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2009-06-20 Russia's Lukoil has broken into Western Europe's most lucrative oil refining and retail market by taking over Dow Chemicals' 45 percent stake in Total Raffinaderij Nederland (TRN).
2008-11-05 Russia might deploy short-range missiles in the Baltic region to counter a perceived threat from a proposed American missile defense shield in Eastern Europe.
-- According to Dmitri A. Medvedev, President of Russia, in his first state of the nation address
2008-10 The more oil and natural gas supply Russia controls, the more it can coerce Europe by threatening to shut off their power.
2008-10 Europe can defend itself against Russia agression.
2008-10 Europe spends roughly four times more on defense than Russia.
2008-07-29 ... in significantly undermining the group's capabilities.
Al-Qaeda has been involved in more terrorist attacks since Sept. 11, 2001, than it was during its prior history and the group's attacks since then have spanned an increasingly broader range of targets in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa, according to researchers.
-- According a RAND Corporation study
2008-03-28 "On behalf of the European Parliament I fully reject the interpretation contained in the film that Islam is a violent religion.
The film's content seems conceived with the purpose of offending the religious senses of the Muslims in Holland, in Europe and the world.
The mutual respect and tolerance are the preconditions for Muslims, Christians and people of other faiths or without any to be able to live together in peace.
Freedom of expression is a fundamental value of the EU and must go side by side with the respect for the profound religious beliefs of the others".
-- Hans Gert Poettering, European Parliament President, in comment to yesterday's release on the Internet of the film 'Fitna'
2008-03 “Ethnonationalism has played a more profound role in modern history than is commonly understood, and the processes that led to the dominance of the ethnonational state and the separation of ethnic groups in Europe are likely to recur elsewhere.” “A familiar and influential narrative of 20th-century European history argues that nationalism twice led to war, in 1914 and then again in 1939. Thereafter, the story goes, Europeans concluded that nationalism was a danger and gradually abandoned it. In the postwar decades, Western Europeans enmeshed themselves in a web of transnational institutions, culminating in the European Union.” -- Jerry Z. Muller, history professor of Catholic University
2008-01-15 Europe will eventually become a federation like the United States of America, and that only 50 years down the line the world will be able to tackle globalization and evaluate its effects.
-- According to Lech Walesa, the first president of a free and independent Poland and the founder of Solidarity, Addressing local business leaders at a reception in Tel Aviv, Israel
2008 Lukoil bought a 49 percent stake, with an option to expand it later, in the Italian ERG group's ISAB refinery in Sicily (with its declared total processing capacity at an impressive 16 million tons per year).
This is Lukoil's first major acquisition in Western Europe.












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