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Energy News // 9 years ago

Russia, Iran nuclear contract imminent

Russian plans to sign a contract with Iran to help expand the Bushehr nuclear power facility by the end of the year, Russia's nuclear regulator said Monday.

World News // 1 decade ago

Iran, Russia reach preliminary agreement for two nuclear power units

Iran said Wednesday it has negotiated a preliminary deal for Russia's Rosatom nuclear power company to provide it with two more nuclear power generating units.

Energy News // 1 decade ago

U.S, Russia sign off on nuclear energy pact

A joint agreement between the Russian and U.S. governments lays the groundwork for bilateral cooperation on nuclear energy, the U.S. Energy Department said.

World News // 1 decade ago

U.S.-Russia warheads-for-fuel program to end in November

The Megatons to Megawatts nuclear non-proliferation program will be completed later this year, a joint statement Friday from Russia and the United States said.

Energy News // 1 decade ago

Analysis: Russia's uranium production

As Europe ponders its natural gas future falling increasingly under Kremlin domination, Russia, currently the world’s fourth-largest uranium producer, is angling to become the world's No. 3. As in the oil and natural gas market, this expansion will require that Russia assert control over a number of states in the post-Soviet space including, if possible, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Mongolia. While the eventual success of Kremlin foreign policy is somewhat problematic at this point, growing world demand for the metal is not.

Business News // 2 decades ago

A Russian Roulette -- Devolution

Russia's history is a chaotic battle between centrifugal and centripetal forces -- between its 50 regions, 2 cities (Moscow and St. Petersburg), 6 territories, 21 republics, and 10 departments -- and the often cash-strapped and graft-ridden paternalistic

Top News // 2 decades ago

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Sergey Vladilenovich Kiriyenko (Russian: Серге́й Владиле́нович Кирие́нко) (born 26 July 1962) is a Russian politician. He served as the Prime Minister of Russia from 23 March to 23 August 1998 under President Boris Yeltsin. Currently, he is the head of Rosatom, the state nuclear energy corporation.

Sergei Kiriyenko's grandfather, Yakov Israitel, made his name as a devoted Communist and Lenin awarded him with an inscribed pistol for his good service to the Party.

Sergei Kiriyenko was born in 1962 in Sukhumi, the capital of the Abkhazian ASSR of the Georgian SSR, and grew up in Sochi , in southern Russia. After graduation from high school, Kiriyenko enrolled in the shipbuilding faculty at the Nizhny Novgorod (Gorky) Water Transport Engineers Institute, where his divorced father taught. At this time, he dropped the Jewish family name of his father and adopted Kiriyenko, the Ukrainian name of his mother.

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