Moscow - Russia, Iran and Qatar are to enter into a joint venture to produce and export gas as officials of the three leading producers meet for gas cooperation talks on Wednesday in Doha, a Russian business daily reported.
Kommersant said the so-called "gas troika" would build a pipeline to pump gas from Iran's South Pars deposit, the world's largest, to be processed at a plant in Qatar, citing a Russian government official.
Analysts expect the project to be worth an estimated 4 billion dollars.
Moscow - Approval of a Kremlin bill to extend the presidential term from four to six years will be fast-tracked by the legislature and enacted by Friday, Russia's parliamentary committee on constitutional legislation said Wednesday.
Medvedev announced he was seeking the constitutional amendment in his first state-of-the-nation address last week.
Brussels - When the leaders of Russia and the European Union meet in the French resort of Nice on Friday, they are more likely to talk about the current financial crisis than the crisis in their own relationship sparked by Russia's war with Georgia, diplomats say.
"It's fair to guess that Georgia won't be the focus of the French presidency at the summit. They will definitely cover it, but it won't be the number one issue," an EU diplomat speaking on condition of anonymity told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.
Moscow - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has submitted a bill to parliament on extending the presidential term from four to six years, a Kremlin spokeswoman said Tuesday.
Medvedev announced he was seeking the constitutional amendment in his state-of-the-nation address last week.
His administration can easily muster the two-thirds majority in parliament needed to enact the change after the dominant pro-Kremlin party headed by his predecessor Vladimir Putin swept the polls in last years' vote.
But legal experts say the term extensions would only apply to future presidents.
Moscow - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin sought to ease fears Tuesday over the possibility of Russia joining an Opec-style cartel of gas exporting countries, he said in talks with his Egyptian counterpart Ahmed Nazif.
"We support this idea. But we know about apprehensions and even fears voiced by certain energy consumers," Putin was quoted by news agency Interfax as saying. "I wish to state once and for all: there are no grounds for such fears."
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Moscow - Russia, Iran and Qatar are to enter into a joint venture to produce and export gas as officials of the three leading producers meet for gas cooperation talks on Wednesday in Doha, a Russian business daily reported.
Moscow - Approval of a Kremlin bill to extend the presidential term from four to six years will be fast-tracked by the legislature and enacted by Friday, Russia's parliamentary committee on constitutional legislation said Wednesday.
Moscow - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has submitted a bill to parliament on extending the presidential term from four to six years, a Kremlin spokeswoman said Tuesday.
Moscow - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin sought to ease fears Tuesday over the possibility of Russia joining an Opec-style cartel of gas exporting countries, he said in talks with his Egyptian counterpart Ahmed Nazif.
