Vilnius (rian) – Lithuanian gas company Lietuvos Dujos and Polish Gaz System signed a memorandum on the construction of the Amber pipeline, which was abandoned by Russian oil giant Gazprom in favor of the Nord Stream pipeline. The proposed 460 kilometer pipeline has a capacity of 5 billion cubic meters of gas a year and [...]
The first pipe string of the Nord Stream Pipeline hit dry land in Germany’s coastal resort city of Lubmin, the Nord Stream AG project operator said on Monday. MOSCOW (rian) – Dr. Georg Nowack, Nord Stream AG project manager for Germany, said the onshore connection was made on July 3 and was right on schedule. [...]
On Sunday, June 20, Poland will elect a new president. Of the ten candidates, only two are serious: acting President and Marshal of the Sejm (Speaker of Parliament) Bronislaw Komorowski and former prime minister and leader of the conservative Law and Justice Party Jaroslaw Kaczynski. It is unlikely that any of the candidates will receive [...]
Russia’s gas gain Gazprom and French GdF Suez have signed an agreement on French company’s joining Nord Stream project
The sites for two new nuclear power plants, in Russia’s Kaliningrad exclave and in Belarus, were selected with no environmental assessment and without consulting neighboring countries, Lithuania’s president said on Monday. Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite made the accusations at a meeting with the director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Yukiya Amano, who is on [...]
The Lithuanian parliament has approved amendments stipulating criminal penalties for those publicly justifying, denying or playing down international crimes, as well as crimes “committed by the U.S.S.R.” and the Nazis against Lithuania, the parliament’s press service has said.
More than 150 young women in wedding gowns took part in a parade of brides in the Latvian resort town of Jurmala, Latvian media reported Monday. RIGA (rian) — Sunday’s event gathered women who recently got married or were about to get married. The parade took place despite cloudy weather. Many women traveled inside posh [...]
The Moscow City Court on Friday sentenced Latvian national Dmitry Savins to seven years in a high-security prison for leading a pirate attack on the Arctic Sea vessel. The Arctic Sea went missing in the Atlantic on July 24 while carrying a $2 million shipment of timber from Finland to Algeria and was intercepted by [...]
More than 5,000 residents of the Kuril Islands and the Sakhalin Island in Russia’s Far East have signed an appeal to be filed to the European Court of Human Rights over a court’s decision accusing a Soviet World War II veteran of war crimes, a local politician said. YUGNO-SAKHALINSK (rian) – ”The ruling made by the [...]
An international judge has died in the Estonian capital of Tallinn after being hit in the head by a javelin hurled by an athlete during a track and field event, a spokesman for the Estonian Track and Field Athletics Union said.
