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Tuesday he would attend the upcoming European Union meeting on the Iranian nuclear issue in Berlin.
A subsidiary of Russia's top civilian nuclear power company said Tuesday it would ensure stable nuclear fuel supplies to South Korea. 
The Syrdarya station is the country's biggest hydro-electric power plant, at 3,000 megawatts, generating one third of the country's electrical power. It is being privatized under a government program, adopted in 2001, alongside three other major thermal power plants, one of which is near the capital, Tashkent. 
Russia's defense minister provided a detailed picture of the future of the Russian armed forces Tuesday, including covering the development of its nuclear arsenal and further personnel cuts in its mammoth army. 
"In seeking to build a system of inter-state relations based on principles of equality, friendship, pragmatism, and mutually beneficial cooperation, Russia looks forward to an intensive dialogue with the Ukrainian president, new Cabinet and new Supreme Rada [parliament]," the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
"[The stories] are complete nonsense," Sergei Ivanov told a news conference, referring to a Pentagon report based on what it said are captured Iraqi documents that show Moscow passed intelligence information on U.S. troop movements to Saddam. 
Members of Russia's ruling party plan to use the platform of the London Economic Forum in April to call for the extradition of fugitive Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky, a United Russia member said Tuesday. 



