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MOSCOW, February 11 (RIA Novosti) - Russia"s anti-trust regulator will make a decision February 17 on a bid by the country"s second-largest bank, VTB, to buy a 30% stake in Polyus Gold, Russia"s leading gold producer, a spokesperson said on Wednesday. The Federal Antimonopoly Service warned, however, that it would have to reject the deal altogether unless the two parties provided information on final beneficiaries. Under anti-trust laws, the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) is required to consider approvals within a month, but can postpone decisions for another two months if additional information is required. The FAS has been considering the VTB deal for three months already. "The application expires next Tuesday, on February 17. Unless we obtain the necessary information by that time, we will be forced to refuse them," Irina Kashunina said. Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov, owner of the Onexim Group investment vehicle, and his former business partner Vladimir Potanin, who heads the Interros holding company, hold 30% each in Polyus Gold. Neither Onexim nor Interros has provided comment.


The Arabic edition of the Moscow News, Anbaa...

The Arabic edition of the Moscow News, Anbaa Mosku, re-launched three months ago after a 17-year break, is being extensively read across the Middle East, the MENAFN news agency reported on Monday.


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MOSCOW. (Nikita Petrov for RIA Novosti) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has finished his visit to Warsaw. His talks with his Polish counterpart, Radislaw Sikorski, focused on the situation in the Caucasus and the planned deployment of ten U.S. antimissiles at Redzikowo, near Slupsk in northern Poland.

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The Protocol is an unprecedented international instrument developing the ideas of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The convention aims to stabilize greenhouse gas concentration in the air at a level safe for the global climate-a goal approved by practically all countries. The document did not set any limitations or obligations despite the fact that the situation urgently demanded practical measures against adverse climate changes. Such measures were blueprinted in the Kyoto Protocol in 1997.

This trailblazing global project started heated debates, which have not finished to this day. The protocol is criticized from two opposite points. Some say there is no need for the protocol as climate changes, if there are any, are not caused by man. This argument is not valid since there is a 90% or even greater probability of negative climate change. The percentage grows as more information comes in.

Disastrous changes are expected. If we do not do anything

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