Then he was elected to govern a Siberian region rich in aluminium and nickel.
He encounters a Karelian witch, a Siberian shaman and wild horses in the Altai mountains.
PSAs, which also apply to Exxon's Sakhalin project and to a Siberian development led by Total, a French firm.
Three months later, Mr Khodorkovsky himself was nabbed on a Siberian runway.
Gazprom wanted to be involved: last year it agreed with Shell to swap a share in Sakhalin Energy for a stake in a Siberian field.
"In terms of things we have observed, this is the largest since Tunguska, " Brown said, referring to the suspected meteor that flattened a Siberian forest in 1908.
Jozef was a Polish Jew who was captured by the Soviets in 1939 and sent to a Siberian camp before becoming an officer in a Polish division of the Red Army.
In return, instead of a share of a Siberian gas field that was once on the table, Shell and its Japanese partners will get cash (though whether they would want more Russian assets must be open to question).
The new Peter Weir film, loosely adapted from an unreliable memoir by Slavomir Rawicz, is about a bunch of prisoners who escape from a Siberian labor camp in 1940 and set out on the long trek back to civilization.
Not bad for a poorly educated Siberian who began as a manufacturer of plastic toys.
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Rasputin's early life in a small Siberian village is skipped over with indecent haste.
The conduit will ensure a flow of Siberian oil to fuel China's burgeoning economy--which Beijing estimates will expand by 8% this year.
The velodrome, which is also part of the arena complex, is a 250m track constructed out of Siberian timber and has a permanent viewing capacity of 2, 000, with an additional 2, 000 temporary seats for Glasgow 2014.
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Pieces of the failed launch were recovered some 40 miles north of the Chinese-Siberian border in a wooded area.
It is unclear if the Siberian mammoths experienced a "natural decline" or if they were outcompeted by the North American immigrants.
With bare-bones arrangements and Simone's powerful, poignant vocals at the forefront, the record burns through a collection of songs by Siberian punk-folk singer, Yanka Dyagileva, with cathartic fervor.
As it turned out, General Alexander Lebed was looking thoroughly out of place in President Vladimir Putin's Russia when he died this week in a helicopter crash in his Siberian fief of Krasnoyarsk.
Watching some of the new Google videos, I could not help but miss a few of the timeless Siberian towns I have stopped at, and the snow-capped mountains or that steady stream of forest out the window.
Having updated Lonely Planet's Trans-Siberian Railway guide a couple times, and clocked something like 15 to 20 days of Russian rail time in my life, my first remembrances of the Trans-Siberian rarely consider what is out the window.
Alternatively, this information could have been obtained by Soviet Colonel-General Albert Makashov, commander of the huge Siberian military district and a unabashed advocate of the assertive use of Soviet military power, who held secret meetings with the Iraqi Foreign Minister in Baghdad shortly before the invasion of Kuwait.
The central Siberian region of Novosibirsk declared a state of emergency this month.
Once I get a draft of the central and southern siberian data and talk to Stepan and Eugene I'll send it to you.
The loan, which was the largest ever provided to Russia by Eximbank, will finance the sale of 295 Caterpillar tractors for a natural gas pipeline project in the Siberian arctic.
In 1820, German mathematician Karl Friedrich Gauss proposed cutting an enormous right triangle into the Siberian pine forest, creating a monument to the Pythagorean theorem big enough to see from outer space.
Behind the velodrome's timber-clad frame, cyclists will race for gold round a track made from sustainably-sourced Siberian pine, while Zaha Hadid's striking wave-shaped roof on the Aquatics Center has been temporarily adorned with "wings" providing seating for 15, 000 spectators.
Then, there is a real possibility that the trans-Kazak line will link up with a Russian pipeline and so also could carry Siberian oil to China.
The endemic Siberian population had different molar features and a "very unique DNA signature" - that was dated to be almost 900, 000 years old.
The "Tunguska Event" that flattened over 800 square miles of Siberian forest in 1908 was caused by a stony asteroid only 50 meters in diameter exploding in the lower atmosphere.
Ironically, the Trans-Siberian Railway, which Witte saw as a generator of commerce, was seen by the czar and others as a means to project Russian military power into the Far East.
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