A syndicate of Russian banks and Cuba’s Aviaimport S.A. have signed a $203.4 million credit agreement, RIA Novosti news agency reported Friday.
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December 22, 2006The Federal Security Service Directorate for Novosibirsk Region is to send to court a criminal case brought against Oleg Korobeynichev, the head of the laboratory of the Institute of Kinetics and Combustion of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the ITAR-TASS news agency reported on Friday quoting a press statement by the head of the directorate Sergey Savchenkov.
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The board of directors of the United Aircraft Corporation (OAK) elected Russian vice-premier and Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov as their chairman at their meeting on Tuesday.
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December 12, 2006
Home Secretary John Reid has said that traces of radioactivity had been found at “around 12″ locations as part of the investigation into the death of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko.
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November 30, 2006
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AzAL (Azerbaijani Airlnes) turned down a flight of AN-140-100 passenger plane manufactured by Ukraine. Spokesman for the company Magerram Safarli made the announcement to reporters, the REGNUM agency reports.
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November 21, 2006Moscow prosecutors have arrested the Head of a Russian aircraft company on suspicion of delivering faulty aircraft spare parts the Associated Press reported on Wednesday.
The Prosecutor-General’s Office said Alexander Surikov, the head of the SB-120 company at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport, has been charged with supplying unsafe products and placed in custody.
Earlier in the course of the trial prosecutors have accused the company’s engineer Victor Gamayunov of forging technical documents in order to sell aircraft spares with expired service lifetimes.
The official probe against the company followed a number of aircraft crashes this year. In August, a Tu-154 jet belonging to Pulkovo Airlines crashed in Ukraine after encountering a storm, killing all 170 people aboard, and in July, an Airbus A310 belonging to airline S7 skidded off a runway and burst into flames in the Siberian city of Irkutsk, killing 124 people.
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November 1, 2006Two Russian amphibian aircrafts were leased by the Indonesian national disaster agency to help douse forest fires that have been spreading smoke across the region for months, the Reuters news agency reported on Tuesday.
It has been the worst smoke pollution originating from Sumatra and Borneo since 1998 when it cost the region billions of dollars in economic losses.
The pilots and technical staff will also come from Russia to be involved in targeting areas on Sumatra and Borneo Indonesian officials said.
However, by the time the planes were ready, conditions in the haze-hit regions including Singapore and Malaysia have generally improved following rains.
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October 31, 2006
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