German investigators have confirmed that a car used by a contact of fatally poisoned ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko before the two men met was contaminated with the rare radioactive substance polonium-210, The Associated Press reportes.
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December 11, 2006Russia will carry over 300 kilos of enriched uranium from a Soviet-era nuclear research reactor in eastern Germany back to Russia, the Reuters news agency reported Thursday.
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December 7, 2006The German government is not currently in talks to sell its Deutsche Telekom AG shares to Russia’s Sistema, German Finance Minister Peer Steinbrueck said in an interview with Spiegel magazine.
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November 27, 2006The United States and the United Kingdom treated the entrance of Soviet troops into the Baltic states in the 1940s with understanding and viewed this step as an unpleasant but necessary measure to oppose Nazi Germany’s aggression.
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November 23, 2006Documents from the informal EU summit in Lahti, Finland, last month — together with other top-secret papers — were found in a bin outside the Spanish foreign affairs ministry in Madrid last week.
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November 15, 2006Six major powers are set to resume attempts to agree on how to censure Iran for refusing to suspend sensitive nuclear fuel work as Russia hinted Tehran might be willing to return to negotiations, AFP reports.
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Veteran agents of Soviet and Russian foreign intelligence said Thursday they were deeply saddened by the death of Markus Wolf, East Germany’s long-serving spy chief, who died at the age of 83, RIA Novosti news agency reports.
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November 10, 2006Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder defended Russia’s record as an energy supplier and insisted that a planned German-Russian pipeline will not compete with existing supply routes.
Schroeder, who left office last November, now serves as chairman of the North European Gas Pipeline consortium, which is building the pipeline under the Baltic Sea. The project has infuriated Poland, which it will bypass, and comes amid concern in Europe over the continent’s dependence on Russian gas.
“It has been said again and again that this pipeline is not a competing project with the existing pipelines through Ukraine and the … pipeline that touches the Baltic (states) and Poland,†Schroeder said, quoted by Associated Press. “We have rising demand and dwindling resources of our own.â€
The former chancellor, who is currently promoting his memoirs, also dismissed concerns over Russia’s reliability. Russia’s decision earlier this year to cut gas deliveries to neighboring Ukraine disrupted natural gas supplies elsewhere.
“For more than 30 years Europe —- particularly Germany —- has not had the slightest reason to doubt the delivery loyalty, once of the Soviet Union and now of Russia,†he said.
Schroeder, who was a strong ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, has rejected criticism at home for becoming involved in a project that he championed while in office.
On Wednesday, he reiterated his argument that “this project is of enormous significance in supplying Western Europe with gas.â€
Russia’s state-controlled gas giant Gazprom holds a controlling 51 percent stake in the pipeline consortium, while German companies BASF AG and E.On AG each have 24.5 percent.
“Possibly, and the talks are well advanced, on the side of the European companies a Dutch one will be added,†Schroeder said. He did not elaborate.
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