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Lithuania, Russia sign agreement on fighting with financial crime.
VILNIUS, September 10 (Itar-Tass) - Lithuanian Foreign Ministry's
Service for Investigation of Financial Crimes and Russia's Federal Service for Financial Monitoring have signed an agreement on cooperation in fighting with financial crimes.
"Russia's law enforcement agencies are very active in fighting with
crimes in the financial sphere and that's why the criminals more and more
often shift their money-laundering operations to other countries,
including Lithuania," Yuri Chikhanchin, the director of the Federal
Service for Financial Monitoring said.
The main objective of Russian-Lithuanian cooperation in this sphere is
to exempt illicit finances from circulation, he said
Lithuanian Deputy Interior Minister Stanislovas Liutkeivicius
expressed the hope that this cooperation, bolstered by a formal agreement
from now on, will become closer and will work towards a greater efficiency
of efforts to resolve financial crimes.
.Russia's Gazprom, Ukraine's Naftogaz to discuss supplies for 2010.
KIEV, September 11 (Itar-Tass) - CEO of the Russian gas producer
Gazprom, Alexei Miller, and CEO of the Ukrainian oil and gas monopoly
Naftogaz Ukrainy, Oleg Dubina, are expected to meet next week for a
discussion of the volumes of natural gas to be supplied to Ukraine in
2010, a Naftogaz executive said Thursday.
The Ukrainian corporation has asked the Russian partners to reduce the
delivery of gas to 33.75 billion cubic meters next year versus the initial
plan of 52 bcm, said the executive, Naftogaz's First Deputy CEO Igor
Didenko.
"Oleg Dubina and Alexei Miller will have a working meeting next week
and the issue of volumes to be supplied will be placed on the agenda with
account of agreements between the two countries' Prime Ministers," Didenko
said.
He indicated that the fee for Russian gas transits via the Ukrainian
territory cannot be a subject of negotiations since it is computed along a
special formula and the element absent so far for computing it is the
price of technological gas used for keeping the gas pumping units in
operation.
"We expect the transit fee for next year to stand at $ 2,700 to $
2,800 per thousand cubic meters of gas per 100 kilometers," Dubina said.
He recalled that Naftogaz hopes to make public proposals on a
rescheduling of its foreign debt September 14, adding that the EU
officials have shown understanding of the difficulties Ukraine has come to
face with in meeting the IMF demands to raise the retail fees for gas for
the population.
That is why the problems with the IMF will not affect the allocation
of European loans to Naftogaz, he said.
The company hopes to reschedule repayment of $ 1.6 billion, of which
the debt on eurobonds amounting to $ 500 million should paid off already
before September 30.
.Sarcophagus of Kievan Duke Yaroslav unsealed for researchers.
KIEV, September 11 (Itar-Tass) - Researchers working in Kiev's
majestic Cathedral of St Sophia on Thursday unsealed the sarcophagus of
one of the most remarkable rulers of Kievan Rus, the Grand Duke Yaroslav
the Wise.
His relics have been disturbed for the sake of an anthropological
research involving institutions from the U.S., Sweden, Britain, and
Ukraine, the Kiev-based Inter TV channel said.
Using up-do-date tests, the scientists will analyze the DNA, and
computer graphics will help them to reproduce the Grand Duke's appearance.
Along with this, they will try to establish a more exact date of his
death. It is believed now that Duke Yaroslav, who has been canonized as a
saint, died in 1054.
His sarcophagus was unsealed on three occasions in the past - in 1936,
1939 and 1954, but his relics were taken out of it only once, in 1939.
Anthropologists composed two skeletons out of the bones found in the
sarcophagus then, a male and a female one.
The male skeleton fell in line with the descriptions of Yaroslav the
Wise's bodily height, age and special features described by early medieval
chroniclers.
Outstanding Soviet forensic and anthropological expert Mikhail
Gerassimov reproduced the Grand Duke's portrait then and it is on the
basis of his portrayal that the image of Yaroslav is generally perceived
now.
As for the female skeleton, it remains an enigma for the researchers
even today.
The sarcophagus itself with all of its Christian drawings and
inscriptions contains many mysteries.
The St Sophia's Cathedral was built at Yaroslav the Wise's order in
downtown Kiev in the 11th century.
In 1240, the hordes of the Tatar-Mongul Khan Batu devastated and
ruined it but Kiev's Orthodox Christians rebuilt it from ruins 150 years
later.
UNESCO entered the cathedral in the list of objects of global cultural
heritage.
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Service for Investigation of Financial Crimes and Russia's Federal Service for Financial Monitoring have signed an agreement on cooperation in fighting with financial crimes.
"Russia's law enforcement agencies are very active in fighting with
crimes in the financial sphere and that's why the criminals more and more
often shift their money-laundering operations to other countries,
including Lithuania," Yuri Chikhanchin, the director of the Federal
Service for Financial Monitoring said.
The main objective of Russian-Lithuanian cooperation in this sphere is
to exempt illicit finances from circulation, he said
Lithuanian Deputy Interior Minister Stanislovas Liutkeivicius
expressed the hope that this cooperation, bolstered by a formal agreement
from now on, will become closer and will work towards a greater efficiency
of efforts to resolve financial crimes.
.Russia's Gazprom, Ukraine's Naftogaz to discuss supplies for 2010.
KIEV, September 11 (Itar-Tass) - CEO of the Russian gas producer
Gazprom, Alexei Miller, and CEO of the Ukrainian oil and gas monopoly
Naftogaz Ukrainy, Oleg Dubina, are expected to meet next week for a
discussion of the volumes of natural gas to be supplied to Ukraine in
2010, a Naftogaz executive said Thursday.
The Ukrainian corporation has asked the Russian partners to reduce the
delivery of gas to 33.75 billion cubic meters next year versus the initial
plan of 52 bcm, said the executive, Naftogaz's First Deputy CEO Igor
Didenko.
"Oleg Dubina and Alexei Miller will have a working meeting next week
and the issue of volumes to be supplied will be placed on the agenda with
account of agreements between the two countries' Prime Ministers," Didenko
said.
He indicated that the fee for Russian gas transits via the Ukrainian
territory cannot be a subject of negotiations since it is computed along a
special formula and the element absent so far for computing it is the
price of technological gas used for keeping the gas pumping units in
operation.
"We expect the transit fee for next year to stand at $ 2,700 to $
2,800 per thousand cubic meters of gas per 100 kilometers," Dubina said.
He recalled that Naftogaz hopes to make public proposals on a
rescheduling of its foreign debt September 14, adding that the EU
officials have shown understanding of the difficulties Ukraine has come to
face with in meeting the IMF demands to raise the retail fees for gas for
the population.
That is why the problems with the IMF will not affect the allocation
of European loans to Naftogaz, he said.
The company hopes to reschedule repayment of $ 1.6 billion, of which
the debt on eurobonds amounting to $ 500 million should paid off already
before September 30.
.Sarcophagus of Kievan Duke Yaroslav unsealed for researchers.
KIEV, September 11 (Itar-Tass) - Researchers working in Kiev's
majestic Cathedral of St Sophia on Thursday unsealed the sarcophagus of
one of the most remarkable rulers of Kievan Rus, the Grand Duke Yaroslav
the Wise.
His relics have been disturbed for the sake of an anthropological
research involving institutions from the U.S., Sweden, Britain, and
Ukraine, the Kiev-based Inter TV channel said.
Using up-do-date tests, the scientists will analyze the DNA, and
computer graphics will help them to reproduce the Grand Duke's appearance.
Along with this, they will try to establish a more exact date of his
death. It is believed now that Duke Yaroslav, who has been canonized as a
saint, died in 1054.
His sarcophagus was unsealed on three occasions in the past - in 1936,
1939 and 1954, but his relics were taken out of it only once, in 1939.
Anthropologists composed two skeletons out of the bones found in the
sarcophagus then, a male and a female one.
The male skeleton fell in line with the descriptions of Yaroslav the
Wise's bodily height, age and special features described by early medieval
chroniclers.
Outstanding Soviet forensic and anthropological expert Mikhail
Gerassimov reproduced the Grand Duke's portrait then and it is on the
basis of his portrayal that the image of Yaroslav is generally perceived
now.
As for the female skeleton, it remains an enigma for the researchers
even today.
The sarcophagus itself with all of its Christian drawings and
inscriptions contains many mysteries.
The St Sophia's Cathedral was built at Yaroslav the Wise's order in
downtown Kiev in the 11th century.
In 1240, the hordes of the Tatar-Mongul Khan Batu devastated and
ruined it but Kiev's Orthodox Christians rebuilt it from ruins 150 years
later.
UNESCO entered the cathedral in the list of objects of global cultural
heritage.
-0-kle
