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Moscow, May 18, 2010
Savyolovsky district court of Moscow chaired by the presiding judge Tsyplakova E.N.,
with participation of assistant of Savyolovsky inter-district prosecutor of Moscow Kuplensky A.I.,
representative of citizen Helmer J. – Kuznetsov O.B.,
with secretary Antonova E.N.,
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By John Helmer in Moscow
For the first time in his career, Oleg Deripaska has faced questioning on his business practices and cashflows by a western judge in a criminal court proceeding. Spanish judge of the Audiencia Nacional, Fernando Andreu Merelles, and special prosecutor for corruption cases, José Grinda, were in Moscow on May 12 to interrogate Deripaska, according to their spokesman in Madrid. The spokesman added that their purpose was to “take statements from Deripaska for an offense of conspiracy and money laundering, as well.”
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By John Helmer in Moscow
Russia’s energy chief, Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin, has disclosed that the Black Sea oil export plan he launched in Milan last October, with much applause from Turkish and Italian interests, is going nowhere fast – err, I mean, slow.
He was speaking on the sidelines of President Dmitry Medvedev’s visit to Turkey on Wednesday. Without allowing direct questions from, or quotation by Russian reporters, Sechin reportedly said that a start on the new crude oil delivery route, including the cross-Turkey pipeline from Samsun, on the Black Sea, to Ceyhan, on the Aegean, will be delayed until 2015. In the oil business, five years into the future is a number equivalent to eternity — and for practical purposes, oblivion.
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By John Helmer in Moscow
The question of who, if anyone, is protecting coalminers intensifies in public, following Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s visit to the scene of the Raspadskaya mine disaster at Mezhdurechensk yesterday. The double explosion of methane in the Raspadskaya mine on the weekend has so far killed 52, with 38 still unaccounted for. Another 59 have been rescued, and are being treated for injuries.
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By John Helmer in Moscow
The death toll at the Raspadskaya Coal Company’s principal mine is 43 dead, 47 missing, and 7 in hospital in critical condition as of Tuesday morning, Moscow time.
The leading producer of coking coal in Russia suffered two methane explosions overnight between Saturday and Sunday. The first was late on Saturday evening, and the second about four hours later, during a rescue attempt. All 19 rescuers in the mine at the time of the second blast have been reported killed. Underground ventilation had been halted by the blast, diminishing the chances of survival for those who were trapped below surface. Airflow has reportedly been restored today, but the underground water level is rising.
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By John Helmer in Moscow
Strikeforce Mining and Resources (SMR), a molybdenum miner owned by Oleg Deripaska, failed last week in its second try at attracting Chinese and Hong Kong market investors. The first try was in October 2008, when Morgan Stanley and the Bank of China were the arrangers. But that month, as Deripaska’s aluminium company Rusal and his Basic Element holding plummeted towards a series of loan defaults and debts totaling more than $20 billion, the SMR share sale was abandoned.
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By John Helmer in Moscow
On April 12 NATO launched four large-scale war games in northern Europe.
A report by Rick Rozoff for the Media Monitors Network, “Relentless Global Drive: NATO on Six Continents in Seven Days”, published on April 22, documented the official announcements from several US and NATO command sources, and the British Broadcasting Command: http://usa.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/73658
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A spokesman for the Investigative Committee, a special branch of the General Prosecutor’s office, said yesterday, after the news of the rescue had reached Moscow, that the surviving pirates would be taken to Russia and charged under the piracy article of the Russian Criminal Code — Part 3, Article 227. He and Russian Navy spokesmen then modified their announcement, indicating that Russian ministry officials were debating what to do with the pirates.
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By John Helmer in Moscow
The horse has special talents. One is fluency in several languages; another is a knack for stock market investment. In the rarely seen comedy, the hero inherits the horse from his parents, makes some bad acquisitions on the horse’s advice, but gets out of trouble at a horse-race.
Roman Trotsenko’s career has been more successful, and recently he has been seeing a lot of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. They met on February 18, and then again on May 4.
For what happened at their first meeting, see: http://johnhelmer.net/?p=2919
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