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07MINSK296	GOB MOVING SLOWLY TO ATTRACT INVESTMENT [...] (C) The government of Belarus announced its hopes to attract greater investment and to expand the share of foreign investment in the economy. However, the GOB has not undertaken any new initiatives to make the business climate more favorable for foreign investors. Systemic barriers and overa [...]	2007-04-06 14:01:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BO

07MINSK298	URBAN HOUSING IN BELARUS: MORE UNAFFORDABLE THAN [...] (U) Housing prices in Belarus have risen higher than in any other sector of the country's economy. In addition to higher energy and raw material costs affecting many sectors, independent experts blame the government's tighter control over residential housing and land. They also believe the [...]	2007-04-06 15:17:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV ECON PGOV BO
07MINSK3	GAS FLOWS TO BELARUS, BUT ECONOMY STILL AT RISK [...] (C) Negotiations in Moscow over gas prices and a Russian stake in Beltransgaz (refs A and B) resulted in a last minute deal, averting a potential gas cutoff. Belarus managed to knock an additional USD 5 of the price per thousand cubic meters for 2007. In return, Belarus agreed to sell Gazprom [...]	2007-01-03 13:32:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET PGOV PREL BO RS
07MINSK304	LUKASHENKO SEEKS TO ASSUAGE CONCERNS OVER PERSONAL [...] (SBU) During his latest speeches on April 4-9, Lukashenko emphasized that he remains in firm control of the country. Lukashenko stated that while the recent oil and gas conflict had caused problems for the economy, these problems would soon be overcome and forgotten. He declared that recent e [...]	2007-04-12 08:29:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL ECON BO
07MINSK306	COALITION REACHES A COMPROMISE ON DEMOCRATIC [...] (C) In a surprising move, the leaders of the opposition coalition reached an agreement on the purpose and format of the democratic congress. During a recent conference co-sponsored by U.S. NGO IRI, coalition leaders agreed to let the regional coalitions decide on the issues currently paralyzi [...]	2007-04-13 14:36:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV BO
07MINSK307	LUKASHENKO RECONFIRMS HIS PLAN TO REMAIN PRESIDENT [...] (SBU) During a press conference with independent and state media on April 12, Lukashenko denied rumors that he was grooming one of his two legitimate sons for the presidency, stressing that he plans to remain in power for the "foreseeable future." During his most recent statements to the pres [...]	2007-04-13 15:38:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL ECON PHUM BO
07MINSK32	ON THE EVE OF LOCAL ELECTIONS MILINKEVICH COMMENTS [...] (C) Opposition coalition leader Milinkevich on January 11 expressed to Ambassador his concern for Belarus' sovereignty in the wake of the Russian-Belarusian gas and oil crisis. Milinkevich opined Russia had given up on Lukashenko and would achieve its goals in Belarus using strong economic pre [...]	2007-01-12 14:58:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BO
07MINSK327	NEW OPPOSITION PARTY SEEKS TO UNITE CHRISTIAN [...] (C) Belarus Christian Democracy (BCD),a newly emerged opposition party, seeks to create a democratic Belarus based on Christian principles and Belarusian patriotism. Pursuant to those goals, the unregistered BCD is cooperating with Christian leaders and religious NGOs to launch a signature c [...]	2007-04-23 10:45:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KIRF BO
07MINSK336	GOB STILL FINDS ENERGY SOLUTION ELUSIVE [...] (C) Press speculation that the government will institute measures to make refining oil in Belarus for export profitable despite export duties masks the fact that the country cannot support its two refineries in the long-term. Moreover, recent official GOB visits to oil exporting countries will [...]	2007-04-25 15:12:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EPET PGOV PREL BO
07MINSK337	BELARUSIAN ECONOMY WEAK BUT STABLE, VISITING DAS [...] (C) Belarusian economists and business leaders told visiting EUR DAS Kramer the Belarusian economy, while weak, would remain stable. The slightly dampened economy might cause Lukashenko finally to consider one or two multibillion-dollar privatizations this year to raise revenues. Corruption, [...]	2007-04-25 15:15:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BO
07MINSK342	DAS KRAMER ASSUAGES CONCERNS OF CIVIL SOCIETY [...] (C) On April 24, EUR DAS David Kramer met with representatives of Belarusian civil society NGOs during his visit to Minsk. The NGO leaders concurred that the Lukashenko regime appears anxious following the conflict with Russia over energy prices earlier in the year and seeks to better relati [...]	2007-04-26 14:49:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BO
07MINSK343	OPPOSITION REMAINS UNITED AHEAD OF CONGRESS [...] (C) At a meeting with EUR Deputy Assistant Secretary Kramer, opposition leaders emphasized the importance of intense cooperation and successful strategy implementation going into and following the upcoming congress of democratic forces. After the congress, the coalition plans to increase its [...]	2007-04-26 14:52:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL BO
07MINSK349	LUKASHENKO'S ANNUAL SPEECH FOCUSES ON [...] (U) In his annual address to the Belarusian parliament, President Lukashenko announced plans to prevent future energy crises, which include diversifying Belarus' energy supplies, building a nuclear power plant, and encouraging Belarusians to be thriftier. Naming China as Belarus' number one i [...]	2007-04-27 18:46:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON PHUM BO
07MINSK353	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - APRIL 26, 2007 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS Civil Society ------------- - Opposition Leaders Warned for March 25 Demonstration (para. 2) - Parliament Adopts Changes to Political Party/NGO Law (para. 3) - Pro-Democratic Historians to Establish [...]	2007-04-30 14:35:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EPET ENRG BO
07MINSK354	POLLING RESULTS: LUKASHENKO SUPPORT REMAINS HIGH IN WAKE OF [...] According to latest polling results of independent pollster Andrey Vardomatskiy, Lukashenko's public support remains at 51.3% while de facto coalition leader Milinkevich's support rating dwindles to 4.0%. A large portion of respondents approve of Lukashenko's handling of the gas-oil conflict a [...]	2007-04-30 14:36:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PINR SOCI ECON BO
07MINSK358	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - MAY 3, 2007 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS Civil Society ------------- - Former Political Prisoner Banned From Traveling Abroad (para. 2) - Over 4,500 Signatures Collected to Challenge the Religion Law (para. 3) - GOB to Review Former Monas [...]	2007-05-04 08:48:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EPET ENRG BO
07MINSK37	BELARUS BACKS OUT OF ITS OIL JAM, FOR NOW [...] (C) On January 12, Belarus and Russia signed an agreement on oil, giving both sides some of what they wanted. While Russia will finally see budget revenues from its oil exports to Belarusian refineries, Lukashenko has preserved, albeit in a weakened form, his country's status as an offshore d [...]	2007-01-16 12:19:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET PGOV PREL BO RS
07MINSK382	LUKASHENKO, PALE AND BOMBASTIC, SLAMS U.S. AT [...] (SBU) President Lukashenko on May 9 delivered a war-like Victory Day speech to WWII veterans and the diplomatic corps at Victory Square in Minsk. After leading a short march of WWII veterans and laying a wreath at the eternal flame, Lukashenko praised the heroism and sacrifice of the Belarusi [...]	2007-05-10 14:21:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR BO
07MINSK387	BELARUSIAN CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM: COMEDY AND TRAGEDY [...] (SBU) Observations from the recent arrest and trial of an AmCit accused of financial crimes confirmed that the Belarusian criminal justice system remains a weak parody of a system based upon rule of law. This glimpse at the court system outside the public eye and highly politicized cases expo [...]	2007-05-11 14:05:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV CASC EFIN KFRD BO
07MINSK391	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - MAY 11, 2007 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS International Relations ----------------------- - EC Office in Minsk Not Sign of Softness on GOB (para. 2) - Lukashenko Ratifies Kyoto Protocol (para. 3) Civil Society ------------- - Supreme [...]	2007-05-14 08:00:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EPET ENRG BO
07MINSK401	MAY 31-JUNE 1 COUNTERTERRORISM CONFERENCE DEMARCHE [...] (SBU) On May 15, Vladimir Tararov, Minister Counselor from the Russian Embassy, and Dep Pol/Econ Chief delivered reftel talking points, agenda and timetable to Vladimir Serpikov, Director of the MFA's European Cooperation Department. 2. (SBU) Serpikov said Oleg Anatolyevich Chernyshev, head [...]	2007-05-16 14:49:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OSCE PREL PTER AFIN RS SP BO
07MINSK412	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - MAY 18, 2007 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS Civil Society ------------- - Opposition Activists Protest Children's Benefits Cut (para. 2) - Opposition Calls for Solidarity with Indicted Youth (para. 3) - Opposition Seeks Legal Action against P [...]	2007-05-18 08:03:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EPET ENRG BO
07MINSK416	MR. AHMADINEJAD COMES TO MINSK MAY 21 [...] (C) Iranian President Ahmadinejad will pay a two-day visit Minsk starting May 21. Post understands Tehran will seek to equip its military -- through purchases of weapons and dual-use technologies, expanding the presence of Belarusian companies producing dual use manufactures, and training Ira [...]	2007-05-18 12:45:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON EPET BO IR
07MINSK424	MILINKEVICH CONFIRMS PARTICIPATION IN CONGRESS [...] (C) On May 22, Charge met with de facto opposition coalition leader Aleksandr Milinkevich, who pledged his active participation in the May 26-27 democratic congress. Milinkevich described the coalition as occupied with organizational issues and divided on questions of international support. N [...]	2007-05-22 14:11:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR BO
07MINSK437	EUR DAS KRAMER'S MESSAGE RESOUNDS [...] (SBU) Local media coverage of DAS Kramer's recent visit to Minsk reflected primarily straightforward and opinion-free reporting. A bit of vituperation was thrown in by Belarusian State TV, which commented in a manner consistent with its usual anti-American sentiment. A lively element of pu [...]	2007-05-24 10:17:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KPAO OEXC SCUL PREL BO
07MINSK438	OPPOSITION COMMUNIST LEADER ENJOYS STRONG INTERNAL [...] (C) With his recent uncontested re-election as head of the Belarusian Party of Communists (BPC),Sergey Kalyakin clearly enjoys strong support from within his party going into the May 26-27 opposition congress. According to BPC deputy Skrigana, Kalyakin and the 185 BPC delegates will defend v [...]	2007-05-24 14:43:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR BO
07MINSK442	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - MAY 25, 2007 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS Civil Society ------------- - GOB Fines Third Organizer of Chernobyl March (para. 2) - Opposition Campaign to Commemorate Vitebsk Purges (para. 3) International Relations ----------------------- [...]	2007-05-25 10:57:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EPET ENRG BO
07MINSK453	OPPOSITION HOLDS CONGRESS, MILINKEVICH STEPS DOWN [...] (C) The opposition's May 26-27 democratic congress was filled with debate and accusations, but the nearly 600 attending delegates from all around the country reaffirmed their commitment to work together in their struggle for freedom. The highlight of the event was former coalition leader Ale [...]	2007-05-29 15:48:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BO
07MINSK463	BELARUSIAN-CHINESE RELATIONS: MORE HYPE THAN [...] (C) Lukashenko has referred to China as its most important strategic partner with increasing regularity. Not only do GOB officials routinely claim that trade between the countries is developing rapidly, they note that Beijing's ability to spur economic growth while maintaining "political sta [...]	2007-06-01 12:10:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BO
07MINSK464	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - June 1, 2007 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS Civil Society ------------- - Activists Protest Abolition of Social Benefits (para. 2) - Protestant Pastors Face Intensified Harassment (para. 3) - Youth Activists Protest Old Town Demolition in Gro [...]	2007-06-01 14:47:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EPET ENRG BO
07MINSK465	MINISTER-LEVEL PETROCHEMICAL BOSS JAILED BY BKGB [...] (C) On May 29, the Belarusian State Security Committee arrested Aleksandr Borovskiy, Director of Belarusian government-owned petrochemical holding company, Belneftekhim. Authorities will likely file corruption charges against Borovskiy, although any corruption he engaged in apparently came wi [...]	2007-06-01 15:12:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET PGOV PINR BO
07MINSK476	FORMER IMPRISONED OPPOSITION LEADERS BACK [...] (C) On June 4, Ambassador met with two recently-released political prisoners. Opposition youth leader Pavel Severinets and Belarusian Social Democratic Party chair Nikolay Statkevich expressed their gratitude to the USG for pressuring the GOB to free them. They also noted their dissatisfact [...]	2007-06-05 14:47:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BO
07MINSK486	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - June 8, 2007 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS Civil Society ------------- - Opposition Protests Benefits Cuts for Children (para. 2) - Holocaust Memorial Unveiled at Former Ghetto Site (para. 3) - Youth Activists Receive Short Jail Sentences (p [...]	2007-06-08 12:38:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EPET ENRG BO
07MINSK497	OSCE ACTIVELY WORKS TO PROMOTE DEMOCRACY IN BELARUS [...] (C) According to Deputy Head of the OSCE Office in Minsk Vahram Abidjan, the mission's democracy promotion efforts in Belarus focus primarily on monitoring the GOB's actions to fulfill its OSCE commitments. In order to evaluate the GOB's progress, Minsk OSCE Office representatives attend tria [...]	2007-06-11 14:20:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL BO
07MINSK508	THE SURVEY SAYS SUPPORT FOR LUKASHENKO STILL HIGH [...] (C) Independent pollster Oleg Manayev presented post the results of the latest IISEPS survey conducted May 5-15. Aleksandr Lukashenko's rating fell slightly, although support for opposition leaders remained low. Manayev's findings suggest public openness to an opposition and support for negot [...]	2007-06-14 14:25:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL BO
07MINSK51	ELECTION AUTHORITIES ANNOUNCE LOCAL ELECTION [...] (SBU) The Central Election Commission (CEC) on January 18 announced the final results of the January 14 municipal elections. Allegedly 79 percent of the electorate voted, but only 16 out of 166 pro-democracy candidates won council seats. The CEC rejected all complaints from election particip [...]	2007-01-19 13:54:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ASEC BO
07MINSK510	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - June 15, 2007 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS Civil Society ------------- - Opposition Activists Arrested and Fined in Vitebsk (para. 2) - Youth Activist Fined in Mogilev (para. 3) - Women Support Activist Shatsikova's Parental Rights (para. 4) [...]	2007-06-15 10:07:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EPET ENRG BO
07MINSK52	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - JANUARY 17, 2007 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. This report covers events from January 8 to January 19. TABLE OF CONTENTS GOVERNMENT ---------- - Lukashenko Appoints Son to Belarus' Security Council (para. 2) - Parliamentary Session on Election Commission (para. 3 [...]	2007-01-19 14:28:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EPET ENRG BO
07MINSK522	MILINKEVICH OPTS FOR FREEDOM OF ACTION [...] (C) In a recent meeting with Ambassador, Aleksandr Milinkevich pointed to the release of political prisoners as a sign Lukashenko's opponents could successfully put pressure on the regime. He outlined ideas for his new "For Freedom" movement, insisting it would complement rather than compete [...]	2007-06-18 12:07:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BO
07MINSK542	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - June 22, 2007 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS International Relations ----------------------- - South African Delegation Visits Belarus (para. 2) Civil Society ------------- - Minsk Authorities Want to Remove Small Retail Kiosks (para. 3) [...]	2007-06-22 13:38:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EPET ENRG BO
07MINSK561	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - June 29, 2007 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS International Relations ----------------------- - GOB and Russian FMs Discuss Union, Missile Shield (para. 2) - Official Israeli Delegation Arrives in Minsk (para. 3) - Vietnam Military Delegation V [...]	2007-06-29 14:20:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EPET ENRG BO
07MINSK566	SCENESETTER FOR CODEL BOEHNER MEETING WITH [...] (SBU) Your decision to meet with leaders from the Belarusian opposition underlines continued USG support for democratic transformation in the country Secretary Rice aptly labeled Europe's last dictatorship. Belarus's increasing international isolation puts the opposition in a unique position [...]	2007-07-05 09:22:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PREL BO
07MINSK57	PACE PRESIDENT MANIPULATED BY REGIME DURING VISIT [...] (C) Belarusian opposition leaders and civil society activists continue to communicate disappointment regarding the recent visit to Minsk by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Rene van der Linden. In contrast, top GOB officials and state media seem pleased with the vis [...]	2007-01-23 13:27:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BO
07MINSK575	AMBASSADOR'S TRIP TO GOMEL STRESSFUL, REWARDING [...] (SBU) Ambassador on June 20-21 made an introductory visit to Gomel and Rechitsa to deliver a shipment of western medicines to an oncology center and meet with authorities and civil society activists. Hospitable authorities praised local economic growth and sought greater U.S. investment. Poli [...]	2007-07-06 12:20:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON PHUM BO
07MINSK576	CHAVEZ IN MINSK, THE NEW CITY OF BROTHERLY LOVE [...] (C) Belarusian coverage of Hugo Chavez's visit to Minsk focused on the Venezuelan's "anti-imperialist" rhetoric. The militaristic tone of the trip lends credence to suggestions Venezuela will acquire Belarusian dual-use technologies with applications for anti-aircraft systems. As for non-mili [...]	2007-07-06 12:49:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON PGOV BO
07MINSK578	LUKASHENKO PAYS FEALTY TO RUSSIA, DEFIES WEST [...] (C) In recent Belarusian Independence Day speeches, President Lukashenko reaffirmed the GOB's commitment to strengthening its relations with Russia and other former Soviet republics. Meanwhile, the dictator defiantly downplayed the economic consequences of the EU's recent removal of trade pr [...]	2007-07-06 13:32:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BO
07MINSK601	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - July 13, 2007 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS Civil Society ------------- - Top Election Official Rules Out Dialogue with Opposition (para. 2) - Civil Society Activist Loses Lawsuit, Remains Expelled (para. 3) - Youth Opposition Activist Faces J [...]	2007-07-13 11:00:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EPET ENRG BO
07MINSK609	KOZULIN'S PARTY SPLINTERING ONE YEAR AFTER [...] (C) One year after the politically motivated imprisonment of former opposition presidential candidate Aleksandr Kozulin, Kozulin's party appears to be splintering over rivalries among his party's deputies and disagreements regarding Belarusian relations with Russia and the West. These differe [...]	2007-07-16 13:14:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BO
07MINSK620	LUKASHENKO REMOVES BELARUSIAN KGB CHIEF [...] (C) As predicted, President Lukashenko replaced Belarusian KGB (BKGB) Chief Sukharenko with Major General Zhadobin, the former head of the presidential security service. Lukashenko also removed Sukharenko's deputy Dementei, but no replacement has been made. Official statements claim the dismissal [...]	2007-07-18 12:44:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR BO
07MINSK65	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - JANUARY 2617, [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS CIVIL SOCIETY ------------- - Gomel Opposition Files Suit against Election (para. 2) - GOB Detains and Drafts Youth Activists (para. 3) INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS ---------------------------------- [...]	2007-01-26 13:35:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EPET ENRG BO
07MINSK652	LESSON FROM MOLODECHNO: DO NOT BUY BRICKS [...] (SBU) During a July 19 visit to Molodechno, city officials informed Acting Pol/Econ Chief and Poloff about their city's booming economy, cultural richness, and attractiveness to foreigners. Local political party representatives painted a different picture and lambasted the same city officials [...]	2007-07-27 07:59:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON PHUM BO
07MINSK654	Embassy Minsk Weekly Pol/Econ Report - July 26, 2007 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS Civil Society ------------- - Solidarity Road Tour Participants Detained (para. 2) - Opposition Movement Denied Registration (para. 3) - GOB to Establish Nuclear Regulatory Agency (para. 4) - Forensi [...]	2007-07-27 09:30:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EPET ENRG BO
07MINSK656	PA AIDE: IT SECTOR SUCCESSES NOT TRANSFERABLE [...] (C) Former Belarusian Ambassador to the United States turned IT promoter Valeriy Tsepkalo provided Ambassador an overview of his High Tech Park. Tsepkalo discounted the possibility of Belarus recreating similar pro-business conditions in other sectors of the economy in the near future. He al [...]	2007-07-27 13:28:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BO
07MINSK662	BELARUS: 2007 REPORT ON INVESTMENT DISPUTES AND [...] (SBU) The United States Government is aware of seven (7) unresolved claims of United States persons that may be outstanding against the Government of Belarus (GOB). Under the second heading are provided, as last year, six (6) other incidents in which property owned by the US Government was sei [...]	2007-07-30 13:50:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CASC EFIN EINV KIDE OPIC PGOV BO
07MINSK674	TWO DAYS FOR LUKASHENKO TO FIND A COMPROMISE [...] (C) Gazprom's surprise announcement that it will reduce gas transfers to Belarus by 45 percent effective August 3 follows the company's longstanding policy of publicly stating it wants to move its dealings with Minsk to a market basis. Unlike negotiations over gas and oil pricing for 2007, def [...]	2007-08-01 14:06:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET PGOV PREL BO RS
07MINSK676	LUKASHENKO ORDERS GOB TO PAY UP [...] (C) Lukashenko publicly announced he ordered his government to withdraw money from its foreign reserves to pay off its debt to Gazprom. GOB officials and independent commentators alike predicted that Minsk would seek to avoid escalating the gas crisis with Moscow. Belarusian state media outl [...]	2007-08-02 14:18:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET PGOV PREL BO RS
07MINSK678	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - AUGUST 3, 2007 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS Civil Society ------------- - Neo-Nazi Activist Jailed (para. 2) - Disabled Children Seek Greater State Support (para. 3) - Two Protestants Briefly Detained (para. 4) - Human Rights NGO Seeking Re- [...]	2007-08-03 12:10:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON BO
07MINSK681	GASTRIC REFLUX: NEAR-TERM ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL [...] (C) On August 3, Belarus made initial payment on its debt to Gazprom as ordered by Lukashenko. GOB foreign reserves remain sufficient to preserve economic stability in the short term, although Belarus likely will seek foreign credits in advance of further increases in gas prices in 2008. Poli [...]	2007-08-06 12:15:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET PGOV PREL BO RS
07MINSK685	ISA DEMARCHE: MFA FURTHER DETAILS GOB POSITION [...] (C) MFA officials presented DCM further points in response to the demarche on the Iran Sanctions Act August 7. They claimed Belarusneft's oil exploration in Iran would not violate international norms, and noted that Western investors, including oil companies, are already engaged in Iran. The [...]	2007-08-09 12:54:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC PREL ENRG EPET IR BO
07MINSK687	GRODNO OPPOSITION UNIFIED, LOCAL GOB OFFICIALS [...] (SBU) Ambassador recently traveled to two cities in Belarus' western Grodno region to survey the local political and economic landscape. The regional authorities were predictably optimistic about Belarus' economic development and foreign investment. Meanwhile, local pro-democracy forces rem [...]	2007-08-09 13:24:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON PHUM BO
07MINSK689	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - August 10, 2007 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS Civil Society ------------- - Malady Front Appeals Registration Denial (para. 2) - Human Rights Group to Assist Political Victims (para. 3) - Minsk Authorities Deny Application for Demonstration (pa [...]	2007-08-10 12:38:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON ENRG BO
07MINSK696	PINT-SIZED PRIVATIZATIONS UNDER WAY WHILE [...] (C) August could become a relatively significant month for privatizations. An Austrian company apparently fronting for Belarusians will purchase a controlling packet in an ailing bicycle factory. More significantly, potential investors submitted bids for one of the country's largest breweries [...]	2007-08-13 14:09:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BO
07MINSK710	REPLACING PM SIDORSKIY EASIER SAID THAN DONE [...] (C) Once again, Belarusian Prime Minister Sergey Sidorksiy has survived rumors of his imminent political demise. Dismissing Sidorskiy with economic indicators still holding up, and with further gas negotiations with Russia just around the corner, would seem ill-timed. Instead, Lukashenko may [...]	2007-08-17 13:25:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR BO
07MINSK711	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - August 17, 2007 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS Civil Society ------------- - Demographic Trends (para. 2) - Entrepreneurs Resolve to Strike and Defend Rights (para. 3) - Independent Editor Faces Criminal Charges (para. 4) - Polish Officials Den [...]	2007-08-17 13:36:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON ENRG BO
07MINSK72	KEEPING THE ECONOMY AFLOAT SANS CHEAP ENERGY? [...] (C) Economists' forecasts for Belarus in the wake of significant energy import price rises vary greatly. Those most optimistic about the economy's prospects focus on the relatively benign budget implications for 2007 and the ability of Lukashenko to dictate adjustments. Pessimists note the m [...]	2007-01-30 09:28:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EPET PGOV PREL BO
07MINSK728	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - August 24, 2007 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS Civil Society ------------- - Neo-Nazis Threaten Vitebsk Activist (para. 2) - Police Prevent Solidarity Demonstration (para. 3) - Vendors Hold Spontaneous Protest at Minsk Market (para. 4) - Opposi [...]	2007-08-24 13:44:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON ENRG BO
07MINSK733	VITEBSK OFFICIALS' OPTIMISM SHROUDS CONTINUED [...] (SBU) Poloffs recently traveled to two cities in Belarus' Vitebsk region to survey the local political and economic landscape. The regional authorities were generally optimistic about the region's economic performance and potential for foreign investment, particularly in its Free Economic Zo [...]	2007-08-27 13:48:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON PHUM BO
07MINSK739	RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR IN MINSK SPECULATES ON [...] (U) In an Interfax interview that has circulated widely through the international media beginning on August 27, Russian Ambassador to Belarus Aleksandr Surikov was asked whether Russia might station new military assets on Belarusian territory in response to USG moves to enhance European anti- [...]	2007-08-28 14:37:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR MNUC BO RS
07MINSK740	SOSNY TRUST AND COOPERATION HIGH, SECURITY LOW [...] (C) The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) team continued its project with Belarus' Joint Institute of Power and Nuclear Research (JIPNR)--Sosny on the design of an upgraded Material Protection, Control and Accounting (MPC&A) system for the facility's nuclear material. The team also began explori [...]	2007-08-28 14:39:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG TRGY PARM MNUC PGOV BO
07MINSK743	SOSNY TRUST AND COOPERATION HIGH, SECURITY LOW [...] (C) The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) team continued its project with Belarus' Joint Institute of Power and Nuclear Research (JIPNR)--Sosny on the design of an upgraded Material Protection, Control and Accounting (MPC&A) system for the facility's nuclear material. The team also began explori [...]	2007-08-29 10:15:00	Embassy Minsk	SECRET	ENRG MNUC PARM PGOV TRGY BO
07MINSK745	MILINKEVICH UPBEAT, FOCUSING ON EUROPEAN FUTURE [...] (C) Belarusian opposition leader Aleksandr Milinkevich complained to post that GOB authorities' repression of freedom of association reached new heights. Despite the harassment, he will continue to try to meet supporters and civic activists throughout Belarus. Milinkevich remains clearly foc [...]	2007-08-30 12:50:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR BO
07MINSK758	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - AUGUST 31, 2007 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS Civil Society ------------- - Several Demonstrations for Kozulin Release Banned (para. 2) - Opposition Youth Fined for Leaflets (para. 3) - Police Detain Youths for Pro-Opposition Graffiti (para. 4) [...]	2007-09-05 11:51:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON ENRG BO
07MINSK768	PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR LUKASHENKO ERODING [...] (SBU) The latest independent public opinion poll confirms a trend of slowly declining support for Belarusian dictator Aleksandr Lukashenko. Most respondents termed the economy as fair, but showed slightly less optimism about economic developments. Cuts in social benefits to take effect in De [...]	2007-09-07 13:16:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR BO
07MINSK770	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - SEPTEMBER 7, 2007 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS Civil Society ------------- - Pro-GOB Youth Union Reports on Successes (para. 2) - Opposition Leaders Harassed in Brest (para. 3) - Opposition Youth Sentenced to Jail and Fines (para. 4) - Free-Lan [...]	2007-09-07 13:38:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON ENRG BO
07MINSK771	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - SEPTEMBER 7, 2007 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS Civil Society ------------- - Pro-GOB Youth Union Reports on Successes (para. 2) - Opposition Leaders Harassed in Brest (para. 3) - Opposition Youth Sentenced to Jail and Fines (para. 4) - Free-Lan [...]	2007-09-07 13:39:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON ENRG BO
07MINSK780	LOVING FOR LUKA IN ALL THE WRONG PLACES: A GLIMPSE [...] (C) Recent travel to Lukashenko's birthplace revealed Shklov and environs to be a veritable Potemkin village. Thanks to the dictator's largesse, the town of less than 15,000 sported brightly painted houses -- at least on the main streets -- and a number of new public institutions. The vaunte [...]	2007-09-12 08:59:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR BO
07MINSK786	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - September 14, 2007 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS Civil Society ------------- - Opposition Leader Jailed and Fined (para. 2) - Three Activists Receive Jail Sentences (para. 3) - GOB Introduces Residential Registration (para. 4) - Soligorsk Miners [...]	2007-09-13 13:07:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON ENRG BO
07MINSK796	CHANGE COMING TO BELARUS WITH OR WITHOUT CIVIL [...] (SBU) The fledging Belarusian Institute for Strategic Studies (BISS) held its inaugural conference September 10-12 in Kyiv. The conference represents the first attempt to gather the full spectrum of independent political and social analysts of Belarus, without GOB or political participants, t [...]	2007-09-17 12:01:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON ENRG BO
07MINSK799	MOGILYOV OFFICIALS PLAY NICE, REQUEST ASSISTANCE [...] (SBU) Poloffs recently traveled to two cities in Belarus' Mogilyov region to survey the local political and economic landscape. The regional authorities emphasized stability and were generally optimistic about the region's development, at the same time taking every opportunity to solicit mone [...]	2007-09-19 07:25:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON PHUM BO
07MINSK8	A STIFF LUKASHENKO SENDS A MELANCHOLIC NEW YEAR'S MESSAGE [...] (SBU) An exhausted-looking Lukashenko on December 31 delivered his yearly New Year's address to Belarusians before the stroke of midnight. Standing stiffly next to a fireplace mantle and eyes noticeably shifting to the teleprompter behind the camera, Lukashenko slowly, without his infamous "ch [...]	2007-01-05 07:38:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON PHUM BO
07MINSK805	BELAYA RUS-IFICATION OF PARTY POLITICS? [...] (C) Belaya Rus, a group created two years ago to support Aleksandr Lukashenko, may soon formalize its status as a national social organization. Most likely, Belaya Rus will provide pro-presidential local election commission members and monitors for the 2008 parliamentary vote. Members of Bel [...]	2007-09-19 13:16:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR BO
07MINSK808	GEORGIA ON LUKASHENKO'S MIND [...] (C) During a visit by Georgia's Minister of Defense to Minsk, Lukashenko said he wanted to make relations between the two countries "better than during the Soviet Union." While Georgian officials mostly focused on trade in public statements, the GOB most likely sought to signal independence fr [...]	2007-09-21 11:06:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL BO GG
07MINSK809	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - September 21, 2007 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS International Relations ----------------------- - Syria to Open Embassy in Minsk, Expand Ties (para. 2) Civil Society ------------- - Opposition Youth Arrested, Fined, and Expelled (para. 3) - [...]	2007-09-21 11:07:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON ENRG BO
07MINSK810	WORLD BANK: BELARUS ECONOMY NOT IN DANGER -- YET [...] (SBU) In a World Bank Country Assistance Team meeting with the diplomatic corps, World Bank Country Director Paul Bermingham stated that the macroeconomic situation in Belarus is "serious, but not life-threatening", that economic growth is real, but foreign reserve levels are not ideal. Bermin [...]	2007-09-21 11:13:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PGOV PREL BO
07MINSK811	LUKASHENKO'S ARMS DEALER BACK FROM MALTA? [...] (C) A Minsk businessman claims suspected Belarusian arms dealer Vladimir Peftiyev just returned to Minsk permanently after several years residing in Malta. The move, if true, suggests Lukashenko may have transferred ill-gotten assets elsewhere. End summary. Major Weapons Trader Returns to [...]	2007-09-21 11:19:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	KTFN EFIN PREL PINR BO MT
07MINSK825	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - September 28, 2007 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS Civil Society ------------- - Leaflets against Edicts Seized at Market (para. 2) - Corruption Case Sent to Supreme Court (para. 3) - Activist Hospitalized After Arrest (para. 4) - Participants of F [...]	2007-09-27 16:33:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON ENRG BO
07MINSK849	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - October 05, 2007 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS Civil Society ------------- - Opposition Protests Social Benefits Cuts (para. 2) - Jailed Opposition Leader's Daughter Fired (para. 3) - Parliament's Lower House Elects New Speaker (para. 4) - Loca [...]	2007-10-05 15:10:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON ENRG BO
07MINSK850	VENEZUELA ARMS SHIPMENTS DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO [...] (S) On October 2, Ambassador delivered points from reftel to Valentin Rybakov, Foreign Policy Advisor to President Lukashenko. Rybakov noted the points, and responded only by asking if the U.S. Government expresses such concerns to other governments as well, mentioning Russia in particular, o [...]	2007-10-05 16:31:00	Embassy Minsk	SECRET	PARM PREL MASS ETTC RS VE BO
07MINSK863	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - October 12, 2007 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS Civil Society ------------- - Authorities Permit March with Route Modification (para. 2) - UCP Office Raided after OSCE Speech (para. 3) - European March Organizer Sentenced to Jail (para. 4) - Dem [...]	2007-10-11 15:03:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON ENRG BO
07MINSK882	LUKASHENKO CRITICIZES PUTIN, BACKS [...] (U) At an October 12 press conference with Russian journalists, President Lukashenko criticized the Putin government for limiting the GOB's access to Russian mass media and stalling Belarusian-Russian integration. Lukashenko advocated a "multi-directional" GOB foreign policy emphasizing close [...]	2007-10-17 16:14:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BO RS
07MINSK886	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - October 19, 2007 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS Civil Society ------------- - Polish Minority Leaders Arrested in Grodno (para. 2) - Supreme Court Denies Leftist Union Registration (para. 3) - Milinkevich Founds European Integration Council (para [...]	2007-10-19 16:16:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON ENRG BO
07MINSK893	NEAR-TERM ECONOMIC COLLAPSE UNLIKELY - ANALYSTS [...] (C) Belarusian economic experts do not foresee the imminent collapse of the Belarusian economy, in spite of price hikes for imported Russian natural gas. During an October 18 meeting with the Ambassador, economic analysts predicted that the Belarusian economy could sustain expected gas price [...]	2007-10-23 15:21:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG EFIN PINR BO
07MINSK904	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - October 26, 2007 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS Civil Society ------------- - Opposition Party Establishes Youth Wing (para. 2) - Activists Protest Expulsions (para. 3) - Activist Re-Arrested Immediately Following Release (para. 4) - Commemorati [...]	2007-10-26 14:48:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON ENRG BO
07MINSK905	SUPREME COURT DENIES VYASNA REGISTRATION APPEAL [...] (U) The Supreme Court denied the registration appeal of Human Rights NGO Vyasna October 26. The NGO had been appealing an earlier decision by the Justice Ministry to deny its registration due to supposed errors in its application. The group is a successor to an organization that the Supreme C [...]	2007-10-26 15:07:00	Embassy Minsk	SECRET	PGOV PHUM PINR BO
07MINSK915	FORMER PRESIDENTIAL AIDE ON LUKASHENKO AND CRONIES [...] (C) Former Presidential Administration Press Advisor Aleksandr XXXXXXXXXXXXX told Pol/Econ Chief on October 23 that Lukashenko has not decided whether to run again in 2011. The dictator's inner circle does not fear a managed transition, but still wants to avoid significant steps toward democratiza [...]	2007-11-01 15:40:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR BO
07MINSK918	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - November 02, 2007 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS Civil Society ------------- - Activists Mark Remembrance Day (para. 2) - Police Seize Materials Ahead of Social March (para. 3) - Opposition Youth Examined by Psychiatrists (para. 4) - Authorities [...]	2007-11-02 16:15:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON ENRG BO
07MINSK929	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - November 09, 2007 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS Civil Society ------------- - Opposition to Hold 1,500 Rallies in Mid-December (para. 2) - Gomel District Court Upholds University Expulsion (para. 3) - Christian Democracy Conference Held in Minsk [...]	2007-11-08 15:47:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON ENRG BO
07MINSK935	MODEST GAS PRICE HIKE LIKELY FOR BELARUS IN 2008 [...] (SBU) Gazprom is likely to raise natural gas prices for Belarus by roughly 25 percent for 2008. Such a modest hike would rule out Russia granting Belarus a stabilization loan. Still, analysts term the predicted 2008 price less than called for by the New Year's agreement between Minsk and Mosc [...]	2007-11-13 16:12:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET PGOV PREL BO RS
07MINSK949	REGIME FAILING TO DEAL WITH POPULATION DECLINE [...] (C) A recent conference demonstrated that official Minsk recognizes that economic migration to Belarus could help counterbalance the country's significant natural population decline. Weak policies and modest goals for attracting workers from abroad suggest the GOB will continue to focus on we [...]	2007-11-16 13:10:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL ELAB BO

07MINSK95	GOB RENEWS LEASE OF LEADING HUMAN RIGHTS NGO [...] (C) On January 31, the GOB reversed a December 2006 decision and announced that it would renew the lease contract for the offices of the prominent human rights organization the Belarus Helsinki Committee (BHC) for one more year. The GOB denied any political motivation in its original cancell [...]	2007-02-01 19:06:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL BO
07MINSK950	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - November 16, 2007 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS Civil Society ------------- - BPF Convention to Be Held in Minsk (para. 2) - Apparent Neo-Nazis Disrupt Polish Embassy Reception (para. 3) - GOB Bans Subscription to Major Russian Periodicals (para. [...]	2007-11-16 17:03:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON ENRG BO
07MINSK96	KEEPING THE ECONOMY AFLOAT SANS CHEAP ENERGY? [...] (C) Economists' forecasts for Belarus in the wake of significant energy import price rises vary greatly. Those most optimistic about the economy's prospects focus on the relatively benign budget implications for 2007 and the ability of Lukashenko to dictate adjustments. Pessimists note the m [...]	2007-02-01 19:09:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EPET PGOV PREL BO
07MINSK967	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - November 23, 2007 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS Civil Society ------------- - Polish Priest Faces Deportation (para. 2) - Activists Authorized to Mark Slutsk Uprising (para. 3) - Activist Wins Appeal in Supreme Court (para. 4) - Pro-Regime "Bela [...]	2007-11-23 15:39:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON ENRG BO
07MINSK97	EUR/UMB DIRECTOR DISCUSSES OPPOSITION CONGRESS AND [...] (C) Ambassador and visiting EUR/UMB Director Boehme recently met with several Belarusian opposition party leaders who expressed their support for holding an early March congress of pro-democracy forces. The opposition leaders generally were in favor of broadening U.S. economic sanctions agai [...]	2007-02-01 19:09:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BO
07MINSK983	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - November 30, 2007 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS Civil Society ------------- - Blacklisted Musicians Meet Chief Ideology Officer (para. 2) - Three Poles Expelled from Belarus (para. 3) - Business Activists Jailed (para. 4) - Family Describes Kozu [...]	2007-11-30 14:41:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON ENRG BO
07MINSK993	NATIONAL BANK CHAIR MAY SUCCEED SIDORSKIY AS PM [...] (C) While talk of the imminent sacking of Belarusian Premier Sergey Sidorskiy has circulated for some time, rumors are increasing regarding one likely successor, Chairman of the Board of the National Bank of Belarus Pyotr Prokopovich. A civil engineer by training, Prokopovich is a long-time [...]	2007-12-05 14:42:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON PINR BO
07MONROVIA571	LIBERIA ISSUES PRESS STATEMENT ON KEY U.S. [...] Acting Minister of Health S. Mohammed Sheriff called Poloff May 15 to alert Embassy to the Ministry of Health's issuance of a press release along the lines of the U.S. objectives at the annual World Health Assembly. The press release appeared in the May 15 "Inquirer" newspaper. 2. Text of p [...]	2007-05-15 17:29:00	Embassy Monrovia	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO AORC PREL KFLU WHO LI
07MONTEVIDEO1017	URUGUAY: SCENESETTER FOR COMMANDER, SOUTHCOM [...] (C) Summary and Introduction: The U.S. Mission in Montevideo welcomes you and your delegation's visit to Uruguay. Though led by a left-leaning government, Uruguay shares many of our values and remains an island of democratic stability and good governance in a turbulent region. Your arrival [...]	2007-12-04 16:48:00	Embassy Montevideo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON MARR MASS UY
07MONTEVIDEO1053	MERCOSUR SUMMIT: POLITICAL ATMOSPHERICS IMPROVE, [...] (SBU) Summary: Presidents from the four Mercosur countries plus Chile, Bolivia and Venezuela met in Montevideo on December 18 at Mercosur%s 34th Common Market Council. Unlike in previous meetings, and contrary to pre-Summit expectations, the gathering was diplomatic and pleasant. Uruguayan Pre [...]	2007-12-19 21:37:00	Embassy Montevideo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECIN ECON ETRD AR BOL BR CH PY VZ XR UY
07MONTEVIDEO529	(S/NF) VENEZUELAN FOREIGN AID TO URUGUAY [...] (S/NF) Summary: This telegram responds to reftel request for information. Venezuelan assistance to Uruguay is growing, but is not yet great. It is also difficult to calculate, in part because Chavez's aid comes without the sort of invasive conditions that burden the programs of the World Bank [...]	2007-06-04 17:07:00	Embassy Montevideo	SECRET//NOFORN	PINR VE UY
07MONTEVIDEO629	SCENESETTER FOR SECRETARY OF TREASURY HENRY M. [...] (C) American Embassy Montevideo and I warmly welcome you and the other members of your distinguished delegation to Uruguay. Your July 12-13 visit comes at an especially auspicious time: only three months after the historic POTUS visit and right on the heels of U/S Burns' and A/S Shannon's po [...]	2007-07-02 19:07:00	Embassy Montevideo	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN OVIP ECON OTRA ASEC UY
07MOSCOW1001	U/S JOSEPH-RUSSIAN DFM KISLYAK MEETING ON [...] (C) Summary. On January 29 in Moscow, Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Robert Joseph and Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Kislyak co-chaired a meeting on the Strategic Security Dialogue. They discussed a range of issues, including: -- Joint Ini [...]	2007-03-09 15:07:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	IAEA KACT KNNP MNUC PARM PREL IR RS START
07MOSCOW1002	U/S JOSEPH-RUSSIAN DFM KISLYAK MEETING ON [...] (SBU) DFM Kislyak asked whether U/S Joseph had anything new on the issue of the denial of Russia's membership in the Australia Group. U/S Joseph said he did not. 2. (SBU) DFM Kislyak used this occasion to complain that the U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) was requiring that cont [...]	2007-03-09 15:23:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	IAEA KACT KNNP MNUC PARM PREL IR RS START
07MOSCOW1005	RUSSIAN INDIVIDUAL'S EFFORTS TO BROKER SALE OF [...] (S) On March 9, we discussed reftel information with Sergey Petlyakov, Director of the Foreign Ministry's Arms Technology and Transfer Policy Section in the Department for Disarmament and Security Affairs. Petlyakov said he was unaware of any arms broker named Arkadiy Vinogradov or efforts t [...]	2007-03-09 16:36:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	PARM PREL ETTC MTCR KSCA RS SY
07MOSCOW1007	SECOND KREMLIN PARTY, "FOR A JUST RUSSIA," DEBUTS [...] (SBU) The campaign for elections, which will take place in fourteen regions March 11, has been marked by much the same behavior that has marred previous contests; refusal to register parties in some contests, the liberal use of "administrative resources" to support Kremlin favorites and discou [...]	2007-03-09 16:57:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM PHUM SOCI PINR RS
07MOSCOW1008	TOMSK ELECTIONS: ALL PARTIES IN PLAY, ELECTION [...] (SBU) With a well-educated population fed by six universities and at a safe distance from Moscow, the Siberian region of Tomsk seems tailor-made for liberal-leaning parties like Yabloko or SPS. Disarray within those parties, a popular governor allied with the Kremlin-backed party United Russi [...]	2007-03-09 18:02:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KDEM SOCI PINR RS
07MOSCOW1023	REGIONAL ELECTIONS: UNITED RUSSIA WINS THIRTEEN; [...] (SBU) Summary: Preliminary, unconfirmed results from regional elections held March 11 in fourteen Russian regions show the Kremlin-backed United Russia party in first place in thirteen of the fourteen contests. United Russia did not win more than forty percent of the votes in all contests, a [...]	2007-03-12 12:19:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM RS
07MOSCOW1026	FOLLOW-UP DEMARCHE TO RUSSIA ON ARMS COOPERATION [...] (S) Sergey Petlyakov, Director of the Foreign Ministry's Arms Technology and Transfer Policy Section in the Department for Disarmament and Security Affairs, told us March 9 that he would raise Ref B information within the GOR's interagency community and get back to us on Russian arms cooperati [...]	2007-03-12 13:00:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	PREL PARM ETTC RS SY SU IR
07MOSCOW1028	GOR AGENCIES VISIT PWC MOSCOW OFFICE MARCH 9 [...] (SBU) Some 50 Officials from the Interior Ministry's (MVD) Department of Economic Security and the Procuracy General spent the better part of Friday, March 9, in the Moscow office of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) in connection with the two cases pending against the firm (reftels). The MVD was [...]	2007-03-12 13:22:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON RS
07MOSCOW103	RUSSIAN SUSPECT BEHIND CENTRAL BANKER'S MURDER [...] (SBU) Russia's Prosecutor General Yury Chaika announced on January 11 the arrest of a Russian citizen believed to be the mastermind behind Central Bank First Deputy Chairman Andrey Kozlov's murder in September 2006. Chaika's statement did not mention Aleksey Frenkel by name, but Frenkel's atto [...]	2007-01-12 15:04:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	KTFN EFIN ECON RS
07MOSCOW1037	MESSAGE DELIVERD ON GLOBAL SUMMIT ON AGING [...] (SBU) We shared REFTEL information regarding the upcoming Global Summit on Aging with officials from the MFA's International Organizations Department and the Human Rights Department, the Ministry of Health and Social Development's International Relations Department (MOHSD),and the WHO's Moscow [...]	2007-03-12 15:14:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SOCI ECON TBIO RS
07MOSCOW104	NORTH KOREAN ASYLUM SEEKERS APPROACH UNHCR [...] (S) XXXXXXXXXXXX told us January 12 that XXXXXXXXXXXX was aware of seven North Korean asylum seekers in Moscow. XXXXXXXXXXXX said XXXXXXXXXXXX had passed this information during a January 10 meeting with XXXXXXXXXXXX. The seven are laborers who had been working in a timber camp in the Russian [...]	2007-01-12 15:23:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	PREF PHUM PREL RS KN
07MOSCOW105	RUSSIA REACTS TO IRAQ STRATEGY, IRANIAN [...] (C) Summary: The GOR publicly reacted to the President's policy address by repeating the need for "broad and real" dialogue among Iraqi groups and neighboring countries, including Iran and Syria, and indicating concern over the perceived reliance on a military solution. The MFA told us it r [...]	2007-01-12 15:27:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER MARR IZ IR
07MOSCOW1067	REGIONAL ELECTIONS: COMMUNISTS BENEFIT FROM [...] (SBU) Summary: Although final results are not yet in, the big news of the elections which took place in fourteen regions March 11 appears to be the strong showing by the Communist Party, which overcame an attempt to steal its thunder by the Kremlin-fostered For A Just Russia party to win more [...]	2007-03-13 15:47:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM PHUM PINR RS
07MOSCOW1079	RUSSIAN IMPLEMENTATION OF ECHR JUDGMENTS ON [...] (U) SUMMARY. In early March, Russia notified the Salvation Army that it accepts the ECHR judgment and will pay the monetary damages awarded. The GOR remains within the 90-day appeal period of the ECHR ruling in favor of the Jehovah's Witnesses, and will likely adhere to its practice of accept [...]	2007-03-14 07:00:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KJUS KIRF PGOV RS
07MOSCOW109	EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: ITRC "MIR", [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, ITRC "MIR", Moscow, Russia. The company is listed on BIS license app [...]	2007-01-16 09:00:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW1098	RUSSIA ENERGY: MORE ON LUKOIL AND IRAN AND THE ISA [...] (C) In response to reftel A, we have raised our concerns about Lukoil's investment in the Anaran field with Acting Foreign Minister Andrey Denisov and Lukoil President Alekperov. In a March 12 meeting with Deputy Energy Secretary Sell (septel),Alekperov reiterated his clear SIPDIS underst [...]	2007-03-14 14:09:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ETTC PREL IR NO RS
07MOSCOW110	EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end- user, Supreme Commercial Court, Moscow, Russia. The company was [...]	2007-01-16 09:01:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW1100	SIX-PARTY TALKS: GOR VIEWS ON THE FIFTH WORKING [...] (C) On March 14, Aleksandr Ignatov, MFA Deputy Director of the ASEAN Department and a participant in the Fifth WG on the Northeast Asia Peace and Security Mechanism, shared with us GOR expectations for the upcoming talks. Ignatov, who has served in South Korea, will be deputy to Ambassador V [...]	2007-03-14 14:27:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM MNUC KNNP KN RS
07MOSCOW1104	RUSSIAN MFA REACTION ON KODORI INCIDENT [...] (C) Summary: DFM Karasin told Ambassador March 12 -- and the MFA repeated March 13 -- that Russia was not involved in the March 11 firing incident in Georgia's Kodori Gorge. The CIS PKF had observed firing in the region, but the GOR had no further information and would await the results of th [...]	2007-03-14 14:56:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS MARR GG RS
07MOSCOW1105	CSTO: RUSSIA'S COUNTER TO NATO [...] (C) Summary. Russian observers see the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) as a potential counter to NATO influence, particularly in Central Asia. The reintegration of Uzbekistan into the organization in 2006 gave it a much-needed shot in the arm. CSTO leaders, while wary of NATO [...]	2007-03-14 14:58:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PINR PREL MCAP MOPS NATO RS
07MOSCOW1106	RUSSIAN STOCKS DOWN AFTER U.S., ASIAN MARKETS SLIP [...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified and not for Internet distribution. 2. (SBU) U.S. economic reports that sent the NYSE and NASDAQ tumbling on March 13 had a similar effect on the March 14 trading session in Russia. The opening of the March 14 trading session saw the benchmar [...]	2007-03-14 15:33:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON RS
07MOSCOW111	EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: JSC DIGAZ, [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, JSC Digaz, Moscow, Russia. The company is listed on BIS license appl [...]	2007-01-16 09:01:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW112	EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: JSC VREMYA- [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, JSC Vremya-Ch, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. The company is listed on BIS [...]	2007-01-16 09:01:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW1120	OTHER SHOE DROPS: VESHNYAKOV OUT OF CEC [...] (C) Summary: Many commentators attribute President Putin's failure to re-appoint Central Election Commission (CEC) Chairman Aleksandr Veshnyakov to his public criticism of election law changes that were initiated by the Kremlin-backed party United Russia. Although many will miss Veshnyakov' [...]	2007-03-15 11:59:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL KDEM RS
07MOSCOW1128	RUSSIAN REACTION TO THE 2006 HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT [...] (SBU) Summary: The MFA spokesman and leading Duma members criticized the 2006 Human Rights Report as biased, hypocritical, and needlessly confrontational. However, Ella Pamfilova, Chairwoman of the President's Human Rights Council, surprised observers by telling the media she agreed with the [...]	2007-03-15 15:19:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV KDEM PINR RS
07MOSCOW1129	U.S.-RUSSIA TALKS ON JOINT INITIATIVE TO [...] (C) SUMMARY. On January 26, a team led by A/S John Rood met with a team led by Oleg Rozhkov, MFA Deputy Director of the Department of Security and Disarmament Affairs (DVBR),to discuss the joint initiative to strengthen nuclear nonproliferation outlined in a January 10 letter from U/S Joseph [...]	2007-03-15 15:19:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG KNNP PARM RS
07MOSCOW1143	KOSOVO: HARDLINE RUSSIAN DFM TITOV URGES PHASED [...] (C) Summary: In a March 15 meeting, Deputy Foreign Minister Titov reiterated to the Ambassador that the Russian bottomline remained unchanged: the Ahtisaari plan was unacceptable absent Serbian endorsement, and Serbs remained united in their opposition to the proposal. Titov expressed ange [...]	2007-03-16 13:52:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL RS
07MOSCOW1144	SERGEY IVANOV'S MIXED LEGACY AS DEFENSE MINISTER [...] (C) SUMMARY: Former Minister of Defense Sergey Ivanov leaves behind a mixed legacy as Defense Minister. He can claim credit for increased defense funding and launching a multi-year modernization program for the armed forces. He also sparked some reform initiatives, like the Ministry's revi [...]	2007-03-16 13:57:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR MARR MCAP PREL PGOV RS
07MOSCOW1148	DUBNA: HIGH HOPES FOR SPECIAL ECONOMIC ZONE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: EST and ECON officers March 1 visited the Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in Dubna, home of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR). According to SEZ and JINR representatives, government sources will spend $300 million over five years creating the infrastructure for the SEZ, [...]	2007-03-16 15:04:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TSPL ECON EINT ETRD TNGD RS
07MOSCOW1149	ENERGY DEPUTY SECRETARY SELL'S TRIP TO MOSCOW: [...] (C) Summary. Deputy Secretary of Energy Clay Sell visited Moscow March 11 - 14 to participate in the bilateral Energy Working Group (EWG) and to meet with U.S. energy companies as well as Lukoil and Gazprom. At the EWG, there was a good exchange of views on information exchanges, energy effi [...]	2007-03-16 15:28:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
07MOSCOW1198	RUSSIA: PRIVATIZATION OF POWER SECTOR ON TRACK [...] (C) Summary. Privatization of Russia's electricity power sector, the fourth largest in the world, is set to accelerate this year. Electricity monopoly RAO UES is currently preparing final reform measures needed to sell off its power companies to the private sector, and hopes to close its door [...]	2007-03-20 14:38:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EIND ENRG PREL RS
07MOSCOW1209	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR EAP ADVISOR BALBINA HWANG AND [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to EAP Senior Advisor Balbina Hwang and PRM/ANE Program Officer Melissa Pitotti to visit Vladivostok April 6 through April 9, 2007. The primary purpose of this trip is to further USG efforts to implement North Korean refugee-related aspects of the [...]	2007-03-21 10:52:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF PREL PHUM OTRA ASEC RS
07MOSCOW1210	RUSSIA: PWC FINED IN YUKOS TAX AUDIT CASE [...] (SBU) On March 20, the Moscow District Federal Arbitration Court (FAC) ruled against PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC),agreeing with the Federal Tax Service that PWC had falsified its 2002-2004 audits of former oil giant Yukos. The panel rendered its decision after only four hours of testimony an [...]	2007-03-21 11:33:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON RS
07MOSCOW1236	RUSSIAN MFA: AFGHANISTAN POST-FM VISIT; IRAN [...] (C) Summary: In a March 21 meeting, MFA Director Maryasov said Russia was evaluating further arms donations to Afghanistan, finalizing the debt relief documents, pushing for CSTO-NATO counter-narcotics cooperation, and sending a drug control official to Kabul in the "nearest future." During [...]	2007-03-22 14:11:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR AF IR RS
07MOSCOW1239	BILATERAL BIOTERRORISM LETTER DELIVERED [...] (SBU) On March 21 we delivered Ref A letter regarding the proposed bilateral bioterrorism working group meeting to Sergey Belousko, Attache, and Mikhail Shurgalin, the Director of the Information Section of the MFA's Department of New Challenges and Threats. Shurgalin said he would share the [...]	2007-03-22 15:29:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER TBIO RS
07MOSCOW124	RUSSIAN ENERGY: LUKOIL, ISA, AND IRAN [...] (C) In response to reftels, Post has approached Lukoil three times over the past two months about the firm's possible investment in the Azadegan oil project in Iran. In Mid-November, econoff drew on reftel A points to express USG concern about press reports suggesting a possible Lukoil invest [...]	2007-01-16 14:27:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
07MOSCOW1240	"OTHER RUSSIA" STAND-OFF WITH NIZHNIY NOVOGOROD [...] (SBU) "Other Russia's" plans to stage the third in its series of marches, this time in Nizhniy Novgorod on March 24, appeared March 22 to be bumping up against much the same kind of problems it had encountered in earlier efforts in Moscow and St. Petersburg. This time around, local law enforce [...]	2007-03-22 16:33:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM PHUM SOCI RS
07MOSCOW1241	RUSSIAN NANO COMPANIES LEAVE ACADEMY BEHIND [...] (SBU) Summary: EST recently visited two nanotech ventures based in Moscow-region "science cities." The scientists who head these entities reinvented themselves after the fall of the Soviet Union. In the process, they have provided a new model for Russia science, one centered on an extremely [...]	2007-03-23 03:49:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TSPL PGOV ECON ETRD PINR TNGD RS
07MOSCOW1248	BURMA: RUSSIAN MFA SEES BURMA HEADING IN RIGHT [...] (C) In a recent discussion with Anatoliy Borovik, Chief of the MFA's Burma, Cambodia and Laos Section, we underlined the U.S. commitment to continue actively promoting national reconciliation, respect for human rights and a transition to democracy in Burma. Borovik told us that Russia did not [...]	2007-03-23 05:56:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM UNSC BM RS
07MOSCOW1257	TRANSNISTRIA: RUSSIAN MFA NEGOTIATOR ON INCIDENTS [...] (C) On March 23 we raised with Russian MFA Ambassador-at-large Nesterushkin the March 16 refusal of Transnistrian authorities to allow diplomats from Amembassy Chisinau into the separatist region. We handed Nesterushkin a copy of Ambassador Finley's March 21 intervention at the OSCE Permanent [...]	2007-03-23 10:22:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS MARR MD RS
07MOSCOW126	RUSSIA: LIBERIA PARTNERS' FORUM [...] (SBU) This message is sensitive but unclassified and not for internet distribution. 2. (SBU) Emboffs delivered reftel points to the Foreign Ministry's Africa Department Director Igor Labuzov. He said that a Russian delegation would likely attend the Liberian Partners' Forum in Washington [...]	2007-01-17 07:05:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON PREL RS LI XY
07MOSCOW1285	AEROFLOT "BUYS" A350 AS UAC AND EADS CUDDLE UP [...] (C) Summary. In a March 22 meeting with Airbus, Aeroflot signed a memorandum of understanding to purchase 22 Airbus 350XWBs for delivery between 2014 and 2017. In a separate March 22 ceremony EADS promised the Russian United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) five percent of the airframe work of the [...]	2007-03-23 15:41:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PREL EAIR RS
07MOSCOW1287	RUSSIA-CHINA RELATIONS -- PART 1 [...] (C) President Hu's upcoming visit to Russia March 26-29 will showcase a thriving bilateral relationship, with the launching of the much-hyped "Year of China" in Russia, a publicity stop at Kazan, and the decision to open another Russian consulate in Guangzhou. Moscow's China experts differ i [...]	2007-03-23 19:47:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON ETRD ENRG CH RS
07MOSCOW1288	RUSSIA-CHINA RELATIONS -- PART 2 [...] (C) Despite the positive official rhetoric from Moscow and Beijing, Russian fears of a rising China will shape the future of their relationship. Continuing areas of concern to the Russians include the lopsided trade relationship (Russia's raw materials for China's finished products),real an [...]	2007-03-23 19:48:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON ETRD ENRG CH RS
07MOSCOW1291	RUSSIA-CHINA RELATIONS -- PART 1 [...] (C) President Hu's upcoming visit to Russia March 26-29 will showcase a thriving bilateral relationship, with the launching of the much-hyped "Year of China" in Russia, a publicity stop at Kazan, and the decision to open another Russian consulate in Guangzhou. Moscow's China experts differ i [...]	2007-03-26 02:57:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON ETRD ENRG CH RS
07MOSCOW1292	RUSSIA-CHINA RELATIONS -- PART 2 [...] (C) Despite the positive official rhetoric from Moscow and Beijing, Russian fears of a rising China will shape the future of their relationship. Continuing areas of concern to the Russians include the lopsided trade relationship (Russia's raw materials for China's finished products),real an [...]	2007-03-26 02:57:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON ETRD ENRG CH RS
07MOSCOW1305	RUSSIAN DFM KISLYAK ON US RELATIONS, MD, IRAN, HOM [...] (C) Summary: In a wide-ranging meeting with the Ambassador on March 23, Deputy Foreign Minister Kislyak noted that a visit by U/S Edelman was delayed by the replacement of his counterpart and GOR concerns that the format did not address overarching Russian concerns over US strategic intentio [...]	2007-03-26 09:02:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PARM NATO OSCE RS
07MOSCOW1310	OVERWHELMING POLICE PRESENCE STOPS MARCH IN NIZHNIY NOVGOROD [...] (C) Nizhniy Novogorod authorities used an overwhelming law enforcement presence to thwart the efforts of several hundred "Other Russia" activists to stage a "March of Dissenters" down a central pedestrian avenue on March 24. Eyewitnesses report that a number of would-be marchers were beaten. A [...]	2007-03-26 12:16:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM SOCI RS KDMR
07MOSCOW1316	RUSSIA-GEORGIA, TRANSNISTRIA: TOUGH TALK FROM DFM [...] (C) DFM Grigoriy Karasin showed little flexibility when Ambassador pressed him on relations with Georgia March 26. Karasin warned that a Georgian application to the European Court of Human Rights over last autumn's deportations would lead to a sharp Russian reaction. He said no process of nor [...]	2007-03-26 13:40:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS MARR MOPS OSCE MD BO UP KZ GG RS
07MOSCOW1318	RUSSIAN DEVELOPMENT AND EXERCISING OF AVIAN AND PANDEMIC [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In response to Ref A request, Russia has not yet publicly released a comprehensive Avian Influenza (AI) and Pandemic Preparedness Plan. A draft national preparedness plan has been submitted to the WHO for review, but needs further refinement. In 2006, Russia did approve an act [...]	2007-03-26 14:21:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO KFLU KSTH RS
07MOSCOW1319	ASEAN REGIONAL FORUM: DEMARCHE ON U.S. [...] (C) We previewed reftel U.S. initiatives to be tabled at the Helsinki ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) meeting with Dmitriy Lukiyantsev, a Counselor in the MFA's Department of ASEAN and Asia Pacific Regional Affairs. Lukiyantsev said the GOR was interested in encouraging the ARF to be more respons [...]	2007-03-26 14:21:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR PARM ARF RS
07MOSCOW1326	RUSSIA: SPECIAL ECONOMIC ZONES START TO STAND UP [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-27 10:35:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EINV ETRD ECON RS
07MOSCOW1336	GOR REACTS TO THE SIXTH ROUND OF SIX-PARTY TALKS [...] (C) While press reports had indicated that Deputy Foreign Minister Losyukov, the chief Russian negotiator in the Six Party Talks, had attributed the breakdown in negotiations to the U.S.'s failure to deliver, the GOR officially termed the latest round as "useful." The MFA statement noted the [...]	2007-03-27 14:17:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM MNUC KNNP KN RS
07MOSCOW1339	RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN RUSSIA [...] (C) SUMMARY. According to religious freedom advocates, human rights experts, and religious leaders, overall religious freedom in Russia continues to improve, despite continued individual violations documented in our annual Report on Religious Freedom. More than 22,000 religious organizations [...]	2007-03-27 14:27:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PHUM PGOV RS
07MOSCOW1354	AMBASSADOR'S 3/27 MEETING WITH FINANCE MINISTER [...] (C) In a March 27 meeting with Finance Minister Kudrin, the Ambassador pushed for Russian progress on remaining problem areas in WTO talks and raised our concern over pending legal action against PricewaterhouseCoopers. There are no plans to revoke the audit license of PricewaterhouseCoopers [...]	2007-03-28 10:55:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON ETRD RS
07MOSCOW1355	GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT NUCLEAR TERRORISM: [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. A US-Russia working-level meeting at the MFA March 27 discussed the June 11-12 meeting in Kazakhstan of the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism (GICNT),and considered recruitment efforts with both the EU and the OSCE to broaden participation in the Global Initiative. [...]	2007-03-28 11:42:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KNNP PARM PREL PTER PINR KGIT RS
07MOSCOW1367	NEW CEC CHAIR CHUROV [...] (SBU) Summary: On March 27, the Central Election Commission (CEC) elected Vladimir Churov as its new chairman. A physicist and St. Petersburg native, with long-standing ties to Putin, Churov announced that he would implement electoral law, not debate it. Duma members and civil society repr [...]	2007-03-29 06:42:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM PINR RS
07MOSCOW1374	RUSSIA-GEORGIA: CALM BEFORE THE STORM? [...] (C) Russian non-official commentators have shown little interest in reacting to the Georgian suit against Russia in the European Court for Human Rights. Even Sergey Markov -- usually the shrillest parrot of any line the Kremlin takes -- called for handling the matter between the foreign minist [...]	2007-03-29 10:46:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM MARR EU GG RS
07MOSCOW1377	YOUR VISIT TO MOSCOW [...] (C) On behalf of the Ambassador, we look forward to your arrival, and offer the following overview of our commercial relationship with Russia. You may want to read also the Ambassador's scenesetter for Foreign Minister Lavrov's last visit to Washington (referenced above),which provides insig [...]	2007-03-29 11:37:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD EINV OVIP
07MOSCOW1383	EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel 1 requested a Post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end- user, Elvatech Ltd, Kiev, Ukraine. The company is listed on a [...]	2007-03-29 12:51:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW1392	MIDDLE EAST: MFA ON NUG, IRAQ, LEBANON, WESTERN [...] (C) SUMMARY: THE MFA STRESSED IN A RECENT MEETING THAT THE FORMATION OF A PALESTINIAN NATIONAL UNITY GOVERNMENT REPRESENTED A MILESTONE IN HAMAS' SLOW EVOLUTION AND SUGGESTED THE QUARTET SHOULD REVISIT ITS POLICIES ON CONTACTS AND ASSISTANCE TO THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY. MFA DIRECTOR FOR T [...]	2007-03-29 14:39:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL IS IZ LE MO WI SU RS
07MOSCOW1394	DAGESTAN: "IT IS ENOUGH THAT THE PEOPLE KNOW [...] (C) Dagestan went to the polls March 11, as did many localities in Russia, but the elections bore little relation -- both in process and in meaning -- to what happened elsewhere in the country. The elections were a way for the four main power groupings to test their strength for the first tim [...]	2007-03-29 15:14:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR RS
07MOSCOW1396	KPRF: PEOPLE POLITICS THE KEY TO SUCCESS [...] (SBU) Summary: The Communist Party of Russia's (KPRF) broad-based and somewhat unexpected success in the March 11 regional elections (reftel),despite a minuscule campaign budget, is attributable to the survival of its party machine and a socialist message that resonates with voters. Althoug [...]	2007-03-30 06:55:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM SOCI RS
07MOSCOW1413	RUSSIA TO REVIEW TALIBAN LIST [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-30 10:35:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	AF RS EFIN ETTC KTFN PGOV PREL PTER UNSC
07MOSCOW1414	RUSSIA NOTIFIED ABOUT BANK SEPAH, STILL NO DECREE [...] (C) Econoff delivered a copy of Treasury Deputy Secretary Robert M. Kimmitt's statement (provided in Reftel A) on UNSCR 1747's designation of Bank Sepah and Bank Sepah International to Vladimir Prokhorov, Senior Legal Counsel for the MFA's Department of New Threast and Challenges. Delivery of [...]	2007-03-30 10:35:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP IR RS PARM EFIN KTFN
07MOSCOW1431	MARCH 11 REGIONAL ELECTIONS: FINAL SNAPSHOT [...] (SBU) Summary: The results of the March 11 regional elections suggest that the success of the Kremlin's experiment in managed democracy has come at the (minor) expense of the United Russia (YR) party. For A Just Russia (SR) (the other Kremlin-backed party) and the Communist Party (KPRF) emer [...]	2007-03-30 13:43:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM PHUM RS
07MOSCOW1434	RUSSIA: THE HARSH IMPACT OF DEMON VODKA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Leading European and Russian addiction and demographics experts met recently in Moscow to discuss alcohol consumption and policy in Russia. Binge drinking causes an estimated three percent drag on GDP and leads to about half a million premature deaths every year. The lack of a [...]	2007-03-30 14:17:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO EAGR ETRD SOCI RS
07MOSCOW1442	RUSSIAN CORPORATE STATISM: WATCH THIS SPACE [...] (C) Summary: The rise of corporate statism in Russia has been significant. Since 2004, the government has taken over the world's largest titanium business, consolidated its position in Gazprom, merged 10 aviation businesses into a state-owned conglomerate, and taken controlling positions in ot [...]	2007-04-02 07:50:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV EIND PGOV RS
07MOSCOW1478	UKRAINIAN CRISIS: INITIAL REACTIONS FROM MOSCOW [...] (C) In the wake of President Yushchenko's decision to disband the Rada, the GOR issued a statement early April 3 urging Ukrainian political forces to demonstrate wisdom and responsibility, and to act within the law. State Duma Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Konstantin Kosachev termed Yus [...]	2007-04-03 16:16:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UP RS
07MOSCOW1479	OTHER RUSSIA'S MOSCOW MARCH PLANS SIDELINED; KASYANOV NOT FLUSTERED BY PRO-KREMLIN YOUTH GROUP HARASSMENT; MIRONOV'S STUMPING FOR PUTIN DISMISSED [...] (C) Former Prime Minister and "Other Russia (OR)" participant Mikhail Kasyanov's Press Secretary, Yelena Dikun, described April 3 the Moscow city government's decision to sideline a planned April 14 "March of Dissenters" as the by-product of the authorities' uneasiness in the wake of problems [...]	2007-04-03 16:29:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM RS KDMR
07MOSCOW1495	RUSSIA: MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY COMPUTER MATHEMATICS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The dean of the mathematics and computer science department of Moscow State University recently provided EST an overview of his domain. Although the level of funding for science education remains low as a percentage of the overall budget, he reported that government revenues hav [...]	2007-04-04 13:12:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TSPL TNGD RS
07MOSCOW1499	SECRETARY GUTIERREZ'S MEETING WITH NATURAL [...] (C) Summary: U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez, accompanied by the Ambassador, met April 2 with Russian Minister of Natural Resources Yuriy Trutnev. Responding to Gutierrez, Trutnev said that Ministry of Natural Resources' (MNR) inspection of the ExxonMobil-led Sakhalin-1 project was " [...]	2007-04-04 13:35:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
07MOSCOW1501	MFA ON RESETTLEMENT OF NORTH KOREANS [...] (S) Chief of the MFA's Migration Section Aleksandr Chuplygin told us April 4 that in principle MFA had no objection to resettlement to the U.S. of the six North Koreans that UNHCR has referred (reftels). Chuplygin underscored that the resettlement should be done discreetly and that any publi [...]	2007-04-04 15:07:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	PREF PHUM PREL RS KN
07MOSCOW1515	RUSSIA: COMMERCE SECRETARY GUTIERREZ'S APRIL 4 [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an April 4 meeting with Commerce Secretary Gutierrez, Minister of Economic Development and Trade (MEDT) German Gref expressed support for conclusion of a WTO-consistent bilateral uranium suspension agreement that does not discriminate against Russian suppliers. While skirting [...]	2007-04-05 12:36:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ECON WTO KIPR KNNP RS
07MOSCOW1520	RUSSIAN DUMA: SPLIT HEALTH MINISTRY IN TWO [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Duma April 4 unanimously approved a proposal to divide the Ministry of Health and Social Development into separate Ministries of Health Care and the Medical Industry and that of Labor and Social Development. Duma Deputies stopped short of calling on Minister Zurabov to resign [...]	2007-04-05 15:55:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	TBIO ETRD ECON SOCI PGOV PINR RS
07MOSCOW1521	RUSSIA: NEW CONCILIATORY TONE AT ISTC MEETINGS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The March 29-30 meetings in Moscow of the Coordinating Committee and Governing Board of the International Science and Technology Center (ISTC) succeeded in resolving some of the controversial issues facing the center, while defusing others to allow for their resolution down the r [...]	2007-04-05 16:04:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	GG KNNP PARM PREL RS TSPL
07MOSCOW1523	RUSSIA: NEW CONCILIATORY TONE AT ISTC MEETINGS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The March 29-30 meetings in Moscow of the Coordinating Committee and Governing Board of the International Science and Technology Center (ISTC) succeeded in resolving some of the controversial issues facing the center, while defusing others to allow for their resolution down the r [...]	2007-04-06 02:47:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	GG KNNP PARM PREL RS TSPL
07MOSCOW1528	AMBASSADOR'S APRIL 5 MEETING WITH CENTRAL BANK [...] Summary. (SBU) In his April 5 meeting with the Ambassador, Central Bank Governor Sergey Ignatiev reiterated the importance placed by the GOR on WTO succession, downplayed the likelihood of the Central Bank losing its supervisory authority over the banking system, and was optimistic about Russi [...]	2007-04-06 09:26:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV RS
07MOSCOW1535	IRAN: SANCTIONS IMPLEMENTATION DECREE STUCK IN [...] (C) We raised implementation of UNSCR 1747 Sanctions against Iran with Petr Illichev, Senior Counselor of the MFA's International Organizations Department. Illichev reconfirmed that Russia intended to move ahead to comply with the provisions of UNSCR 1747 using existing legal authorities, b [...]	2007-04-06 11:00:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM EFIN ETTC IR RS
07MOSCOW1537	NEW RUSSIAN DEFENSE MINISTER STILL AN ENIGMA [...] (C) SUMMARY: More than a month and a half after his appointment as Defense Minister, Anatoliy Serdyukov continues to take a low-key approach to his new job. He has not circulated widely among Defense Ministry officials or military personnel, nor has he publicly articulated a strategic vision for th [...]	2007-04-06 11:39:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR MARR MCAP PREL PGOV RS
07MOSCOW1551	RUSSIA INTERESTED IN G8 BIOTERRORISM DECONTAMINATION [...] (SBU) On April 2 we delivered reftel information about the June 2007 G8 Bioterrorism Decontamination Workshop and the related EPA Decontamination Workshop to the MFA's Department of New Challenges and Threats. In a follow-up conversation April 6, Sergey Belousko, an attache within that departm [...]	2007-04-06 15:03:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO PTER PINS RS
07MOSCOW1552	UKRAINIAN CRISIS: "NO SHARP MOVEMENT" FROM MOSCOW [...] (C) The GOR continues to keep a cautious but close watch over the unfolding crisis in Ukraine. In private, Russian leaders urge that the US and Russia advocate quietly for a constitutional resolution. DFM Karasin told the Ambassador and DAS Kramer to expect "no sharp movement" from the Russi [...]	2007-04-06 16:54:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UP RS
07MOSCOW1579	EUR DAS KRAMER'S MOSCOW TALKS ON TRANSNISTRIA [...] (C) EUR DAS David Kramer held talks on Transnistria/Moldova in Moscow April 6 at the MFA with DFM Grigoriy Karasin, Ambassador-at-Large Valeriy Kenyaikin, Ambassador-at-Large Valeriy Nesterushkin; at the Security Council with Andrey Kuzin; and at the Duma with Andrey Kokoshin. Kramer stressed [...]	2007-04-09 14:42:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS MARR MD RS
07MOSCOW1606	RUSSIAN ENERGY: GAS OPEC -- NOT QUITE [...] (U) Very few in Moscow believed that the April 9 Gas Exporting Countries Forum in Doha would result in a decision to set up an OPEC-like cartel. In the run-up to the meeting, Russia's representative Energy Minister Viktor Khristenko said, "the fact that a cartel agreement on price formation f [...]	2007-04-10 14:14:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
07MOSCOW1608	IRAN: DFM KISLYAK ON VISIT BY IRANIAN GENERAL [...] (C) In an April 10 meeting with DFM Kislyak, the Ambassador expressed disappointment with the April 4-8 Moscow visit by Iranian Deputy Interior Minister/IRGC General Mohammed Zolqadr, who was designated in UNSCR 1747 Annex I as a key person in the IRGC. The Ambassador pressed for an explana [...]	2007-04-10 14:22:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM UNSC IR RS
07MOSCOW1631	UKRAINE: RUSSIAN OFFICIALS CIRCUMSPECT WHILE DUMA [...] (C) GOR officials assured the Ambassador April 10 that the Russian government would continue to be an attentive observer of the Ukrainian political crisis while avoiding direct public involvement. Russian Presidential Foreign Affairs Advisor Sergey Prikhodko told the Ambassador that Russia w [...]	2007-04-11 14:53:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UP RS
07MOSCOW1634	IRAN: PUTIN FRUSTRATED WITH TEHRAN [...] (C) During an April 10 conversation with Russian Presidential Foreign Affairs Advisor Sergey Prikhodko, the Ambassador again expressed disappointment with Russia's receiving Iranian Deputy Interior Minister/IRGC General Mohammed Zolqadr, a individual designated on the UNSCR 1747 list of key [...]	2007-04-11 15:17:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM UNSC IR RS
07MOSCOW1635	DPRK: AMBASSADOR INFORMS GOR ABOUT RESOLUTION OF [...] (C) On April 10, the Ambassador alerted DFM Losyukov to the resolution of the Banco Delta Asia (BDA) dispute and urged the GOR to publicly welcome the breakthrough and to push North Korea to fulfill its February 13 obligations. Losyukov said he understood the significance of the message, welc [...]	2007-04-11 15:20:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM MNUC KNNP KN RS

07MOSCOW1637	RUSSIA: GLOBAL NAVIGATION SATELLITE FORUM CONTRASTS COSMIC [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The April 9-10 International Global Navigation Satellite Forum in Moscow showcased advances in global positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) systems. Led by the U.S. GPS system and followed closely by the Russian GLONASS, many new technologies are opening in agriculture, weath [...]	2007-04-12 03:28:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TSPA TSPL ECON RS
07MOSCOW1653	RUSSIA-HUNGARY: WARMING TREND [...] (C) Summary: Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany's late-March visit to Moscow continued the warming trend in relations between Russia and Hungary. Strong economic interests have been sufficient to overcome the historical legacy that dominates Russia's relations with some of its former s [...]	2007-04-12 08:48:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON ENRG HU RS
07MOSCOW1674	OFFICIAL RUSSIA BRISTLES AT SUPPORTING HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEMOCRACY REPORT [...] (C) In its April 11 reaction to the release of the 2006 Supporting Human Rights and Democracy report, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs further stoked a fire that was set by an April 7 front-page article in the national daily Kommersant and fed with criticism by State Duma Foreign Affairs Commit [...]	2007-04-12 14:51:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR SOCI RS KDMR
07MOSCOW1676	RUSSIA: CAN OLD SCIENTISTS LEARN NEW TRICKS? [...] (C) SUMMARY: To assess the changing science climate in Russia and funding implications (especially for institutes employing former weapons experts),ISN/CTR's Jefferson Science Fellow recently visited several scientific institutes in the Moscow area and met with government officials and repres [...]	2007-04-12 16:43:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	TSPL TBIO PINR PGOV ECON RS
07MOSCOW1677	RUSSIAN OUTBREAK COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES IN COUNTRY AVIAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Per Ref A request, Russia has not yet adopted a communications strategy for avian and pandemic influenza that complies with WHO best practices for outbreak communication to the public. END SUMMARY. 2. (SBU) Russia has yet to adopt a comprehensive Avian Influenza (AI) and Pa [...]	2007-04-13 03:22:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO KFLU KSTH KPAO SENV RS
07MOSCOW1684	RUSSIA: COMMERCE SECRETARY GUTIERREZ'S APRIL 3 [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a meeting on April 3, Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez and Minister of Communications Leonid Reiman discussed a broad range of topics, including the Russian cell phone market, Motorola, cooperation on information technology, IPR, and biometrics. The Secretary asked [...]	2007-04-13 06:38:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD KIPR KNNP RS WTO
07MOSCOW1696	U.S.-RUSSIA WILDLIFE DISEASE CONFERENCE - BIRD FLU [...] SUMMARY: A full-day session on avian influenza drew a large and lively audience during the recent 2nd U.S.-Russia Conference on Wildlife Diseases, held in Moscow. The conference featured a 17-member USG delegation, whose presenters underscored the vital interactions between human health, wi [...]	2007-04-13 13:14:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV EAGR TBIO KFLU RS
07MOSCOW1703	MOSCOW GEARS UP FOR WEEKEND OF DEMONSTRATIONS [...] (C) Saturday, April 14, promises to be a banner day for Moscow, with three major groups --the anti-government Other Russia, the anti-immigrant Movement Against Illegal Immigration, and the pro-Kremlin youth group Young Guard scheduled to stage separate demonstrations around the city. Other Rus [...]	2007-04-13 16:36:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM SOCI RS
07MOSCOW1704	RUSSIAN SCIEN... [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a luncheon meeting with EST April 10, Kurchatov Institute Director Mikhail Koval'chuk weighed in on issues ranging from Russia's proposed floating nuclear power stations to the power struggles between the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) and the Ministry of Education and Science (M [...]	2007-04-14 12:57:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	KIPR KNNP KPAO TBIO PREL RS
07MOSCOW1710	RUSSIA: AMBASSADOR'S APRIL 12 MEETING WITH UAC DG [...] (C) Summary. In a April 12 meeting with the Ambassador, Director General of the United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) Aleksey Federov said that he had joined the industry effort to lobby GOR officials, particularly Presidential Aide Igor Shuvalov, for a "balanced" aviation policy to build good re [...]	2007-04-16 05:55:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EAIR ECON EINV PGOV PARM PINR RS
07MOSCOW1717	"OTHER RUSSIA'S" MOSCOW DEMONSTRATION STOPPED BY POLICE [...] (C) As expected, the April 14 anti-government "Other Russia" demonstration, estimated to number several hundred, at the center city Pushkin Square was stopped in its tracks by as many as nine thousand uniformed law enforcement officials. Member of the Other Russia leadership Garry Kasparov an [...]	2007-04-16 11:07:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV SOCI RS KDMR
07MOSCOW1718	EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel 1 requested a Post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end- user, Tactica Ltd., Moscow, Russia. The company is listed on B [...]	2007-04-16 11:08:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW1719	EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel 1 requested a Post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end- user, Tactica Ltd., Moscow, Russia. The company is listed on B [...]	2007-04-16 11:08:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW1720	EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel 1 requested a Post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end- user, Tactica Ltd., Moscow, Russia. The company is listed on B [...]	2007-04-16 11:09:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW1721	EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: NOVIKOVA [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, Novikova Irina PBOUL firm, Moscow, Russia. The company is listed on [...]	2007-04-16 11:09:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW1722	EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: FSUE [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, FSUE Germanium, Krasnoyarsk, Russia. The company is listed on BIS li [...]	2007-04-16 11:09:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW1724	EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: JSC [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, JSC Sredneuralsky Copper Smelter Plant, Sverdlovsk Region, Revda, Ru [...]	2007-04-16 11:10:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW1734	ELECTIONS: KRASNOYARSK AS BELLWETHER? [...] (SBU) If Krasnoyarsk is an electoral bellwether, as observers here claim, the five political parties which made it into the regional assembly in voting April 15 may be the ones to make it into the State Duma in December. The ruling pro-Putin United Russia party, led in Krasnoyarsk by popular [...]	2007-04-16 15:59:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM PINR RS
07MOSCOW177	RUSSIA ENERGY: PWC TAX CASE TRAIL DATE SET [...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified and not for Internet distribution. 2. (SBU) On January 17, the judge hearing the Federal Tax Service (FTS) case against PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC) for allegedly falsifying audits of former oil giant Yukos has granted PWC's request for a del [...]	2007-01-18 13:32:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON EINV RS
07MOSCOW1770	RUSSIA: MEETING WITH XXXXXXXXXXXX [...] (C) Summary: Emboffs met with XXXXXXXXXXXX. He described the new embezzlement and money laundering charges -- that Khodorkovskiy engaged in transfer pricing that harmed unwitting minority shareholders in Yukos' three production subsidiaries -- as a re-packaging of the charges in the first case. H [...]	2007-04-18 07:48:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON KCRM KJUS PGOV PREL RS
07MOSCOW178	RUSSIAN TAX, CBR OFFICIALS CAUGHT IN FSB STING [...] (SBU) Summary. Court proceedings began this week in a bribery case brought against two mid-level officials (one from the Federal Tax Service and one from the Central Bank) in connection with what is fairly routine business in Russia -- an attempt by the tax service to extort money from a taxp [...]	2007-01-18 13:42:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON RS
07MOSCOW1780	CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY IN RUSSIA [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Church of Scientology is growing in Russia, and has established a nationwide network even though it lacks status as a registered religion. The Moscow branch recently won a landmark decision against the GOR at the European Court of Human Rights. The decision should help the M [...]	2007-04-18 14:58:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PHUM PGOV RS
07MOSCOW180	RUSSIA: POWER SHORTAGE OPENING DOORS FOR FOREIGN [...] (C) Summary. Above average temperatures this winter have given electricity monopoly RAO UES some breathing room as anticipated power shortages this winter have not materialized, but a booming economy and underinvestment in power infrastructure still threaten to slow economic growth, if not add [...]	2007-01-18 14:01:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EIND ENRG PREL RS
07MOSCOW1809	UKRAINE: GOR WAITING FOR COMPROMISE [...] (C) Since the early-April start of the Ukrainian government crisis, the GOR has consistently maintained that it is an internal Ukrainian affair and not amenable to Russia's overt involvement. The Ukrainian FM Yatsenyuk's April 16 visit was portrayed as "business as usual," during which the t [...]	2007-04-19 13:14:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UP RS
07MOSCOW1810	POLICE RAID INTERNEWS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Police raided the Moscow offices of Internews April 18, confiscating financial documents and computers, and effectively paralyzing the organization's work with media outlets. While officials attribute the raid to an investigation of Internews' staff failure to declare currency [...]	2007-04-19 15:04:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EAID PHUM RS
07MOSCOW1811	RUSSIA: MIXED REVIEWS ON NATIONAL HEALTH PROJECT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: With thepQ`j6th three main components: improving primary care by raising health sector salaries and purchasing new equipment and ambulances; strengthening prevention and treatment for infectious diseases; and making high-tech health care more widely available. A separate prog [...]	2007-04-20 04:14:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO SCUL SOCI RS
07MOSCOW1834	RUSSIA: DEMOGRAPHIC UPTURN? [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Russia's demographics picture brightened in 2006, at least compared to 2005. Leading politicians argue the improvements show the National Priority Health Project is working. Demographics experts are skeptical, however, and believe the recent uptick might only be a temporary bli [...]	2007-04-20 12:41:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO SCUL SOCI RS
07MOSCOW1835	TRANSNISTRIA: RUSSIANS DENY "KOZAK-2" [...] (C) We raised the alleged "Kozak-2" negotiations between Russia and Moldova (reftels) with Valeriy Nesterushkin, MFA Ambassador-at-Large for Transnistria (April 17); Viktor Sorokin, MFA 4th CIS Department Director (April 18); and Andrey Kuzin, Security Council (April 20). We mentioned article [...]	2007-04-20 12:42:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS MARR MD RS
07MOSCOW1838	OTHER RUSSIA DEMONSTRATIONS CONTINUE TO REVERBERATE [...] (C) The April 14 and 15 "Other Russia" demonstrations in Moscow and St. Petersburg (reftels) have been the subject of much commentary by Russian officials and the media. Some in official Russia have admitted that the law enforcement authorities went too far, and in doing so propelled to center [...]	2007-04-20 14:55:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM SOCI RS KDMR
07MOSCOW185	IRAQ: MFA INFORMED OF U.S. RESPONSE TO ATTACK ON [...] No summary [...]	2007-01-18 16:50:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS PTER IZ RS
07MOSCOW1866	EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, Sevmorneftegeofizika, Murmansk, Russia. The company is listed on BIS [...]	2007-04-23 12:33:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW1867	RUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION OF PANDEMIC INFLUENZA ASSISTANCE [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-23 12:35:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO KFLU KSTH KPAO SENV RS
07MOSCOW1877	US-RUSSIA STRATEGIC SECURITY TALKS, APRIL 17 [...] (C) SUMMARY. Missile Defense (MD) dominated the all-day Strategic Security talks in Moscow April 17. The Russian side, led by Deputy Foreign Minister Kislyak, contended that the proposed placement of MD interceptors and a radar in Poland and the Czech Republic, respectively, occurred along [...]	2007-04-23 14:46:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP MARR PINS PREL PTER RS
07MOSCOW1895	KREMLIN REACTION TO YELTSIN'S DEATH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: President Putin publicly praised Boris Yeltsin as a leader of courage and conviction, instrumental in bringing democracy to Russia. Official media echoed these themes, focusing on the positives of Yeltsin's leadership and making little mention of economic woes and instability o [...]	2007-04-24 13:53:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PINR RS
07MOSCOW1896	AMBASSADOR PRESSES GOR ON INTERNEWS [...] (C) The Ambassador emphasized strong USG concerns about Internews/the Educated Media Foundation (EMF) with several senior GOR officials, urging a quick resolution of the case. In separate conversations with First DFM Denisov, DFM Yakovenko, DFM Kislyak, and Presidential Foreign Policy Advisor [...]	2007-04-24 15:36:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM EAID RS
07MOSCOW1904	RUSSIA: INVITATION TO TELECOMMUNICATIONS EXPO [...] On April 24 Yekaterina Slizkova, Deputy Chief of the Section for International Cooperation of the Ministry for Information Technologies and Communications (MinInformSvyazi),extended an invitation from Minister Leonid Reyman to Commerce Secretary Gutierrez to attend the October 25-27 InfoCom t [...]	2007-04-25 10:22:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	ECPS ECON EINT ETRD RS
07MOSCOW1919	Russia: Environmental NGOs Focus on Sochi [...] SUMMARY: Large scale development plans for Sochi, a major resort in the south of Russia and one of three finalists to host the 2014 Winter Olympics, continue to prompt concerns among environmental NGOs in Russia. Despite intense government pressure and Rosprirodnadzor approval of an environm [...]	2007-04-26 07:31:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV PGOV RS
07MOSCOW1931	AMBASSADOR'S VISIT TO TVER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Tver Governor Dmitriy Zelenin is a businessman turned politician who integrates a Western business outlook in his style of government. During the Ambassador's visit to Tver Oblast on April 20, Zelenin outlined his priorities and described the future for economic development an [...]	2007-04-26 14:43:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR ECON EINV RS
07MOSCOW1932	PUTIN'S STATE OF THE FEDERATION ADDRESS: TOUTING [...] (SBU) Summary: President Putin's hour-plus address to the Federal Assembly on April 26 was - he emphasized - his last. To loud applause, he declared support for a "moratorium" on Russia's compliance with the CFE Treaty. He again condemned U.S. plans to deploy BMD systems in Europe. The bul [...]	2007-04-26 15:00:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ECON PGOV PARM RS
07MOSCOW1960	RUSSIA: AMBASSADOR'S APRIL 26 MEETING WITH AUDIT [...] SUMMARY (C) In an April 26 meeting with the Ambassador, Audit Chamber Chairman Stepashin remarked that the presence of former Presidents Bush and Clinton at the Yeltsin funeral will help improve U.S.-Russian relations. He also said that problems with Iranian payments for Bushehr continue to ho [...]	2007-04-27 13:33:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EPET ETRD PGOV PINR PREL RS
07MOSCOW1967	RUSSIA'S BANKING SECTOR REPORT FOR 2007 [...] (U) Macroeconomic conditions of relatively low inflation and double-digit income growth have fueled another year of strong growth in Russia's banking sector. Consumer appetites boosted aggregate assets, and increasing confidence in the sector's stability raised retail deposits. Moreover, for [...]	2007-04-30 10:57:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON RS
07MOSCOW1974	RUSSIAN SCIENCE: PUTI... [...] (C) SUMMARY: During his April 26 address, President Putin announced an unprecedented GOR investment in a single scientific field -- 180 billion rubles (approximately seven billion USD) for nanotechnology to be disbursed over a four-year period. Putin had stressed his personal interest in the growin [...]	2007-04-30 13:10:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	KIPR KPAO TBIO RS
07MOSCOW1976	UNSC MINURSO MANDATE RENEWAL: RUSSIA ON BOARD [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-30 13:15:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV UNSC MO WI RS
07MOSCOW1977	FORUM FOR THE FUTURE: MFA SATISFIED WITH CIVIL [...] (SBU) We shared reftel message with MFA Middle East Peace Process Section Chief Sergey Kozlov, who has coordinated participation by Russian civil society in the Forum for the Future. Efforts to contact the civil society leaders who attended the Forum were not successful in advance of reftel [...]	2007-04-30 13:15:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM KMPI ECON RS
07MOSCOW1981	RUSSIA: AMBASSADOR'S APRIL 27 MEETING WITH DEPUTY [...] (C) In an April 27 meeting with the Ambassador, Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandr Zhukov emphasized the GOR's strong interest in WTO accession, mentioning he hoped to have an opportunity to discuss the issue with USG officials participating in a May 21 conference on corporate governance in New [...]	2007-04-30 14:37:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD EINV PGOV PREL RS
07MOSCOW1997	RUSSIA: UPDATE ON PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS [...] (C) PricewaterhouseCoopers is still awaiting a response from the Supreme Arbitration Court on whether it will hear the company's appeal on the expatriate salary issue, PWC's Senior Managing Partner for Russia Peter Gerendasi told us April 26th. PWC continues to cooperate with the Interior Min [...]	2007-05-02 14:51:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON RS
07MOSCOW2040	RUSSIA EDGES FORWARD ON FLOATING NUCLEAR POWER [...] (U) This is a joint cable by Embassy Moscow and ConGen St. Petersburg. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. Thirty years after the United States decommissioned the Sturgis, the first and only U.S.-built floating nuclear power plant (FNPP),Russia has officially embarked on construction of its first FNPP. O [...]	2007-05-04 08:26:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG KNNP TRGY RS
07MOSCOW2043	TOUGHER ENVIRONMENT FOR PARTIES AS ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: Since the 2003 State Duma elections, the legislative environment for the December 2007 State Duma elections has changed significantly: -- registration of political parties and their inclusion in the ballots for elections have become more complicated; -- the deposit t [...]	2007-05-04 09:38:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM PINR RS
07MOSCOW2045	EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel 1 requested a post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end- user, Bochvar All-Russian Scientific Research Institute for In [...]	2007-05-04 10:38:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW2046	EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel 1 requested a Post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end- user, TASC-T, Moscow, Russia. The company is listed on BIS lic [...]	2007-05-04 10:38:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW2062	AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES U.S. FUNDING OF NGOS WITH DFM [...] (C) SUMMARY: U.S. assistance is intended to help Russia develop its governing institutions and not to interfere in Russian partisan politics, the Ambassador told DFM Aleksandr Yakovenko during a May 4 meeting. Yakovenko said that the State Department's Supporting Human Rights and Democracy [...]	2007-05-04 13:44:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV EAID KDEM RS
07MOSCOW2063	GOR SEEKS DISCUSSIONS ON P-5 GENTLEMEN'S AGREEMENT [...] (C) In a May 4 meeting with the Ambassador on U.S. assistance (septel),DFM Aleksandr Yakovenko requested that the P-5 "gentlemen's agreement" on supporting nominees for various UN boards be discussed at the next international organization political directors meeting. Yakovenko said that the [...]	2007-05-04 13:45:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC KTIA RS
07MOSCOW2065	ESTONIA: DEMONSTRATORS QUIT ESTONIAN EMBASSY AS [...] (C) Summary: Pro-Kremlin youth groups gave up their disruptive protest outside the Estonian Embassy early May 4 as the Estonian Ambassador to Russia returned to Tallinn. However, pro-Kremlin youth group Nashi (Ours) began a new demonstration against the European Commission on the afternoon of [...]	2007-05-04 13:57:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD ENRG EN RS
07MOSCOW2074	EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: PERM MOTOR [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, Perm Motor Factory, Perm, Russia. The company is listed on BIS licen [...]	2007-05-07 08:33:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW2086	ESTONIA: DEMONSTRATORS SHIFT FOCUS TO EC AS OIL [...] (C) Summary: The Estonian Embassy was quiet over the weekend, and Embassy officials expect their Ambassador to return to Moscow in two weeks. At the 90-minute May 4 demonstration at the European Commission offices, militia outnumbered protesters. Russian Railways has capped shipments of oil [...]	2007-05-07 11:54:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD ENRG EN RS
07MOSCOW2093	RUSSIA: NO ANSWER YET ON SMALLPOX RESEARCH [...] (C) On May 7 we met with Oleg Chestnov, Deputy Director of the Health and Social Development Ministry's International Department, and delivered Ref A letter from HHS Special Assistant Steiger to Deputy Health and Social Development Minister Starodubov. NOTE: Chestnov was a last-minute substi [...]	2007-05-07 14:58:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	TBIO PARM TSPL CTR CBW RS
07MOSCOW2125	RUSSIA WILL NOT BID ON IRANIAN REACTOR TENDER [...] (SBU) On May 8 we took advantage of a lunch with Aleksandr Shilin, the MFA's point person for Iran issues in the Department of Security and Disarmament Affairs (DVBR),to discuss Russian intentions regarding Iran's tender to construct two new 1,000-1,600 MW nuclear power plants (REF A). Deliv [...]	2007-05-08 13:43:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP IR MNUC PARM ENRG RS
07MOSCOW2126	RUSSIAN PARTICIPATION IN ITWG ANNUAL MEETING AND [...] (U) We delivered non-papers to Russian officials and entities encouraging participation in the annual meeting of the Nuclear Smuggling International Technical Working Group (ITWG) that will be held in Sweden, June 27-28, and an upcoming (date TBD) ITWG-sponsored round-robin exercise in the fiel [...]	2007-05-08 14:07:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	KNNP MNUC ASEC ENRG KCRM PARM TRGY RS
07MOSCOW2127	RUSSIA: NO MORE FUNDS FOR MALARIA [...] (SBU) On May 4 we shared reftel message on continued G8 support for global malaria control programs with Russian Government officials at the MFA's International Organizations Department, the Health and Social Development Ministry's International Department, and the International Department of t [...]	2007-05-08 14:38:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO SENV RS
07MOSCOW2128	ASSISTANT SECRETARY FRIED'S MEETING WITH RUSSIAN [...] (C) EUR A/S Daniel Fried and Russian DFM Grigoriy Karasin focused on Georgia and Ukraine during an April 23 discussion in Moscow lasting over an hour. Fried noted recent progress from the Georgian side (the release of an Abkhaz official arrested by the Georgians, toned-down rhetoric) and call [...]	2007-05-08 14:38:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR PGOV ETRD PHUM OSCE UNSC GG UP RS
07MOSCOW2129	MEDIA AGENCIES MERGE AHEAD OF ELECTIONS AND [...] (SBU) Summary: Against the background of an increasingly controlled media climate, the GOR has merged the agencies Rosokhrankultur and Rossvyaznadzor into one "super" agency in an effort to consolidate regulatory control of the media and information technology. It will not be known for at l [...]	2007-05-08 15:56:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM PHUM PINR RS
07MOSCOW2159	RUSSIA: AMBASSADOR'S MAY 8 MEETING WITH MINISTER [...] (C) Summary: In a May 8 meeting with Ambassador, Minister of Economic Development and Trade German Gref confirmed plans to travel to the U.S. later this year, expressed hope that high-level representatives from USTR, Commerce and/or Treasury would attend the June 2007 St. Petersburg Economic F [...]	2007-05-10 13:50:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD EAGR ECON WTO KIPR RS
07MOSCOW2166	PUTIN'S ENERGY DIPLOMACY: MAY 9-12 VISIT TO [...] (C) Summary. President Putin appears determined to come back home from his May 9-12 visit to Astana and Ashgabat with a signed document that will guarantee 25 years of Turkmen gas to Russia -- something that the history of Russian-Turkmen gas relations suggests may be a difficult task. Some [...]	2007-05-11 06:09:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EPET ENRG ECON KZ TX RS
07MOSCOW217	COMPROMISE ON CONSTITUTIONAL COURT'S MOVE TO ST. [...] (SBU) After much unexpected wrangling, on January 19 the decision was taken to transfer the RF Constitutional Court (CC) to St. Petersburg, as initially proposed by President Putin. CC judges, publicly opposed to the move, succeeded in retaining the right to hold sessions in Moscow. In a rare [...]	2007-01-19 16:43:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR RS
07MOSCOW2187	RUSSIA: PUTIN SIGNS NUCLEAR SECTOR DECREE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On April 27 President Putin signed a decree that splits the Russian nuclear industry into three parts: a) civilian, for-profit; b) military; and c) waste management. The decree is the first practical step in effecting massive changes in the structure, management, and forms of [...]	2007-05-11 12:28:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG KNNP TRGY RS
07MOSCOW2189	SCENESETTER FOR RUSSIA CIVAIR NEGOTIATIONS [...] (C) Summary. This cable lays out some key U.S.-Russian bilateral aviation issues in preparation for the bilateral Civilian-Aviation Negotiations May 16-17 in Moscow. The Russians have told us they are preparing draft updates to the six annexes to our agreement, which they propose to use as t [...]	2007-05-11 12:50:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EAIR ECON PREL RS
07MOSCOW2191	UPDATE ON RUSSIA-ESTONIA STANDOFF [...] (C) Summary. President Putin kept rhetorical pressure on Estonia in a May 9 Victory Day speech, but Russian Railways (RZD) denies that oil product and coal shipments to Estonia have stopped. An RZD spokesperson said that, during its nationwide "annual renovation program," companies would need [...]	2007-05-11 12:50:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG EPET ET PREL RS
07MOSCOW2195	MANAGING POLAR BEARS: IT TAKES A VILLAGE [...] SUMMARY: A project aimed at alleviating the pressure of growing human-polar bear interaction has produced promising results in the village of Vankarem, in Siberia's far northeastern district of Chukotka. Concerted local leadership action, with support from World Wildlife Fund (WWF),has led [...]	2007-05-11 13:25:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV SOCI RS
07MOSCOW2198	DIPLOMATIC NOTE DELIVERED TO RUSSIAN FOREIGN [...] We delivered reftel diplomatic note to Aleksandr Zakharov in the Foreign Ministry's North America Department May 11. We restated the US position and requested a formal response from the GOR to our December 2006 diplomatic note. We will also raise the issue separately with the Presidential Co [...]	2007-05-11 14:57:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	KACT KTIA PARM RS
07MOSCOW2199	RUSSIA: USG WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY OBJECTIVES DELIVERED [...] (SBU) We shared Ref A World Health Assembly message on pandemic influenza preparedness with Russian Government officials at the MFA's International Organizations Department, the Health and Social Development Ministry's International Department (MOHSD),and the International Department of the Fe [...]	2007-05-11 15:03:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO AORC PREL KFLU WHO RS
07MOSCOW220	PHILANTHROPY GROWS IDIOSYNCRATICALLY IN RUSSIA [...] (SBU) Summary. GOR efforts to exert greater control over Russia's NGO sector and a lack of tax incentives have not reversed a dramatic growth in philanthropy, particularly by large domestic corporations. Philanthropic activity has generally matched the expansion of the Russian economy (about [...]	2007-01-22 06:34:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KDEM SOCI ECON RS
07MOSCOW2201	RUSSIA AND A CFE "MORATORIUM" [...] (C) SUMMARY: Deputy Foreign Minister Kislyak reviewed with the Ambassador Putin's April 26 call for a moratorium on Russia's compliance with the Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty and his insistence that all NATO Allies ratify the Adapted Treaty without linkage to the 1999 Istanbul c [...]	2007-05-11 15:35:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KCFE OSCE PARM MARR NATO RS
07MOSCOW2202	AUTHORITIES DETERMINED TO PREVENT SAMARA [...] (C) Summary: GOR authorities have reacted forcefully to Other Russia organizers' determination to hold a demonstration in Samara on May 18, during the EU - Russia summit. Authorities have detained some of the organizers, imposed tough sentences on two organizers alleged to have violated the [...]	2007-05-11 16:13:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV KDEM PHUM SOCI RS
07MOSCOW2205	DFM LOSYUKOV ON THE SCO, SIX-PARTY TALKS, [...] (C) Summary. In a May 10 meeting with the Ambassador, DFM Losyukov promised "no surprises" at the Bishkek Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit--no membership enlargement, nor any demand for U.S. base withdrawal from the region. He predicted an SCO proposal for engagement in Afghanistan, [...]	2007-05-14 03:19:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM MNUC KNNP KN IR AF RS
07MOSCOW2206	RUSSIA: COMMUNICATIONS SECTOR AT A CROSSROADS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The information and communications technology sector is the most vibrant in the Russian economy, demonstrating double digit growth year to year since 2000 and contributing more than five percent to total GDP in 2006. Despite the prospect of surging expansion of the IT sector base [...]	2007-05-14 03:19:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECPS ECON EFIN EINT ETTC PGOV PINR PREL RS
07MOSCOW2214	SOUTH OSSETIA: RUSSIAN MFA "ALARMED" [...] (C) Russian MFA Ambassador at Large for the South Ossetia conflict Yuriy Popov on May 14 assessed the situation on the ground as "alarming." Neither side is willing to blink first, he said. The Russian PKF conducted a monitoring mission after the violence late May 13, and concluded that the [...]	2007-05-14 09:48:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS MARR OSCE GG RS
07MOSCOW2226	RUSSIAN ENERGY: CPC EXPANSION IN THE WORKS [...] (C) Summary. In a May 10 press conference in Astana, President Putin told the press that he considered the expansion of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) "possible," while President Nazarbayev said that additional oil shipments through CPC (the capacity of which would rise by 17 million t [...]	2007-05-14 13:59:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG EPET PREL RS
07MOSCOW2250	GIMME SHELTER: STRAYS FIND NEW HOME IN MOSCOW [...] SUMMARY: Strays roaming Moscow now have an upscale alternative. The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) recently opened a new Stray Dog and Cat clinic in northern Moscow that is intended to work in tandem with an existing mobile vet clinic. This represents the first such combination [...]	2007-05-15 13:26:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV SOCI PGOV RS
07MOSCOW2253	RUSSIA ON REVIVAL OF ISLAMIC HERITAGE SOCIETY [...] (C) Post delivered reftel points on the Revival of Islamic Heritage Society (RIHS) to the MFA's Department of International Organizations and the Department of New Threats and Challenges. Vladimir Prokhorov, Senior Legal Advisor in the Department of New Threats and Challenges, responded that [...]	2007-05-15 14:27:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER KTFN EFIN ETTC PREL ECON RS
07MOSCOW2267	GREAT RUSSIA PARTY: SURVIVAL UNLIKELY [...] (SBU) Summary: The Great Russia (GR) party, launched with some fanfare on May 5 by Duma Deputies Aleksey Savelyev and Dmitriy Rogozin, may not be on the December Duma ballot. While interlocutors concur that GR's nationalistic message should make it relatively easy to find the requisite number [...]	2007-05-16 14:03:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM RS
07MOSCOW2316	RUSSIA: MFA CAUGHT OFF GUARD BY BURMA NUCLEAR DEAL [...] (S) SUMMARY. Rosatom's May 15 announcement of an agreement to build a research nuclear reactor in Burma caught the Russian MFA by surprise. Rosatom, however, claimed no one should have been surprised by the signing of an agreement that had simply been waiting for a Burmese response for two y [...]	2007-05-18 10:51:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	KNNP PREL RS
07MOSCOW2317	RUSSIANS ALREADY DEMARCHING OSCE CAPITALS ON [...] (SBU) On May 16 we delivered reftel demarche to Vladimir Andreyev, Deputy Director for the MFA's Department of New Challenges and Threats, regarding the proposal to conduct joint demarches to OSCE member states to solicit high-level participation in the May 31-June 1 Conference for Public-Pri [...]	2007-05-18 10:52:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PTER OSCE ABUD AFIN RS
07MOSCOW2331	CRACKDOWN ON OTHER RUSSIA SAMARA DEMONSTRATION [...] (C) Summary: On May 18, Russian airport authorities confiscated the passports and tickets of some Other Russia leaders and two Western journalists, effectively preventing them from attending the sanctioned "March of Dissent" in Samara (reftel). Although authorities agreed to the march, which [...]	2007-05-18 13:10:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR KDEM RS
07MOSCOW2332	RUSSIAN ENERGY: THE RUSSIA-CENTRAL ASIA GAS DEAL [...] (C) Summary: During the course of DAS Paul Simons's May 16-17 Moscow visit we spoke with several people about the gas agreements reached between Turkmenistan and Russia during President Putin's recent trip to Russia's southern neighbor. Most of those we spoke to said that they were not surprise [...]	2007-05-18 13:26:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
07MOSCOW2333	RUSSIA COOL TO U.S. PROPOSAL TO EXPAND AND EXTEND [...] (SBU) On May 16 we delivered REFTEL points on the U.S. proposal to expand and extend the G-8 Global Partnership (GP) to Valeriy Biryukov, Head of the GP Section in the MFA's Department of Security and Disarmament Affairs, and his assistant Tatyana Balykina. Biryukov and Balykina had just retu [...]	2007-05-18 14:50:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL ETTC KNNP CBW TRGY RS
07MOSCOW2334	A/S FRIED'S MEETING WITH DFM KARASIN: ESTONIA, [...] (C) EUR A/S Fried and Russian DFM Karasin's May 15 discussion focused on Estonia and Georgia. Fried assured Karasin that the U.S. supports the independence and sovereignty of Russia's neighbors and their freedom from a Russian sphere of influence -- but also urges them to develop good relatio [...]	2007-05-18 18:41:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR ETRD UNSC OSCE AM AJ EN GG RS
07MOSCOW2356	RUSSIA-EU SUMMIT: SHARPER RHETORIC, FEWER RESULTS [...] (C) Summary: President Putin met with EU representatives near Samara May 17-18 to discuss the future of the Russia-EU relationship, Kosovo and Estonia, and trade and investment flows. Russian and EU participants had low expectations for a positive outcome; the Summit was marked by few deli [...]	2007-05-21 15:37:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON ETRD ENRG EU RS
07MOSCOW237	EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: OOO "MODERN [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, OOO "Modern Optical Technologies", Moscow, Russia. The company is li [...]	2007-01-22 07:47:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW238	EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: JSC KASHIRSKY [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, JSC Kashirsky Electrical Network, Kashira, Moscow, Russia. The compa [...]	2007-01-22 07:48:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW2383	OUTLOOK FOR RUSSIA'S NEW FINANCIAL MARKETS CHIEF [...] (SBU) On May 9, Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov appointed one of his economic advisors, Vladimir Milovidov, as the new Director of the Federal Service for Financial Markets (FSFM). Milovidov's appointment came in the immediate aftermath of outgoing FSFM chief Oleg Vyugin's announcement that he [...]	2007-05-22 13:58:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON RS
07MOSCOW2393	THE 2ND ASIAN ENERGY OFFICERS CONFERENCE -- [...] (C) Summary. On April 19-20, Embassy Moscow hosted energy officers from regional Embassies and Washington DC-based USG officials at the 2nd Asia Energy Officers Conference. The conference focused on the still nascent oil and gas linkages between energy-rich Russia and energy-hungry Asia. Rus [...]	2007-05-23 09:34:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
07MOSCOW2419	OSCE: DEMARCHE ON RUSSIAN DRAFT OSCE CHARTER [...] (C) We met May 23 with MFA OSCE Section Chief Valeriy Maslin to discuss the Russian draft OSCE "Charter." Drawing from reftel points, we stressed that while the U.S. favored a Convention on the OSCE's Legal Personality, the negotiating mandate for the Convention was limited and did not exten [...]	2007-05-24 10:47:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL OSCE KTIA PGOV RS
07MOSCOW2421	RUSSIA: REORGANIZATION STALLS REVIEW OF ART [...] (SBU) Summary. Ministry of Culture Deputy Director for the Preservation of Cultural Artifacts Yuri Godovanets told us on May 17 that review of art restitution cases are at a standstill until Presidential Decree number 320, which transfers responsibility over restitution to MinCulture's Depart [...]	2007-05-24 10:56:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KNAR PGOV PHUM PREL RS SCUL
07MOSCOW2429	RUSSIAN REACTION TO LITVINENKO MURDER CHARGES [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOR is highly unlikely to extradite former FSB officer Andrey Lugovoy to Britain, citing constitutional and other legal prohibitions against the extradition of Russian citizens. Official and unofficial Russian reaction to the May 22 British announcement that Lugovoy would be charge [...]	2007-05-24 12:27:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR RS
07MOSCOW2434	LATVIAN BORDER TREATY: DUMA RATIFICATION SLOW BUT [...] (SBU) The GOR has begun the process of ratifying the border treaty with Latvia, which was signed March 27 by the two countries' prime ministers and ratified May 17 by the Latvian Parliament. We understand from the MFA that although there are a number of required bureaucratic steps that will [...]	2007-05-24 13:04:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PBTS PGOV LG RS
07MOSCOW2437	IRAN AND DPRK: IMPLEMENTING UN SANCTIONS [...] (C) We discussed Russia's implementation of UNSCR 1737 and 1747 on May 24 with Vladimir Safronkov, Chief of the MFA's UN Political Affairs Section. Drawing from ref A, we urged that Russia take a broad definition of OP 5 of UNSCR 1747 regarding "arms and related materiel." Safronkov noted [...]	2007-05-24 14:07:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM ETTC UNSC IR KN RS
07MOSCOW2452	RUSSIA: BANK OF NEW YORK OFFICIALS ON NEW LAWSUIT [...] (C) Bank of New York (BONY) officials confirmed in a meeting with the Embassy on May 24 their understanding that the Moscow Arbitration Court has accepted a case against the company, reportedly filed by the Russian Customs Service. On May 16, A U.S.-based lawyer claiming to act on behalf of th [...]	2007-05-25 09:49:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV EFIN RS
07MOSCOW2462	RUSSIA BILATERAL CIVAIR NEGOTIATIONS: FRUITFUL [...] (C) The U.S. and Russian civil aviation delegations had productive discussions May 16-17 on updates to the Annexes of our 1994 Bilateral Air Transport Agreement, but no deal was reached. On overflights, the GOR continues to bar any use of the Trans-Siberian routes without a commercial agreemen [...]	2007-05-25 13:14:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EAIR ECON PREL RS
07MOSCOW2463	VOLGOGRAD MAYORAL ELECTION: JUST RUSSIA BOUNCED, [...] (SBU) Summary: In what was portrayed as an electoral upset by the national media, Communist Party (KPRF) candidate Roman Grebennikov won the May 20 Volgograd mayoral election, with United Russia State Duma Deputy Vasiliy Galushkin coming in a distant third. "For A Just Russia's" (SR) candida [...]	2007-05-25 13:28:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM PINR SOCI RS
07MOSCOW2469	MEDIA FREEDOM IN THE ELECTION YEAR [...] (C) The Kremlin or its well-wishers have been making erratic attempts to fine tune the press in an effort to ensure that the looming Duma and presidential elections go according to script. Ownership of key media by the government or by those friendly to it has been consolidated, a code of beh [...]	2007-05-25 14:18:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PHUM PGOV SOCI RS

07MOSCOW2471	FOR A JUST RUSSIA: KREMLIN BACKPEDALS ON SUPPORT [...] (SBU) Summary: Since "For A Just Russia's" (SR) more or less successful debut in the March 11 regional elections (reftels),the Kremlin appears to have reconsidered its options and backed away from providing the administrative resources including access to national TV airtime that SR members [...]	2007-05-25 14:46:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PGOV PINR SOCI RS
07MOSCOW2472	CODEL NELSON/LOTT: SCENESETTER [...] (SBU) Your visit comes at a vital juncture in Russian-American relations. As Russia moves closer to succession in March 2008, the more complicated this relationship will be to manage. There is a lot at stake: deepening cooperation in reversing North Korea's nuclear status and preventing the [...]	2007-05-25 17:19:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV ECON PARM ENRG RS
07MOSCOW250	EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: OOO "MODERN [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, OOO "Modern Optical Technologies", Moscow, Russia. The company is li [...]	2007-01-22 12:02:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW2527	RUSSIA: REYMAN'S RIO-CENTER LOOKS FOR ALTERNATIVE [...] (C) Summary. Six months before the Duma elections and nine months before the Presidential contest, several economic think-tankers are laying out strategies for the post-Putin period. Most of these plans are descriptive, not prescriptive: they are critical of the government's record on modern [...]	2007-05-30 13:21:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV EIND PGOV PREL RS
07MOSCOW2533	RUSSIA BANS EXPORTS OF HUMAN BIOLOGICAL SPECIMENS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Federal Customs Service has temporarily banned all exports of human biological specimens from Russia, including hair, tissue, urine, and blood samples. According to press reports, the ban was imposed after an intelligence report to the Kremlin alleged that Western researchers [...]	2007-05-30 15:46:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	TBIO SOCI ETRD RS
07MOSCOW2553	BOEING RUSSIA: CHILLING THE BUBBLY FOR THE "BIG" [...] (C) Boeing Russia and Economics Minister Gref confirmed to us that preparations are underway for three contracts to be signed on June 9 on the margins of the St. Petersburg Economic Forum. The contracts include the $4 billion sale of 22 787 Dreamliners to Aeroflot, an "enhanced role" for Boein [...]	2007-05-31 12:23:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EAIR ECON PREL RS
07MOSCOW256	EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel 1 requested a Post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end- user, Russian Federal Research and Technological Institute of [...]	2007-01-23 08:15:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW2562	TAX INSPECTORS UNBLOCK INTERNEWS/EMF BANK ACCOUNTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On May 30, Moscow tax inspectors acknowledged that an earlier decision to freeze the bank accounts of Internews/Educated Media Foundation (EMF) had been a "misunderstanding" and allowed the accounts to be re-opened. The inspectors' decision in the wake of multiple interventions [...]	2007-06-01 03:21:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM SOCI PGOV EAID RS
07MOSCOW2563	RUSSIA ENERGY: THE BATTLE OF KOVYKTA -- MORE THAN [...] (C) Summary: Rumors are rife that TNK-BP will lose its license any day now for the development of the Kovytka gas field, but a more complicated story may be playing out instead. Senior TNK-BP management says the company has offered Gazprom good terms to get the gas monopoly into the project a [...]	2007-06-01 03:21:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
07MOSCOW259	DFM SALTANOV ON QUARTET, LEBANON, SYRIA, IRAQ, [...] (C) Summary: In a January 22 meeting with the Ambassador, Deputy Foreign Minister Aleksandr Saltanov reaffirmed support for the roadmap, while expressing sympathy for Palestinian efforts to proceed to final status discussions, and flagged that FM Lavrov will resurrect the GOR proposal for a [...]	2007-01-23 10:38:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON RS IS IZ SY LE
07MOSCOW2590	CODEL NELSON-LOTT MEETS WITH FM LAVROV [...] (SBU) Summary: U.S.-Russian Senate-Federation Council Interparliamentary Working Group Co-Chairs Senator Ben Nelson and Senator Trent Lott, accompanied by Senators Evan Bayh, Judd Gregg, and Richard Burr, met May 29 with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to discuss current bilateral and [...]	2007-06-01 13:12:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL MARR KNDP ETRD OREP NELSON LOTT RS
07MOSCOW2595	RUSSIA-GEORGIA: IF THEY CAN JUST MAKE IT TO THE [...] (C) MFA 4th CIS Department Director Kelin said May 31 that the upcoming Saakashvili-Putin meeting in St. Petersburg might serve one purpose: to overcome the legacy of bad blood left by last fall's confrontation. He warned that action on Kosovo between now and the meeting might ruin even that [...]	2007-06-01 14:30:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS MARR OSCE UNSC GG RS
07MOSCOW2601	RUSSIAN ENERGY: KOVYKTA UPDATE [...] (C) June 1 has come and gone in Russia without the withdrawal of Rusia Petroleum's license to develop the giant Kovykta gas field. Interfax reports that Rosnedra, the GOR agency charged with license compliance oversight, has prepared a draft protocol confirming that Rusia Petroleum -- the hol [...]	2007-06-04 03:17:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
07MOSCOW261	RUSSIAN REGIONAL ELECTIONS PREVIEW: STAVROPOL KRAY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Regional duma elections in Stavropol Kray on March 11 will likely be dominated by the United Russia party, with the Communists and the second Kremlin party "A Just Russia" fighting for second place. The Liberal Democratic party and the Union of Right Forces will struggle to pas [...]	2007-01-23 11:20:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR PREL RS
07MOSCOW2631	P-1 REFERRAL FOR BELARUSIAN MINOR ANTON FILIMONOV [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 7. 2. (C) Embassy recommends Anton Filimonov, the 17-year-old son of murdered Belarusian journalist Veronika Cherkasova, for inclusion in the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP). Filimonov fled Belarus on May 9 in fear of renewed police p [...]	2007-06-04 14:32:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM RS
07MOSCOW2632	RUSSIA TO REVIEW ITU RADIOCOMMUNICATIONS PROPOSALS [...] (U) On May 31 we delivered REFTEL Agenda Proposals for the 2007 World Radiocommunications Conference (WRC) to Victor Strelets, deputy head of the Department for State Programs, Infrastructure and Limited Resources of the Ministry for Information Technologies and Communications. Strelets is als [...]	2007-06-04 14:40:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECPS TSPA RS
07MOSCOW2633	RUSSIAN POSITION ON EU AS OBSERVER IN GLOBAL [...] (U) On June 4 we contacted Amelia Siderova, in the MFA's Department of Security and Disarmament Affairs (DVBR),and asked her to clarify (REFTEL) Russia's position on the potential participation of the European Union in the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism (GICNT). Siderova resp [...]	2007-06-04 15:09:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER KGIC KNNP PREL RU
07MOSCOW2649	KOSOVO: MFA ON VETO, AND UN PERMREP CHURKIN'S LEASH [...] (C) In a June 5 meeting, prior to his June 6 departure for the G8 summit, Russian Special Envoy for Kosovo Aleksandr Botsan-Kharchenko warned that the international community was "close to gridlock" on Kosovo. He expressed concern over a potential effort to push for a quick vote within the S [...]	2007-06-05 11:57:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC YI RS
07MOSCOW2651	KASPAROV REVIEWS OTHER RUSSIA MARCHES; KASYANOV [...] (C) In a brief June 1 meeting United Civic Front leader Garry Kasparov reviewed recent Other Russia demonstrations and discussed the efforts of the fragmented, Western-leaning organizations and personalities to agree (to disagree) on a presidential nominee. Whatever the decision of his collea [...]	2007-06-05 12:06:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM SOCI RS
07MOSCOW2658	SOFT POWER IN ACTION: MOSCOW PROMOTES RUSSIAN [...] (SBU) Summary: Moscow has ramped up its efforts to promote the Russian language in both the former Soviet Union and throughout the world. Observers say the program is aimed at using "soft power" to maintain Russia's dominance in its neighborhood and underline that Russia remains a great powe [...]	2007-06-05 15:50:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV SOCI RS
07MOSCOW2659	LOCAL PUNDITS ON RUSSIA'S ESCALATING RHETORIC [...] (C) Summary: The latest Russian rhetoric against U.S. missile defense plans, in conjunction with last week's missile testing, is read by both pro-Kremlin and liberal analysts as further evidence of Putin's continued frustration with U.S.-Russian relations. They argue that the combative ton [...]	2007-06-05 16:12:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MCAP PGOV RS
07MOSCOW2682	SHANGHAI COOPERATION ORGANIZATION SUMMIT: RUSSIA [...] (C) Summary. The GOR is planning "no surprises" at the August Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Bishkek summit, according to the MFA's SCO Coordinator. Russia's goal in Bishkek is to enhance the SCO's activity in the economic sphere. Moscow judges that the SCO is not ready for enlarg [...]	2007-06-06 11:12:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR ECON SNAR RS
07MOSCOW2685	EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: RASSIAN ACADEMY OF [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel 1 requested a Post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) Institute of Solid State [...]	2007-06-06 12:20:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW2686	EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: JSC NORTH WESTCOM, ST. [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, JSC North Westcom, St. Petersburg, Russia. The company is listed on BI [...]	2007-06-06 12:20:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW2693	RUSSIA SUPPORTS CLUSTER MUNITIONS DISCUSSION IN [...] (C) Andrey Malov, Counselor in the Multilateral Disarmament Section of the Foreign Ministry's Department for Disarmament and Security Affairs, told us June 5 that Russia shared the US view that discussion of cluster munitions (CM) should remain in the Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW). [...]	2007-06-06 14:31:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS NATO PARM PREL CH PK RS
07MOSCOW2695	IRAN SANCTIONS: RUSSIA HAS FILED INTERIM REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-06-06 15:44:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EFIN KNNP UNSC IR RS
07MOSCOW2733	IRAN: INFORMATION ON MISSING AMCIT PASSED TO MFA [...] No summary [...]	2007-06-08 08:37:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	PREL KISL KJUS PTER RS
07MOSCOW2739	MOSCOW GAY RIGHTS MARCH: POLICE LOOK ON AS [...] (SBU) Summary: The May 27 gay rights demonstration and its aftermath highlight two disheartening trends in Russia: the increasing collusion between security forces and nationalist groups, and the reluctance of the human rights community to engage on an issue that has little resonance with Russi [...]	2007-06-08 11:13:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV RS
07MOSCOW2741	RUSSIA: NO FLEXIBILITY ON CFE REDLINES IN ADVANCE [...] (C) Summary: The Russians plan to come to the June 12 CFE Extraordinary Conference (which they convened) with no new initiatives. Instead, they plan to restate their longstanding positions and to listen to what the U.S. and its Allies have to offer. Barring an unanticipated decision by NA [...]	2007-06-08 11:48:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL NATO PARM RS
07MOSCOW2755	IRAN: IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION FOR GENERAL [...] No summary [...]	2007-06-08 14:45:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	PREL PARM ETTC RS
07MOSCOW276	RUSSIAN-CHECHEN FRIENDSHIP SOCIETY ORDERED [...] (SBU) Russia's Supreme Court on January 23 upheld a lower court ruling ordering the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society (RCFS) liquidated based on its executive director's earlier conviction for "extremist" activity. The court deliberated for about 30 minutes before announcing its decision. T [...]	2007-01-23 16:41:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREF PREL PINR RS
07MOSCOW2768	MISSILE DEFENSE: POSITIVE REACTION TO PUTIN'S [...] (C) Summary: Putin's offer to collaborate with the U.S. in Missile Defense at the Qabala radar site in Azerbaijan has been hailed by Russian officials and most commentators. Most argue that Moscow's offer of cooperation should be taken at face value and seriously. By proffering Russian coo [...]	2007-06-08 15:34:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MCAP MARR MASS MNUC RS
07MOSCOW2775	BURNS-KARASIN LETTER ON MOLDOVA [...] (C) On June 8 we sent Ref A Burns-Karasin letter to the MFA under cover of a diplomatic note. We also met with Ambassador at Large Nesterushkin to deliver a courtesy copy. 2. (C) Nesterushkin's first reaction was to criticize the U.S. for "leaking" the document; he said the EU had praised [...]	2007-06-11 09:13:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS MARR MD RS
07MOSCOW2856	JDEC INVITATION DELIVERED TO RUSSIAN FOREIGN [...] (SBU) We delivered reftel invitation to attend Washington discussions on the Joint Data Exchange Center (JDEC) and Pre-Launch Notification Systems to the Foreign Ministry's North America Department on June 13. 2. (SBU) Aleksey Ivanov expressed appreciation for the invitation but noted tha [...]	2007-06-14 14:14:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MARR MNUC OPRC PARM PREL RS
07MOSCOW2860	SUMMIT TIDBITS: PUTIN WITH SAAKASHVILI AND VORININ [...] (C) Russian MFA and Security Council readouts of President Putin's meetings with Presidents Saakashvili of Georgia and Voronin of Moldova at the Commonwealth of Independent States Summit stressed their constructive and friendly atmosphere. Concrete results were not noted, however. The MFA has [...]	2007-06-15 06:15:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS MARR GG MD RS
07MOSCOW2871	A CHANGE IN GOVERNMENT'S TACTICS OTHER RUSSIA [...] (SBU) The conduct of the June 9 St. Petersburg and the June 11 Moscow Other Russia (OR) demonstrations suggests that the authorities have decided to experiment with a somewhat more tolerant approaqch to a movement they have attempted to repress with a heavy hand on the assumption that, if left [...]	2007-06-15 10:47:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV KDEM PHUM SOCI RS
07MOSCOW2872	A CHANGE IN GOVERNMENT'S TACTICS TOWARD OTHER [...] (SBU) The conduct of the June 9 St. Petersburg and the June 11 Moscow Other Russia (OR) demonstrations suggests that the authorities have decided to experiment with a somewhat more tolerant approaqch to a movement they have attempted to repress with a heavy hand on the assumption that, if left [...]	2007-06-15 10:52:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV KDEM PHUM SOCI RS
07MOSCOW2879	RUSSIA: PENDING CHANGES CAST ROSATOM AS CORPORATION [...] (U) SUMMARY. Over the past year and a half, Russia has been working to restructure its nuclear industry. In a June 8 meeting with EST, Natalya Klishina, head of the Bilateral Relations Division in Rosatom's Department of International Relations, clarified what these changes mean and what other [...]	2007-06-15 15:22:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG KNNP TRGY RS
07MOSCOW2924	CIS INFORMAL SUMMIT IN ST.PETERSBURG: TO BE [...] (C) The 45-minute CIS informal summit on June 10 produced no results, but provided a forum for Putin's sidebar meetings with the Moldovan, Ukrainian and Georgian leaders. The MFA touted the summit's full roster of attendees and the Putin-Vornin meeting as noteworthy, but experts see few pros [...]	2007-06-18 14:11:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR RS
07MOSCOW2927	ZHELEZNOGORSK: CLOSED CITY OPENS FOR SEARCH AND RESCUE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Russian and American delegations met in the closed city of Zheleznogorsk June 6-8 to discuss simulated and experimental search-and-rescue (SAR) results from the Russian Global Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS) and the U.S. GPS system as part of their efforts to ensure interop [...]	2007-06-18 14:21:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TSPA TSPL ECPS KTIA RS
07MOSCOW2928	TRANSMITTAL OF USG ASSURANCES REGARDING BANCO [...] (SBU) This message is sensitive but unclassified and not for Internet distribution. 2. (SBU) Per reftel, Embassy delivered via diplomatic note, under cover of a letter from the Ambassador, USG assurances regarding Banco Delta Asia to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on June 18. In respons [...]	2007-06-18 15:13:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN RS KN KS
07MOSCOW2932	RUSSIA: INVESTMENT BOOMING AT RECORD LEVELS [...] (C) Summary: This year's annual update on Russia's investment trends includes a number of impressive headlines: record foreign direct investment (FDI) flows into Russia; record domestic investment; record sums raised by Russian companies through IPOs; and record outward investment by Russian c [...]	2007-06-19 05:58:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EINV ECON RS
07MOSCOW296	DPRK: MFA ON ENFORCING UNSCR 1718 [...] (C) We discussed ref A request that Russia take steps under UNSCR 1718 to inspect flights and cargo of proliferation concern from the DPRK on January 23 with Vladimir Safronkov, Chief of the UN Political Affairs Section in the MFA's International Organizations Department. We also highlighte [...]	2007-01-24 14:14:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KNNP PARM MNUC ETTC KN RS
07MOSCOW2966	GEORGIA-SOUTH OSSETIA: POPOV PLEADS FOR ROY REEVE [...] (C) Summary: Russian Ambassador-at-Large for South Ossetia Yuriy Popov pled with us to ensure that Roy Reeve is extended as OSCE Head of Mission in Georgia until December. He said Reeve is a key brake against armed conflict. The emergence of Sanakoyev has made Kokoity hard to control and pro [...]	2007-06-19 14:08:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS MARR OSCE GG RS
07MOSCOW2970	CODEL NELSON-LOTT: INTERPARLIAMENTARY TALKS FOCUS [...] (SBU) Summary: In May 27-28 sessions in Moscow of the U.S.-Russian Senate-Federation Council Interparliamentary Working Group, co-chairs Senators Ben Nelson and Trent Lott and Russian Federation Council Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Mikhail Margelov underlined the importance of encouragin [...]	2007-06-19 14:42:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PARM MNUC ETRD OREP NELSON LOTT RS
07MOSCOW2981	SMALL BUSINESSES REPORT SOME EASING IN CORRUPTION [...] (C) Su... C O N F I D E N T I A L MOSCOW 002981 SIPDIS SIPDIS E.O. 12958: DECL: 06/13/2017 TAGS: ECON PREL RS Â [...]	2007-06-20 07:59:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PREL RS
07MOSCOW2983	PUTIN ASKS SERBS FOR AHTISAARI ALTERNATIVE [...] (C) Summary: During the June visits of Serbian Prime Minister Kostunica and FM Jeremic, Putin apparently pushed them to come up with a counterproposal on Kosovo that he can carry to Kennebunkport. The GOR, however, remains committed to a solution based on a "compromise" between the parties, [...]	2007-06-20 10:23:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SR RS
07MOSCOW2985	USE OF RUSSIAN HELOS IN DARFUR RAISED WITH MFA [...] (S) SUMMARY: The DCM and other Embassy officers have raised new evidence of the reported use of Russian helicopters in Darfur with mutliple MFA officials June 13-19. MFA officials questioned the veracity of our information, but they agreed to look into US concerns, including end-use checks [...]	2007-06-20 11:57:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	MARR ETTC PREL PARM RS SU
07MOSCOW2997	"FOR A JUST RUSSIA" STRUGGLES TO FIND ITS PLACE [...] (C) Recent conversations with members of the For a Just Russia (SR) party suggest that the process of forming party lists has set off a struggle that may leave on the sidelines deputies who have less money to spend or less influence with the Kremlin. Some interlocutors worried that SR was in [...]	2007-06-20 13:26:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV SOCI KDEM RS
07MOSCOW3011	AMBASSADOR'S LUNCH WITH METROPOLITAN KIRILL [...] (C) At a June 18 private lunch, Russian Orthodox Metropolitan Kirill related to the Ambassador his concerns about social issues, in particular the large gap between rich and poor and Russia's lagging regions. He described reaction, both in the West and in Russia, to the recent merger of the R [...]	2007-06-21 07:58:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM PINR SOCI RS
07MOSCOW3012	AMBASSADOR'S INTRODUCTORY MEETING WITH CENTRAL [...] (C) A very self-confident Central Election Commission (CEC) Chairman Vladimir Churov sketched for the Ambassador at their inaugural meeting June 19 an electoral process fully controlled by a CEC responsive to complaints of voters and working constructively with all active political parties. The pre [...]	2007-06-21 08:17:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM PINR RS
07MOSCOW3023	DFM KISLYAK ON PRE-KENNEBUNKPORT PREPARATIONS, [...] (C) Summary: In an hour-long meeting on June 20, the Ambassador and Deputy Foreign Minister Kislyak reviewed preparations for the Kennebunkport meeting between the presidents. Kislyak said he was ready during his late-June Washington visit to work through outstanding issues on documents an [...]	2007-06-21 13:06:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PARM RS
07MOSCOW3024	OSCE SYG DE BRICHAMBAUT'S VISIT: "REFORM" [...] (C) We met with MFA OSCE Section Chief Valeriy Maslin to review OSCE Secretary General Marc Perrin de Brichambaut's June 14-15 visit. De Brichambaut was in Moscow on a working visit and met with FM Lavrov, as well as with the Russian Security Council, Defense Ministry and the Central Electio [...]	2007-06-21 13:28:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM OSCE RS
07MOSCOW3025	RUSSIA INFORMED OF US POLICY ON LETHAL MILITARY [...] (S) We briefed Sergey Vershinen, Director of the Foreign Ministry's Middle East and North Africa Department, on reftel policy on exports of lethal military equipment to Libya, and we followed up June 19 with Sergey Petlyakov, Director of the Arms Technology and Transfer Policy office in the MF [...]	2007-06-21 13:35:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	PARM PREL ETTC RS LY
07MOSCOW3030	CFE: POINTS ON UPCOMING US INSPECTION IN RUSSIA [...] (S) Drawing on reftel points, we notified Aleksey Ivanov, Deputy Director of the political-military section in the Foreign Ministry's North America Department, and Anton Mazur in the Conventional Arms Section of the Department for Disarmament and Security Affairs of the upcoming US CFE inspec [...]	2007-06-22 02:46:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	OSCE PARM PREL KCFE RS BU HU RO SP NATO
07MOSCOW3034	KREMLIN NON-AGGRESSION PACT WITH THE COMMUNIST [...] (C) Communist Party (KPRF) contacts suggest that the Kremlin has agreed not to interfere in the party's election campaign efforts, in exchange for the KPRF's agreement to eschew direct criticism of Putin. While some view this as an effort by Kremlin Presidential Administration Deputy Vladisla [...]	2007-06-22 08:47:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV SOCI PINR RS
07MOSCOW305	KOSOVO: RUSSIA TO BREAK WITH CONTACT GROUP [...] (C) Summary: Welcoming a proposed visit by Special Envoy Wisner, the GOR's Special Envoy on Kosovo Botsan-Karchenko warned that Russia would break the Contact Group consensus on the Ahtisaari timeline at the January 26 Vienna meeting. The GOR will reject an "artificial" timeline, propose p [...]	2007-01-25 12:30:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM UNMIK SR YI RS
07MOSCOW3054	GAZPROM TO BUY OUT TNK-BP IN KOVYKTA; COMPANIES TO [...] (SBU) TNK-BP and Gazprom announced a deal today on the disposition of the Kovykta gas field in eastern Siberia. Under the agreement, TNK-BP will sell the entirety of its 62.9 percent share to Gazprom for between $700 and $900 million, with the understanding that it may reenter the field as a m [...]	2007-06-23 07:11:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON EINV PREL RS
07MOSCOW306	RUSSIA JUSTICE INITIATIVE REFUSED, AGAIN [...] (C) Summary: The Federal Registration Service again refused re-registration (reftel) of the NGO Russia Justice Initiative (RJI) on January 19. There is some evidence that the refusal may be due to greater attention to distinctions among NGO categories that exist in Russian law. Several othe [...]	2007-01-25 12:42:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV PREF PINR RS
07MOSCOW3063	EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: JSC [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, JSC Pribor.ru, Moscow, Russia. The company is listed on BIS license [...]	2007-06-25 12:23:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW3064	EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: VYACHESLAV [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, Vyacheslav Filinov, Moscow, Russia. The company is listed on BIS lic [...]	2007-06-25 12:23:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW3074	EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: A) D368267 [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, JSC Mikron, Zelenograd, Russia. The company is listed on BIS license [...]	2007-06-25 13:07:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW3075	EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: DMITROVSKY [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, Dmitrovsky Electricity network, Dmitrov, Russia. The company is list [...]	2007-06-25 13:08:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW3088	CFE: POINTS ON RUSSIAN DELAY IN CONDUCT OF US [...] (C) On June 23, DCM raised concerns about the Russian "force majeure" reply to the latest US request for a CFE inspection with MFA Office of Disarmament and Security Affairs Director Anatoliy Antonov. Drawing upon reftel points, DCM reiterated US expectations that Russia would meet its treat [...]	2007-06-25 15:05:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PARM PREL KCFE RS BU HU NATO OSCE
07MOSCOW3099	TREASURY DEPUTY SECRETARY KIMMITT'S JUNE 21 [...] (C) Summary. In a June 21 meeting with Deputy Treasury Secretary Robert M. Kimmitt, Russian Central Bank (CBR) SIPDIS Chairman Sergey Ignatiev provided a generally positive overview of the Russian economy. On the subject of investing Russia's oil and gas tax revenue, Ignatiev observed that [...]	2007-06-26 10:43:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EFIN ECON EINV RS
07MOSCOW3114	SIX PARTY TALKS: GOR URGES MEASURED PACE ON NEXT [...] (U) The GOR publicly claimed credit for facilitating Monday's transfer of frozen DPRK funds to the North Korean Foreign Trade Bank's account in a Russian bank. Calling it a positive step toward the resumption of the Six-Party process, a short MFA statement said that Russia decided to accommod [...]	2007-06-27 07:10:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM MNUC KNNP KN RS
07MOSCOW3137	RUSSIA PREPARED TO DISCUSS IRAQI DEBT DURING [...] No summary [...]	2007-06-27 13:47:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN PREL IZ RS
07MOSCOW3138	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH GARRY KASPAROV: KOSOVO [...] (C) Garry Kasparov on June 26 talked with the Ambassador about the future of his Other Russia movement, the state of other political parties, the Russian presidential succession, the December Duma elections, and Russian foreign policy. He ascribed President Putin's recent hard line with the We [...]	2007-06-27 14:56:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM PINR RS
07MOSCOW3139	HUGO CHAVEZ RETURNS TO RUSSIA SEEKING MORE ARMS [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador expressed strong concern to Security Council Secretary Ivanov and Kremlin Foreign Policy Adviser Prikhodko over the visit of Venezuelan President Chavez to Moscow, June 28-30, on the eve of Putin's meeting with the President in Kennebunkport. Noting that the visi [...]	2007-06-27 15:26:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR ECON RS
07MOSCOW3141	AFGHANISTAN: LOW-KEY RUSSIAN PARTICIPATION IN [...] (SBU) We met with MFA Afghanistan Section Chief Yuriy Khokhlov to urge Russian participation at the Rome Rule of Law Conference on Afghanistan and encourage Moscow to contribute to the Afghan Reconstruction Trust Fund for justice projects. Khokhlov said that Russian participation in the con [...]	2007-06-28 05:55:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KJUS AF RS
07MOSCOW3145	EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: DMITROVSKY [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, Dmitrovsky Electricity network, Dmitrov, Russia. The company is list [...]	2007-06-28 08:12:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW3155	RUSSIA/MOLDOVA: PUTIN-VORONIN MEETING [...] (C) Russian Ambassador at Large for Transnistria Nesterushkin June 26 gave us a brief readout of the June 22 Putin-Voronin meeting. The meeting focused on bilateral issues, making progress on wine and natural gas prices. Putin raised Russian concerns about new Moldovan controls on imports to [...]	2007-06-28 10:32:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD MARR MD RS
07MOSCOW3160	NOPEC DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO MFA [...] (U) SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED. NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (U) We delivered reftel talking points to MFA Russia-US Bilateral Relations Head Alexander Zakharov on June 27. 3. (SBU) Zakharov expressed his understanding that taxes make up the largest part of gasoline prices (a point [...]	2007-06-28 12:45:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
07MOSCOW3161	RUSSIA: EXXONMOBIL ON SAKHALIN 1 [...] (C) Summary: In a June 26 meeting, ExxonMobil Russia VP Ed Verona (protect) told us that Exxon has agreed with China on "price parameters" for gas deliveries from its Sakhalin 1 project. Reacting to recent press reports that Gazprom may try to force ExxonMobil to sell its gas to Gazprom or to [...]	2007-06-28 12:47:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
07MOSCOW3162	RUSSIA: DEPUTY TREASURY SECRETARY KIMMITT'S [...] (U) SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED. NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: In a June 22 meeting with Deputy Treasury Secretary Kimmitt, Russian Deputy FM Denisov expressed SIPDIS interest in cooperating with Iraq for the long term ("we are optimists") but indicated that debt reli [...]	2007-06-28 12:48:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN ENRG EIND PREL PINR IZ KN IR RS
07MOSCOW3164	RUSSIA IPR: PIRATE WEBSITE WWW.ALLOFMP3.COM SHUT [...] (SBU) Ministry of Economic Development and Trade (MEDT) officials notified us by e-mail and phone June 28 that the pirate music website www.allofmp3.com was no longer operational. According to our contacts, the site's operations were terminated under Article 64 of the Law on Communications, w [...]	2007-06-28 14:17:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ECON WTO KIPR RS
07MOSCOW3168	AMBASSADOR'S ROUNDTABLE WITH HUMAN RIGHTS NGOS [...] (C) In a June 27 discussion, five human rights NGO activists offered the Ambassador their advice for coping with an increasingly assertive President Putin. They suggested that like-minded countries speak with one voice, that the "tools" of international organizations and agreements be used as [...]	2007-06-28 15:38:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM PGOV SOCI RS
07MOSCOW3207	MOSCOW LOWERS CHAVEZ VISIT PROFILE [...] (C) Summary. Amid media reports that the Kremlin is attempting to keep a leash on the firebrand Venezuelan leader in the lead up to the Kennebunkport summit, Hugo Chavez held a low-key meeting with President Putin on June 28. The tete-a-tete meeting presumably covered two important agenda i [...]	2007-06-29 13:43:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR ECON RS
07MOSCOW321	RUSSIAN ENERGY: LUKOIL UPDATE ON ANARAN [...] (SBU) On January 19, post received a status report from Lukoil on the Anaran project in Iran. The following is an unofficial Embassy translation of the original Russian text. 2. (SBU) Begin text: "The Anaran Project Status (as of 17 Jan 2007) A service contract regarding exploration a [...]	2007-01-25 15:21:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETTC ECON ENRG EPET RS IR NO
07MOSCOW3232	MAYAK TRANSPARENCY AGREEMENT: JULY ROUND POSSIBLE [...] (C) Both in the meetings of the plutonium disposition negotiations (June 19-20 in Moscow) and on their margins, Ambassador Guhin raised the Mayak transparency agreement with Rosatom Deputy Director Ivan Kamenskikh and Head of the Department of International Relations Vladimir Kuchinov, urging [...]	2007-07-02 14:28:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG KNNP PREL PARM TRGY RS
07MOSCOW3235	RUSSIA: SMALLPOX FOLLOW-UP LETTER DELIVERED [...] (SBU) We delivered reftel letter from HHS Special Assistant Steiger to Deputy Health and Social Development Minister Starodubov, through the ministry's International Department. We also provided the ministry with an informal Russian translation of the letter, and sent a courtesy copy and trans [...]	2007-07-02 14:54:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO TSPL KSCA PARM KNNP CTR CBW RS
07MOSCOW3239	RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES SCRIMMAGES WITH MINISTRY [...] No summary [...]	2007-07-03 09:21:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	TSPL TNGD TPHY RS
07MOSCOW3240	NIZHNIY NOVGOROD: GOVERNMENT STRUCTURES SENSITIVE [...] (SBU) Summary: The planned construction of a shopping center on the site of an unkempt park in Nizhniy Novgorod's industrial district and the political and civic response illustrates the difficulties opposition politicians and civic activists have in mounting effective protests against govern [...]	2007-07-03 09:36:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV SOCI PINR RS
07MOSCOW3255	VARIED EXPLANATIONS FOR STAVROPOL ETHNIC CLASHES [...] (SBU) Summary: During an embassy visit on June 19-20, leaders of the Stavropol city and regional government, political parties, NGOs, and ethnic groups gave conflicting explanations for last month's mob violence between Russians and Chechens in the city center. Many of the explanations sugges [...]	2007-07-03 13:08:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KSOC TBIO RS
07MOSCOW3262	ROGOZIN ON "GREAT RUSSIA;" KOSOVO [...] (C) Summary: The charismatic and unscrupulous Dmitriy Rogozin is making another political bid to tap Russian nationalism with the attempted registration of a new political party, "Great Russia." Claiming to have siphoned off his previous Rodina supporters, dissatisfied with their merger in [...]	2007-07-03 13:54:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL RS
07MOSCOW327	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH RUSSIAN TRANSPORT [...] (SBU) Summary. In a January 24 meeting with the Ambassador, Minister of Transportation Igor Levitin pressed for resolution of the state flights issue and urged the next round of bilateral civil aviation negotiations be held in Moscow. He suggested that armed marshals on U.S. flights to Russia [...]	2007-01-26 07:12:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EAIR PREL RS
07MOSCOW3316	ENVIRONMENTALISTS FRET OVER SOCHI OLYMPIAD [...] SUMMARY. The selection of Sochi as the site of the 2014 Winter Olympic Games brought less joy to Russian environmentalists, who have long warned about the potential impact of large-scale construction in this region. Environmental NGOs will monitor implementation of the Sochi 2014 Environment [...]	2007-07-09 02:40:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV PGOV RS
07MOSCOW3317	EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: NST [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel 1 requested a Post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end- user, NST OMZ Research Center for EOM, Moscow, Russia. The com [...]	2007-07-09 03:54:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW3318	EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel 1 requested a post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end- user, Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIITF),Institute of Te [...]	2007-07-09 03:55:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW3319	EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: RIRT (RUSSIAN [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, RIRT, St. Petersburg, Russia. The company is listed on BIS license a [...]	2007-07-09 04:07:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW3338	POSITIVE REACTION TO "LOBSTER SUMMIT" [...] (C) Summary. While extensive media coverage of the so-called "Lobster Summit" quickly gave way to euphoria over Russia's winning the right to host the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Moscow experts agreed that Putin demonstrated in Kennebunkport a desire to tone down the rhetoric and find ways [...]	2007-07-09 11:35:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR MASS MNUC RS
07MOSCOW3339	Moscow Wi-Fi: Hotspots Amid an Internet Trend [...] SUMMARY: Internet in Russia is slowly gaining ground across the country, albeit impeded by limited provision of broadband service and lack of personal computers. Wireless and high-speed Internet is taking hold in larger cities such as Moscow and St. Petersburg. Wi-Fi hotspots are increasingly [...]	2007-07-09 11:59:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	EINT ECPS ECON TINT RS
07MOSCOW3343	RUSSIA: PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS WITHDRAWS AUDITS OF [...] (C) Summary: PricewaterhouseCoopers Russia (PwC) Managing Partner Peter Gerendasi confirmed press reports from the week of June 25 that the auditing firm had withdrawn its 1995-2004 audits for former oil giant Yukos. Gerendasi volunteered few details about the circumstances under which PwC's [...]	2007-07-09 12:32:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN EINV ECON RS
07MOSCOW3344	TREASURY DEPUTY SECRETARY KIMMITT'S JUNE 20 [...] (C) Summary. In a June 20 dinner meeting with Treasury Deputy Secretary Kimmitt and Ambassador Burns, Finance Minister Kudrin raised the issue of Iraqi debt forgiveness. Kimmitt expressed appreciation for Russia's assistance with the transfer of funds from Banco Delta Asia to the Far Easter [...]	2007-07-09 12:45:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EINV EFIN ECON RS
07MOSCOW3348	ROE WOES: RUSSIAN CAVIAR ON THE ROPES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. A two-year moratorium on Russian sturgeon fishing in the Caspian Sea has slowed, but not stopped, the thriving black market in Beluga caviar. World Wildlife Federation's Moscow Director contends that "not one egg" of black caviar sold in Moscow is legal: that is, from farm-rai [...]	2007-07-09 13:43:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV PGOV SOCI RS EAGR
07MOSCOW3354	RUSSIA: TATARS CALL NEW FEDERAL TREATY "SYMBOLIC" [...] (C) Tatarstani officials and academics alike told us July 6-7 that the federal treaty between Tatarstan and Russia, now before the Federation Council, is only "symbolic." The issues of practical substance -- primarily division of state property -- were settled in the original 1994 treaty, acc [...]	2007-07-09 14:25:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM RS
07MOSCOW3363	NEW EXTREMISM LAW: MORE OF THE SAME CONSTRAINTS [...] (SBU) Summary: On July 6, in response to President Putin's December 2006 "Presidential Instruction" to combat extremism, the Duma resuscitated and passed a heavily re-drafted extremism law, over the opposition of minority political parties and concerns of some in the majority. The amendment [...]	2007-07-10 06:39:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR RS
07MOSCOW3369	RUSSIA ENERGY: SPECIAL REP. MERMOUD'S MEETINGS [...] (U) SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED. NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) Summary: In a July 6 meeting with Special Representative for Business and Commercial Affairs Frank Mermoud, Halliburton Russia VP Simon Turton told us he sees Russia as the most important growth market for Halliburton [...]	2007-07-10 09:10:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EPET ENRG ECON PREL CVIS RS
07MOSCOW3379	RUSSIAN LAB MOVES AHEAD TO BECOME REGIONAL AND WHO FLU [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Russia pledged to transform the Vector State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology near Novosibirsk into a regional influenza center and ultimately a WHO Collaborating Center for avian influenza as part of its 2006 G8 Presidential focus on infectious diseases. Although [...]	2007-07-11 02:52:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO KFLU KSTH KPAO SENV RS
07MOSCOW3399	RUSSIAN OPPOSITION FACES MORE FRACTURE [...] (C) Summary: Other Russia's second annual conference was n... C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 02 MOSCOW 003399 SIPDIS SIPDIS E.O. 12958: DECL: 07/07/2017 TAGS: PGOV PHUM PINR RS Â [...]	2007-07-11 12:50:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR RS

07MOSCOW3407	RUSSIA: VLADIMIR TRAVIN NAMED TO HEAD [...] (U) On July 9 PM Mikhail Fradkov signed a government directive approving the charter of the Open Joint Stock Company Atomniy Energopromishlennii Kompleks (AEK) and confirming the membership of its 5-person board of directors. Rosatom director Sergey Kiriyenko will be chairman of the board, wh [...]	2007-07-12 10:05:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG KNNP TRGY RS
07MOSCOW3429	RUSSIA: HIV VACCINE RESEARCHERS LOOK AHEAD [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The NIH-sponsored HIV Vaccine Workshop in St. Petersburg June 1-2 brought together over 50 researchers and government representatives from the United States and Europe to discuss recent HIV candidate vaccines and the prospects for clinical vaccine trials in Eastern Europe. Sign [...]	2007-07-13 10:06:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO KHIV SOCI SCUL RS
07MOSCOW3433	FM LAVROV'S LETTER TO THE SECRETARY ON IRAQ [...] (SBU) On July 10, by diplomatic note, the MFA passed us the original of a letter in Russian from FM Lavrov to the Secretary regarding Iraq, a copy of which has been conveyed SIPDIS by the Russian Embassy to the Department. The letter is dated July 2007. 2. (C) Comment: We have been [...]	2007-07-13 10:55:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL OPDC IZ RS
07MOSCOW3434	RUSSIA AND IRAN: MOSCOW'S SHIFTING VIEWS [...] (C) Summary: Iran's nuclear program has posed an increasing challenge to Russia's foreign policy as Moscow tries to balance its strong interest in preventing a nuclear armed Iran against the political and economic considerations that have traditionally driven relations with Tehran. However, [...]	2007-07-13 11:06:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM KNNP ETRD MASS IR RS
07MOSCOW3445	FORMER EMBASSY EMPLOYEE REQUESTS REFUGEE STATUS; [...] (C) This is an action request. See paragraph 12. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Freelance journalists Marina Kalashnikova, who was fired by the Embassy in 2000, and her husband Viktor Kalashnikov (a former Russian intelligence officer) have requested refugee status or other USG assistance in leaving R [...]	2007-07-16 07:49:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PINR APER RS
07MOSCOW3494	RUSSIANS ON CLUSTER MUNITIONS AND CCW [...] (C) The Russians acknowledge that we have similar positions on cluster munitions and share the aim of keeping their discussion within the Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW). They also share our aim of trying to coordinate positions on cluster munitions well in advance of the November m [...]	2007-07-17 13:38:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS NATO PARM PREL CH PK RS
07MOSCOW3495	CHECHNYA REVISITED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During a recent visit by REFCOORD to Grozny, the evidence of Chechnya's economic reconstruction was striking. Scaffolding, initially seen only around government buildings, has appeared everywhere, including private homes. Minutka Square, long a symbol of the city's destructi [...]	2007-07-17 13:45:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREF PHUM PINR EAID RS
07MOSCOW3506	RUSSIA LONGITUDINAL MONITORING SURVEY RESULTS FOR 2006 [...] (U) In 2006, Russian incomes were up 16 percent from the previous year, while unemployment and consumer prices fell, according to researchers from the University of North Carolina (UNC) and Russia's Center for Economic and Financial Research (CEFIR) in their annual survey of socio-economic dat [...]	2007-07-18 10:32:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON RS
07MOSCOW3507	FOREIGN GRANTS BILL AND USG PROGRAMS [...] (SBU) Summary: Some of our official contacts - most notably a handful of judges - are concerned that their participation in USG-funded programs could contravene Russian law. Many USG-financed technical assistance programs, from those of USAID and IMET to Open World and INL, provide funds and [...]	2007-07-18 10:55:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR EAID RS
07MOSCOW3519	SOUTH OSSETIA: RUSSIAN VIEWS [...] (C) Russian South Ossetia Negotiator Yuri Popov told us Russian domestic concerns in the North Caucasus will keep Russia hostile to the Georgian-backed Sanakoyev regime. Russian loyalty to Kokoity will last at least until the 2008 Russian presidential transition. Popov got the South Ossetians [...]	2007-07-18 13:19:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS MARR OSCE GG RS
07MOSCOW3521	MIDDLE EAST: RUSSIAN MFA'S INITIAL REACTION TO [...] (C) The MFA's initial, informal reaction to the President's July 16 speech on the Middle East was positive, with particular GOR interest in the President's call for an international meeting on the Middle East. MFA Deputy Director for the Middle East Peace Process Oleg Ozerov told us July 17 [...]	2007-07-18 13:42:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL EAID IS RS
07MOSCOW3527	LUGOVOY DISPUTE: RUSSIAN RESTRAINT FOR NOW [...] (C) Summary: The British decision to expel four Russian diplomats and take other diplomatic measures in response to Moscow's refusal to extradite Lugovoy in the Litvinenko murder case has elicited sharp commentary by Russian legislators and pundits. The official Russian reaction, by contras [...]	2007-07-19 07:31:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KCRM KNUC UK RS
07MOSCOW3529	RUSSIA ENERGY: OIL COMPANY EXECS TELL U/S JEFFREY [...] (SBU) Summary: During a lunch meeting with U/S Jeffrey, local representatives of Chevron, ExxonMobil, and ConocoPhillips told us that the best way to engage Russia and enhance global energy security is to focus on positive dialogue geared towards helping Russia improve its oil and gas investm [...]	2007-07-19 08:01:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
07MOSCOW3530	RUSSIA: KAZAN FAIR VENTURES INTO INVESTMENT ARENA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Tatarstan recently hosted a Regional Venture Fair in the historic city of Kazan to showcase the development of local innovative enterprises. The impressive array of high technology companies at the fair and at the regional technopark contrasted with the decaying condition of th [...]	2007-07-19 08:44:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINT RS TNGD
07MOSCOW3531	ABKHAZIA: RUSSIAN MFA DEFENDS STATEMENT, ASKS FOR [...] (C) We took the Russian MFA to task July 18 for its statement on the UNOMIG report on the March 11 Kodori Gorge attack. MFA officials Chernov and Tarabrin said the statement in no way criticized the USG, claiming its criticism was aimed at press commentary after the State Department statement [...]	2007-07-19 09:00:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS MARR UNSC GG RS
07MOSCOW3534	GAZPROM ASKS U/S JEFFREY TO HELP "MITIGATE [...] (SBU) Summary: During a July 16 meeting, Gazprom Deputy Chairman Aleksander Medvedev told U/S Jeffrey that EXIM's possible withholding of financing for the Sakhalin 2 LNG project would be neither in the interests of U.S. equipment and service suppliers nor the United States, an export destina [...]	2007-07-19 10:06:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EPET ENRG ECON PREL PINR RS
07MOSCOW3540	HOW MUCH DO RUSSIAN DOCTORS REALLY MAKE? [...] (SBU) Summary: Although government doctors in Russia officially earn $205-$900 per month as a base salary, they frequently earn much more in reality. Physicians often supplement their base government salaries for clinical work with income from private patients, teaching positions in universiti [...]	2007-07-19 13:27:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO SCUL SOCI RS
07MOSCOW3541	ANNEXES ON POST-START TRANSPARENCY MEASURES [...] No summary [...]	2007-07-19 13:28:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	KACT KTIA PARM RS START KREL
07MOSCOW3542	IGOR IVANOV OUT AT SECURITY COUNCIL; VALENTIN [...] (C) On July 18, President Putin accepted Security Council Secretary Igor Ivanov's resignation, which had been pending for several weeks (reftel). Ivanov first offered to resign in February, prompted largely by differences over Russia's relations with the West and concerns about the role of [...]	2007-07-19 14:00:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR RS
07MOSCOW3548	RUSSIA ENERGY: U/S JEFFERY'S MEETING WITH ROSNEFT [...] (SBU) During a brief meeting on July 18, Rosneft Vice President for Finance and Investments Peter O'Brien (Amcit) told U/S Jeffery that corporate governance at Rosneft and other major Russian companies, while not yet up to Western standards, has improved dramatically over the past several year [...]	2007-07-20 05:49:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
07MOSCOW3567	AFGHANISTAN: MOSCOW STIRS [...] (C) Summary: Russia has sharply stepped up its engagement with the Afghan government since FM Lavrov's February visit to Kabul. Moscow intends to finalize its debt relief agreement with Kabul by the end of the month and is actively weighing increased arms supplies and initiating a program [...]	2007-07-20 12:26:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER MASS EAID SNAR AF RS
07MOSCOW3574	UNION OF RIGHT FORCES: WHO IS RIGHT? [...] (C) The public display of disaffection between the Union of Right Forces (SPS) national leadership and the party's Moscow organization has momentarily captured the attention of the media. In retaliation for voting to confirm President Putin's re-appointment of Moscow mayor Luzhkov, the nationa [...]	2007-07-20 14:09:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM RS SOCI
07MOSCOW3575	LAWYER LEAVES RUSSIA INSTEAD OF FACING CHARGES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Well-known lawyer Boris Kuznetsov fled Russia, after being criminally charged for revealing state secrets in defense of a client. Members of the Moscow legal SIPDIS community see these charges as political and as a warning from the Kremlin. END SUMMARY. 2. (U) On July 11, th [...]	2007-07-20 14:17:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR RS
07MOSCOW3579	THINKING ABOUT KADYROV [...] (C) Ramzan Kadyrov recently celebrated his 100th day as President of Chechnya. Characteristics of the new order are already visible: -- The appointment of personnel who have no loyalties except to Kadyrov, and the steady elimination of those with independent ties to Moscow or independent bases of [...]	2007-07-23 06:00:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PINR RS
07MOSCOW3581	THE SUCCESSION RACE: MEDVEDEV AND IVANOV AT THE [...] (C) Elections for President Putin's successor are slated for March 2008 and two candidates --First Deputy Prime Ministers Sergey Ivanov and Dmitriy Medvedev-- have the blessing of the Kremlin and are already campaigning feverishly. This message discusses their recent efforts, while a subseque [...]	2007-07-23 06:20:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR RS
07MOSCOW3592	EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: MICRAN, [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel 1 requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, (A) and (B) Micran, Tomsk, Russia. The company is listed on BIS li [...]	2007-07-23 11:43:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW3601	PUTIN CONTINUES DRIVE TO MORE PALATABLE HISTORY [...] (SBU) Summary: President Putin's effort to inculcate Russia's children with "national pride" via appropriately written history textbooks could bear fruit at the start of the 2008 school year. The campaign, which began in 2003 with the ban of a popular history textbook and a Kremlin call for [...]	2007-07-23 14:08:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR SOCI RS
07MOSCOW3602	ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISTS ATTACKED [...] (SBU) Summary: On July 21, a group of fifteen thugs attacked the campsite of environmental activists in Angarsk, near Lake Baikal, killing one and wounding several others. The regional Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) has identified 13 suspects, and arrested at least two. The motives behind [...]	2007-07-23 15:44:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PINR RS
07MOSCOW3625	MAYOR LUZHKOV - THE CONDUCTOR LEADS ON [...] (C) Summary: In early July, Moscow Mayor Luzhkov took the oath of office for his fifth term, bringing to a close a reported power struggle with the Kremlin. For the past fifteen years, Luzhkov's dominance of Moscow politics has made him one of the most powerful politicians in the country, and an im [...]	2007-07-24 14:14:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR SOCI RS
07MOSCOW3650	RUSSIA: STRATEGIC SECTOR LAW MOVES TO DUMA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On July 17, PM Fradkov sent the draft Law on Foreign Investment in the Strategic Sectors (SSL) to the State Duma, currently on summer recess and reconvening September 3. The Ministry of Industry and Energy's (MIE) revised version streamlines the review process, broadens the de [...]	2007-07-26 12:31:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EINV EIND ENRG PREL ECON RS
07MOSCOW366	RUSSIAN SECURITY COUNCIL CHIEF ON U.S. RELATIONS, [...] (C) SUMMARY: IN A JANUARY 30 MEETING WITH THE AMBASSADOR, IGOR IVANOV ENCOURAGED A VISIT BY DNSA HADLEY AND INCREASED CONGRESSIONAL CONTACT. HE FLAGGED THE JANUARY 31 VISITS OF BANDAR BIN SULTAN AND SAAD HARIRI TO MOSCOW, IN ORDER TO DISCUSS THE SAUDI INITIATIVE TO STABILIZE LEBANON. (BAND [...]	2007-01-30 12:26:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL RS IR LE
07MOSCOW3684	FLY ME TO THE MOON, AND MARS; SHAKE-OUT IN RUSSIAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On June 22 the president of Energia, one of the major Russian space corporations, was suspended by the Board of Directors at the instigation of the Federal Space Agency Roskosmos in a reported dispute over the direction of space exploration. He had urged more market-oriented p [...]	2007-07-27 14:57:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	TSPA ESA KSCA TSPL RS
07MOSCOW3708	RUSSIA: TRADE MINISTRY CONTINUES WORK TOWARD THE [...] No summary [...]	2007-07-30 12:44:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON ETRD BO RS
07MOSCOW3716	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: PROMOTION OF AMERICAN [...] No summary [...]	2007-07-30 13:33:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	PREF PREL PHUM ICRC RS
07MOSCOW373	MIXED MESSAGES ON ANTI-DEMONSTRATION LAW [...] (C) On January 24, a United Russia Duma Deputy withdrew amendments to the law on demonstrations that, if adopted, would have significantly restricted the circumstances under which public meetings could occur. The withdrawal seemed to spell the end of an effort by some in the Presidential Admi [...]	2007-01-30 14:11:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PINR KDEM RS
07MOSCOW3732	MOSCOW'S SCIENCE MUSEUMS: EXPERIMENTING WITH SUCCESS [...] SUMMARY: As Moscow increasingly becomes a tourist destination, science museums could play a role as second tier destinations, but funding and attracting visitors remain a challenge. END SUMMARY. 2. Embassy EST intern recently visited many of Moscow's science museums. This Way to the Di [...]	2007-07-31 11:13:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	SCUL SENV TPHY TBIO RS
07MOSCOW3735	GREAT RUSSIA PARTY PROTESTS REGISTRATION DENIAL [...] (SBU) Summary: Following the Federal Registration Service's (FRS) July 24 refusal to register it, Dmitriy Rogozin's nationalist Great Russia party has begun mapping strategies for getting on the ballot for the December Duma elections. The party's Central Committee Secretary told us that the F [...]	2007-07-31 14:05:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR SOCI RS
07MOSCOW3736	RUSSIAN NOTE ON SEA LAUNCH, MFA COMMENTS ON SPACE ISSUES [...] (SBU) This message contains an action request. See paragraph 6. 2. (SBU) On July 27, EST Officers met Andrey Kruitskikh, Deputy Director of the Department for Security and Disarmament Affairs (DVBR) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, at his request. He delivered a Diplomatic Note regardin [...]	2007-07-31 14:38:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TSPA ECPS KSCA PREL PARM RS
07MOSCOW3737	RUSSIAN MFA DISMISSES REPORTS OF MILITARY AIRCRAFT [...] No summary [...]	2007-07-31 16:24:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC PREL MCAP IR RS
07MOSCOW3746	EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: 1ST FIRE [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, 1st Fire Brigade, Krasnoyarsk, Russia. The company is listed on BIS [...]	2007-08-01 08:48:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW377	UNITED RUSSIA: CORRUPTION AND THE ELECTION CAMPAIGN [...] (C) As the campaign for the December State Duma election gets underway, the Kremlin-sponsored United Russia (YR) party has announced initiatives to fight Russia's long-festering problem of corruption. Observers expect that, as in past years, the anti-corruption mantra will largely be used to [...]	2007-01-30 14:24:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM RS
07MOSCOW3775	ANDREY FURSENKO: THE PHYSICIST TURNED MINISTER [...] (C) SUMMARY. As Minister of Science and Education since 2004, Andrey Fursenko has evoked a storm of controversy with his efforts to reform Russia's tradition-bound science and education establishments. Fursenko is passionate about modernizing Russian science to make it more competitive and m [...]	2007-08-01 13:39:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF KPAO PGOV PINR RS SCUL SOCI TSPL
07MOSCOW3777	RUSSIA ENERGY: ANOTHER BELARUS GAS STANDOFF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In a repeat of the New Year's gas standoff between state-controlled gas monopoly Gazprom and Belarus (reftel),Gazprom issued a press release on August 1 that Beltransgaz (BTG - the Belarusian gas pipeline operator) has been informed that gas deliveries to Belarus would be reduc [...]	2007-08-02 02:50:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG EPET PREL RS
07MOSCOW3801	RUSSIA'S SUPREME ARBITRATION COURT RULES IN FAVOR [...] (U) The Supreme Arbitration Court (SAC) has ruled in favor of PricewaterhouseCoopers Russia (PWC) following a July 10 hearing in which the Federal Tax Service (FTS) claimed PWC had improperly accounted for its expatriate employees' salaries in 2002. SAC Chairman Anton Ivanov dismissed the FT [...]	2007-08-02 13:18:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EFIN PGOV RS
07MOSCOW3803	ABBAS WINS MOSCOW'S SUPPORT [...] (C) Summary. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas concluded a three-day visit to Moscow with a July 31 meeting with President Putin, who assured Abbas that the GOR would support him as the legitimate leader of the Palestinian people. Abbas also met with FM Lavrov and First DFM Deni [...]	2007-08-02 14:34:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL EAID IS RS
07MOSCOW3804	EAP PDAS STEPHENS JULY 27 DISCUSSIONS ON THE NORTH [...] (C) Summary. During a July 27 meeting, EAP Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Kathleen Stephens and a GOR representative for the Six-Party Working Group on Northeast Asia Peace and Security, Vladimir Rakhmanin, exchanged views on the expectations and goals for the group, including plans up [...]	2007-08-02 14:37:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PARM MNUC KNNP KN KS JA RS
07MOSCOW3805	UPDATE ON UNITED CIVIC FRONT ACTIVIST'S [...] (C) A Consulate St. Petersburg officer in Murmansk has confirmed the substance of media accounts that United Civic Front activist Larissa Arap has been involuntarily committed to a psychiatric hospital in the Murmansk region. Arap was apparently hospitalized by local psychiatric authorities u [...]	2007-08-02 15:08:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PINR RS
07MOSCOW3808	NASHI CAMP: MOBILIZING YOUTH TO COUNTER "ORANGE FORCES" [...] (SBU) For the third year in a row, the pro-Kremlin youth group "Nashi" held its two-week summer camp from July 16 - 27 at Lake Seliger in the Tver region. A visit by First Deputy Prime Ministers Dmitriy Medvedev and Sergey Ivanov, a meeting of Nashi commissars with President Putin, and a reco [...]	2007-08-03 06:14:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PINR PGOV SOCI RS
07MOSCOW381	AFGHANISTAN: TIME TO REENGAGE WITH RUSSIA? [...] (C) Summary: Foreign Minister Lavrov's February 2-3 Washington consultations provide an opportunity to seek support for the new U.S. strategy for Afghanistan's security and reconstruction. While Moscow has been critical of U.S. and Western efforts in Afghanistan, it has also expressed inte [...]	2007-01-30 16:57:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER ETRD SNAR AF RS
07MOSCOW3817	RUSSIA: GAZPROM'S REACH INTO POWER SECTOR [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a July 27 board of directors meeting, electricity monopoly, RAO UES, approved the terms of an asset swap deal giving state-controlled gas monopoly, Gazprom, control over Wholesale Generating Company 2 (WGC-2) and WGC-6 in exchange for Gazprom's UES shares. Power sector reform [...]	2007-08-03 10:52:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EIND ENRG PREL RS
07MOSCOW382	GERMANY: BUSINESSLIKE PUTIN-MERKEL MEETING IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: The January 21 meeting in Sochi between President Putin and Chancellor Merkel was businesslike but not particularly warm. There was a sharper tone in the political exchanges than there had been in the past. Putin told Merkel Russia would not accept a forced solution for Kosovo. [...]	2007-01-30 17:26:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ETRD EU GM RS
07MOSCOW3837	EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: SECURITY [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, Security Company Fakel Ost Ltd., Balashikha, Moscow Region, Russia. [...]	2007-08-06 08:45:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW3838	EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: SECURITY [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, Security Company Fakel Ost Ltd., Balashikha, Moscow Region, Russia. [...]	2007-08-06 08:45:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW3841	SURKOV GIVES GREEN LIGHT TO CENTER-RIGHT PARTY [...] (C) At a closed door convention July 31, Presidential Administration Deputy Head Vladislav Surkov reportedly gave the Kremlin's blessing to Mikhail Barshchevskiy's pro-business and economic reform-oriented Civic Force (CF) party's efforts to cross the seven percent threshold and be represented [...]	2007-08-06 14:16:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR SOCI RS
07MOSCOW3854	RUSSIA SUPPORTS U.S. RESOLUTION ON DRC ARMS EMBARGO [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-07 13:07:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PARM UNSC CG RS
07MOSCOW3863	NEO-NAZIS SENTENCED IN ST PETERSBURG MURDER CASE [...] (SBU) Summary: On August 7, a St. Petersburg court sentenced seven defendants for their roles in the murder of anti-fascist activist Timur Kacharava and other crimes. Ringleader Andrey Shabalin was sentenced to 12 years in prison, three received two- and three-year sentences, and three were gi [...]	2007-08-07 15:10:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM RS
07MOSCOW3886	RUSSIA: NEW STRATEGIC SECTORS LAW GETS NOD FROM [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. During a July 14-20 visit to Moscow, a GAO (Government Accountability Office) delegation conducted meetings with government officials (reftel),business associations, and Western companies to survey the GOR's review process for foreign direct investment in the country's strateg [...]	2007-08-08 11:58:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EIND ENRG PREL RS
07MOSCOW3887	LITERACY AND HEALTH INVITATION DELIVERED [...] (SBU) On July 31, 2007, we extended reftel invitation to the MFA's International Organizations Department. According to the Secretary of the Director of the International Organizations SIPDIS Department Tatyana Andreevna on August 7, 2007, the Russian UNGA Delegation will be headed by FM La [...]	2007-08-08 13:24:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL SOCI TSPL UNGA RS
07MOSCOW3890	FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS IN ARAP CASE [...] (C) An Independent Psychiatric Association-composed commission convened by Human Rights Ombudsman Vladimir Lukin now plans to depart for Murmansk August 9, in order to conduct an investigation of the circumstances surrounding the early July institutionalization of United Civic Front (UCF) acti [...]	2007-08-08 14:42:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV SOCI RS
07MOSCOW3891	RUSSIA'S FINANCE MINISTRY ON IRAQ DEBT AND VISIT [...] (S) Deputy Finance Minister Storchak confirmed with the Embassy that Iraqi Oil Minister Shahrastani will visit Moscow on October 9 to discuss "commercial cooperation" between the two countries. Storchak said FinMin Kudrin and officials in the Presidential Administration have pressed upon their [...]	2007-08-08 14:52:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV ENRG EPET IZ RS
07MOSCOW3892	GEORGIA MISSILE INCIDENT: MOSCOW CONTINUES TO DENY [...] (C) Summary: Russia's Special Negotiator for South Ossetia, Ambassador Yuriy Popov, reiterated to Charge August 8 that Russia played "no part" in the August 6 bombing incident in Georgia. Popov emphasized that Russia did not intend to let the incident jeopardize what he characterized as the [...]	2007-08-08 14:55:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS PGOV RS GG
07MOSCOW3893	RUSSIA'S FINANCE MINISTRY ON IRAQ DEBT AND AUGUST [...] (S) Deputy Finance Minister Storchak confirmed with the Embassy that Iraqi Oil Minister Shahrastani will visit Moscow on August 9 to discuss "commercial cooperation" between the two countries. Storchak said FinMin Kudrin and officials in the Presidential Administration have pressed upon their [...]	2007-08-09 05:40:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EINV EPET IZ RS ENRG
07MOSCOW3896	NPT PREPCOM INFORMATION DELIVERED [...] (SBU) On July 25, 2007, we shared reftel information concerning the 2008 NPT PrepCom with Mikhail Kondratenkov, Second Secretary in the MFA's Department of Security and Disarmament Affairs. Kondratenkov told us on July 27, 2007 that Anatoliy Antonov, Director of the same office, will likely hea [...]	2007-08-09 11:03:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM KNNP ENRG PREL MNUC NPT RS
07MOSCOW3901	RUSSIA'S FINANCE MINISTRY ON IRAQ DEBT AND AUGUST [...] (S) Deputy Finance Minister Storchak confirmed on August 8 with the Embassy that Iraqi Oil Minister Shahrastani will visit Moscow on August 9 to discuss "commercial cooperation" between the two countries. Storchak said FinMin Kudrin and officials in the Presidential Administration have pressed [...]	2007-08-09 12:08:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	ECON EINV ETRD EFIN IZ RS
07MOSCOW391	APPROACHING RUSSIA ABOUT SUSPECTED AIR DEFENSE SITE [...] (S/NF) PolMinCouns made reftel demarche January 31 to Andrey Kelin, Director of the MFA Fourth CIS Directorate. Kelin denied knowledge of the issue, but said he would look into it. He added as a barb that both Azerbaijan and Armenia are concerned about the potential for U.S. air strikes again [...]	2007-01-31 11:01:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	PREL MARR MASS AM AJ RS
07MOSCOW3921	EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel 1 requested a Post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end- user, Moscow State University, Institute of Nuclear Physics, D [...]	2007-08-10 10:34:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW3930	IRAQI OIL MINISTER SAYS RUSSIA NEEDS TO BID ON OIL [...] (SBU) Visiting Iraqi Oil Minister Shahristani told the press in Moscow that Iraq's 27 largest producing fields would be transferred to the Iraqi National Oil Company, which could then choose partners on transparent and commercial terms. The news appears to dash the hopes of Russia's Lukoil, whi [...]	2007-08-10 13:15:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS IZ
07MOSCOW3947	RUSSIA ADDS THREE MONTHS TO ANTIDUMPING INVESTIGATION ON [...] (U) In a letter dated July 31, 2007, the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade (MEDT) provided a courtesy notice to the Embassy regarding the Russian government's decision to extend by three months its dumping investigation of fiberglass imports. The text of the MEDT letter reads as foll [...]	2007-08-13 12:19:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD ECON RS
07MOSCOW3953	ARAP CASE: COURT CONFIRMS COMMITTAL TO PSYCHIATRIC [...] (C) Despite testimony of independent psychiatrists from Moscow, a local court in Murmansk ruled August 10 in favor of continued involuntary committal of United Civic Front activist Larissa Arap for up to six months, at the discretion of the local psychiatric hospital that committed her in the [...]	2007-08-13 16:20:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PHUM PGOV SOCI RS
07MOSCOW3954	FROZEN CONFLICTS: DAS BRYZA TALKS WITH RUSSIAN MFA [...] (C) EUR DAS Matt Bryza discussed frozen conflicts in Georgia with senior MFA officials August 1. South Ossetia negotiator Popov agreed that South Ossetian leader Kokoity is "not indispensable," suggested Kokoity might outlive his utility "in maybe 3 years or so," but asserted that he wields r [...]	2007-08-13 17:45:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MOPS OSCE UNSC GG RS
07MOSCOW3971	RUSSIANS DEBATE ROLE OF THE CHURCH [...] (SBU) The dog days of August have seen a protracted debate here about the proper role of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) in a country in which church and state are officially separated. The debate was triggered by the near simultaneous expressions of unease by a member of the Public Chamber [...]	2007-08-14 12:28:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM KIRF PHUM SOCI RS
07MOSCOW3976	EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel 1 requested a Post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end- user, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Moscow Obla [...]	2007-08-14 13:31:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW3977	EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: TIE PELENG [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, TIE Peleng Ltd, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. The company is listed on BI [...]	2007-08-14 13:46:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW3978	SHANGHAI COOPERATION ORGANIZATION SUMMIT: RUSSIA [...] (C) Summary. Russian officials tell us they expect "no surprises" at the August 16 Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit in Bishkek. According to the MFA's SCO coordinator, Russia will seek to use the Summit to focus on improving the functioning of the SCO, especially in setting pr [...]	2007-08-14 16:27:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR ECON SNAR RS
07MOSCOW3991	RUSSIA: BUREAUCRATIC ERROR SNAGS HUMAN RIGHTS NGO [...] (SBU) Summary: The NGO "International Youth Human Rights Movement" (YHRM) learned last week that it had been deregistered by a Nizhny Novgorod court in June. YHRM has appealed the deregistration which, according to Human Rights Watch, was apparently the result of compounded bureaucratic error [...]	2007-08-15 08:31:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM RS
07MOSCOW3995	RUSSIA: POLITICS IN VORONEZH MIRRORS NATIONAL SITUATION [...] (SBU) During an August 6-8 visit to Voronezh oblast, we found a political situation very similar to the national condition. The United Russia and For a Just Russia parties dominate the political scene, opposition forces are ardent but weak, the Russian Orthodox Church plays an influential role [...]	2007-08-15 10:43:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KIRF SOCI RS
07MOSCOW3996	"PEACE MISSION 2007": SHANGHAI COOPERATION [...] (C) SUMMARY: The August 9-17 Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) anti-terrorist exercise -- Peace Mission 2007 -- is the largest in the history of the SCO. Approximately 6,500 troops are participating, the bulk from Russia and China. SCO Heads of State, including Chinese President Hu, ar [...]	2007-08-15 11:34:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS PTER RS CH
07MOSCOW3997	P-1 REFERRAL: DIGAEVA, STELLA ARBIEVNA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Post has identified Russian citizen Stella Digaeva as a candidate for resettlement in the United States as a Priority One referral. Digaeva is in danger of retaliation by Chechen security forces over criticism of Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov through the U.S.-based Amina.com [...]	2007-08-15 11:38:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM RS
07MOSCOW3998	P-1 REFERRAL FOR RUSSIAN CITIZEN GEORGES BLEMOU [...] (C) Post has identified Russian/Guinean citizen Georges Blemou and his family for referral to the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program. Blemou has been subjected to repeated assaults based on his race. In 2001, he was shot and pushed from a balcony, falling four stories, by unidentified attacker [...]	2007-08-15 11:52:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM RS
07MOSCOW400	NAMES OF INFLUENTIAL WOMEN IN RUSSIA [...] (SBU) As requested by reftel, following is post's list of Russia's five most influential women: - Olga Konstantinovna Dergunova Chairperson/President, Microsoft Russia and CIS Phone: 7 495-967-8585/8572 Mobile: 7 495-720-6075 Email: olgad@microsoft.com Address: Ul. Krylatskaya 17, Entran [...]	2007-01-31 13:57:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWMN PHUM PREL RS
07MOSCOW402	RUSSIANS DEFEND ARMS TRANSFERS TO IRAN, SYRIA [...] (S) SUMMARY: Visiting Moscow January 18-19, EUR/PRA Director Anita Friedt told Foreign Ministry officials that increased Russian transparency on arms transfers to sensitive countries could lessen the possibility of sanctions under U.S. law. Washington was willing to work with the Russian si [...]	2007-01-31 14:22:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	PARM MCAP PREL ETTC RS
07MOSCOW4029	RUSSIA'S STOCK MARKETS CONTINUE DOWNWARD SLIDE IN WAKE OF [...] (SBU) The benchmark RTS Index dropped 3.6 percent for the week to 1829.64 near the end of the trading day on August 16. Losses in Asian markets and lingering subprime concerns have prompted what some observers are calling a "market event." Deutsche Bank Aleksey Zabotkin maintains that, broad [...]	2007-08-16 14:20:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON RS
07MOSCOW404	RUSSIA: DELTA AND SHEREMETYEVO AIRPORT OFFICIALS [...] (SBU) Delta and Sheremetyevo Airport (SVO) officials met January 29 to discuss delays in take off - and as a result, of its overall "block time" - of its Moscow-Atlanta flight. (Block time refers to push back from departure gate to arrival at gate at entry point.) Delta Flight 47's "block tim [...]	2007-01-31 14:46:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR ECON RS
07MOSCOW4043	RUSSIAN PHARMACEUTICALS MARKET TAKES OFF (C-TN7-00763, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Russia's pharmaceuticals market has grown by leaps and bounds in the last three years, and experts predict continued robust growth in the short term in almost all major market segments. Foreign firms continue to dominate the market and account for an estimated 75-80 percent of [...]	2007-08-17 11:14:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO ETRD EINV EIND RS
07MOSCOW4044	RUSSIA SAYS NO TO FUNDING INFORMATION ACTIVITY IN GARMISCH [...] (SBU) Per reftel instructions, on August 16 we discussed the upcoming Information Portal Activity in Garmisch, Germany under the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism (GICNT),with Alexander Bulychov from the MFA's Department of Security and Disarmament Affairs (DVBR). Bulychov told us [...]	2007-08-17 12:52:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER KGIC PARM PREL RS
07MOSCOW405	RUSSIAN MFA CONFIRMS POSITIVE CHANGE IN ABKHAZIA [...] (C) MFA Fourth CIS Director Andrey Kelin briefed PolMinCouns on the Russian position toward Georgia's Kodori Gorge January 31, making explicit the positive change hinted to DAS Bryza in Berlin January 22. Russia will now accept the presence of up to 200 Georgian internal troops in Kodori (the [...]	2007-01-31 15:10:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MOPS PBTS GG RS
07MOSCOW4050	KADYROV ORDERS HUMANITARIAN ORGANIZATIONS IN [...] (C) Summary: In an effort in increase his control over international humanitarian organizations operating in Chechnya, Chechen President Kadyrov on August 4 demanded that they relocate their offices to Groznyy within two weeks (many currently operate from Ingushetia or South Ossetia). Kadyrov' [...]	2007-08-17 15:19:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREF RS
07MOSCOW4065	PUTIN-YUSCHENKO INTERGOVERNMENTAL COMMISSION [...] (C) The scheduled August 15-20 meeting between Presidents Putin and Yuschenko within the framework of the Russian-Ukrainian Intergovernmental Commission was postponed to late October or early November. MFA Ukraine Desk Head Vyacheslav Yelagin told us the GOU wanted to focus on the September 3 [...]	2007-08-21 07:51:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL NATO UP RS
07MOSCOW4067	BLOGGING IN RUSSIA [...] (SBU) Summary: Blogs are the fastest-growing and least constrained mass media in Russia. The popularity of blogs has increased exponentially in Russia as the internet has become more accessible, especially among people in their 20s and 30s. Although most Russian blogs do not deal with poli [...]	2007-08-21 08:50:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV SOCI RS
07MOSCOW4088	DAS BRYZA'S MEETINGS WITH RUSSIAN AND WESTERN [...] (C) SUMMARY. In July 31-August 1 meetings, DAS Bryza's discussions with MFA, western and Russian energy officials centered on oil pipeline issues and Eurasian gas developments. Transneft head Vainshtok criticized the Caspian Pipeline Consortium, (CPC) and suggested it should only be expande [...]	2007-08-21 14:02:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
07MOSCOW4111	GEORGIA MISSILE INCIDENT: RUSSIA ISSUES ITS OWN [...] (C) MFA acting Department chief Tarabrin described to us a report compiled by Russian experts "proving" that Russia had nothing to do with the August 6 missile launch on Georgia. The report is being distributed in the UNSC and OSCE. We assured Tarabrin the U.S. considers all information, but t [...]	2007-08-22 12:49:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS MARR MOPS OSCE UNSC GG RS
07MOSCOW4113	GEORGIA MISSILE INCIDENT: RUSSIA ISSUES ITS OWN [...] (C) MFA acting Department chief Tarabrin described to us a report compiled by Russian experts "proving" that Russia had nothing to do with the August 6 missile launch on Georgia. The report is being distributed in the UNSC and OSCE. We assured Tarabrin the U.S. considers all information, but t [...]	2007-08-22 13:26:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS MARR MOPS OSCE UNSC GG RS
07MOSCOW4114	NOT JAIL, BUT NEW RESTRICTIONS FOR FORMER HEAD OF [...] (C) Summary. A Nizhniy Novgorod district court on August 17 did not jail former Russian-Chechen Friendship Society head Stanislav Dmitrievskiy for his participation in the April Dissenter's March, but instead placed new restrictions on his parole conditions. Under the new restrictions, Dmitr [...]	2007-08-22 13:37:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM RS
07MOSCOW4118	U.S. NON-PAPER ON CFE DELIVERED [...] (C) SUMMARY. Russian MFA Officials expressed appreciation for the non-paper (timeline) on Adapted CFE ratification and fulfilling the Istanbul commitments (reftel),and agreed to review it carefully and prepare a response for the September 11 meeting between EUR A/S Fried and DFM Kislyak. The [...]	2007-08-22 15:16:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM KCFE NATO OSCE RS
07MOSCOW4119	ONCE-PLURALISTIC ALTAY KRAY STARTS TO [...] (SBU) During an August 8-11 visit to Altay Kray, we found the region's traditional political diversity succumbing to the United Russia (YR) political machine fueled by the Governor's May 2007 YR party conversion. Reflecting the national line-up, YR, For a Just Russia (SR),the Communists (KPRF [...]	2007-08-23 04:06:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM SOCI RS
07MOSCOW4120	RUSSIA NONCOMMITTAL ON UNSCR 1540 SOUTH [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-23 04:08:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL AORC KPAO PTER UNSC KNNP ID SF RS
07MOSCOW4133	RUSSIAN PARTICIPATION IN BLACK SEA ECONOMIC COOPERATION [...] As requested reftel, EST contacted the Department of Natural Resources to determine who was expected to represent Russia at the September 12-13 BSEC Symposium in Istanbul, as no names of recommended invitees were provided by Department. We were informed that Ms. Natalya Tretyakova, Department [...]	2007-08-23 12:04:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON SENV TU RS
07MOSCOW4140	RUSSIA: LOCAL OFFICIALS, NGOS PREPARE FOR DUMA ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) The growing influence of United Russia and the extent to which the ruling party is pre-positioning itself for the December Duma elections was evident in Voronezh during an August 6-8 visit to the region (ref A). While the regional election commission chairman and NGOs described their work [...]	2007-08-24 02:43:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV RS
07MOSCOW4141	"PEACE MISSION 2007": SCO MILITARY LINKS GROWING, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Experts told us that the Shanghai Cooperation Organization's (SCO) Peace Mission 2007 anti-terrorist exercises, while deemed a success by many Russians, do not necessarily point to increased integration among SCO member states. The 6,500 soldiers involved in the exercises repor [...]	2007-08-24 02:44:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS PTER RS CH
07MOSCOW4163	MFA REITERATES TO VISITING OSCE SPECIAL ENVOY GOR [...] (C) Summary: According to MFA and Spanish diplomats, OSCE CiO Zuzul used his August 22-23 visit to stress the need to reduce Georgian-Russian tensions, without focusing on identifying the guilty party in the August 6 missile incident. The GOR accorded Zuzul a mid-level MFA hearing, expressed [...]	2007-08-24 13:48:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS PBTS PINS UNSC GG RS

07MOSCOW4182	KOSOVO: RUSSIAN ENVOY PESSIMISTIC, PUSHING UNION [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an August 24th meeting, Russian Envoy Botsan-Kharchenko characterized the first round of Troika talks as satisfactory, but was pessimistic about prospects for the August 30 Vienna session, given entrenched positions over the Ahtisaari plan, which were exacerbated by Serbian and [...]	2007-08-27 13:59:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SR PBTS KV RS
07MOSCOW4185	SCO: NO PLANS TO EXPAND, BUT GETTING INVOLVED IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Leonid Moisev, President Putin's envoy to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO),confirmed that the organization has no plans to expand any time soon and maintained that the SCO would remain an economic club, rather than a military alliance. Experts agreed, telling us that [...]	2007-08-27 14:01:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID ENRG EPET PINR PREL
07MOSCOW4189	BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: PRE-LICENSE CHECK ON [...] (U) Reftel requested a pre-license check to confirm the bona fides of the World of Arms company, the foreign consignee listed in the license applications detailed in the DTC Case 050052700. The commodities in question are 30 Model 597 Semi Auto rifles, .22 cal W/Scope and 20 Model 700 Bolt A [...]	2007-08-28 06:06:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC KOMC RS
07MOSCOW4226	SUSPECTS ARRESTED IN POLITKOVSKAYA CASE [...] (C) Summary: On August 27, Prosecutor General Yuriy Chayka announced that ten people had been arrested for participation in the October 2006 murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya. Chayka alleged that the murder was committed by an organized crime group, and claimed that a known but unnamed [...]	2007-08-29 02:28:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS KCRM PHUM RS
07MOSCOW4232	POLAND, LITHUANIA BREAK CONSENSUS ON EU HEADS OF [...] (C) Summary: The EU Heads of Mission Report, prepared for the informal September 7-8 EU foreign ministers meeting on EU-Russia policy, was submitted to Brussels without the endorsement of Poland and Lithuania. In an unexpected move, the Polish embassy refused to sign off on the assessment, a [...]	2007-08-29 09:00:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PROG PREL EUN RS
07MOSCOW4240	RUSSIA ENERGY: TNK-BP LOOKING INTO IRAQ, [...] (C) TNK-BP VP for International Affairs Shawn McCormick told us on August 24th that the company is venturing into Iraq, has sent a team to Venezuela with mixed results, and is optimistic about prospects in Turkmenistan. Its capital expenditure budget is up $700 million in 2007 to $3.4 billion [...]	2007-08-29 13:25:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS IZ TX VE
07MOSCOW4241	RUSSIA SUPPORTS U.S. CANDIDATE FOR CONVENTION [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-29 13:53:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL UNGA
07MOSCOW4243	MOSCOW: IMPORT SAFETY WORKING GROUP [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On August 20, we provided information on the President's Interagency Working Group on Import Safety to a wide range of Russian government offices. Contacts at the Ministry of Health and Social Development (MOHSD) expressed general interest in participating in a future dialog o [...]	2007-08-29 14:40:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ECON ETRD TBIO RS
07MOSCOW4244	RUSSIA ENERGY: YUKOS REDUX FOR RUSSNEFT? [...] (C) Russneft owner Mikhail Gutseriyev has apparently fled Russia as authorities seek his arrest on charges of illegal business activities and tax-evasion. Gutseriyev may be guilty, he has a dubious track record, but this may also be yet another case of selective prosecution against an oligarch [...]	2007-08-29 14:44:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
07MOSCOW4247	RUSSIA CALLS STATEMENTS ABOUT ITS RECONSIDERATION [...] (C) Summary: Russian Ambassador-at-large for Black Sea Fleet issues Vladimir Dorokhin told us its diplomatic spat with Ukraine over alleged statements made by a Russian diplomat regarding Russia's legal claim on the Crimea is a "dead issue." Russia characterized as a misunderstanding the Kyi [...]	2007-08-30 02:53:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UK RS
07MOSCOW4263	EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: JSC [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel 1 requested a Post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end- user, JSC Institute Engineering Science Ural Branch RAS, Yekat [...]	2007-08-30 09:25:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW4264	EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel 1 requested a Post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end- user, Kamensk-Uralsky City Administration, Kamensk- Uralsky, R [...]	2007-08-30 09:26:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW4267	EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: SPECIAL [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, Special Purpose Center of FSB, Moscow, Russia. The company is listed [...]	2007-08-30 09:53:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW4285	RUSSIA WILL RESPOND TO UNESCO ILLITERACY MEASURES SURVEY [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-30 14:36:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	SCUL SOCI UNESCO RS
07MOSCOW4287	The "For A Just Russia" Party Stages Primary [...] (SBU) Summary. For a Just Russia (SR) held a series of public primaries throughout Russia on August 26 in preparation for the December Duma elections. Far from being a well-run, effective sampling of voter preferences, the primaries seemed to have been slapped together in an effort to keep pa [...]	2007-08-31 02:46:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM SOCI RS
07MOSCOW4289	NEW LEGAL TROUBLES AROUND FORMER RUSSIAN-CHECHEN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Regional officials in Nizhniy Novgorod are conducting investigations of organizations affiliated with Stanislav Dmitrievskiy, the head of the banned Russian-Chechen Friendship Society (RCFS),including the seizure of computers from the Nizhniy Novgorod Foundation to Support Tole [...]	2007-08-31 06:26:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM RS
07MOSCOW4305	DFM SALTANOV ON QUARTET, MIDDLE EAST CONFERENCE, [...] (C) Summary: In an August 30 meeting with the Ambassador, Deputy Foreign Minister Aleksandr Saltanov expressed strong support for the upcoming Quartet meetings and the Middle East Peace Conference. Saltanov proposed bilateral consultations in Washington or New York following his planned Septe [...]	2007-08-31 11:51:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON IS IZ LE PREL RS SY
07MOSCOW4307	RUSSIA/GEORGIA: BAKRADZE VISIT FAILS TO EASE [...] (C) Russian MFA South Ossetia negotiator Yuriy Popov told us August 31 that visiting Georgian State Minister Bakradze did not hit it off well with DFM Karasin. The Russians appear to take Bakradze seriously. Popov worried that the planned "Peace March" to Tskhinvali could elicit a provocativ [...]	2007-08-31 13:51:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS MARR MOPS OSCE GG RS
07MOSCOW4308	RUSSIA WILL ATTEND EXPERT-LEVEL NEIGHBORS [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-31 13:57:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ RS
07MOSCOW4309	LATVIAN BORDER TREATY: DUMA RATIFICATION IN EARLY [...] (C) Summary. The State Duma will likely ratify the border treaty with Latvia, but the MFA and the Latvian Embassy raised concerns about the treaty's passage in the Federation Council, where political grandstanding in an election year could possibly result in further delay. FM Lavrov postpon [...]	2007-08-31 15:05:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS PGOV LG RS
07MOSCOW4315	MFA ON "SIGNIFICANT" SHIFT IN RUSSIA-BELARUS [...] (C) Summary: Newly installed MFA Belarus Section Chief Nikita Matkovskiy told us that since Russia began to "put in order" its relations with Belarus in 2006, Russia has observed "serious but necessary" changes in the behavior of the Lukashenko regime. Matkovskiy underscored Russia's determi [...]	2007-09-04 11:43:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR MNUC BO RU
07MOSCOW4328	DFM KARASIN ON GEORGIA AND OTHER NEIGHBORS [...] (C) Two contentious issues -- Georgia and the Russian charges against the American HOM of OSCE Moldova -- dominated the Ambassador's September 4 meeting with DFM Karasin (the latter exchange reported separately). On Georgia, Karasin said State Minister Bakradze started off on the wrong foot w [...]	2007-09-04 15:36:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MOPS OSCE UNGA MD GG RS
07MOSCOW4331	SUBPRIME MORTGAGE CRISIS NOT AFFECTING RUSSIAN BANKS - SO [...] This message is sensitive but unclassified and not for Internet distribution. ------- Summary ------- 2. (SBU) The largest potential threat that the U.S. subprime mortgage-induced liquidity squeeze poses for Russian banks is higher borrowing costs, according to Moscow-based private ba [...]	2007-09-05 06:17:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON RS
07MOSCOW4345	RUSSIA: STAFFDEL ANAND EXPLORES POLITICAL SITUATION [...] (U) A four-person staff delegation from the House Committee on Foreign Affairs visited Moscow August 25-29 to explore political developments in the run-up to parliamentary elections in December and the presidential election next year. During their visit they met with a range of Russian official [...]	2007-09-05 13:33:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM RS
07MOSCOW4347	COMMUNIST PARTY TAKES TO DUMA ELECTION TRAIL [...] 1. (C) SUMMARY. Gennadiy Zyuganov, the Chairman of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (KPRF),headlined a press conference on August 29 to launch the 2007 Duma campaign. He and other party leaders took an often defiant tone for what may be the strongest political organization in o [...]	2007-09-05 14:55:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV RS
07MOSCOW4357	POLISH PRESIDENT REQUESTS PUTIN MEETING AT KATYN [...] (C) Polish President Kaczynski surprised the GOR on September 4 by conveying his interest in a visit to Katyn and Smolensk on September 17, the date the Soviet Red Army seized eastern Poland in 1939, and requesting a meeting with President Putin. Polish Charge d'Affaires Zbigniew Rzonca told [...]	2007-09-06 12:47:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PL RS
07MOSCOW437	FSB REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ON AL-QAIDA ACTIVITY [...] (C) On January 22, Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) passed a note to Embassy Moscow ORC requesting information the USG might have regarding Al Qaida financial activity in the Russian Federation. Below is an unofficial Embassy translation of the note. A copy of the original Russian-la [...]	2007-02-01 14:27:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	KTFN PTER PREL RS
07MOSCOW4379	KREMLIN TO ASSESS "EFFECTIVENESS" OF GOVERNORS [...] (C) SUMMARY: This week, all governors were obligated by a June 18 law to turn in a statistical report accounting for 2006 on a host of economic, social, and administrative metrics to a commission headed by Sergey Sobyanin, the chief of the Presidential Administration. This new policy, requir [...]	2007-09-07 07:19:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV RS
07MOSCOW4409	Russian Response to Letter Regarding U.S. Candidacy for [...] No summary [...]	2007-09-07 12:24:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	TSPL UNESCO RS
07MOSCOW4413	RUSSIAN-ESTONIAN RELATIONS: INCHING TOWARD NORMALCY [...] (C) Summary. The MFA and Estonian Embassy suggest that Russia-Estonia relations are slowly returning to normal, despite lingering GOR ill will and unhelpful political rhetoric in both countries. Although no high-level visits are on the horizon, the two countries are closely coordinating on m [...]	2007-09-07 13:06:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PBTS EN RU
07MOSCOW4415	Polar Bears: Exchange of Notes Bringing US-Russia Polar [...] On August 24, 2007, EST exchanged diplomatic notes with, and passed the U.S. instrument of ratification to, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as per reftel instructions. 2. The exchange of notes will bring the Agreement between the Government of the United States of America and the [...]	2007-09-07 13:44:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	KTIA SENV RS
07MOSCOW4418	KASPAROV, KASYANOV'S OPPOSITION: LARGELY [...] (C) The movements led by Other Russia's Garry Kasparov and ex-Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov seem to have fallen prey to an inability to forge coalitions with colleagues similarly inclined to reject the limited opportunities offered by the current electoral cycle. Kasparov's Other Russia appe [...]	2007-09-07 15:27:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM SOCI RS
07MOSCOW4419	GOR ON OSCE: UNRELENTING BUT MEASURED CRITICISM [...] (C) Summary. Spanish Foreign Minister Moratinos's August 30 visit to Moscow gave the GOR another chance to air its grievances against the OSCE. This time, the GOR's criticisms were less sharp and there was no hint of Russia's departure from the organization. FM Lavrov, while calling the OSC [...]	2007-09-07 15:49:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM RS
07MOSCOW4420	RUSSIA WANTS A STABLE PAKISTAN BUT AVOIDS DIRECT [...] (C) Summary: Russia seeks a stable Pakistan, preferably under the leadership of President Musharraf, but is reluctant to weigh in on the country's volatile political situation. The MFA told us that the GOR considers Musharraf capable of maintaining government control of the nation's nuclear w [...]	2007-09-10 02:49:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IN PK RS XD
07MOSCOW4424	EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: LLC NORDIX, [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, LLC Nordix, Moscow, Russia. The company is listed on BIS license app [...]	2007-09-10 10:00:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW4433	RUSSIA-SOUTH KOREA RELATIONS: NO FRICTION, BUT [...] (C) Summary. GOR officials characterized the August 30-31 Moscow visit by the South Korean Foreign Minister Song Min-Soon as "excellent" with no notable problem areas requiring serious negotiation, except the shared concern for North Korea's nuclear programs. FM Lavrov summarized the Russia [...]	2007-09-10 11:56:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PARMS MNUC KS RS
07MOSCOW4441	RUSSIAN OPPOSITION CONFERENCES FOILED [...] (U) Other Russia's effort to hold regional conferences in order to choose a unified candidate for the 2008 presidential election was foiled when venues they had booked were canceled or in some cases, participants were unable to enter the premises. End Summary. -------------------- Regional [...]	2007-09-10 15:58:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM RS
07MOSCOW4447	PUTIN'S INDONESIA TRIP EXPANDS RUSSIAN ECONOMIC [...] (C) Summary: Russian President Putin's September 6 visit to Indonesia is indicative of the Russian goal of expanding economic ties with Southeast Asia through key industries -- energy and military -- considered crucial both to Russian economic growth and to exerting influence abroad. The pre [...]	2007-09-11 02:35:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EINV ASEAN ID RS
07MOSCOW4453	BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: PRE-LICENSE CHECK ON [...] (U) Reftel requested a pre-license check to confirm the bona fides of FNPZ NefteGazAeroKosmos Ltd., the foreign end-user and NPO Geophizika-NV, the foreign consignee listed on application 050056021. The commodities in question are 10 NV-2AMA White filters (216mm x 168mm x 3mm) (NVIS filters) [...]	2007-09-11 05:44:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	KOMC ETTC RS
07MOSCOW4463	RESPONSE TO RUSSIAN MISSILE DEFENSE QUESTIONS [...] No summary [...]	2007-09-11 13:52:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PARM PREL RS
07MOSCOW4466	RUSSIAN RADIATION MEDICINE EXPERTS IDENTIFIED [...] No summary [...]	2007-09-11 15:03:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO KRAD RS
07MOSCOW4469	Nunn-Lugar Roundtable: Russians Praise CTR, Call for More [...] (U) Summary: At an event co-hosted by the Carnegie Moscow Center and the Center for Policy Studies to commemorate the fifteenth anniversary of Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction, the Russian guest speakers broadly praised the Program, acknowledging its popularity and success. Some argue [...]	2007-09-12 05:38:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM PGOV PINR PINS PREL PTER OREP ENRG MNUC
07MOSCOW4480	RUSSIA WILL CONSIDER UNSC MEETING ON BURMA, BUT [...] (C) Russia will consider our request to convene a formal briefing of the UN Security Council by Special Envoy for Burma Gambari (reftel),but believes that the situation is an internal matter not appropriate for the UNSC, according to Alexey Semenikhin of the MFA Department of ASEAN Member Sta [...]	2007-09-12 12:33:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM RS
07MOSCOW4483	PRIME MINISTER'S RESIGNS, FIRST DEPUTY FINANCE [...] (C) On the afternoon of September 12, Prime Minister Fradkov resigned, kicking off the long-expected next phase of Russia's succession process. Putin accepted Fradkov's resignation, which the Prime Minister said he had tendered in order to "give (Putin) full freedom in making decisions, inclu [...]	2007-09-12 15:47:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM PINR RS
07MOSCOW4485	RUSSIA WILL SUPPORT US POSITION ON UNSCR 1540 [...] No summary [...]	2007-09-13 02:52:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL AORC KPAO PTER UNSC KNNP ID SF RS
07MOSCOW4490	RUSSIA TO FOCUS ON BILATERAL ECONOMIC COOPERATION [...] (C) Summary: MFA Deputy Director of Middle East and North Africa Department Aleksandr Kinshak previewed for us preliminary GOR plans for Iraqi FM Zebari's trip to Moscow, currently scheduled for September 18-21. The GOR will seek a commitment from Zebari to reactivate the Russia-Iraq Intergo [...]	2007-09-13 05:57:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR ECON IQ RS
07MOSCOW4505	FUNDAMENTALS OF RUSSIAN FOREIGN POLICY CONTRIBUTE [...] (C) Summary: Foreign Minister Lavrov's strong rhetoric during his September 3 remarks on the course of Russian foreign policy, and in particular his use of the term "red lines," differs little from previous GOR statements. While Lavrov emphasized Russia's commitment to cooperation with the W [...]	2007-09-13 13:18:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR
07MOSCOW4511	WHAT ZUBKOV'S APPOINTMENT MIGHT MEAN [...] (C) President Putin's surprise decision to replace Prime Minister Fradkov with First Deputy Finance Minister Viktor Zubkov seems to have been the product of Kremlin clan rivalries, a wish to keep all options open, a need to ride herd over avaricious elites and a desire to at least temporarily [...]	2007-09-13 16:21:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PREL PINR RS
07MOSCOW4522	US - RUSSIA JDEC EXPERTS MEETING: RUSSIA CANNOT [...] (U) MFA DVBR Senior Counselor Vladimir Gavrikov told us September 7 that the MOD had informed them that their technical experts on the Joint Data Exchange Center would not be prepared to meet on September 26 as proposed reftel, and requested that the meeting be pushed back to a date in Octobe [...]	2007-09-14 11:11:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR PARM PREL RS
07MOSCOW4526	RUSSIA: TURF BATTLE OVER TICKET DISTRIBUTION COULD [...] (C) In a September 4 meeting, Delta General Representative, Leonid Terasov, told us that Russia-based airline ticket distributor for the CIS countries, Transport Clearing House (TCH),is probably behind the Government of Ukraine's recent actions against the International Air Transport Associat [...]	2007-09-14 11:45:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EAIR ECON PREL RS
07MOSCOW4536	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: OSCE HUMAN DIMENSION [...] (SBU) We delivered reftel demarche September 13 to Tatiana Smirnova, MFA Head of the Division for European Cooperation, Humanitarian Cooperation Division. Smirnova noted that the GOR was not planning to present criticism of other countries at the Human Dimension Implementation Meeting (HDIM),[...]	2007-09-14 13:55:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL ECON OSCE RS
07MOSCOW4538	ZUBKOV CONFIRMED; HINTS AT CABINET RE-SHUFFLE [...] (SBU) As expected, Prime Minister-designate Viktor Zubkov was easily confirmed by the Duma after a perfunctory set of questions and speeches September 14. Only the Communist Party, and perhaps some independent deputies, voted against him. Zubkov used the occasion to suggest that a cabinet re [...]	2007-09-14 15:26:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM PINR RS
07MOSCOW4539	ZUBKOV AND SPECULATION ON SUCCESSION [...] (C) The surprise appointment of First Deputy Minister of Finance Viktor Zubkov has intensified speculation about succession. In the absence of authoritative information about President Putin's intentions, much of what we hear is wildly speculative, and ranges from Putin returning to office af [...]	2007-09-14 17:31:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM RS
07MOSCOW4540	RUSSIA: FINMIN KUDRIN CONFIDENT ABOUT STAYING ON, [...] (C) Summary: In a September 14 meeting with the Ambassador, Finance Minister Kudrin expressed confidence that he would remain in office despite the recent change in Prime Ministers. Kudrin's self-assurance seemed to have been boosted by his meeting a little earlier on September 14 with Chief [...]	2007-09-15 07:32:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV PGOV RU
07MOSCOW4542	ZUBKOV AND SPECULATION ON SUCCESSION [...] (C) The surprise appointment of First Deputy Minister of Finance Viktor Zubkov has intensified speculation about succession. In the absence of authoritative information about President Putin's intentions, much of what we hear is wildly speculative, and ranges from Putin returning to office af [...]	2007-09-16 17:36:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM RS
07MOSCOW4543	RUSSIA: TUBERCULOSIS CASES STABILIZING, BUT DRUG RESISTANCE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Increased Russian Government attention to TB control and treatment in recent years, and regional pilot programs involving international donors and experts, are helping to turn the tide in Russia's battle with TB. Tuberculosis (TB) cases in Russia have recently stabilized within [...]	2007-09-17 03:31:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO SCUL SOCI RS
07MOSCOW4544	DFM LOSYUKOV ON SIX-PARTY TALKS, AFGHANISTAN AND [...] (C) Summary. In a September 12 meeting with Ambassador DFM Losyukov expressed satisfaction that the Six-Party Talks had made progress toward the ultimate goal-- the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula. He believes the Six-Party Beijing Plenary is likely to start on September 19, and wi [...]	2007-09-17 04:50:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM MNUC KNNP ECON KN IR AF IN RS
07MOSCOW4550	MFA FRUSTRATED WITH UKRAINIAN POLITICS, SATISFIED [...] (C) Summary: MFA Director for Ukraine, Belarus, and Moldova Viktor Sorokin told us that while senior-level contact with Ukraine continues, Russia is growing frustrated with the virtual paralysis in bilateral relations. Russia places most of the blame for the stagnation on the "divided and pre [...]	2007-09-17 08:15:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PREL ECON UK
07MOSCOW4555	EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: MOSCOW [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, Moscow Railways, Moscow, Russia. The company is listed on BIS licens [...]	2007-09-17 10:53:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW4583	RUSSIA ENERGY: A WINDOW ON THE WORKINGS OF A SMALL [...] (C) Describing his experiences working in a small ConocoPhillips(CP)-Lukoil joint venture, a CP employee said his Russian counterparts cling to inefficient central planning approaches to business operations. He also noted problems of favoritism, corruption, and a disregard for principles of w [...]	2007-09-18 09:09:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
07MOSCOW4584	RUSSIAN RESPONSE ON UAVS TO SYRIA AND [...] (S) Russian MFA Office of Disarmament and Security Affairs (DVBR) passed us a non-paper September 12 (faxed to EUR/RUS, informal translation in paragraph 3) in response to ref a and b demarches on the possible sale of UAVs to Syria and nanotechnology cooperation with Iran. DVBR officer Alexand [...]	2007-09-18 10:03:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	ETTC IR KSCA MTCRE PARM PREL RS SY
07MOSCOW4585	INVITATION TO GPOI G8 CLEARINGHOUSE DELIVERED TO [...] No summary [...]	2007-09-18 10:04:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR MASS PREL PGOV RS
07MOSCOW4592	IRANIAN FM VISIT FOCUSES ON ECONOMICS [...] (C) Summary: Iranian FM Mottaki was in Moscow September 12 for what Russian officials characterized as a visit devoted to the countries' economic relationship. The GOR denied Mottaki's claim that Russia had agreed to finish construction of the Bushehr nuclear power plant and supply Iran with [...]	2007-09-18 13:02:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM KNNP ENRG IR RS
07MOSCOW4596	DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER ON IMPORTANCE OF CLIMATE [...] (C) On September 17, Deputy Foreign Minister Yakovenko told Ambassador of Foreign Minister Lavrov's interest in participating in the September 27 - 28 Washington energy security and climate change conference. Yakovenko provided the Ambassador with a non-paper outlining the MFA's traditional c [...]	2007-09-18 13:46:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM PHUM SENV RS
07MOSCOW4598	Samara Oblast: New Sheriff in Town [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The shocking speed in which Yeltsin-era Governor Konstantin Titov was replaced after 16 years in power has fostered an atmosphere of nervous expectation among the political elite in Samara. In a whirlwind of events this August, Titov announced his resignation; Putin nominated Art [...]	2007-09-18 17:01:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV SOCI PINR RS
07MOSCOW4599	ZHIRINOVSKIYâ€™S NEW SIDEMAN: LUGOVOY [...] (C) The mercurial Vladimir Zhirinovskiy staged yet another impressive act of political theater on September 17 with the surprise announcement that the number two position on his party's ticket would be filled by Andrey Lugovoy, the former FSB officer accused by Scotland Yard of orchestrating the mu [...]	2007-09-18 18:06:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR RS
07MOSCOW4601	RUSSIA WILL OPEN A CONSULATE IN NORTHERN IRAQ [...] (C) Summary: The MFA Middle East Department told us that Russia plans to open a consulate in the Kurdish regional city Irbil in October, with the possibility to open another in Basrah. MFA official Elbrus Kutrashev expressed concern that the activities of Russian diplomats in Baghdad remain l [...]	2007-09-19 03:28:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IQ RS
07MOSCOW4602	SEEKING HIGH-LEVEL ATTENDANCE AT AD HOC LIAISON [...] We delivered reftel demarche on September 14 to Timur Zabirov of the MFA Middle East and North Africa Department. Zabirov said that the GOR appreciated that the Secretary's attendance at the AHLC demonstrates U.S. support for the Palestinian Authority and that a suitably high-level official wo [...]	2007-09-19 04:32:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL EAID KPAL KWBG XF EUN RS
07MOSCOW4609	KASYANOV ON OPPOSITION PROSPECTS; PUTIN'S PLANS [...] (C) A relaxed, self confident ex-Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov told Ambassador September 18 that: -- the appointment of 66-year old Viktor Zubkov as Prime Minister meant that President Putin was determined to leave office in 2008, but remained undecided about the succession; -- if Zubkov [...]	2007-09-19 06:07:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PINR RS
07MOSCOW4625	SPANISH PRESIDENT ZAPATERO'S VISIT TO FOCUS ON [...] (C) Summary: Spanish President Zapatero's September 28 meeting with President Putin in Sochi will focus on economic cooperation and trade, concentrating on a "big push" to stimulate the interest of Spanish investors. The visit will also reinforce traditionally strong Russian-Spanish relations [...]	2007-09-19 14:59:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EINV ETRD SP RS
07MOSCOW4626	FEDERATION COUNCIL PASSES LATVIAN BORDER TREATY [...] (SBU) On September 19, the Russian Federation Council voted 177 to one to ratify the border treaty with Latvia. Despite fears that the Just Russia party might cater to the nationalist vote in election-year politics (reftel),they instead voted for the treaty with near unanimity in the first r [...]	2007-09-19 15:01:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PBTS PGOV LG RS
07MOSCOW4628	DEFENSE MINISTER'S OFFER OF RESIGNATION FUELS [...] (C) Summary. Acting Minister of Defense Anatoly Serdyukov tendered his resignation late September 18 due to his relationship to new Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov, who is his father-in law. Many question whether Putin will accept Serdyukov's resignation, noting that he had just begun his effor [...]	2007-09-20 03:29:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MARR PINR RS
07MOSCOW4633	POLISH PRESIDENT'S VISIT TO KATYN "CONSTRUCTIVE" [...] (C) Summary. DFM Titov characterized President Kaczynski's visit to Katyn as "constructive," noting that Kaczynski had depicted Katyn as an historical event and focused on the future of Russian-Polish relations. Titov also said that any request by Kaczynski to meet with Putin would have been [...]	2007-09-20 08:48:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PL RS
07MOSCOW4634	RUSSIA-FRANCE RELATIONS: AFTER KOUCHNER, BEFORE [...] (C) Summary. French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner's two-day Moscow visit did not bridge the gap in the two countries' position on issues such as Kosovo and Iran. Both GOR officials and the French Embassy hope that the early October Sarkozy visit will provide an opportunity to narrow di [...]	2007-09-20 09:29:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNO UNMIK FR RS
07MOSCOW464	PUTIN'S PRESSFEST [...] (SBU) Summary: Hosting a record number of journalists for a marathon three-and-a-half hour session on February 1, President Putin was relaxed and seemed to enjoy displaying his mastery of facts. Putin was upbeat and positive, especially in describing Russia's economic picture. Some commentat [...]	2007-02-02 14:54:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR KDEM RS
07MOSCOW4647	U.S.-INDIA CIVIL NUCLEAR COOPERATION: INITIAL [...] (SBU) EST officer delivered draft Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) Policy Statement on Civil Nuclear Cooperation with India (reftel) September 20 to NSG expert in MFA's Security Department (DVBR),Mikhail Kondratenkov. Kondratenkov appreciated the opportunity for Russia to have the chance to rev [...]	2007-09-21 09:07:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG KNNP KTIA PARM PGOV PREL IN RS
07MOSCOW465	PUBLIC CHAMBER ANNIVERSARY: THE JURY'S STILL OUT [...] (C) January marks the one-year anniversary of the Public Chamber, a body created at the initiative of President Putin in order to provide a channel for communication with the public and, in part it is believed, to compensate for the Kremlin's decision to appoint, instead of elect, governors an [...]	2007-02-02 16:26:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PINR RS
07MOSCOW466	UPDATE ON PWC'S RUSSIAN TAX ISSUES [...] (C) On January 30, the Department of Economic Security (DES) within the Ministry of Interior (MVD) called on PricewaterhouseCoopers' (PWC) senior managing partners to provide a detailed explanation of the firm's expense accounting for its expatriate employees. DES officials interrogated the [...]	2007-02-02 16:27:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EFIN ECON RS
07MOSCOW4669	(C) RUSSIA ENERGY: EXXONMOBIL OPTIMISTIC ON SAKH 1 [...] (C) ExxonMobil Russia claims to be closing in on a deal to sell China gas from the Sakhalin 1 project it operates. However, Gazprom publicly and privately remains opposed and can block the deal regardless of what ExxonMobil,s contract says. We would not be surprised to see a compromise emerge [...]	2007-09-21 13:14:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS CH
07MOSCOW468	BIO NOTE: YURI MOLCHANOV, ST. PETERSBURG VICE [...] (SBU) The following message was drafted by St. Petersburg CG Mary Kruger. Begin text: 2. (C) During the November 2006 inauguration of the newly-opened premises of the St. Petersburg State University School of Management, an American academic long associated with the school told CG about Vice Gover [...]	2007-02-05 06:42:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PINR PGOV RS
07MOSCOW4691	CHEVRON RUSSIA PRESIDENT ON CPC BREAKTHROUGH, [...] No summary [...]	2007-09-24 12:43:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
07MOSCOW4693	NEZAVISIMAYA GAZETA UNDER INQUIRY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Things are getting uncomfortable for the leadership at Nezavisimaya Gazeta (NG),one of Russia's leading "opposition" newspapers, in what appears to be an attempt by associates of Agriculture Minister Gordeyev to silence criticism of his business activities. NG deputy editor and [...]	2007-09-24 15:45:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR RS
07MOSCOW4708	VOLGOGRAD MAYOR: YOUNG, PRAGMATIC... AND COMMUNIST (FOR [...] (SBU) The 31 year-old mayor of Volgograd, an unexpected winner in a special election held last May after his predecessor had been imprisoned on corruption charges, downplayed to us his Communist party affiliation. The mayor instead stressed his commitment to fostering a pro-business climate [...]	2007-09-25 11:32:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR RS
07MOSCOW4709	RUSSIAN ENVOY ON ABKHAZIA MOVEMENTS [...] (C) On September 24, Russian Envoy for the Georgia-Abkhazia conflict Ambassador Chernov shared with us his views on the developments in Abkhazia. He claimed that the September 20 shooting incident occurred in Tqvarcheli, "not in the Kodori Gorge," and noted that this demonstrated once again [...]	2007-09-25 13:23:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS GG RS
07MOSCOW4710	Artyakov's Avtovaz Polices Shaped Popular Opinion of New [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Popular opinion toward the newly appointed governor of Samara, Vladimir Artyakov, is likely to be shaped by perceptions of his policies while serving as general director of the region's largest industrial enterprise, Russian auto-manufacturer Avtovaz. Artyakov fought to strength [...]	2007-09-25 13:50:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM RS
07MOSCOW4713	PUTIN MAKES MINIMAL CHANGES TO CABINET [...] (C) Late evening September 24, President Putin announced the long-awaited cabinet re-shuffle requested by Prime Minister Zubkov. There were few structural changes to the new cabinet unveiled by Putin and much continuity, with government veterans Elvira Nabiullina and Tatyana Golikova replacin [...]	2007-09-25 15:13:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR ECON RS
07MOSCOW4723	READOUT OF ZEBARI VISIT: STRONGER ECONOMIC TIES, [...] (C) Summary: MFA Middle East and North Africa Department Deputy Director Aleksandr Kinshchak characterized Iraqi Foreign Minister Zebari's September 18-21 visit to Moscow as "successful." Kinshchak, who took part in the meetings, told us that Zebari gave Foreign Minister Lavrov a positive but [...]	2007-09-26 13:32:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON RS IQ
07MOSCOW4725	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: RUSSIA SEES INCREASED U.S. [...] (SBU) We delivered reftel demarche to Black Sea Economic Cooperation Division Second Secretary Aleksandar Fedorinov on September 26. He told us that Russia sees the Black Sea Economic Forum as the best way to increase multilateral cooperation in the region, noting that some of its working gr [...]	2007-09-26 14:03:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PARM PBTS PHSA SENC ECON EWWT BU
07MOSCOW4727	FM LAVROV UNDERSCORES ECONOMIC COOPERATION AND "NO [...] (C) Summary. The MFA told us that Lavrov's September 11-13 trip to Peru, Uruguay, and Paraguay focused on strengthening economic development of the region and projecting solidarity with countries instituting their own models of political and economic development. Lavrov stressed in his public [...]	2007-09-26 14:17:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EINV ETRD XR RS
07MOSCOW4730	Party Time: Four Parties Hold Congresses in Moscow [...] (SBU) Over the past week, four of the 15 registered political parties held their national congresses in Moscow to select their candidates for the December Duma elections. As in any election campaign they also attempted to engage an in electoral battle with their rivals. As press reports have n [...]	2007-09-27 03:28:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR KDEM SOCI RS
07MOSCOW475	ITALY: PRODI AND PUTIN TALK AFGHANISTAN AND [...] (C) SUMMARY. Italian Prime Minister Prodi stopped in Sochi January 23 to discuss Afghanistan and Kosovo, bilateral trade and the Russian president's March visit to Italy. On Afghanistan, Putin was critical of President Karzai's contacts with "moderate" Taliban members. Putin voiced concerns [...]	2007-02-05 13:17:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RU IT AF
07MOSCOW4750	PIONTKOVSKIY EXTREMISM CASE ADJOURNED PENDING NEW [...] (C) The trial of writer and Yabloko member Andrey Piontkovskiy on charges of extremism ended inconclusively at Moscow's Basmanniy District Court September 25, when the prosecutor was unable to prove that Piontkovskiy's book, "Unloved Country," contained passages that violated the law on extre [...]	2007-09-27 14:16:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM PGOV PINR SOCI RS
07MOSCOW476	RUSSIA: VIEWS OF TWO GOR HUMAN RIGHTS OFFICIALS [...] (C) Summary: The Deputy Chairman of the Human Rights Council and the Deputy Chief of Staff to the GOR Human Rights Ombudsman described a year of democratic retrenchment, with "definite improvement, amidst profound violations," but a more positive long-term prognosis based on changes within [...]	2007-02-05 13:22:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PINR RS
07MOSCOW4768	RUSSIAN STOCK FRAUD INVESTIGATOR KILLED IN MOSCOW [...] (SBU) On September 26 around mid-day, Senior Special Investigator from the Dagestan Prosecutor General's Office, Nazim Kaziakhmedov, was shot in a Moscow restaurant where he was having lunch. According to press accounts, Kaziakhmedov had been temporarily assigned to Russia's newly created In [...]	2007-09-28 14:01:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON RS
07MOSCOW4770	ODIHR AMBASSADOR STROHAL'S VISIT TO RUSSIA DELAYED [...] (C) In a September 26 meeting, MFA OSCE Counselor Denis Goncher told us that ODIHR Ambassador Christian Strohal's visit to Moscow, planned for the first week of October, had been delayed due to "scheduling difficulties." Goncher admitted that the MFA had not yet issued Strohal a formal lette [...]	2007-09-28 14:01:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV OSCE RS
07MOSCOW4772	YABLOKO PARTY LAUNCHES PARTY LIST [...] (SBU) In conversations since the September 15 - 16 Yabloko congress, Yabloko federal list number two Sergey Kovalev, party member Andrey Piontkovskiy, and a member of Yabloko's Murmansk delegation to the congress described to us a party whose continued stress on human rights, as manifested in t [...]	2007-09-28 15:07:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KDEM PINR SOCI RS
07MOSCOW4774	GOR PLAYS DOWN BURMA DEMONSTRATIONS [...] (C) Summary: The GOR again rejected U.S. calls for a strong UNSC response to the Burma crisis, but has urged restraint on both the Burmese government and pro-democracy demonstrators. Warning against "counterproductive" involvement by external forces, GOR officials emphasized publicly and pri [...]	2007-09-29 03:28:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM RS
07MOSCOW4786	OTHER RUSSIA NOMINATES GARRY KASPAROV FOR PRESIDENT [...] (SBU) About 500 Other Russia loyalists met September 30 in the Concert Hall of the Izmaylovo Hotel Complex to bless an alternative list of Duma deputy candidates and nominate a longshot candidate for President. United Civic Front Chairman Garry Kasparov won the presidential primary race, sque [...]	2007-10-01 11:00:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM SOCI RS
07MOSCOW4807	Russian Human Rights Observers See Problems, Some Possible [...] (SBU) During discussions with Embassy officers and EUR/RUS Human Rights Officer Mary Glantz from September 17-18, local observers of corruption issues, religious freedom, and media rights saw political and press freedoms shrinking within the country, but were guardedly optimistic about guarded [...]	2007-10-02 03:25:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM RS
07MOSCOW4828	RUSSIA AT A LOSS ON HOW TO BREAK IMPASSE IN [...] (C) Summary: Although Russia has observed an improvement in its bilateral ties with Moldova, the GOR remains frustrated with its inability to pressure Chisinau into a compromise on the Transnistria conflict. Russia's de facto import ban on Moldovan wine and Putin's increasingly frequent one [...]	2007-10-02 12:30:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR PBTS MARR OSCE MD RS

07MOSCOW4831	RESPONSE TO PKK TERRORISM IN EUROPE DEMARCHE: [...] (SBU) In an October 2 meeting, we delivered reftel demarche to MFA New Threats and Challenges Senior Counselor Vladimir Prokhorov. Prokhorov expressed dismay over the flight of Riza Altun and disappointment with the lack of cooperation between France and Austria. He told us that he would pa [...]	2007-10-02 14:14:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PREL PGOV KTFN OSCE TU IZ EU RS
07MOSCOW4833	PUTIN ENTERS PARTY POLITICS: WHAT IT MIGHT MEAN [...] (C) Vladimir Putin's October 1 announcement that he would head the pro-Kremlin United Russia (YR) party list and possibly opt to become Prime Minister exhibited the President's trademark preference for the unexpected, and again reminded observers that he is at the center of this managed transi [...]	2007-10-02 14:44:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM PREL RS
07MOSCOW484	ZATOKA CASE: THE POWER OF NGO PRESSURE [...] (C) Unexpected public attention to the arrest in Ashgabat of Russian-Turkmenistani dual citizen and environmental activist Andrey Zatoka (reftel) sparked GOR engagement in the case. An NGO representative raised the Zatoka case with President Putin, which apparently prompted Foreign Minister [...]	2007-02-05 14:36:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM SENV TX RS
07MOSCOW4849	CIS SUMMIT IN DUSHANBE: GOR EXPECTATIONS [...] (U) On October 2, the Kremlin announced that President Putin will visit Dushanbe October 4-7 to participate in the CIS Summit and two regional organizations' meetings -- Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) council meeting and a EurAsEC Interstate council meeting. GOR officials exp [...]	2007-10-03 12:11:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR TI RS
07MOSCOW4852	RUSSIA ON DEVELOPMENTS IN GEORGIA [...] (C) Summary. On October 2, the GOR requested U.S. assistance in the release of the two South Ossetian PKF personnel in Georgian custody (non-paper emailed to EUR) and in blocking the OSCE's planned October 17 session to re-examine the August 6 South-Ossetia missile incident. GOR officials e [...]	2007-10-03 12:33:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV GG RS
07MOSCOW4856	RUSSIA WARNS AGAINST ISOLATING BURMESE REGIME [...] (C) Summary: The GOR responded to U.S. calls for the international community to increase pressure on the Burmese regime by cautioning that further isolating the military junta would result in a backlash that could destabilize Burma and Southeast Asia. The MFA continued to downplay the crisis, [...]	2007-10-04 03:54:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BM RS
07MOSCOW486	REACTION TO FREEDOM HOUSE REPORT: IT'S NOT [...] (C) SUMMARY: The release of Freedom House's annual report on worldwide freedoms has created a small furor in light of erroneous local press reports that respect for freedom in Russia had declined to being on the same level as North Korea, Cuba, and Libya. The MFA reacted angrily, as expecte [...]	2007-02-05 14:46:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL PINR RS
07MOSCOW4894	G8-BMENA FORUM FOR THE FUTURE SUBMINISTERIAL, [...] We delivered reftel demarche on October 4 to MFA Middle East and North Africa Department First Secretary Timur Zabirov. Zabirov conveyed GOR appreciation of Assistant Secretary Daniel Fried's attendance at the G-8 BMENA SIPDIS Subminsterial and said that a suitably high-level official woul [...]	2007-10-05 06:56:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMPI KDEM GM EUN RS
07MOSCOW4897	RUSSIAN DFM KISLYAK: IRAN, MD, CFE, ARMS [...] (C) Summary: In an October 4 meeting with the Ambassador, DFM Kislyak staked out familiar positions on missile defense, arguing that U.S. insistence on radar and interceptor facilities in the Czech Republic and Poland meant the 2 2 delegations would "talk past each other" and accusing the U [...]	2007-10-05 09:57:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	PREL PGOV PARM EAID MASS ETTC RU SY IR IZ
07MOSCOW4900	RUSSIA WILL CONSIDER UNSC MEETING ON BURMA [...] (C) Per ref A, the Ambassador urged Deputy Foreign Minister Losyukov on October 4 to support a formal UNSC meeting to hear the report of Special Advisor Gambari on his recent trip to Burma, followed by a UNSC Presidential Statement. Losyukov responded that he would have to consult with collea [...]	2007-10-05 12:17:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM UNSC BM RS
07MOSCOW4909	PREMIER ZUBKOV'S FIRST STEPS SHOW REGIONAL EMPHASIS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Since Putin picked Viktor Zubkov from relative obscurity to serve as Premier, the Russian political elite have been scrambling to figure out who this new figure is and the role he is to play in Putin's plans. Our contacts among political analysts describe Zubkov as an unassuming, [...]	2007-10-05 15:44:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR ECON RS
07MOSCOW4910	DUST SETTLES ON PUTIN'S SURPRISE ANNOUNCEMENT [...] (C) Putin's October 1 announcement that he will head the pro-Kremlin United Russia (YR) party list (reftel) has been portrayed by the opposing Kremlin party's Chairman Sergey Mironov as proof that YR had gone into receivership, and had to be bailed out by the President. In a meeting with the [...]	2007-10-05 15:45:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR KDEM RS
07MOSCOW4912	RUSSIA-ARMENIA RELATIONS [...] (C) Summary. According to the MFA, the September 25 visit to Moscow by Armenian Prime Minister Sarkisyan reaffirmed the historical strong ties between the two countries. Both GOR officials and the Armenian Embassy expressed satisfaction with the direction and extent of bilateral engagement. [...]	2007-10-09 03:31:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON AM RS
07MOSCOW4916	RUSSIA: CIVAIR: ENTRENCHED BUSINESS INTEREST TRIES [...] (C) In a September 28 meeting, International Air Transport Association (IATA) regional representative Dmitri Shamraev noted the welcome resolution of IATA,s problems in Ukraine (reftels) but cautioned that IATA was not yet out of the woods in Russia given the entrenched position of Transportat [...]	2007-10-09 08:33:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EAIR ECON PREL RS
07MOSCOW4929	RUSSIA WILL PROVIDE MILITARY ASSISTANCE TO [...] (C) Summary: Concern over Afghanistan's deteriorating security has led Russia to propose a significant military assistance program to support the Karzai government. The MFA told us October 5 that a draft military aid package awaits Putin's approval. The program will include the direct trans [...]	2007-10-10 06:17:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MASS AF RS
07MOSCOW493	MFA REVIVES UNSC MILITARY STAFF COMMITTEE PROPOSAL [...] (C) MFA International Organizations Department Director Aleksandr Konuzin convoked the DCM February 2 to ask for confirmation of U.S. interest in revitalizing the UN Security Council's Military Staff Committee (MSC). If the U.S. remained interested, Konuzin suggested that Moscow and Washing [...]	2007-02-05 15:13:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC RS
07MOSCOW4931	DUMA DEPUTIES PROPOSE MISSILE DEFENSE CONFERENCE [...] (C) Summary: State Duma Defense Committee Advisor Valeriy Ignatiev confirmed that the Russian State Duma deputies who are members of the Inter-party conference on foreign policy proposed on September 26 that members of the U.S. Congress and parliamentarians from the Czech Republic and Poland [...]	2007-10-10 07:18:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PINS PREL
07MOSCOW4932	WINTER CUTOFFS OF RUSSIAN GAS LESS LIKELY THIS YEAR [...] (C) Despite the noise created by the press, Russia seems to have learned from the PR blunder of shutting off gas to Ukraine in the winter of 2006 (ref D) and we expect a relatively quiet winter this year with respect to gas supplies. The immediate resolution of the recent mini-dispute over an [...]	2007-10-10 07:59:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
07MOSCOW4939	RUSSIAN EXPERTS ON MOSCOW'S APPROACH TO IRAN [...] (C) Summary: "Balance" is the word used to describe Russia's Iran policy by Moscow's leading Iran watchers. Putin is sufficiently concerned about Iran's nuclear program to keep Russia engaged on the issue. According to the MFA, he will reinforce the point with Ahmadinejad in Tehran October 1 [...]	2007-10-10 11:04:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM KNNP MASS ETRD IR RS
07MOSCOW494	Russia: G8 BTEX Forensic Epidemiology Workshop Invitation [...] (SBU) In coordination with British and German diplomatic colleagues, on January 26 we shared Ref A invitation letter and logistics details for the March 2007 G8 BTEX Forensic Epidemiology Workshop in London with the MFA's Vladimir Andreyev, Deputy Director of the Department of New Challenges an [...]	2007-02-05 16:26:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO PTER PINS RS
07MOSCOW4949	SIX-PARTY TALKS: VIEWS FROM MOSCOW [...] (C) Summary. The Russian Government welcomed the October 3 Six-Party Agreement, terming it the best outcome possible at this stage, although DFM Kislyak cautioned about further "bumps in the road" given the nature of the DPRK regime. Moscow experts largely echoed the official view and encour [...]	2007-10-11 05:05:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PARM MNUC KNNP ECON KN KS JA RS
07MOSCOW4952	RUSSIA'S DISCRIMINATING APPROACH TO PUBLIC RALLIES [...] (SBU) Separate events over the weekend of October 7 reveal the limits to public expression and assembly in Russia. While a 10,000-person celebratory rally in commemoration of Putin's birthday was facilitated, and a 500 gathering marking the one-year anniversary of Politkovskaya's murder was ca [...]	2007-10-11 08:12:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM PHUM SOCI RS
07MOSCOW4957	EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel 1 requested a Post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end- user, Kaluga Brewer Company (Russian abbreviation KPK),Kaluga [...]	2007-10-11 12:10:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW4958	EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: ST. [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel 1 requested a Post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end- user, St. Petersburg Physics and Tech Center for Research and [...]	2007-10-11 12:11:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW4959	EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: MIREA STATE [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, MIREA State University, Moscow, Russia. The company is listed on BIS [...]	2007-10-11 12:11:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW4960	EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: (A) AND (B) [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, (A) and (B) Kalibr 2001, Vidnoe City, Moscow, Russia. The company is [...]	2007-10-11 12:11:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW4966	KPRF ZYUGANOV UP ON PARTY, DOWN ON GOVERNMENT [...] (C) In discussions with the Ambassador on October 9, Gennadiy Zyuganov -- the head of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (KPRF) -- demonstrated the resilience, determination, and political wiles that have kept him on the national stage far longer than any might have imagined. At th [...]	2007-10-12 08:31:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR RS
07MOSCOW4967	SPS CHAIRMAN STAYS OPTIMISTIC ON ELECTIONS [...] (C) In an October 10 conversation with the Ambassador, Union of Right Forces (SPS) Chairman Nikita Belykh reacted complacently to the effect President Putin's decision to head the pro-Kremlin United Russia list might have on his party's chances to cross the seven-percent threshold into the Duma [...]	2007-10-12 08:31:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PINR PREL RS
07MOSCOW4968	DUMA DEPUTY RYZHKOV ON HIS FUTURE WITHOUT A PARTY, [...] (C) Outgoing Duma Deputy Vladimir Ryzhkov told the Ambassador October 7 that he, unusually for him, backed the GOR's resistance to independence for Kosovo and further NATO expansion, which he termed "real" foreign policy problems. The dispute over anti-missile defenses was for Ryzhkov a "virtu [...]	2007-10-12 08:36:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM PINR SOCI RS
07MOSCOW5006	A/S FRIED DISCUSSES CFE WITH DFM KISLYAK ON EVE OF [...] (C) Summary: On October 11, A/S Fried and U/S Defense Edelman continued bilateral discussions with DFM Sergey Kislyak on the U.S.-proposed CFE parallel actions plan in advance of October 12-13 2 2 talks. Fried warned that if Russia followed through on its threat to suspend implementation of [...]	2007-10-15 14:21:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR PBTS MARR OSCE MD RS
07MOSCOW5008	NONPAPER RESPONSE TO RUSSIA'S START FORMAT 81 [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-16 03:26:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	PARM KACT KREL START JCIC US BO KZ RS UP
07MOSCOW5028	A/S FRIED - DFM KARASIN, DUMA COMMITTEE CHAIR KOKOSHIN DISCUSSIONS ON UKRAINE AND FROZEN CONFLICTS [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-16 13:38:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	GG MARR MD MOPS OSCE PREL RS UNGA
07MOSCOW5030	EMBASSY'S MEETING WITH UNITED CIVIC FRONT ACTIVIST [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 15, Embassy met with Larissa Arap immediately after her return from the United States, in order to discuss problems that she and her family were reportedly facing in Murmansk and the case she has brought against the psychiatric hospital that had held her against her [...]	2007-10-17 04:31:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PINR RS
07MOSCOW5031	BIOTERRORISM: ENHANCING BILATERAL EFFORTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Department biodefense experts met in Moscow October 10 to discuss bilateral bioterrorism cooperation with the MFA Department of New Threats and Challenges. MFA reported some confusion about the topics and experts needed for a proposed second bilateral meeting of bioterrorism ex [...]	2007-10-17 04:40:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO PTER RS
07MOSCOW5035	CIVIL SPACE COOPERATION: MFA PRESSES FOR [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 12, EUR/PRA Director Antia Friedt discussed the Framework Technology Safeguards Agreement (TSA) and other civil space cooperation issues with Andrei Kruitskikh of MFA's Department of Disarmament and Security Affairs (DVBR). Kruitskikh noted the good progress made [...]	2007-10-17 07:19:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TSPA TSPL PREL PARM NASA KZ AS BR KS RS
07MOSCOW5039	GERMAN POLITICAL DIRECTOR IN MOSCOW: IRAN, MD, AND [...] (C) Summary: German Political Director Stanzel's October 9 visit to Moscow touched on most major international issues, including Iran, missile defense, and CFE. During his meeting with Stanzel, DFM Kislyak reaffirmed Russia's interest in maintaining a united front with the EC 3 on Iran. Kisl [...]	2007-10-17 11:00:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM PGOV GM AF EU IR RS
07MOSCOW5043	RUSSIA'S SBERBANK TAPS GERMAN GREF AS NEXT CEO [...] (SBU) On October 16, the supervisory council of state-controlled Sberbank nominated former Economic Development and Trade Minister German Gref to be the bank's next CEO. Shareholders will formally consider Gref's nomination November 28. The nomination was not unanimous. Outgoing CEO Andrey [...]	2007-10-17 14:40:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON RS
07MOSCOW5044	REMOVAL OF HIGH-THREAT RADIOACTIVE SOURCES FROM [...] (C) Summary: Rosatom and MFA officials tell us they are not aware of any plans by Rosatom Director Kiriyenko, or anyone else at Rosatom, to build a nuclear storage facility in Abkhazia to dispose of high threat radioactive sources. We urged that the GOR intervene with the de facto Abkhazian le [...]	2007-10-17 16:05:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP PARM ENRG PGOV PREL GG IAEA RS
07MOSCOW5045	NONPAPER ON PROPOSED RESOLUTION ON DE-ALERTING OF [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-18 03:41:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	MNUC PARM UNGA
07MOSCOW5051	RUSSIA COURTS ASIA AND VICE VERSA [...] (C) Summary: Russia continues to expand its influence in Asia by taking advantage of Asian eagerness to improve relations with a politically and economically resurgent Russia. Both the Prime Minister of Vietnam and Foreign Minister of Bangladesh visited Moscow recently, seeking to increase b [...]	2007-10-18 10:24:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EINV ENRG BG VM RS
07MOSCOW5055	RUSSIA CAUTIOUSLY OPTIMISTIC ABOUT POSSIBILITY OF [...] (C) Summary: MFA officials told us on October 17 that the recent exchange of positive signals between Chisinau and Tiraspol and the productive October 6 Putin-Voronin meeting may have created a "unique opportunity" for the possibility of renewed talks between Chisinau and Tiraspol in the "5 2" [...]	2007-10-18 11:55:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR PBTS MARR OSCE MD RS
07MOSCOW5057	RUSSIA-U.S. MISSILE DEFENSE NEGOTIATIONS, OCTOBER [...] (S) Septel reports on the U.S. presentation of a Joint Regional Missile Defense Architecture during missile defense (MD) talks in Moscow October 10. Following is the U.S. and Russian delegations' assessment of the MD technical experts' visit to the Qabala radar on September 18, threat assess [...]	2007-10-18 13:27:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	MARR PARM PREL KNNP IR RS
07MOSCOW5059	RUSSIA-US MISSILE DEFENSE NEGOTIATIONS, OCTOBER [...] (S) Summary. In extensive discussions in Moscow October 10, U.S. and Russian delegations, led by Acting Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security John Rood and Deputy Foreign Minister Kislyak discussed the U.S. plans to place a missile defense system (MD) in Easter [...]	2007-10-18 13:43:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	MARR PARM PREL KNNP IR RS
07MOSCOW5060	ACTING U/S ROODâ€™S MEETING WITH DFM KISLYAK: [...] (C) Summary. In a meeting October 11 on the margins of the missile defense and 2 2 discussions in Moscow, Acting Undersecretary for Arms Control and International Security John Rood and Deputy Foreign Minister Kislyak agreed on the need to encourage key countries to join the Global Initiative to Co [...]	2007-10-18 13:44:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM MARR MNUC KACT KNNP IR RS
07MOSCOW5066	THE SILOVIKI AND PUTIN [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-18 15:45:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM SOCI RS
07MOSCOW5068	Putin Telethon Showcases Economic Gains, Highlights [...] (SBU) In what should be his last marathon television call-in spectacular as President, Putin showed his phenomenal depth of detail on a host of issues, ranging from the need for a bridge in Vladivostok to advice on how best to manage U.S. disengagement from Iraq. Part political theater, part c [...]	2007-10-19 03:32:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR SOCI ECON RS
07MOSCOW5069	GAZPROM HEAD SUGGESTS ELIMINATING "MIDDLEMEN" IN [...] (SBU) On October 16, First Deputy Prime Minister and Gazprom Chairman Dmitriy Medvedev suggested on German television that Russia is willing to bypass middlemen in its gas dealings with Ukraine. The recent gas supply dispute with Ukraine and its subsequent resolution (reftels) raised question [...]	2007-10-19 06:05:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
07MOSCOW508	RUSSIAN ENERGY: SHELL TALKS ABOUT SAKHALIN-2 [...] (C) Summary: On January 25, we met with Alf D'Souza, Shell's External Affairs VP, and Bibi Bautleuova, a Shell government affairs rep, to talk about the Sakhalin-2 deal that Shell and its partners (Japan's Mitsubishi and Mitsui) reached last month with Gazprom. D'Souza said that they got the [...]	2007-02-06 11:12:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
07MOSCOW5082	A DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER NARYSHKIN AND AMBASSADOR [...] (C) Deputy Prime Minister Naryshkin told the Ambassador October 19 that Russia favored expanded two-way trade and investment. The Ambassador said the U.S. did as well and noted that the new CFIUS law was intended to facilitate, not prevent, foreign investment, including Russian, into the Unit [...]	2007-10-19 14:51:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV PGOV PREL RS
07MOSCOW5083	UPDATE ON PWC'S YUKOS, RUSSIAN TAX CASES [...] (C) PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) President for Central/Eastern Europe and the CIS Mike Kubena (Amcit) and Managing Partner of PWC for Russia Peter Gerendasi implied that the YUKOS and expatriate salary tax cases against the auditor were politically motivated. Kubena suggested that the YUKOS [...]	2007-10-19 15:37:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EFIN ECON RS
07MOSCOW509	RUSSIAN ENERGY: CHEVRON AND CPC - LOOKING AT [...] (C) Summary: On February 5, Chevron's Russia chief, Ian MacDonald, contacted us to talk about CPC expansion and the recently-inked Gazpromneft deal. (This discussion follows up on previous meetings with MacDonald with Mark Woloshyn, who Chevron has hired to shepherd along the Bosphorus bypass [...]	2007-02-06 11:12:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RU
07MOSCOW5092	DUMA READY TO BACK CFE SUSPENSION, CHAIRMAN SAYS [...] (SBU) In a meeting with NSC Senior Director Warlick and EUR DAS Kramer, International Affairs Committee Chairman Kosachev underscored the Duma's support for the suspension of CFE on December 12, absent a change in the U.S. position and reiterated GOR opposition to any linkage to Istanbul commi [...]	2007-10-22 10:43:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM KCFE PARM MARR WTRO IR KV RS
07MOSCOW5098	RUSSIAN MILITARY AID TO AFGHANISTAN INTENDED TO [...] (C) Summary: On October 22, Head of the MFA Afghanistan Desk Yuriy Khokhlov said that the GOR's proposed Afghan military assistance program is intended to compliment and not compete with NATO support for the Afghan government and its anti-Taliban efforts. The Russian and Afghan governments h [...]	2007-10-22 14:38:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MASS NATO AF RS
07MOSCOW51	RUSSIA REACTS NEGATIVELY TO IMPOSITION OF ISNPA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Russia's first official public reaction was calmly negative to the December 28 imposition of sanctions against four Russian entities under the Iran-Syria Non-Proliferation Act. The Foreign Ministry characterized the U.S. action as an "illegal" effort to extend U.S. law to the a [...]	2007-01-10 13:46:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM MTCR PREL MNUC ETTC RS
07MOSCOW5100	FM LAVROV CRITICIZES US-JAPAN MISSILE DEFENSE [...] (U) In response to a question during a press conference with the Japanese agency "Kyodo Tsusin" on the eve of his October 23-24 trip to Tokyo, Foreign Minister Lavrov said Russia was concerned about U.S. - Japanese missile defense cooperation. Saying that Russia was against a missile defens [...]	2007-10-22 15:03:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PARM PREL JA RS
07MOSCOW5101	ULAN UDE, WHERE BEING ASIAN WORKS [...] (C) Summary. During an October 15-19 trip to the Republic of Buryatia, squeezed between Lake Baikal and Mongolia, local government officials, political party representatives, and civil society leaders shared with us their views on the political, economic, and social development of the region [...]	2007-10-22 15:11:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PREF ECON ETRD PINR MG RS
07MOSCOW5103	RUSSIA - MONGOLIA RELATIONS [...] (C) Summary. The October 3 visit to Moscow by Mongolian Foreign Minister Enkhbold reaffirmed the historically good relations between Russia and Mongolia. GOR officials, the Mongolian Embassy, and the Mongolian Consulate General in Ulan Ude expressed satisfaction with the state of the relatio [...]	2007-10-23 06:44:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON MG RS
07MOSCOW5106	CORRECTED COPY: RUSSIA-U.S. MISSILE DEFENSE [...] (S) Septel reports on the U.S. presentation of a Joint Regional Missile Defense Architecture during missile defense (MD) talks in Moscow October 10. Following is the U.S. and Russian delegations' assessment of the MD technical experts' visit to the Qabala radar on September 18, threat assess [...]	2007-10-23 08:01:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	MARR PARM PREL KNNP IR RS
07MOSCOW5117	LOOKING AHEAD TO THE EU-RUSSIA SUMMIT [...] (C) Summary: Russia has set a low bar for the EU-Russia summit, and will go to Lisbon prepared to push back on criticism of its human rights and democracy record, as well as to press for clarity on the implications of EU reform. With the continued stand-off over Polish meat, the Russians see " [...]	2007-10-23 13:53:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EU WTRO ETRD ENRG KO RS
07MOSCOW5119	ODIHR WAITS FOR INVITE FROM RUSSIA [...] (SBU) The wait continues for an invitation to the OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) to monitor Russia's upcoming Duma elections. The Central Election Commission (CEC) will not issue the invitation until it has completed registering party lists, leaving little p [...]	2007-10-24 02:27:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL KDEM OSCE RS
07MOSCOW5146	ALDIP ON UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE RESOLUTIONS [...] We delivered reftel demarche on October 24 to MFA Department for Humanitarian Cooperation and Human Rights First Secretary Aleksey Goltyayev. Goltyaev said that the GOR would oppose on principle country-specific resolutions condemning the human rights records of Iran, Burma, the DPRK and Bela [...]	2007-10-25 11:00:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL KTIA UN RS
07MOSCOW5147	DAS BRYZA DISCUSSES GEORGIA AND NAGORNO-KARABAKH [...] (C) Summary: On October 23, DFM Grigoriy Karasin told visiting EUR DAS Matthew Bryza and the Ambassador that Russia was increasingly worried about the "anti-democratic" tendencies in Saakashvili's government and Georgia's possible attempts to take control of the separatist regions by force i [...]	2007-10-25 11:04:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MOPS OSCE UNGA MD GG RS
07MOSCOW5148	EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: SRI [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, SRI Biomedicinskoy Khimii im. V.N.Orekhovicha, Moscow, Russia. The c [...]	2007-10-25 12:12:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW5151	DESIGNATION OF IRANIAN ENTITIES FOR THEIR SUPPORT OF [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-25 14:02:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KTFN IR RS
07MOSCOW5152	Norway's StatoilHydro Joins Shtokman Gas Project [...] (U) Norway's StatoilHydro announced October 25th that it will sign an agreement for the remaining 24% stake in the Shtokman Development Company, which is to develop the first phase of the giant Shtokman gas field in the Barents Sea. Gazprom had earlier awarded France's Total a 25% share in th [...]	2007-10-25 14:04:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG EPET ECON PREL RS
07MOSCOW5153	PUTIN'S PROBLEM [...] (C) Summary: Putin's problem is that there is no political or honorific perch that will ensure his ability to check the powers granted by the constitution to his successor and, by ruling out a constitutional amendment allowing a third term, some observers believe that he has boxed himself in [...]	2007-10-25 14:33:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PINR SOCI RS
07MOSCOW5154	ADDRESSING RUSSIAN ARMS SALES [...] (C) Summary: FM Lavrov's disinterest in establishing an expert level dialogue on arms sales begs the question of how best to address our concerns over Russia's arms export policy. Russian officials are deeply cynical about our motives in seeking to curtail Russian arms exports to countries of conce [...]	2007-10-26 02:25:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	PREL ECON MARR MASS PARM PINR PINS RS
07MOSCOW5162	LUKOIL VP PREDICTS CHINESE DOMINANCE AND SUGGESTS [...] (SBU) At an October 22 conference session on "U.S.-Russian Relations and Energy Security," Lukoil V.P. Leonid Fedun strongly criticized the U.S. for treating Russia as a "defeated nation." He nonetheless called for more dialogue as "equal partners," and portrayed China as a common threat, pre [...]	2007-10-26 09:50:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL PINR RS
07MOSCOW517	RUSSIA: STRATEGIC SECTOR LAW MOVING AGAIN, SLOWLY [...] (C) Summary. It appears the draft Law on Foreign Investment in the Strategic Sectors may have legs again. In a January 31 inter-ministerial meeting, PM Fradkov remitted the draft Strategic Sectors Law to the Ministry of Industry and Energy (MIE) for one month to simplify the investment revie [...]	2007-02-06 14:12:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EIND ENRG PREL RS
07MOSCOW5173	(C) YUKOS FINANCE BUYER: NO PRE-ARRANGED DEAL WITH [...] (C) One of the major investors behind the August 15 purchase of Yukos Finance assets at auction told us October 23 that the investors hoped to "unwind" the various lawsuits and other claims against the company. They planned to use the $1.5 billion in cash assets and the 49% stake in Slovakia' [...]	2007-10-26 13:27:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
07MOSCOW5176	RUSSIA'S SOBER OUTLOOK ON UKRAINIAN PARLIAMENTARY [...] (C) Summary: Russia's official reaction to the results of the Ukrainian parliamentary elections and the likely formation of an orange coalition has been cool, but an MFA official and experts told us that Russia can hardly be satisfied with the developments. Even more worrisome for Russia is [...]	2007-10-26 15:06:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR ECON UK RS
07MOSCOW5177	RUSSIA'S SLOW RETURN TO SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA: [...] (C) Summary. In a series of meetings with a visiting INR analyst, Russian experts and MFA officials stressed that Russia is gaining ground slowly in Africa after its post-Cold War retrenchment. Russia is a firmly established player in the mining sector, where its advanced mining technology is [...]	2007-10-26 15:14:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD EMIN XA RS
07MOSCOW5180	RUSSIA TO INVITE ODIHR OBSERVERS, WANTS SMALLER [...] (C) Russia's invitation to the OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) to observe the December 2 Duma elections will be sent no later than November 2, according to Central Election Commission (CEC) Chairman Vladimir Churov. Churov described the invitation as uncondit [...]	2007-10-29 04:00:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM OSCE PREL RS
07MOSCOW5182	GOR INTERPRETS BURMA DIFFERENTLY [...] (C) On October 25, MFA Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Thailand Division Second Secretary Aleksey Semenikhin provided a more nuanced GOR position on recent events in Burma (refs B and C). Displaying refreshing honesty, he acknowledged that earlier claims the GOR had limited information on the Bur [...]	2007-10-29 08:37:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM CVIS ETRD BM RS
07MOSCOW5189	TDY JEFFERSON FELLOWS: KEEP THEM COMING [...] (U) Summary: Embassy Moscow supports amending the Jefferson Science Fellow program to include an 8-10 week TDY at the end of the Fellowship year. Our first TDY Fellow, Dr. Katherine Radtke, contributed significantly to the advancement of U.S. science and technology goals in key areas like nano [...]	2007-10-29 14:08:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	TSPL APER RS
07MOSCOW5190	URGENT DARFUR DEMARCHE FOR AVIATION SUPPORT AND [...] (C) We delivered reftel demarche on October 26 to MFA Middle East and North Africa Director Sergey Vershinin. Vershinin told us that the GOR had not made a decision on the supply of transportation assets to the UN-AU hybrid peacekeeping operation in Darfur, but emphasized the GOR's ongoing con [...]	2007-10-29 14:55:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KPKO UN SU RS
07MOSCOW5191	GOALS FOR UPCOMING EXPANDED IRAQ NEIGHBORS [...] (C) We delivered reftel demarche on October 26 to MFA Middle East and North Africa Department Director Sergey Vershinin. Vershinin expressed appreciation for U.S. efforts to keep the GOR informed of U.S. goals for the upcoming Expanded Iraq Neighbors Ministerial and to seek agreement on estab [...]	2007-10-29 15:03:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ RS
07MOSCOW5192	TOMSK OBLAST GOVERNOR ON ELECTIONS, RELATIONS WITH [...] (C) Tomsk Governor Viktor Kress enjoys strong support from the regional population as well as the Moscow elite because he, somewhat like Putin, is seen as a competent steward of his region's economic resources and as a capable manager of the local political system. During discussions with the [...]	2007-10-29 17:07:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR ECON SOCI RS
07MOSCOW52	RUSSIA'S ECONOMY: OIL STILL RULES, BUT CONSUMER [...] (SBU) Oil has dominated the Russian economic landscape since before the 1998 crisis. Its revenues have put the government's budget in positive territory since 2002; it has strengthened the ruble, and kick-started a wage increase that is sustaining a spending boom. Yet, oil's prominence in R [...]	2007-01-10 14:24:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EINV RS
07MOSCOW520	GOR PICKS AND CHOOSES ITS HUMAN RIGHTS FORA [...] (C) SUMMARY: The recent fact-finding trip by three noted human rights lawyers to Moscow was largely ignored by GOR officials, in keeping with Russia's long-standing policy to prevent "internationalization" of Chechnya. Russian officials have evinced greater interest in bringing together hum [...]	2007-02-06 15:50:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV RS
07MOSCOW5200	RUSSIAN INFLATION REACHES DOUBLE DIGITS [...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified and not for internet distribution. ------- Summary ------- 2. (U) At a public event October 26, Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Aleksey Kudrin stated that inflation since the beginning of 2007 had reached 8.9 percent and would [...]	2007-10-30 11:57:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON RS
07MOSCOW5205	BACKLASH TO DUMA AMENDMENTS PROPOSING RESTRICTIONS ON [...] (U) Amendments to the "law on referendums" which are working their way through the State Duma, would greatly restrict if not abolish the right of Russian citizens to express their views through national plebiscites. The amendments, offered by three members of the ruling United Russia party, had [...]	2007-10-30 14:04:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM PHUM RS
07MOSCOW5208	RUSSIAN NATIONALIST GOES TO NATO: OFFERS [...] (C) Summary: Russia's charismatic nationalist politician, Dmitriy Rogozin, confirmed press reports that he will be appointed the GOR's next Ambassador to NATO and expects to arrive in Brussels by late November. Claiming that his appointment is a Putin initiative, Rogozin candidly described [...]	2007-10-30 16:14:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR
07MOSCOW5210	RUSSIA: CAUTIOUSLY BITING AT THE BIT [...] (SBU) Summary: In recent meetings with Deputy Trade Representative Ambassador John Veroneau and NSC Senior Director for Russia Mary Warlick, GOR officials expressed support in principle for starting Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) Negotiations. In her address to the USRBC October 23, Trade [...]	2007-10-31 07:26:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV RS
07MOSCOW5218	MFA IRAN DESK ON CASPIAN SUMMIT, ECONOMIC [...] (C) In an October 30 meeting, MFA Iran Desk Head Maxim Baranov indicated the Caspian Summit and bilateral meetings in Tehran resulted only in generic progress on economic cooperation. He described active engagement with Iran, however, including an upcoming 7th session of the "Joint Commission [...]	2007-10-31 12:54:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL PINR RS IR
07MOSCOW522	RUSSIA'S SILENT CONCERN OVER CHINESE ASAT TEST [...] (C) SUMMARY: Moscow's relatively muted reaction to Beijing's test of an anti-satellite missile last month belies its deep concern about a pending arms race in space. Caught offguard by Beijing's action and unprepared to meet the challenge, Russian officials have publicly downplayed the sign [...]	2007-02-06 15:50:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM MCAP PREL RS CH
07MOSCOW5221	THE EASTERN FRONT OF RUSSIA'S DEMOGRAPHIC CRISIS [...] (U) This is a joint message from Consulate General Vladivostok and Embassy Moscow. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The population in the Russian Far East (RFE) and Siberia is continuing to decline, due both to a long-term trend of "Western Drift" (internal migration from east to west within Russia) and [...]	2007-10-31 13:19:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO SCUL PREL SOCI CH RS
07MOSCOW5223	GOR VIEWS ON NO-RESULT JCC ON SOUTH OSSETIA [...] (C) Summary. The GOR's Special Envoy on the South Ossetian conflict expressed disappointment with the October 23-24 Joint Control Commission (JCC) meeting in Tbilisi. He attributed the failure to the two parties' widely different views and reluctance to fully engage. The GOR Envoy advised [...]	2007-10-31 15:02:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV GG RS
07MOSCOW5224	BOSNIA: MOSCOW EVALUATES THE SITUATION DIFFERENTLY [...] (C) We delivered reftel demarche on October 29 meeting to MFA Third European Department Counselor Ivan Gorbunov, who told us that the U.S. and GOR evaluated the situation differently in Bosnia, but had the same overall goal -- peace and stability for the region (septel reports on the Ambassado [...]	2007-10-31 15:11:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL BK RU
07MOSCOW5225	RUSSIAN DFM TITOV ON BOSNIA, KOSOVO, AND POLAND [...] (C) Comment: In an October 31 meeting with the Ambassador, Deputy Foreign Minister Titov reiterated Russian complaints over High Representative Lajcak's invocation of Bosnia powers, which ran counter to assurances given during his Moscow consultations, but stressed Russian support for the D [...]	2007-10-31 15:52:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BK RS
07MOSCOW5226	PUTIN COMMEMORATES VICITMS OF POLITICAL REPRESSION [...] (SBU) On October 30, President Putin paid an unprecedented visit to the Butovo firing range, on the fringes of Moscow where, from August 1937 to October 1938 about 30 thousand persons were executed by Stalin's regime. Putin's visit marked the seventieth anniversary of the "Day of Memory of th [...]	2007-10-31 17:02:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR SOCI RS
07MOSCOW5227	RUSSIA APPRECIATIVE OF OIL-FOR-FOOD EXCEPTION [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-01 03:50:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID IZ RS
07MOSCOW523	RUSSIA: IRAQI DEBT RELIEF UPDATE [...] (C) Summary. On February 5, reftel concerns about delays in the signing of Russia's bilateral debt agreement with Iraq were raised with Kremlin Foreign Policy Advisor Prikhodko and Deputy Finance Minister Storchak. Prikhodko told the Ambassador that the GOR was not linking the final signature [...]	2007-02-06 15:50:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN IZ KTIA RS
07MOSCOW5230	CORRECTED COPY: RUSSIAN NATIONALIST GOES TO NATO: [...] (C) Summary: Russia's charismatic nationalist politician, Dmitriy Rogozin, confirmed press reports that he will be appointed the GOR's next Ambassador to NATO and expects to arrive in Brussels by late November. Claiming that his appointment is a Putin initiative, Rogozin candidly described [...]	2007-11-01 08:43:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR NATO RS
07MOSCOW5231	RUSSIA'S NORTH-SOUTH ENERGY STRATEGY: A KNIFE, A [...] (C) SUMMARY. Russian activism in recent years to strengthen the "north-south" energy corridor suggests an intention to slice through the conceptual "east-west" corridor, to reassert Central Asia's dependence on Russian energy routes, and to repair Russia's own fumbling gas balance. Russia ap [...]	2007-11-01 09:17:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
07MOSCOW5242	RUSSIA-BULGARIA ENERGY: SOUTHSTREAM MOU TO BE [...] (SBU) Bulgarian Economic Officer Kiril Vachev told us October 31 that Economy and Energy Minister Petar Dimitrov will visit Moscow November 7-9 to sign an MOU on the proposed Southstream gas pipeline (reftels). The MOU will signal political support in principle but leave all details to the fu [...]	2007-11-01 14:44:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
07MOSCOW5244	PWC CASE: "PLEADING THE FIFTY_FIRST" [...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified and not for internet distribution. ------- Summary ------- 2. (SBU) On October 26, PricewaterhouseCoopers Russia (PWC) refused to submit documents on the auditing firm's worldwide staff that an appellate arbitration court had demanded ear [...]	2007-11-01 15:03:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON RS
07MOSCOW5246	AMBASSADOR RAISES OBSTACLES ENCOUNTERED BY NGOS [...] (C) Ambassador on November 1 raised with Deputy Foreign Minister Yakovenko problems encountered by Russian and U.S. NGOS as the Duma elections approach, and voiced concerns over the number of ODIHR monitors to be invited to the December 2 Duma election. The Ambassador described to Yakovenko re [...]	2007-11-01 17:13:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KDEM SOCI OSCE RS
07MOSCOW5247	GOR REACTION TO THE GANARDZHIAS-MUKHURI INCIDENT [...] (C) Summary. As noted reftel, on October 30, CIS peacekeepers were involved in a confrontation with Georgian forces near the cease fire line in Abkhazia. In a November 1 statement, the MFA insisted that the CIS forces were within their mandate and blamed Saakashvili for provoking a confronta [...]	2007-11-02 06:00:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV GG RS
07MOSCOW5266	PUTIN'S EU SPECIAL ADVISOR ON EU-RUSSIA SUMMIT, [...] (C) Summary: In a November 1 meeting with the Ambassador, Putin's EU Special Advisor Sergey Yastrzhembskiy characterized the Mafra EU-Russia Summit in generally positive terms. Yastrzhembskiy argued that the summit was a step forward and that EU-Russia relations are "evolving," citing the tw [...]	2007-11-02 17:10:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BK RS

07MOSCOW5268	Penza Oblast - Governor Weak Authoritarian [...] (SBU) Penza governor Vasiliy Bochkarev at first glance appears comfortably ensconced in his power position, enjoying favorable ratings from the population, which credits him with improving the regional quality of life, and nods of approval from Moscow for his energetic support of the National P [...]	2007-11-06 04:42:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR SOCI ECON RS
07MOSCOW5269	CFE: RUSSIA PRESSES FOR MORE MOVEMENT ON REMAINING [...] (C) Summary. The Russian MFA welcomed American initiatives during the October 24 meeting between EUR A/S Fried and Deputy FM Kislyak on the Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty (CFE)(ref A),as very constructive and positive, and were looking forward to continuing the talks in Geneva next we [...]	2007-11-06 04:43:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL NATO KCFE PARM RS
07MOSCOW5292	ROSCOSMOS ON SPACE COOPERATION WITH KAZAKHSTAN, [...] (SBU) Russian officials regard space cooperation with Kazakhstan as on track, despite reported disputes over leasing arrangements for the Baikonur cosmodrome and compensation for damages caused by a recent rocket explosion at the site. Plans for the construction in the Russian Far East of a [...]	2007-11-07 06:55:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TSPA TSPL NASA PREL PGOV KZ RS
07MOSCOW5299	RUSSIA NOT LINKING IRAQ DEBT FORGIVENESS WITH [...] (SBU) Deputy Finance Minister Sergey Storchak told us November 5th that Russia has not made, and will not make, a link between its debt forgiveness obligation and the Saddam-era Lukoil contract for the West Qurna oil field development. Storchak said Russia's representatives at this month's Par [...]	2007-11-07 12:08:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV PREL RS
07MOSCOW5300	FOR A JUST RUSSIA FIGHTS FOR RELEVANCE [...] (SBU) On the first anniversary of its creation, the political party "For a Just Russia," (SR) finds itself recoiling from its greatest challenge thus far: Putin's decision to head the party list for United Russia (YR). In the weeks after Putin's surprise announcement, SR sank in the polls whi [...]	2007-11-07 12:32:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM SOCI RS
07MOSCOW5310	D/USTR JOHN VERONEAU IN MOSCOW [...] (U) Summary: While in Moscow to attend the U.S.-Russia Business Council Annual Meeting, D/USTR John Veroneau met with industry leaders, engaged with experts at the Carnegie Center and had discussion with counterparts at the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade (MEDT) and the Finance Mi [...]	2007-11-07 14:27:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV ETRD ECON WTO RS
07MOSCOW5311	RUSSIA: NO POSTPONEMENT OF NEW STATE FLIGHTS [...] (C) The GOR has decided to implement the pre-payment scheme for USG "state" flights despite previous indications from the MFA that last week's informal bilateral discussions might stave off the November 1 implementation of these new rules. Because U.S. policy is neither to pay nor charge for [...]	2007-11-07 14:50:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EAIR PREL RS
07MOSCOW5313	RUSSIAN VIEWS ON INF TREATY [...] (C) Summary: The GOR is interested in working with the U.S. to see how other countries could be encouraged to agree to the norms of the Treaty on the Elimination of Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles (INF),but wants to proceed cautiously. Acknowledging that there are no provisio [...]	2007-11-08 03:29:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM MARR PREL RS
07MOSCOW5334	RUSSIA: NO MORE FUNDS FOR POLIO [...] (SBU) We shared Ref A message on the need for further funding for the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) with Deputy Finance Minister Storchak, and with International Department officials from the MFA, Health and Social Development Ministry, and the Federal Surveillance Service for Cons [...]	2007-11-08 15:07:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID TBIO SOCI RS
07MOSCOW5336	RUSSIA EXPELS THREE GEORGIAN DIPLOMATS IN RESPONSE [...] (C) Summary. On November 8, Russia declared persona non grata two senior counselors and one counselor in the Georgian Embassy in Moscow, in a tit-for-tat response to Georgia's recall of its Ambassador from Moscow and expulsion of three Russian diplomats. While the MFA issued two harshly cri [...]	2007-11-08 18:27:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV GG RS
07MOSCOW5337	NEW FACES JOIN RUSSIA'S PUBLIC CHAMBER [...] (SBU) When Russia's 126-member Public Chamber convenes in January, its new ranks will include two well-known human rights activists, who had been dismissive of the Public Chamber when it was first established. Civil society activists remain divided on the value of the Chamber, often concluding [...]	2007-11-09 03:45:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM RS
07MOSCOW5338	RUSSIA RESOLUTE ON LIMITED ODIHR MISSION [...] (SBU) Russia reacted strongly to USG criticism of Russia's decision to limit the number of ODIHR observers to the December 2 parliamentary elections. Official comments and news media commentary maintained that the invitation was consistent with Russia's OSCE and Copenhagen Declaration commitm [...]	2007-11-09 03:46:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL KDEM OSCE RS
07MOSCOW5339	STATE DUMA VOTES UNANIMOUSLY TO SUSPEND CFE TREATY [...] (C) Summary: On November 7 the State Duma unanimously approved a draft law to suspend participation in the Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty. The law will come into effect on December 12, pending approval by the Federation Council and President Putin's signature. Objections to the C [...]	2007-11-09 07:39:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MCAP PGOV PREL
07MOSCOW5345	CIVIL SOCIETY ON THE NORTH CAUCASUS: NO NEWS IS NOT [...] (SBU) Summary: In a recent roundtable discussion, Russian civil society leaders expressed uniform pessimism on prospects for democratic development in the North Caucasus - despite relative calm and improved infrastructure in Chechnya. Our interlocutors predict continuing political violence an [...]	2007-11-09 08:26:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREF PHUM KDEM SOCI RS
07MOSCOW5349	RUSSIAN DFM SALTANOV ON DARFUR AVIATION AND [...] (C) In a November 9 meeting, the Ambassador reiterated to Deputy Foreign Minister Aleksandr Saltanov the importance of Russian support for the UN-AU hybrid peacekeeping operation in Darfur (ref a) and urged the GOR to provide heavy lift assets for the operation. Acknowledging the MFA's cons [...]	2007-11-09 13:41:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KPKO UN SU RS
07MOSCOW5350	THE END OF YUKOS [...] (SBU) In a November 7th meeting, Yukos receiver Eduard Rebgun told us the company will cease to exist as soon as the court acknowledges receipt of his final report, which he submitted November 2nd. Rebgun asserted that he had merely performed a professional duty to carry out a Russian court d [...]	2007-11-09 14:27:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
07MOSCOW5351	STYLE RECORDS--PIONEERING RUSSIAN MUSIC INDUSTRY'S [...] (SBU) As high piracy rates and changing business models increasingly challenge the traditional way the music industry conducts business in Russia, a prominent Russian recording company, Style Records, is using market incentives and diversification to ensure its future survival. While taking [...]	2007-11-09 15:03:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD KIPR RS
07MOSCOW5352	STYLE RECORDS--PIONEERING RUSSIAN MUSIC INDUSTRY'S [...] (SBU) As high piracy rates and changing business models increasingly challenge the traditional way the music industry conducts business in Russia, a prominent Russian recording company, Style Records, is using market incentives and diversification to ensure its future survival. While taking [...]	2007-11-09 15:03:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD KIPR RS
07MOSCOW5353	RUSSIA REJECTS HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH PROPOSAL ON METHADONE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a 110-page study released November 8, Human Rights Watch International concluded that substance abuse treatment in Russia is of such poor quality that it amounts to a violation of the right to health. The report recommended that Russia immediately permit the use of drug-subs [...]	2007-11-10 08:31:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO PHUM SOCI RS
07MOSCOW5354	DFM KARASIN URGES TOUGHER U.S. POSTURE ON GEORGIA [...] (C) Summary: Prior to Russian Deputy Foreign Minister's November 9 meeting with GOG DFM Vashakidze, the Ambassador reinforced U.S. expectations that Russia would do all it could to de-escalate and calm the situation in Tbilisi. Karasin said the U.S. should not underestimate how upset Russia w [...]	2007-11-10 08:39:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV GG RS
07MOSCOW5355	OPPOSITION LAMENT ON RULING PARTY TACTICS [...] (C) Summary: Just Russia (SR) candidate and Duma Deputy Aleksey Mitrofanov detailed for us how regional leaders, in their efforts to engineer a mandate for the Putin-led United Russia party, were using administrative resources and other tactics to thwart opposition political campaigns. Mitrof [...]	2007-11-10 08:39:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM SOCI RS
07MOSCOW5365	RUSSIA'S LATEST CULTURE WAR [...] (C) A paean to President Putin on his 55th birthday by one of culture's grand old men, film director and actor Nikita Mikhalkov, has revealed fault lines in the cultural community similar to those that are all too apparent among the country's political classes. Mikhalkov's film hagiography of [...]	2007-11-13 14:44:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCUL KDEM SOCI RS
07MOSCOW5369	RUSSIAN SIX-PARTY HFO COMMITMENTS [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-13 15:41:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID ENRG KNNP PARK PREL IN KN RS
07MOSCOW5370	INITIAL GROUP OF RUSSIAN DUMA ELECTION OBSERVERS [...] (C) Deputy Foreign Minister Yakovenko claimed to Ambassador November 12 that the GOR would invite the 70 ODIHR observers as it had promised and in the timeframe promised, and would expedite visa issuance. In a November 13 conversation (septel),Presidential Administration Deputy Vladislav Surk [...]	2007-11-13 16:45:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM OSCE RS
07MOSCOW5371	MFA ON POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS IN GEORGIA [...] (C) Summary: In a November 13 conversation, the Ambassador reinforced with DFM Denisov U.S. efforts in Tbilisi and urged GOR restraint. In a separate meeting, MFA Fourth CIS Department Director Kelin welcomed EUR DAS Bryza's statements encouraging the Georgian leadership to restore the polit [...]	2007-11-13 17:01:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV GG RS
07MOSCOW5372	KERCH STRAIT OIL SPILL UNDER CONTROL, BUT LONG TERM CLEANUP [...] (SBU) Despite continuing storms in the Kerch Strait, the GOR reports that it has staunched the flow and has begun containment and cleanup of the 2000 tons of oil spilled over the weekend. The GOR is cooperating with Ukraine, but has not requested any international assistance. The Federal Serv [...]	2007-11-14 03:59:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV ENRG PREL RS
07MOSCOW5373	RUSSIA - THE POLITICS OF INFLATION [...] (SBU) In a campaign that many here characterize as a referendum on Putin and his policies, few expected that the problem of inflation would emerge to distract the public's attention from the broader economic stabilization that has succored the president's popularity. Putin's team, which was a [...]	2007-11-14 04:00:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR ECON EFIN PGOV PINR RS EINV
07MOSCOW5378	MFA: "NON-CONFRONTATION" WILL GUIDE IRAN STRATEGY [...] (C) Summary: MFA Deputy Director for Iran and Afghanistan Ali Mustafabeli told us that the MFA has yet to hear from Tehran after Ahmadenijad assured FM Lavrov on October 30 that he would think about the P5 1 proposal to halt uranium enrichment. Mustafabeli predicted that the November IAEA re [...]	2007-11-14 11:59:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PARM ETRD AF IR RS
07MOSCOW5379	FOLLOWING MOSCOW'S LEAD: REGIONAL LEADERS BATTLE [...] (SBU) Regional leaders are following the Kremlin's lead "battling" skyrocketing prices, particularly on foodstuffs, as the inflation issue has gained increased political relevance as an election issue before the December 2 Duma elections. Whereas Moscow thus far has taken a measured approach [...]	2007-11-14 12:29:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR RS ECON EFIN EINV EAGR
07MOSCOW5381	IN IRKUTSK NATIONAL POLITICS OVERSHADOW LOCAL [...] (SBU) A recent trip to Irkutsk oblast found a region not immune to the ebb and flow of Russian national politics. While the pro-Putin United Russia Party (YR) has a distinct advantage over also-rans For a Just Russia (SR) and the Communist Party (KPRF) in this region, the endemic corruption wi [...]	2007-11-14 13:14:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM SOCI RS
07MOSCOW5387	RUSSIAN DFM KISLYAK: IRAN, MD, CFE, BILATERAL, [...] (C) Summary : In a November 14 meeting (other topics septel),DFM Kislyak told the Ambassador that the postponed Solana-Jalili dialogue, potential Chinese FM visit to Tehran, and imminent IAEA report may have prompted Chinese cancellation of the November 19 P5 1 meeting. Kislyak expected l [...]	2007-11-15 10:03:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PARM MARR EAIR KCRM KJUS RS
07MOSCOW5399	MFA ON RUSSIAN-EU ENERGY RELATIONS REF: A. MOSCOW 5266 B. MOSCOW 4932 Classified By: Econ MC Eric Schultz for Reasons 1.4 (b/d) [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-15 13:49:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
07MOSCOW5401	RUSSIA: ODIHR UPDATE; U.S. INVITATION [...] (C) On November 14, Vladimir Churov, head of the Russian Central Election Commission (CEC) told reporters that the CEC had received the accreditation applications for all 70 ODIHR election observers that morning and had forwarded them to the MFA for visa issuance. ODIHR Observer Mission Head [...]	2007-11-15 16:13:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM RS
07MOSCOW5402	DFM KARASIN ON GEORGIA [...] (C) On November 15, Ambassador outlined to Deputy Foreign Minister Karasin both the public and private messages delivered to Saakashvilli and other Georgian officials by DAS Bryza during his November 11-14 trip to Tbilisi. The Ambassador noted that Bryza conveyed to the GOG the Secretary's fi [...]	2007-11-15 16:13:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL GG RS
07MOSCOW5403	PWC'S TRAVAILS IN RUSSIA WORSEN [...] (C) During a November 14 meeting with EconMinCouns, Managing Director for PricewaterhouseCoopers Russia (PWC) Peter Gerendasi offered a bleak assessment of his company's current legal difficulties. Gerendasi was pessimistic about the November 26 appeal of PWC's ongoing expatriate salary case [...]	2007-11-15 16:19:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EFIN ECON RS
07MOSCOW5405	REMOVAL OF HIGH-THREAT RADIOACTIVE SOURCES FROM [...] (C) Rosatom International Affairs Director Vladimir Kuchinov called in EST Counselor November 14 to follow up on our earlier approaches to Rosatom and MFA regarding removal of high-threat radioactive sources from Abkhazia. Kuchinov confirmed that Rosatom Director Sergey Kiriyenko had not agre [...]	2007-11-15 16:32:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP PARM ENRG PREL IAEA GG RS
07MOSCOW5408	ROSATOM REORGANIZATION BILL SAILS THROUGH DUMA [...] (SBU) The Duma passed unanimously November 13 a bill to restructure Russia's civil nuclear sector. In place of the current Rosatom Agency, the bill establishes the "Rosatom Corporation." Its mandate will be to coordinate and manage nuclear policy in all sectors. A centerpiece of Rosatom Corp [...]	2007-11-16 07:24:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KNNP PREL ENRG RS
07MOSCOW5410	MEDIA AND THE ELECTIONS: THE DEBATES AND THE ADS [...] (C) The fifteen days of debates that precede the December 2 Duma elections kicked off on November 6 and will wrap on November 30. On most days, a shifting mix of political parties participate in three debates that are broadcast on three separate channels. President Putin's United Russia (YR) [...]	2007-11-16 10:48:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PINR SOCI RS
07MOSCOW5412	GOR SYMPATHIZES WITH MUSHARRAF [...] (C) Summary: The MFA tells us that the deteriorating domestic situation and limited political options "understandably" forced Musharraf to declare a state of emergency in Pakistan. MFA Pakistan Desk Chief Andrey Starkov argued that Musharraf had to prevent the invalidation of his re-election [...]	2007-11-16 11:53:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IN PK RS
07MOSCOW5417	RUSSIA'S RADICAL LIBERALS - SPS PARTY SHIFTS INTO [...] (C) The announcement this week that Russia's Union of Right Forces (SPS) will take part in "Dissenters' Marches" marks the final step in the party's rapid evolution from a "constructive opponent" to total opposition. Over the past six weeks, SPS leaders have radically changed their electoral [...]	2007-11-16 13:18:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL KDEM RS
07MOSCOW5425	MFA UPBEAT ON IRAQ NEIGHBORS MINISTERIAL, DEBT [...] (C) Summary: On November 15, MFA Deputy Director for Iraq Aleksandr Kinshak told us that Russia considered the Iraq Neighbors Expanded Ministerial in Istanbul "very successful," noting that the atmosphere was more positive in Istanbul than at the previous ministerial in Sharm el Sheikh. Kinsh [...]	2007-11-16 14:42:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON IS IZ LE PREL RS SY
07MOSCOW5428	RUSSIA'S BUSINESS COMMUNITY SEES MORE CONTINUATION [...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified, and not for internet distribution. ------- Summary ------- 2. (SBU) During the 4th Moscow Business Dialogue on November 12, government officials and business professionals forecast a general continuation of the current mix of market and [...]	2007-11-16 14:45:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EIND RS
07MOSCOW5429	CHINESE PREMIER WEN VISITS MOSCOW; FOCUS ON [...] (C) Summary. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao arrived in Moscow November 5-6 to close the "Year of China" in Russia. His visit focused on trade and energy. While the Russian MFA portrayed the visit as a successful expression of flourishing economic relations, the Chinese Embassy cautioned that the agreem [...]	2007-11-16 15:10:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD ENRG CH RS
07MOSCOW5430	MFA ISSUES TOUGH STATEMENT AGAINST SAAKASHVILI [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-16 15:52:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV GG RS
07MOSCOW5431	CALM CAMPAIGN IN RUSSIAN REGION [...] (C) Changes in election law have created a "calm" campaign atmosphere in Voronezh, a city south of Moscow where during a November 14-15 visit we found scant evidence that a parliamentary election is about to take place. Local party representatives said the lack of single-mandate candidates ha [...]	2007-11-16 16:15:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM SOCI RS
07MOSCOW5432	UNITED RUSSIA MUSCLES ITS WAY INTO STAVROPOL KRAY [...] (C) In Stavropol Kray, United Russia has reasserted itself politically and administratively in the aftermath of the March 2007 elections, in which A Just Russia scored an upset victory. United Russia has stripped the unpopular governor of his party membership, replaced the independent Kray El [...]	2007-11-17 03:37:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM RS
07MOSCOW5433	THE WEEK IN POLITICS: PUTIN STUMPS FOR, STOMPS [...] (SBU) With just over two weeks remaining until the December 2 Duma elections, Putin, during a visit to Krasnoyarsk, at last began actively stumping for the United Russia party. On November 15, in Tver, about 700 delegates from 79 of Russia's regions returned the favor by actively stumping for [...]	2007-11-17 12:29:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM SOCI RS
07MOSCOW5434	KOSOVO: RUSSIAN FORECAST FOR "THE DAY AFTER;" [...] (C) Summary. Russia's Kosovo Troika Envoy Botsan-Kharchenko told us that FM Lavrov is preparing a letter to Rice, FM Steinmeier, and EU Solana raising concern over a possible unilateral Kosovar declaration of independence on December 11. The letter will also underscore the rise of radical Al [...]	2007-11-17 12:31:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER KS RS
07MOSCOW5435	PM SINGH'S VISIT HIGHLIGHTS THE LIMITS OF [...] (C) Summary: Deputy Foreign Minister Aleksandr Losyukov told the Ambassador that Indian Prime Minister Singh's November 11-12 trip to Moscow was a "useful visit" that saw progress on a potential agreement for Russia to sell four additional nuclear reactors to India. The visit included the si [...]	2007-11-17 12:32:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ENRG MASS IN RS
07MOSCOW5448	BILATERAL BIOTERRORISM LETTER DELIVERED [...] (SBU) On November 9, we provided reftel letter from State Department Bioterrorism Senior Adviser Ostfield to Deputy Director Titorenko in the MFA's Department of New Challenges and Threats (DNV). On November 16, DNV Senior Adviser Vladimir Prokhorov advised us that S/CT Coordinator Dailey and [...]	2007-11-19 14:24:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO PTER PINS RS
07MOSCOW5451	DFM DENISOV LAUDS ECON DIALOGUE, WELCOMES JANUARY [...] (SBU) In a November 19 meeting with DFM Denisov, the Ambassador raised Undersecretary Jeffery's proposal for a preliminary meeting in Moscow in January at which the two could discuss establishing a low-key, informal but regular economic dialogue. Denisov responded that he welcomed the propose [...]	2007-11-19 16:26:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV ENRG RS
07MOSCOW5453	ODIHR BOYCOTT CONTINUES TO RESONATE [...] (SBU) Summary: ODIHR'S November 16 announcement that it would not send election monitors to Russia's December 2 parliamentary elections was the subject of incredulous GOR commentary over the weekend. The Central Election Commission (CEC) saw in the decision confirmation of the GOR's standing [...]	2007-11-19 16:50:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM OSCE RS
07MOSCOW5457	RUSSIAN PROPOSAL FOR MIDDLE EAST EXPERTS' MEETING [...] (C) On November 19, Counselor in the MFA Middle East Peace Settlement Office Timur Zabirov elaborated on GOR interest in holding a high-level experts' meeting on the Middle East Peace Process in Moscow following the Annapolis Conference. The GOR intended this forum to maintain momentum toward a [...]	2007-11-20 15:41:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KWBG KPAL IS RS
07MOSCOW5458	UKRAINE TO PAY $160 FOR GAS IN 2008; MARKET PRICES [...] (C) According to the Ukrainian Embassy in Moscow, agreement has been reached on a gas price of $160 per thousand cubic meters (mcm) for Russian gas deliveries to Ukraine for 2008. The agreement also calls for a rise to "market prices" by 2011. Separately, Gazprom indicated that final details [...]	2007-11-21 06:22:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
07MOSCOW5474	RUSSIA CONCERNED ABOUT POSSIBILITY FOR VIOLENCE IN [...] (C) Summary. While the GOR supports UNSC Presidential Statement 9169 urging both Ethiopia and Eritrea to take concrete steps to implement the Eritrea-Ethiopia Boundary Commission (EEBC)'s delineation decision, the GOR does not support the EEBC's plan for "virtually" demarcating the border an [...]	2007-11-21 13:40:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC PBTS ET ER RS
07MOSCOW5475	THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING, WITH AN AMERICAN ASSIST [...] (C) Andrew Paulson, an expatriate American businessman in Moscow told Econ MC November 12 that his Russian-based internet company, Livejournal.ru, was preparing to purchase the U.S. version of Livejournal, from which it had sprung eight years ago. Paulson said the USD 100 million or more purc [...]	2007-11-21 14:46:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PREL EINV RS
07MOSCOW5477	IAEA/IRAN: RUSSIAN MFA VIEWS ON DG REPORT [...] (C) On November 21, Embassy conveyed U.S. views (reftel) on the IAEA Director General's November 15 Report on Iran to Mikhail Kondratenkov, MFA Security and Disarmament Department nuclear non-proliferation section chief. Kondratenkov agreed that Iran has often been reactive rather than proacti [...]	2007-11-21 17:18:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP MNUC IAEA PARM RS IR
07MOSCOW5478	DFM KARASIN ON UKRAINE, BELARUS, GEORGIA, MOLDOVA [...] (C) Summary. In a November 21 meeting with the Ambassador, DFM Karasin requested the USG's understanding of the "erroneous" Ukrainian interpretation of "Holodomor (1932-33 famine)" and other events that happened during WW2. He urged that the USG lift the sanctions imposed by the U.S. Treasur [...]	2007-11-21 19:50:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV GG RS
07MOSCOW5479	Disaster Declaration: Oil Spill in Kerch Strait, Russia [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 4. 2. (SBU) The November 11 oil spill in the Kerch Strait (which runs between the Black and Azov Seas near Crimea) continues to affect large numbers of fish and wildlife and is now spreading into the Sea of Azov (refs A, B). Efforts to contain a [...]	2007-11-23 04:14:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID SENV ENRG PREL RS
07MOSCOW5480	DISASTER DECLARATION: OIL SPILL IN KERCH STRAIT, [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 4. 2. (SBU) The November 11 oil spill in the Kerch Straight (which runs between the Black and Azov Seas near Crimea) continues to affect large numbers of fish and wildlife and is now spreading into the Sea of Azov (refs A, B). Efforts to contain [...]	2007-11-23 04:14:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID ENRG PREL SENV RS
07MOSCOW5497	GAZPROM-OWNED STROYTRANSGAZ ON SYRIA, OTHER [...] (C) In a November 20 meeting with Econoff, Leonid Bokhanovskiy, First Vice-President of the Gazprom-owned construction firm Stroytransgaz, confirmed that the company had completed a gas treatment facility in Syria as well as a gas pipeline from Egypt to Syria. He indicated that the company wo [...]	2007-11-23 11:45:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS IR IZ SY
07MOSCOW5502	SUBJECT: KRASNOYARSK ELECTION - QUIET ON THE [...] (SBU) A joke is circulating in Krasnoyarsk that the regional electoral commission is taking care to make sure the population doesn't falsify the elections. With less than two weeks before polling day, virtually everyone "knows" the election outcome -- a solid majority for United Russia; enoug [...]	2007-11-23 12:59:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PGOV PINR RS
07MOSCOW5505	GAMING RUSSIA'S REACTION TO A KOSOVO UDI [...] (C) Summary: The fact that Russia has not confronted the U.S. at the most senior levels over the possibility of Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence does not mean that Putin and his advisers are resigned to the outcome. Russian diplomatic self-confidence flows from its sense of E [...]	2007-11-23 15:11:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RS
07MOSCOW5506	"JUST RUSSIA" STRUGGLES [...] (C) Summary: With elections just over one week away, the Kremlin-fostered party Just Russia (SR) seems increasingly unlikely to cross the seven-percent threshold to Duma representation, and the media have begun their death watch. Observers peg SR's problems to Putin's decision to head the Uni [...]	2007-11-23 15:57:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PINR SOCI RS
07MOSCOW5512	RUSSIA AND INDIA SEEK TO IMPROVE ECONOMIC TIES; [...] (SBU) Summary: In official briefings on Indian Prime Minister Singh's November 11-12 visit, Russian and Indian diplomats confirmed reftel assessment of bilateral relations as politically healthy but in danger of appearing "emaciated" should the countries fail to expand economic ties. The dip [...]	2007-11-26 07:58:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECIN ENRG MASS IN RS
07MOSCOW5516	THE WEEK IN POLITICS: THE PUTIN NATIONAL [...] (C) Summary: The "For Putin" movement continued to percolate, with a November 21 gathering of five thousand supporters in a Moscow sports hall. The event --part U.S. political party convention, part CPSU congress-- featured an extended attack by Putin on his political opponents, a swipe at t [...]	2007-11-26 11:12:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM SOCI PINR RS
07MOSCOW5518	MOD SERDYUKOV VISITS CENTRAL ASIA [...] (C) Summary: Russian Minister of Defense Anatoly Serdyukov's visits to Uzbekistan and Armenia October 29-30 were part of Russian efforts to strengthen ties with CIS member states. (Note: Serdyukov also made an unofficial trip to Kyrgyzstan. End Note.) Serdyukov and his Uzbek counterpart s [...]	2007-11-26 12:51:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MCAP PREL SENV
07MOSCOW5522	VIEWING RUSSIA'S DEMOGRAPHIC CRISIS THROUGH A POLITICAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Although Russia's demographic crisis has not been a major issue during the Duma elections campaign, most of the political parties have focused some attention on reversing the population decline by encouraging higher birth rates. Led by President Putin, United Russia has crowed [...]	2007-11-26 14:57:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO SCUL PREL SOCI RS
07MOSCOW5523	MFA ON LEBANON AND THE MIDDLE EAST PEACE PROCESS [...] (C) Summary: According to the MFA, Putin and Foreign Minister Lavrov told Lebanese parliamentary majority leader Saad Hariri during their November 20 meeting that the GOR would not support a specific candidate for the Lebanese presidency and hoped the country's political factions could agree [...]	2007-11-26 15:15:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KWBG KPAL IS LE RS
07MOSCOW5524	RUSSIA WILL ABSTAIN ON UNGA RESOLUTIONS WITH [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-26 15:16:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL UNGA IS RS
07MOSCOW5525	DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER KUDRIN PERSONALLY VOUCHES [...] (C) On November 26, Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Aleksey Kudrin put his personal and professional reputation on the line in defense of Deputy Finance Minister Sergey Storchak who was arrested November 15 on charges of preparing to and attempting to commit fraud (reftels). Kudrin [...]	2007-11-26 15:37:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EFIN ECON RS
07MOSCOW5526	NGO GOLOS PREPARES TO OBSERVE DUMA ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary: The NGO Golos is preparing to observe the Duma elections on December 2, and has begun monitoring pre-election activities. Golos has already run into legal trouble in one region, and while its leaders are unaware of any other impending legal action, they remain potentially vulnera [...]	2007-11-26 15:41:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM RS
07MOSCOW5527	MOSCOW VIEWS ON OSCE MINISTERIAL [...] (C) Summary. Russia recognizes that the OSCE Ministerial in Madrid November 29-30 will be difficult, even though there have been a number of areas of agreement this past year. Russia will press for its package of reforms to the OSCE, arguing the need for equal treatment of all countries. Put [...]	2007-11-26 15:45:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	OSCE PREL PGOV PHUM RS
07MOSCOW5528	GOR CLAMPS DOWN ON OTHER RUSSIA; KASPAROV [...] (SBU) Summary: On November 24, following a peaceful, sanctioned meeting in central Moscow, about eighty of an estimated two thousand Other Russia/SPS demonstrators attempted to march to the Central Election Commission in defiance of a ban by city authorities. In the melee that followed, poli [...]	2007-11-26 16:07:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM PINR RS
07MOSCOW5529	RUSSIA: PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION SET FOR MARCH 2 [...] (U) A week before Russians head to the polls to vote in the State Duma elections, the Federation Council passed a resolution naming March 2, 2008 as the date of the presidential election. The unanimous decision by the upper house of parliament was expected and will become official when it is [...]	2007-11-26 16:10:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM RS
07MOSCOW5532	NGO GOLOS PREPARES TO OBSERVE DUMA ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary: The NGO Golos is preparing to observe the Duma elections on December 2, and has begun monitoring pre-election activities. Golos has already run into legal trouble in one region, and while its leaders are unaware of any other impending legal action, they remain potentially vulnera [...]	2007-11-27 03:52:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM RS
07MOSCOW5535	RESULTS OF AUSTRALIA GROUP MEETING IN MOSCOW [...] (C) Summary: Australia Group (AG) chair John Sullivan and Russian MFA Director of the Department for Security Affairs and Disarmament (DVBR) Anatoly Antonov led discussions November 20 on Russia's possible membership in the AG. Russia's high-level delegation indicated its interest in joining [...]	2007-11-27 07:35:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	MCAP PARM PGOV PREL
07MOSCOW5540	PICK YOUR POLL: PUTIN'S PARTY WINS BIG [...] (SBU) According to the final public opinion polls published one week before the December 2 Russian Duma elections, United Russia (YR) will garner the vast majority of votes and the Communist Party (KPRF) will easily overcome the seven percent threshold to entry into the Duma. The predictions [...]	2007-11-27 15:23:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM SOCI RS
07MOSCOW5542	CIVIL SOCIETY SPEAKS OUT OVER OTHER RUSSIA ARRESTS [...] (C) Liberal politicians and human rights activists praised the President's November 26 criticism of the Russian government's detention of opposition protesters. In response to the Ambassador, Acting FM Denisov described the GOR reaction as "unfortunate" but argued that Other Russian leader G [...]	2007-11-27 17:11:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR KDEM SOCI RS
07MOSCOW5548	UNITED RUSSIA EXPECTS BIG THINGS FROM ROSTOV-ON-DON [...] (C) The Ambassador's November 19-20 visit to Rostov-on-Don revealed that Russia's fifth most populous region falls squarely in the ruling party vote bank. Governor Vladimir Chub, who has ruled Rostov for sixteen years, appears too busy opening shopping centers and meeting trade delegations to [...]	2007-11-28 08:32:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM ECON SOCI EAGR RS
07MOSCOW5562	DUMA ELECTION OBSERVER UPDATE [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador November 26 told acting Foreign Minister Denisov that the USG had played no role in ODIHR's decision not to observe the Russian Duma elections. Denisov insisted that the Russian Embassy in Washington believed the USG had "tipped the scales" on the decision during ODIHR [...]	2007-11-28 16:46:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PREL RS
07MOSCOW5563	UKRAINE GAS PRICE AGREEMENT DELAYED BY LATEST [...] (C) A November 27th agreement between Gazprom and Turkmenistan on a price increase for Turkmen gas has delayed and complicated a deal on 2008 gas prices to Ukraine. Gazprom, which serves as an intermediary for Turkmen gas to Ukraine, will pay Turkmenistan $130 per thousand cubic meters (mcm) o [...]	2007-11-29 07:26:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG EPET PREL RS
07MOSCOW5571	RUSSIA: POWER SECTOR RESTRUCTURING ENTERS LAST [...] (SBU) The electricity sector's regulatory and policy framework after July 2008, when holding company RAO UES will cease operations, is taking shape. On October 26, RAO UES shareholders approved the restructuring plan and consented to the appointment of RAO UES' director of strategy as the new [...]	2007-11-29 09:10:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EIND ENRG PREL RS
07MOSCOW5580	SERBIAN FM JEREMIC VISIT UNDERSCORES RUSSIA'S [...] (C) Summary. Serbian FM Jeremic's November 22 visit to Moscow served to reconfirm Russian-Serbian solidarity in the runup to the end of the Kosovo troika talks. Lavrov reiterated Russia's firm support for Serbia, noting that December 10 was not "the end of history." Jeremic noted that Serbi [...]	2007-11-29 14:17:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SR KV RS
07MOSCOW5582	RUSSIA - KPRF THREATENS TO PROTEST ELECTION FRAUD [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Communists are taking the offensive to protect their interests in Sunday's Duma election, establishing their own parallel monitoring program and threatening "mass action" if the administration falsifies the results. Party leaders announced on November 28 that the party wil [...]	2007-11-29 14:50:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PINR RS
07MOSCOW5583	PUTIN MAKES TELEVISED APPEAL TO VOTERS [...] (SBU) Summary: In a November 29 televised appeal, Putin asked voters to support the party whose ticket he leads, United Russia, in Sunday's Duma elections. The brief address, notable for its lack of surprise, was a classic appeal by an incumbent politician to stay the course. Immediately foll [...]	2007-11-29 15:09:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM PINR RS
07MOSCOW5584	HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST AND THREE JOURNALISTS BEATEN [...] (C) Summary: In the Ingushetia capital of Nazran on November 24, masked gunmen abducted a human rights worker and three Moscow television journalists from their hotel rooms, robbed them of their equipment and notebooks, and threatened them with execution. The gunmen then took the four victims [...]	2007-11-29 15:19:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KDEM KPAO RS
07MOSCOW5585	"SECURE GAS SUPPLY FOR EUROPE" -- NORD STREAM MOVING FORWARD REF: A. THE HAGUE 1999 B. MOSCOW 5399 C. TALLINN 737 D. HELSINKI 785 E. WARSAW 1975 F. RIGA 430 Classified By: Ambassador William J. Burns for Reasons 1.4 (b/d) [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-29 15:22:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL PINR RS
07MOSCOW5591	ANGARSK INTERNATIONAL URANIUM ENRICHMENT CENTER: [...] (SBU) Russia's plan to establish an international uranium enrichment center in Angarsk (Siberia) -- which stems from a Putin proposal made almost two years ago -- is moving forward. Russian officials and experts are confident in the ability of the Angarsk facility to handle increased demand [...]	2007-11-30 07:41:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KNNP IAEA PREL RS
07MOSCOW5595	UNITED RUSSIA AND THE DUMA ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary: With Putin's decision to back United Russia in the Duma race, the prospect, faintly entertained about one year ago of creating something like a real political party system has completely disappeared, and United Russia has become a vehicle for Putin's aspirations to remain influen [...]	2007-11-30 11:06:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PINR SOCI RS
07MOSCOW5596	RUSSIA: INTERPRETING PUTIN'S DUMA VICTORY [...] (C) Summary: The significance of the December 2 Duma elections is the magnitude -- and not the fact -- of Putin's win and how he can use this "vote of confidence" to dictate presidential succession. Having been transformed into a referendum on Putin, the parliamentary elections are a step [...]	2007-11-30 11:23:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR SOCI KDEM RS
07MOSCOW5598	PUTIN AND UNITED RUSSIA DOMINATE MEDIA IN RUN UP [...] (C) Summary. All one has to do is watch the national nightly news to see that President Putin, his administration, and United Russia garner the majority of coverage in the run up to the December 2 Duma elections. Over the past two months, three-fourths of the national television coverage and over h [...]	2007-11-30 12:28:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM KPAO RS
07MOSCOW5600	CIVIC FORCE: A KREMLIN EXPERIMENT GONE NOWHERE [...] (C) The political party Civic Force (GS) began life as a Kremlin project and has enjoyed the freedom of action and access to the media that come with that status. Unlike other small, right-wing parties (such as Yabloko and the Union of Right Forces (SPS)),who have encountered problems in cond [...]	2007-11-30 12:58:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM SOCI RS
07MOSCOW5609	RUSSIA ENERGY: NO DEAL ON KOVYKTA THIS YEAR? [...] (C) TNK-BP International Affairs Director Shawn McCormick confirmed to us on November 30th that a deal between Gazprom and TNK-BP on Gazprom's purchase of TNK-BP's 62.5% share of the giant Kovykta gas field in East Siberia will likely not be concluded this year. Press reports cited a Gazprom [...]	2007-11-30 13:32:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
07MOSCOW5612	FOREIGN POLICY, RHETORIC AND ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary: International issues have received little attention in the run-up to the December 2 Duma elections, reflecting broad consensus behind Putin's foreign policy. Russia's positions on the top issues that do resonate with the Russian public - Kosovo, NATO enlargement, missile defense, [...]	2007-11-30 14:08:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR RS
07MOSCOW5613	RUSSIAN ATTENDANCE AT NEW DELHI AVIAN AND PANDEMIC FLU [...] (SBU) We shared reftel information about the upcoming Avian and Pandemic Influenza Conference in New Delhi with Russian officials at the International Departments of the MFA, Health and Social Development Ministry, the Federal Surveillance Service for Consumer Rights Protection and Human Well-B [...]	2007-11-30 14:46:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO KFLU EAGR PREL RS
07MOSCOW5615	GREF CONFIRMED AS SBERBANK PRESIDENT: EXODUS OF [...] (U) On November 28, Sberbank's shareholders confirmed former Economic Development and Trade Minister German Gref as the bank's new President and Chairman. Gref said publicly he would work to retain key managers and provided a general overview of his plans for the bank. Outgoing chairman Andr [...]	2007-11-30 14:58:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON RS
07MOSCOW5627	MORE BUSINESS VIEWS ON PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS [...] (C) Boris Jordan, a well-known American businessman of Russian ancestry, said the December 2 parliamentary elections should be seen as part of President Putin's plan to continue to exercise influence after his current term expires, preferably from the sidelines. Jordan expressed hope that bil [...]	2007-11-30 15:15:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PREL PGOV EINV RS
07MOSCOW563	NEW HEALTH WARNING LABEL FOR WINE AND SPIRITS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A new label for bottles of wine, vodka, and other spirits warns consumers of the dangers of alcohol consumption by certain vulnerable groups, including minors, pregnant women, and nursing mothers. The government is delaying enforcement of the new law and giving producers and di [...]	2007-02-08 12:42:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO EAGR ETRD SOCI RS
07MOSCOW5630	RUSSIA STILL A SMOKER'S PARADISE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Russian Duma session that ended November 16 failed to approve legislation placing greater restrictions on smoking in public places. The outgoing Duma also did not approve the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, which Russia has neither signed nor ratified. Observe [...]	2007-12-02 08:08:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO SCUL PREL SOCI RS

07MOSCOW5631	DUMA ELECTION: VOTER TURNOUT HIGH, PARTIES ALLEGE [...] (SBU) Summary: Eighteen regions of Russia have completed voting and all signs are that voter turnout for the December 2 Duma elections is expected to exceed 2003's turnout of 55.75 percent although three hours remain before polls close across all of Russia. The opposition SPS, Yabloko, and Comm [...]	2007-12-02 15:38:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM SOCI RS
07MOSCOW564	RUSSIA-AZERBAIJAN DYSPEPSIA: EAT TOMATOES AND GET [...] (C) Russian press articles and Embassy Baku's interlocutors have played up deteriorating Russian-Azerbaijani relations. They cite Gazprom's increase in the price of gas deliveries to Azerbaijan, Azerbaijan's refusal to send crude oil via the Baku-Novorossiysk pipeline; and the Russian ban on [...]	2007-02-08 12:42:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	PREL ETRD PREF AJ AM GG RS
07MOSCOW5643	DEMARCHES DELIVERED ON IRAN, GTMO DETAINEE [...] (C) On December 3, DCM demarched MFA North America Department Director Igor Neverov on Iranian attempts to procure equipment with nuclear weapons applications through a Russian firm, underscoring that the specialized cameras are possibly controlled by the Nuclear Suppliers Group (ref A). DCM [...]	2007-12-03 14:44:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MNUC PARM ETTC IR RS
07MOSCOW5681	RUSSIA SEEKS IMPROVED TIES WITH GULF STATES [...] (C) Summary: Russia continues to court the Persian Gulf States in its quest to expand economic ties with the region and improve political relations with the Muslim world. Saudi Crown Prince and Defense Minister Sultan bin Abd al-Aziz Al Saud's November 21-23 Moscow visit was the latest in a se [...]	2007-12-03 15:34:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ETRD MASS SA TC RS
07MOSCOW5682	DUMA ELECTIONS: UNITED RUSSIA WINS BIG, COMMUNIST [...] (C) Summary: With almost all of the votes from the December 3 election counted, Putin's United Russia party has won 64.1 percent, which will give it a constitutional majority in the new Duma. Three other parties: the Communists (11.6%),Vladimir Zhirinovskiy's LDPR (8.2%),and Just Russia (7 [...]	2007-12-03 16:36:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM PHUM SOCI RS
07MOSCOW5698	EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: ROSTOVSKIY [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, Rostovskiy NII Radiosvyazi, Rostov-on-Don, Russia. The company is li [...]	2007-12-04 14:13:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW5699	EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: MIREA STATE [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, MIREA State University, Moscow, Russia and intermediate consignee Br [...]	2007-12-04 14:13:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW57	RUSSIAN ENERGY: THE RUSSIA-BELARUS OIL STANDOFF [...] (C) SUMMARY: Russia and Belarus have not yet found a solution to their row over oil volumes through the Druzhba pipeline. Over the last three days each party has cast blame on the other for initiating the confrontation, with the Russians claiming that the Belarusian transit duty was illegal u [...]	2007-01-10 15:49:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
07MOSCOW5701	EMBASSY OF TURKMENISTAN REITERATES: "WE ONLY SELL [...] (SBU) Embassy of Turkmenistan Econ Counselor Murat Yazberdiyev reiterated to us November 30th that Turkmenistan is only interested in selling gas "at the border." That said, Turkmenistan had no objections to others either improving existing pipelines or building new ones through which to expo [...]	2007-12-04 15:14:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS TX
07MOSCOW5702	DFM SALTANOV ON POST-ANNAPOLIS, LEBANON, IRAQI [...] (C) Summary: In a December 4 meeting with the Ambassador, DFM Saltanov underscored Putin's positive assessment of Annapolis, praised the Secretary for her "tireless" efforts, and highlighted Russia's interest in discussing a post-Annapolis meeting in Moscow during the December 17 Quartet meet [...]	2007-12-04 15:35:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON IS IZ LE PREL RS SY
07MOSCOW5703	KUDRIN'S PLEA UNSUCCESSFUL; STORCHAK STILL DETAINED [...] (C) Deputy Finance Minister Sergey Storchak remains incarcerated after a Moscow City Court denied a defense appeal to have his November 15 arrest overturned. Neither Deputy Prime Minister Aleksey Kudrin's petition requesting Storchak's release from custody (Ref A) nor the defense team's plea [...]	2007-12-04 15:41:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EFIN ECON RS
07MOSCOW5704	PUTIN SAYS ELECTION GIVES DUMA MORE LEGITIMACY, [...] (U) One day after United Russia's decisive victory in parliamentary elections, Putin thanked voters for supporting United Russia and said that the elections would give the next Duma more legitimacy. He called the election results a sign of "trust" in United Russia and a "good indicator of Russ [...]	2007-12-04 16:43:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM PREL PHUM RS
07MOSCOW5717	GAZPROM: 2008 GAS PRICE DEAL WITH UKRAINE [...] (SBU) Confirming press reports, Gazprom International Affairs Director Ivan Zolotov told us December 5th that a deal had been concluded with Ukrainian Minister of Energy Yuriy Boyko the previous day on the 2008 gas price to Ukraine and transit fees to and through Ukraine. Zolotov said negotia [...]	2007-12-05 14:34:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
07MOSCOW5720	RUSSIA-GEORGIA RELATIONS [...] (C) Summary. Russia is in no hurry to re-evaluate its bilateral relations with Georgia, with the MFA issuing repeated statements slamming Saakashvili's anti-Russia tactics as a "farce." MFA officials confirm that Saakashvili is persona non grata in Moscow, while Duma Chairman Gryzlov raised [...]	2007-12-06 10:07:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV GG RS
07MOSCOW5729	EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel 1 requested a Post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end- user, Romona Inc., Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia. The company is l [...]	2007-12-06 13:18:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW5733	DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON ARMS SALES TO BURMA [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-06 16:53:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM BM RS
07MOSCOW5734	CHECHEN PRESIDENT REACHES OUT TO THE MIDDLE EAST [...] (C) Summary: Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov is looking to the Middle East to finance the reconstruction of Chechnya. Kadyrov met recently in Moscow with the visiting Saudi Crown Prince and traveled to Saudi Arabia and Jordan earlier this year. Kadyrov plans to visit Mecca in December, part [...]	2007-12-06 16:55:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER SOCI JO SA RS
07MOSCOW5735	RUSSIAN GOALS FOR NATO-RUSSIA MINISTERIAL [...] (C) Summary. Russia will use the December 7 NATO-Russia Council (NRC) Ministerial as an opportunity to reiterate its views on suspension of the CFE Treaty, opposition to U.S. plans to deploy a missile defense (MD) system in Poland and the Czech Republic, opposition to a Kosovo Unilateral Dec [...]	2007-12-06 16:58:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL NATO MARR RS
07MOSCOW5738	WFP PLANNING CY08 NORTH CAUCASUS DEPARTURE DESPITE [...] Summary: The UN World Food Program will extend its current North Caucasus operation into 2008, but unless it observes deterioration in the food security status of the IDP population it plans to terminate all its direct food aid in the region within the next year. End summary. -------------- [...]	2007-12-07 06:48:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	PREF PGOV EAID EAGR SOCI RS
07MOSCOW5743	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR MARY B. WARLICK, SENIOR [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to NSC Senior Director Mary B. Warlick for the proposed visit to Moscow from December 10-11, 2007. Airport meet/assist has been arranged through AECA. 2. Control Officer is Karen Kirchgasser, tel. 7-495-728-5171; 7-495-234-2449 (hm); 7-495-970 [...]	2007-12-07 09:51:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA PREL AMGT ASEC RS
07MOSCOW5745	GOLOS INITIAL ASSESSMENT OF THE DUMA ELECTION [...] (C) Summary: In a December 4 press conference, the USAID-funded voting rights NGO Golos reported widespread violations and irregularities in the December 2 State Duma elections. While much of its information is anecdotal, Golos did provide cursory statistical findings of anomalies, most notab [...]	2007-12-07 11:36:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM RS
07MOSCOW5748	LEVADA CENTER ANALYSIS OF RECENT POLLING DATA [...] (C) In polls leading up to the December 2 elections, the Levada Center brought to light some hidden characteristics of the Russian electorate. Based on the Center's data, it was clear that Putin's popularity transcended party affiliation spreading even to the Communist Party (KPRF) and the tr [...]	2007-12-07 12:35:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM SOCI RS
07MOSCOW5749	CFE: THE DAY AFTER [...] (C) Summary. On December 12. Russia will suspend participation in the Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty, ceasing notification, inspections, and permissions for inspection under the Treaty, and not participating in the December 15 annual exchange of information. Officials have said [...]	2007-12-07 12:56:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KCFE NATO OSCE MARR RS
07MOSCOW5750	LEVADA CENTER ANALYSIS OF PUTIN'S PULL [...] (C) In polls leading up to the December 2 elections, the Levada Center brought to light some hidden characteristics of the Russian electorate. Based on the Center's data, it was clear that Putin's popularity transcended party affiliation spreading even to the Communist Party (KPRF) and the tr [...]	2007-12-07 12:59:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM SOCI RS
07MOSCOW5751	RUSSIAN REACTION TO OSCE MADRID MINISTERIAL [...] (C) Summary. The GOR viewed the November 29-30 OSCE Madrid Ministerial as "controversial." On a positive note, the MFA expressed satisfaction with the strengthened role of the security basket, noting that the OSCE had a unique and positive role to play in Afghan border security. On environ [...]	2007-12-07 13:29:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL OSCE RS
07MOSCOW5752	EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, Kavkaztransgaz, Stavropol, Russia. The company is listed on BIS lice [...]	2007-12-07 13:30:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW5753	EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: IT- [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel 1 requested a Post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end- user, IT-Diagnostica, Moscow, Russia. The company is listed on [...]	2007-12-07 13:31:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW5761	RUSSIA HOPEFUL BUT CAUTIOUS ABOUT A BREAKTHROUGH [...] Summary: The MFA told us that new Polish PM Tusk's pro-European stance, positive statements about Russia-Poland bilateral ties, his decision to remove Poland's veto on Russia's OECD accession, and recent efforts to address Russian concerns about Polish meat were clearly steps in the right dir [...]	2007-12-07 15:42:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PL RS
07MOSCOW5762	AFTER THE DUMA ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary: With the messy Duma elections fast fading from memory here (although the final results will not be certified until at least December 10),attention has shifted to the March 2 presidential elections. The four parties in the new Duma have scheduled their congresses for mid-Decembe [...]	2007-12-07 16:05:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PINR SOCI RS
07MOSCOW5763	RUSSIAN CONDEMNATION OF KOSOVO UDI WIDENS [...] (C) Summary. At a December 5 press conference, FM Lavrov criticized "Western partners" for undermining the Troika's efforts to find a negotiated solution by continuing to support Kosovo's "inevitable" independence. Memorial, a Russian human rights organization often critical of the GOR, iss [...]	2007-12-07 16:05:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KV RS
07MOSCOW5765	REINVENTING THE RUSSIAN DRUG STORE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Much like Russia's booming pharmaceuticals market (Ref A),the Russian pharmacy business is rapidly expanding. Major Russian drug store chains are consolidating their market-leading positions, but the industry is still relatively unconcentrated, with the leading drug store chai [...]	2007-12-10 03:45:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO ETRD EINV EIND RS
07MOSCOW5770	VTB MANAGING DIRECTOR FOUND MURDERED NEAR MOSCOW [...] (U) On December 6, officials from the Moscow Oblast division of the General Procuracy's Investigation Committee discovered the body of VTB Managing Director for Corporate Clients Oleg Zhukovsky. He was found at the bottom of a swimming pool near his home in the Odintsovo region of suburban M [...]	2007-12-10 14:33:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON RS
07MOSCOW5771	PUTIN BACKS MEDVEDEV FOR PRESIDENT [...] (C) Representatives of United Russia, the Agrarian Party, Patriots of Russia, and Just Russia, headed by United Russia Chairman Gryzlov, asked December 10 for Putin's support for the presidential candidacy of First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitriy Medvedev. The media report that Putin told Gryzlo [...]	2007-12-10 15:10:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL RS
07MOSCOW5773	ISTC Governing Board Meeting in Moscow [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: At the International Science and Technology Center (ISTC) Coordinating Committee (CC) and Governing Board (GB) meetings held December 3-5, the Russians lamented what, in their view, is a lack of genuine partnership at the ISTC and the neglect of Russia's rights and privileges und [...]	2007-12-11 04:22:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KNNP PARM TSPL RS
07MOSCOW5780	RUSSIA: OHR DECISIONS AND ALLEGATIONS ABOUT U.S. [...] (C) We delivered reftel demarche on Russian allegations about the U.S. Deputy High Representative to MFA Counselor for Bosnia Ivan Gorbunov on December 10. Gorbunov undertook to pass the points to his superiors, and suffered no further comment on the matter. The Ambassador will reinforce U.S [...]	2007-12-11 14:54:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL BK SRS RS
07MOSCOW5781	NSC SENIOR DIRECTOR'S MEETING WITH FEDERAL COUNCIL [...] (C) Summary: Federation Council International Relations Committee Chairman Margelov told visiting NSC Senior Director Mary Warlick on December 11 that he was very satisfied with Putin's selection of First Deputy PM Medvedev as his successor. Margelov described Medvedev as the "best case scen [...]	2007-12-11 15:11:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RS
07MOSCOW5782	MEDVEDEV'S CAMPAIGN STRATEGY - PUTIN [...] (C) Less than a day after Putin came out in support of Dmitriy Medvedev's candidacy for President, Medvedev revealed his campaign strategy: to run on the promise of picking Putin to serve as Premier. Endorsements of a host of regional authorities, as well as representatives of the President's [...]	2007-12-11 16:54:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR RS
07MOSCOW5784	GREF CENTER'S VIEWS ON RUSSIA'S ECONOMIC DIRECTION [...] (C) In a December 6 meeting, Ksenia Yudaeva, Director of Research at the Center for Strategic Research (CSR or the Gref Center),the economic brain trust for the GOR's economic reforms in the early years of President Putin's administration, told econoff that while reform momentum has slowed th [...]	2007-12-12 04:55:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EIND PREL RS
07MOSCOW579	RUSSIAN FEDERATION COUNCIL MEMBER ON IRAN, MIDDLE [...] (C) Summary: Federation Council Member Margelov briefed the Ambassador on efforts to deepen engagement with the U.S. Senate, including reaching out to GOR critics. He flagged his upcoming trip to Tehran and said that Iranian duplicity and obduracy were making it difficult to defend the regi [...]	2007-02-09 08:35:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV OREP RS IR
07MOSCOW5790	RUSSIA UNLIKELY TO BACK DOWN ON BRITISH COUNCIL [...] (C) Summary: UK diplomats do not expect the GOR to back down from its threat to close two British Council centers on January 1, with the latest salvo from the MFA making the "tactical mistake" of linking Russian actions to the July measures taken by the UK in response to the Russian failure [...]	2007-12-12 13:28:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SCUL RU UK
07MOSCOW5794	UNION STATE PRESIDENCY NOT ON PUTIN'S AGENDA IN [...] (C) Summary. The MFA strongly denied press rumors that Putin's December 13-14 trip to Minsk would create him president of a Russia-Belarus Union State, making it clear that Belarus had a long way to travel before it would be a partner for Russia. Putin's trip will focus on reviewing 2007's " [...]	2007-12-12 15:06:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD MARR PARM BO RS
07MOSCOW5795	RUSSIA SUSPENDS PARTICIPATION IN CFE TREATY [...] As expected, at midnight December 12, Moscow suspended participation in the Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty (CFE). According to the statement issued by the Foreign Ministry, Russia has suspended all actions under the Treaty, including exchanges of information on troop levels, and inspec [...]	2007-12-12 15:18:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KCFE NATO MARR RS
07MOSCOW5796	GETTING THE VOTE OUT: HOW UNITED RUSSIA PULLED OFF [...] (C) Summary: A comparison of electoral statistics from the December 2 Duma elections and the previous elections in a number of selected regions shows that United Russia's use of administrative assets to get out an increased number of voters made a difference in the December 2 Duma elections. [...]	2007-12-12 15:26:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM PREL PHUM RS
07MOSCOW5798	PSI 5TH ANNIVERSARY CONFERENCE SAVE THE DATE [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-13 13:14:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	KNNP KSTC PARM PREL RS
07MOSCOW5800	THE MEASURE OF THE MAN - "WHO IS MR. MEDVEDEV?" [...] (C) Despite his prominence as First Deputy Premier, Gazprom Board Chair, and earlier as Head of the Presidential Administration, Medvedev remains only somewhat less an enigma than his mentor Putin was when the latter was picked as Yeltsin's successor eight years ago. In the near unanimous app [...]	2007-12-13 13:58:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	RS PINR PGOV
07MOSCOW5802	SHARING DRAFT IRAQ UNSCR TEXT WITH RUSSIA [...] (SBU) Poloff and UK Emboff jointly delivered draft Iraq UNSCR text and reftel points to MFA Counselor for International Organizations Yuriy Rudakov on December 13. Rudakov said that the MFA had received a copy of the draft from the Russian Mission in New York, and that the GOR had no major obj [...]	2007-12-14 07:34:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM PREL UNSC EFIN MARR IZ RS
07MOSCOW5803	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: PARIS DONORS CONFERENCE [...] We delivered reftel demarche to MFA Middle East and North Africa Counselor Timur Zabirov. Zabirov said that the GOR appreciated the importance of the Paris donors conference and Foreign Minister Lavrov would head the Russian delegation. He could not provide information on the level of Russian [...]	2007-12-14 07:36:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	AMCT PREL PGOV KWBC KPAL IS RS
07MOSCOW5823	KASPAROV DROPS OUT OF RACE FOR RUSSIAN PRESIDENT [...] (SBU) Summary: Garry Kasparov announced December 13 that he will not be a candidate in the March 2 presidential elections. Kasparov made the decision one day after the Central Election Commission (CEC) held firm on its decision that at least 500 members of the United Civil Front (UCF) which [...]	2007-12-14 15:09:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM PINR RS
07MOSCOW5824	U.S., RUSSIA, AND EUROPEAN COOPERATION: FIRST WE [...] (C) Summary. MFA European Cooperation Director Ryabkov offered only partial reassurance on prospects for cooperation on European issues after a "stormy" round of international meetings, including strong disagreements on Kosovo and the OSCE. The MFA expected similar restrictions to be placed [...]	2007-12-14 15:23:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KV EU OSCE GG RS
07MOSCOW5825	RUSSIAN ELITES AHEAD OF RULING PARTY CONFERENCE [...] (C) Summary: A cross-section of establishment analysts and Putin critics approach the ruling party's December 17 convention convinced that it is time for liberals, the Kremlin, and the West to come to grips with the changed political landscape following the December 2 Duma elections. With t [...]	2007-12-14 15:29:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL ECON RS
07MOSCOW5828	CSTO TO FUNNEL RUSSIAN AID TO AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) Summary: Russia has made the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) a key vehicle in expanding assistance to Afghanistan by committing itself to providing several hundred million dollars in military aid entirely via the CSTO. Russia's main priorities vis--vis Afghanistan are prev [...]	2007-12-17 09:41:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR NATO PREL MASS AF RS
07MOSCOW583	RUSSIAN ENERGY: AMBASSADOR MEETS GAZPROM'S MILLER [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a February 8 meeting with the Ambassador, Gazprom CEO Alexey Miller praised recent moves on domestic gas price reform, and said gas price rises to FSU countries would move forward in tandem, and assets are a part of the payment mix. Miller stressed plans in play to develop Yam [...]	2007-02-09 10:26:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
07MOSCOW5831	FEEL THE BURN: FITNESS CLUBS IN RUSSIA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Russian fitness clubs are expanding and becoming increasing popular, suggesting that the notion of a healthy lifestyle may slowly be taking root in Russia. END SUMMARY. ------------------------ Fitness Clubs Pumping Up ------------------------ 2. (U) Although there are n [...]	2007-12-17 09:42:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO SOCI SCUL RS
07MOSCOW5835	ROSNEFT CEO BOGDANCHIKOV OPTIMISTIC [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-17 12:57:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS PINR
07MOSCOW584	UNHCR COMPLETES INTERVIEWS OF NORTH KOREANS [...] (S) UNHCR has completed its interviews of the North Koreans asylum seekers that arrived in Moscow in January and is finalizing its assessments of their cases (reftel). UNHCR Senior Protection Officer Gang Li said that all of them had indicated they had wanted to be resettled to the United Sta [...]	2007-02-09 11:17:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	PREF PREL PHUM PGOV RS KN
07MOSCOW5841	ATOMSTROYEXPORT'S APPROACH TO THE "NUCLEAR [...] (SBU) During a recent meeting at a Moscow think-tank, an official from Atomstroyexport outlined priorities for the construction of Russian nuclear power plants abroad. China, India, Iran, and Bulgaria are their top target markets. The official downplayed the importance of the failure of Russ [...]	2007-12-17 14:04:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KNNP ENRG PREL RS IN
07MOSCOW5844	FORD WORKERS END STRIKE [...] (SBU) Summary. Workers at Ford Motor Co.'s plant near St. Petersburg ended a four-week strike today after management promised further negotiations on a new labor contract, including wage increases and a reduction of the night shift (reftel a). According to press reports, Ford management has [...]	2007-12-18 04:29:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ELAB RS SOCI
07MOSCOW5845	ROSNEFT'S LEADERSHIP RUMORS [...] (C) Summary: A recent shuffle in the top ranks of Rosneft, rumored to have been engineered by its Chairman Igor Sechin, has spurred speculation that CEO Sergey Bogdanchikov may be on his way out. If true, the company's plans and future may depend as much on politics as the company's plans an [...]	2007-12-18 13:16:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
07MOSCOW5847	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH TRADE MINISTER [...] (C) Summary. In a December 17th meeting with the Ambassador, Trade Minister Nabiullina acknowledged the GOR faced time pressures to conclude multilateral WTO discussions but was optimistic that a deal could be reached by mid-February. While issues such as state-owned enterprises and agricultur [...]	2007-12-18 13:19:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD EINV RS
07MOSCOW5848	GOR NOT DISAPPOINTED WITH TYMOSHENKO'S COMEBACK [...] (C) Summary. Within a few hours after the election of Yulia Tymoshenko as Ukraine's new Prime Minister, MFA officials welcomed her "return", while expressing relief that many bilateral decisions put on hold in the absence of a "functioning" government in Ukraine could be made and implemented [...]	2007-12-18 16:15:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UP RS
07MOSCOW5849	UNITED RUSSIA ACCEPTS MEDVEDEV AS CANDIDATE FOR [...] (C) Summary: The 511 delegates at the pro-Kremlin United Russia party's December 17 party congress performed to expectations, when they chose First Deputy Prime Minister Medvedev as their candidate for President. Putin confounded the expectations of some commentators by agreeing, after a wee [...]	2007-12-19 04:00:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM RS
07MOSCOW5850	SPS NOMINATES NEMTSOV, SEARCHES ITS SOUL [...] (C) The Russian liberal-democratic party the Union of Right Forces (SPS) held its party conference in Moscow on December 17 to nominate a candidate for president. A general party soul-searching and consideration of campaign mistakes occupied almost half of the conference agenda. In accepting [...]	2007-12-19 04:00:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM SOCI RS
07MOSCOW5868	FIFTH RUSSIAN DUMA TO BEGIN WORK DECEMBER 24 [...] (U) The fifth Russian Duma will begin its work December 24. Taking seats in the new Duma on behalf of the four winning parties -- United Russia, Communist Party (KPRF),Just Russia, and the Liberal Democratic Party (LDPR) -- will be veteran politicians, youth movement leaders, businessmen an [...]	2007-12-19 15:01:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM RS
07MOSCOW5869	GOR EFFORTS TO ADVANCE MULTIPOLAR WORLD IN [...] Summary: While Russian officials view the October ministerial in Harbin as a "pivotal event" in accelerating the formation of a Russia, India, and China (RIC) triangle, fundamental differences in strategic vision, mutual distrust, and differing relations with the U.S. significantly limit Russ [...]	2007-12-19 15:09:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON RS
07MOSCOW5878	THE RUSSIAN NGO LAW ONE YEAR LATER [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-20 07:24:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM SOCI RS
07MOSCOW5879	MFA DEPARTMENT DIRECTOR ON IRAN, AFGHANISTAN, [...] (C) Summary: In a December 18 meeting, MFA Second Asia Department Director Maryasov reviewed the results of Iranian FM Mottaki's December 13-14 trip to Moscow, noting bilateral agreements on trade and cooperation, confirming the sale of 130 civilian aircraft was possible but premature, and re [...]	2007-12-20 07:31:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IR AF RS
07MOSCOW5884	THE RUSSIAN NGO LAW ONE YEAR LATER [...] (SBU) More than year after the implementation of controversial amendments with tougher reporting requirements for Russian non-governmental organizations, the fears of extensive, politically-motivated NGO closures have not materialized. A USAID-funded study, civil society assessments and Emba [...]	2007-12-20 09:31:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM SOCI RS
07MOSCOW5898	RUSSIA-MOLDOVA RELATIONS: BACK ON TRACK? [...] (C) Summary. While evaluating Russia-Moldova relations without the Transnistria conflict is difficult, there are a few signs that the GOR is continuing its efforts to "mend" the bilateral relationship through economic and other means. The MFA told us that Russia is hopeful that frequent high [...]	2007-12-20 15:00:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON MD RS
07MOSCOW5899	RUSSIA-CHINA RELATIONS [...] (C) Summary. The pragmatic pursuit of economic growth and political stability, and a determined effort to avoid "interfering" with each other's domestic political developments have brought an improvement in ties between Russia and China. The conclusion of two "national years" created a stro [...]	2007-12-20 15:24:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON ENRG CH RS
07MOSCOW5918	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: ELECTIONS FOR THE COMMITTEE [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-21 12:31:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL UNGA RS
07MOSCOW5924	RUSSIA'S LATEST STATE CORPORATION: HOUSING [...] (SBU) Summary. In an effort to revitalize Russia's housing, President Putin on July 27 signed the law creating the Fund to Assist Housing Maintenance. Minister of Regional Development Kozak will head the Fund's supervisory board and his protg, Konstantin Tsitsin, a Federal Council member, w [...]	2007-12-21 14:31:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PGOV SOCI RS
07MOSCOW5938	RUSSIA SUPPORTS U.S. CANDIDATE FOR THE COMMITTEE [...] (SBU) In response to reftel C demarche, the MFA conveyed its support for Pierre Prosper, but stressed its expectation of reciprocal U.S. support for the candidacy of Professor A.S. Avtonomov in the same election. 2. (SBU) Text of MFA dipnote: No. 11521-n/dgpch The Department for Huma [...]	2007-12-26 13:51:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL UNGA RS
07MOSCOW5955	RUSSIAN ENERGY MINISTER'S END-OF-YEAR REVIEW [...] (C) Summary: Meeting with the Ambassador on December 21, the day after the formal signing of the Tri-Caspian (Russia, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan) pipeline agreement, Minister of Industry and Energy Viktor Khristenko called it "a good note" on which to end the year. He commented on domestic en [...]	2007-12-28 11:04:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON EPET PREL PINR RS
07MOSCOW5958	RUSSIAN DFM GRUSHKO ON OSCE DUES [...] (U) Local press seized on Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Aleksandr Grushko's December 26 statement about Russia's decreasing contributions to the OSCE budget. During an end-of-year press conference, Grushko said, "Russia is already reducing its financing of the OSCE. If we look at the evol [...]	2007-12-28 13:34:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL OSCE RS
07MOSCOW5971	DEMARCHES ON POTENTIAL S-300 SALE TO IRAN [...] (C) Summary: In response to multiple demarches from the DCM, senior MFA officials have alluded to, but not confirmed a potential sale of the S-300 air defense system to Iran based on an unspecified contract which predated UNSCR 1737. When challenged that a Russian Government agency has publicly [...]	2007-12-31 11:11:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IR RS
07MOSCOW598	RUSSIANS INFORMED OF NEW COMBATANT COMMAND FOR [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-09 15:10:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MCAP PREL RS
07MOSCOW599	RUSSIA-GEORGIA: TINY STEPS FOR LITTLE FEET [...] (C) On January 22 Putin sent his ambassador back to Georgia with fanfare. On February 5-6 the two countries held constructive talks on restoring direct air links, with other talks soon to begin on restoring sea freight connections. The newly re-staffed Russian embassy in Tbilisi includes visa [...]	2007-02-09 15:14:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD PBTS MARR MOPS GG RS
07MOSCOW601	RUSSIA-JAPAN RELATIONSHIP: NOT YET A NEW CHAPTER [...] (C) Summary. Despite growing economic ties and a newly launched strategic dialogue, improvements in Russian-Japanese bilateral relations will likely continue to move at a glacial pace. The disputed Kurile Islands remain a sticking point; oil-rich and confident Russians see little gain in mak [...]	2007-02-09 15:54:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON JA RS
07MOSCOW610	PUTIN WILL GO [...] (C) Although rumors swirl after each major public appearance, even diehard skeptics now agree that President Putin will leave office when his second term expires in May 2008. With each passing month the conspiracy theories, which most recently crested in the wake of the Litvinenko assassinati [...]	2007-02-12 13:59:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM PREL RS
07MOSCOW613	PUTIN IN MUNICH: SHARP TONE, BUT FAMILIAR [...] (C) Summary: Putin's February 10 remarks to the Munich Conference on Security Policy were a familiar litany of complaints about Russia's treatment by the West, and particularly the U.S. The substance of his critique of the dangers of unilateral U.S. actions, NATO enlargement, and ballistic [...]	2007-02-12 15:31:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RS
07MOSCOW626	RESPONDING TO RUSSIAN ACTIONS ON SEPARATIST [...] (C) We approached Russian MFA South Ossetia negotiator Popov and, separately, Transnistria negotiator Nesterushkin with reftel demarche. We stressed the change in Russian official practice, referring to separatist leaders as if they were legitimate, and asked whether Russia is not taking yet [...]	2007-02-13 13:47:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MOPS MD GG RS
07MOSCOW627	KOSOVO: DFM TITOV DETAILS PRINCIPLED DIFFERENCES [...] (C) Summary: Deputy Foreign Minister Titov told Special Envoy Wisner on February 8 that Russia's differences with the U.S. over Kosovo were strategic, not simply tactical, but should not color the broader bilateral relationship. Russia's vote at the UN would be predicated on whether Belgrad [...]	2007-02-13 14:15:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RS
07MOSCOW628	KOSOVO: SPECIAL ENVOY WISNER HEARS RUSSIAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Fresh from meetings in Pristina, Belgrade and Vienna, Special Envoy for Kosovo Final Status Frank Wisner held consultations in Moscow on February 9 to gauge Russian opinion on Kosovo's independence and emphasize the need for Contact Group unity. In meetings with DFM Titov (septel) [...]	2007-02-13 14:39:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RS
07MOSCOW629	PORTUGUESE INITIATIVE: EU-US-RUSSIA TRILATERAL [...] (C) During a February 13 conversation with the Ambassador, Portuguese Ambassador Curto previewed a Portuguese initiative, as incoming President of the European Union in July 2007, to organize a trilateral EU-US-Russian summit. Curto explained that the Portuguese government was interested in [...]	2007-02-13 14:45:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL RS
07MOSCOW644	RUSSIA: LIBERAL PARTIES STRUGGLE TO STAY IN GAME [...] (C) Political observers believe that the prospect of a liberal political party winning representation in the State Duma is slim, but statistically possible. However, local efforts by ruling party officials to remove the liberal-minded Union of Rightist Forces and Yabloko from some ballots in [...]	2007-02-14 12:16:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM SOCI RS
07MOSCOW645	MOSCOW FORUM OFFERS INNOVATION CORNUCOPIA [...] (U) SUMMARY: Moscow's Seventh International Salon of Innovations and Investments, February 5-8, offered a cornucopia of products, services and financial programs for the developing innovation economy. In contrast to last year's Salon (REFTEL),there were significantly more exhibitors, and the [...]	2007-02-14 12:17:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EINT ETRD TNGD TSPL IR RS
07MOSCOW648	RUSSIA AND INDIA: MAKE NEW FRIENDS, BUT DON'T [...] (C) Summary: Russia's goal is to "revitalize" its ties to India by concentrating on energy security and hi-tech joint projects according to the MFA, which provided a readout on Putin's trip to India and a look ahead at high-level meetings in February. Moscow heralded an agreement to sell f [...]	2007-02-14 13:07:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ENRG KNNP MASS ETRD IN RS
07MOSCOW655	HAITI: RUSSIA SUPPORTS SIX-MONTH MINUSTAH MANDATE [...] (C) We raised reftel points on February 13 with Vladimir Safronkov, Chief of the UN Political Affairs Section in the MFA's International Organizations Department, who told us that Russia would support only a six-month extension of the MINUSTAH mandate. He argued that a mandate of six months [...]	2007-02-14 14:53:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC KPKO HA RS
07MOSCOW656	OREL: VULNERABLE GOVERNOR CREATES OPPORTUNITIES [...] (SBU) Meetings during an early-February visit to Orel region suggested that a variety of factors could combine to make the March 11 regional elections very competitive. Rumored infighting in United Russia (YR) and an unpopular YR-affiliated governor have allowed the Communist Party (KPRF) to [...]	2007-02-14 14:56:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR KDEM SOCI RS
07MOSCOW66	RUSSIAN ENERGY: UPDATE ON BELARUS-RUSSIA OIL ROW [...] (SBU) On January 11, Econoff spoke to Shawn McCormick (please protect),head of government relations at TNK-BP, who confirmed press reports that Russian crude is flowing again through Belarus along the Druzhba pipeline and his company was sending their "normal" volumes through and was not requ [...]	2007-01-11 12:25:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
07MOSCOW664	RUSSIA: PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS UPDATE [...] (SBU) The February 14 start to Moscow Arbitration Court proceedings against PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) on charges of falsifying its 2002-2004 audits of former oil giant Yukos was relatively quiet. The composition of the three-person panel was approved, with PWC and the prosecution each bein [...]	2007-02-15 13:22:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON RS
07MOSCOW666	EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, Kirishinefteorgsintez, Kirishi, Russia. The company is listed on BIS [...]	2007-02-15 14:00:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW667	EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: WORLD HUNTING [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, World Hunting Technology Ltd., St. Petersburg, Russia. The company i [...]	2007-02-15 14:01:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW668	EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: ARGON LLC, [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, Argon LLC, Balakovo, Russia. The company is listed on BIS license ap [...]	2007-02-15 14:01:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW669	EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: ENERGOCASCAD, [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, Energocascad, Moscow, Russia. The company is listed on BIS license a [...]	2007-02-15 14:01:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW670	EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel 1 requested a Post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end- user, Eurochim Spb, St. Petersburg, Russia. The company is lis [...]	2007-02-15 14:02:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW673	THE CHECHEN PRESIDENCY: KADYROV PROPOSES, BUT [...] (C) Chechen Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov, seeking to be president, is pushing hard against President Alu Alkhanov. Kadyrov aims either to force Alkhanov to make way for him and resign, or to persuade Putin to remove Alkhanov. Press articles inspired by one or another side appear frequently b [...]	2007-02-15 14:22:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR PTER MOPS RS
07MOSCOW674	RUSSIA-MOLDOVA: TIME OUT ON TRANSNISTRIA [...] (C) Russia and Moldova began negotiating a package in secret after the reconciliation last August between SIPDIS Presidents Putin and Voronin. The package included the status of Transnistria within a neutral Moldova, the modalities of governance and peacekeeping, and assurances that Transn [...]	2007-02-15 14:23:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS MARR OSCE MD RS
07MOSCOW677	RUSSIANS SUPPORT AFRICAN UNION FORCE IN SOMALIA [...] (C) On February 15 we delivered reftel points to Oleg Dadayev, chief of the MFA's Somalia, Ethiopia and Eritrea Section, urging support for an African Union force in Somalia. Dadayev said the GOR would support an African Union Force as well as the Transitional Federal Government in Somalia. [...]	2007-02-15 15:16:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	KPKO MOPS PHUM PREL EUN SO RS
07MOSCOW692	RE-SHUFFLE ADVANCES SUCCESSION PROCESS [...] (C) President Putin's late February 15 government re-shuffle has brought presidential contender Sergey Ivanov to the same starting line as his rival Dmitriy Medvedev, relieved him of the albatross that is the Ministry of Defense, and given him issues that could potentially resonate with the Ru [...]	2007-02-16 12:02:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR RS

07MOSCOW695	NGOS: SILVER LINING BUT A LOOMING DARK CLOUD [...] (C) SUMMARY: After initial difficulties in getting re-registered, our U.S. and foreign NGO contacts have resumed normal activities and express little concern over the follow-on reporting requirements. The Federal Registration Service (FRS) surprisingly has even expressed interest in working [...]	2007-02-16 12:27:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM EAID RS
07MOSCOW697	RUSSIA: KHODORKOVSKIY/LEBEDEV CHARGES DETAILED [...] (C) Summary. Russia's Attorney General has charged Mikhail Khodorkovskiy and Platon Lebedev with two counts of embezzlement and two counts of money-laundering (under Articles 160 and 174 of the Russian Criminal Code),which carry a maximum sentence of 15 and 10 years, respectively. The case i [...]	2007-02-16 12:53:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON PGOV RS
07MOSCOW705	PUTIN'S MUNICH SPEECH: ONE WEEK LATER [...] (C) Summary: One week after delivery, Putin's Munich speech continues to draw praise among Russian analysts as a direct expression of Moscow's foreign policy views and a needed corrective to Western assumptions which take Russian interests for granted. Among Moscow experts, there was littl [...]	2007-02-16 15:04:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RS
07MOSCOW707	RUSSIA: OVERSIGHT AGENCY HEAD TAKES STOCK [...] (C) SUMMARY. During a February 14 discussion with the Ambassador, Rostekhnadzor Director Pulikovskiy said Russia will focus on training and safety when it expands its nuclear energy network. No one wants to repeat the "bitter experience" of Chornobyl, he said. He looks forward to a product [...]	2007-02-16 15:13:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP PREL ETRD PARM RU KS KN
07MOSCOW749	CONGRESSMAN LANTOS' MEETING WITH FM LAVROV [...] (SBU) Summary: Congressman Tom Lantos, meeting with FM Lavrov February 19, underlined the importance of building strong ties between Russia and the U.S. by reinvigorating links between legislators and working together on issues like nuclear nonproliferation. Lavrov welcomed closer legislati [...]	2007-02-21 11:34:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV OREP RS
07MOSCOW753	HIRC Chairman Lantos Meeting with Russian Security Council [...] (SBU) Summary: In a February 19 meeting with Russian Security Council Secretary Ivanov, HIRC Chairman Lantos announced his intent to introduce legislation repealing Jackson-Vanik and inaugurate a formal congressional working group with Russian Duma Chairman of the International Relations Com [...]	2007-02-21 12:47:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV OREP RS
07MOSCOW754	IRAN: SANCTIONS DECREE SUBJECT OF INTERAGENCY [...] (C) We discussed reftel requests regarding implementation of UNSCR 1737 (Iran) with Vladimir Safronkov, Chief of the UN Political Affairs Section in the MFA's International Organizations Department. Safronkov told us that a draft presidential decree necessary to implement the sanctions regim [...]	2007-02-21 13:03:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM KNNP EFIN ETTC KTFN IR RS
07MOSCOW770	MISSILE DEFENSE INTERCEPTOR LAUNCH NOTIFICATION [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-22 13:39:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MARR MNUC OPRC PARM PREL RS
07MOSCOW774	RUSSIA: PROSECUTORS COMPLETE KHODORKOVSKIY [...] (C) Summary. On February 16, the Russian General Prosecutor's Office announced that it had completed the preliminary investigation in the new criminal case against Mikhail Khodorkovskiy and Platon Lebedev (Reftel). The case file will now be turned over to the defendants and their lawyers for [...]	2007-02-22 14:07:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON KCRM KJUS PGOV PREL RS
07MOSCOW777	BOSNIA: RUSSIANS NOT KEEN ON EXTENDING OFFICE OF [...] (C) Vadim Gorelov, Chief of the MFA's Bosnia and Herzegovina Affairs Section, told us February 21 that the GOR would not be able agree to extend the mandate of the Office of the High Commissioner (OHC) at the February 26-27 Peace Implementations Council's Steering Committee meeting. Gorelov s [...]	2007-02-22 16:00:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BK RS
07MOSCOW78	ISKANDER-E MISSILE FOR LIBYA: RUSSIA HEDGES ON [...] (S) On January 11 we conveyed to the MFA U.S interest (ref) in a technical experts meeting in Moscow before January 29 to discuss issues relating to Libya's possible purchase of the Iskander-E missile. Sergey Petlyakov, Chief of the Arms Technology and Transfer Division of the Foreign Ministr [...]	2007-01-11 14:56:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	PARM PREL MCAP KNNP LY UK RS
07MOSCOW81	RUSSIA ENERGY: PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS' TAX CASE [...] (SBU) The Moscow Arbitration Court judge in the PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC) Yukos case reftel has twice in two days delayed a ruling on PWC's request for extension. At a January 10 hearing, the judge postponed by one day a decision on the extension, as well as a request for arbitration by P [...]	2007-01-11 16:20:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON EINV RS
07MOSCOW825	RUSSIAN MFA CITES DIP NOTE ON SMUGGLED HEU SAMPLE [...] (S) As instructed by REF A, we met February 26 with Mikhail Kondratenkov, of the MFA's Department of Disarmament and Security Affairs (DVBR),and asked him to clarify Moscow's purported request to the Georgian Government for an additional sample of the HEU that was seized in Georgia in Februa [...]	2007-02-27 15:10:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	KNNP MNUC ENRG PARM ASEC
07MOSCOW827	RUSSIA: THE CASE FOR LIMITED U.S. FUNDING OF RFFE [...] (C) The U.S. Mission strongly supports continued limited USG funding for the Russian Foundation for Free Elections (RFFE) under its existing grant. U.S. monies would be used only to train election observers and to operate a voter hotline. While RFFE does receive some government support, cont [...]	2007-02-27 16:27:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID KDEM PREL PGOV PHUM RS
07MOSCOW828	AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES HAMAS VISIT, SYRIA, AND IRAQ [...] (C) Summary: Deputy Foreign Minister Saltanov told the Ambassador February 27 that the MFA saw Hamas as evolving in its views on Israel following a February 26-27 Moscow visit by Hamas Politburo Chief Mishal. While Mishal was not willing to directly address publicly the question of recogni [...]	2007-02-27 16:37:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL EAID IS LE SY IZ SA RS
07MOSCOW829	SIBBIOPHARM AGREES IN PRINCIPLE TO COMMENCE NDF BW FACILITY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On February 26-27 a State/Nonproliferation and Disarmament Fund (NDF) delegation met with Sibbiopharm representatives to establish the scope and ground rules for an NDF project to eliminate former biological weapons (BW) building and equipment at Sibbiopharm's Berdsk facility. T [...]	2007-02-28 06:28:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM TBIO RS
07MOSCOW831	SIBBIOPHARM AGREES IN PRINCIPLE TO COMMENCE NDF BW FACILITY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On February 26-27 a State/Nonproliferation and Disarmament Fund (NDF) delegation met with Sibbiopharm representatives to establish the scope and ground rules for an NDF project to eliminate former biological weapons (BW) building and equipment at Sibbiopharm's Berdsk facility. T [...]	2007-02-28 06:31:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM TBIO RS
07MOSCOW841	RUSSIAN STOCK EXCHANGES STILL DOWN AFTER STORM [...] This message is sensitive but unclassified, and not for internet distribution. 2. (SBU) The apparent sharp increase in emerging market risk aversion that sent Shanghai's stock market tumbling on February 27 was also manifest among Russian equity markets. The benchmark dollar-denominated R [...]	2007-02-28 14:59:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON RS
07MOSCOW842	RUSSIA: ADDITIONAL DESIGNATIONS OF IRANIAN [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-28 15:00:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KNNP KN PARM RS IR
07MOSCOW845	"FOR A JUST RUSSIA" POSITIONS SELF AS [...] (SBU) The second, Kremlin-approved party, "For a Just Russia (SR)" at its inaugural congress February 24-27 combined left-wing rhetoric, criticism of the GOR's performance, anger at its treatment in the regions, and patriotism in a credible effort to establish itself as an alternative to the g [...]	2007-02-28 16:00:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR KDEM SOCI PREL RS
07MOSCOW849	DPRK: MOSCOW REACTS TO SIX-PARTY RESULTS [...] (C) Moscow's North Korea hands -- both official and unofficial --- welcomed the results of the February Six-Party Talks but remained critical of U.S. policies towards the DPRK. While the MFA's terse announcement summarized the decisions made in Beijing, Foreign Minister Lavrov was more expan [...]	2007-02-28 17:45:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM MNUC KNNP KN RS
07MOSCOW85	RUSSIA'S VNESHTORGBANK AND EADS (C-RE6-01894) [...] (C) Summary. A Senior Vneshtorgbank (VTB) official tells us VTB's decision in early summer to purchase 5.38 percent of EADS stock was made for investment/financial reasons alone, and without GOR political interference. The public announcement September 12 by Presidential Advisor Sergey Prihod [...]	2007-01-12 08:21:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR ECIN EINV PGOV RS
07MOSCOW86	EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: JSC VREMYA- [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, JSC Vremya-Ch, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. The company is listed on BIS [...]	2007-01-12 08:23:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW868	KOMI: ALL PARTIES REGISTERED; UNITED RUSSIA IN [...] (SBU) Observers in Komi predicted to Poloff in mid-February that United Russia would capture solid pluralities in the March 11 republic-level and local elections, with "For a Just Russia" poised to place a respectable second, and the Communists and LDPR expected to cross the seven percent thr [...]	2007-03-01 13:25:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR KDEM PHUM SOCI RS
07MOSCOW87	EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: JSC DIGAZ, [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, JSC Digaz, Moscow, Russia. The company is listed on BIS license appl [...]	2007-01-12 08:24:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW870	CENTRAL ELECTION COMMISSION CHAIRMAN OFFERS VIEWS [...] (C) Central Election Commission Chairman Aleksandr Veshnyakov on February 28 reviewed with Ambassador the state-of-play in advance of elections to be held in fourteen regions on March 11. Key points: -- average of seven parties registered in each region; -- average of five candidates comp [...]	2007-03-01 13:47:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM PINR RS
07MOSCOW871	MOSCOW MAYOR IN SEVASTOPOL: MFA DISTANCES ITSELF [...] (C) Moscow Mayor Yuriy Luzhkov's February 21 rant in Sevastopol about Russian interests in Crimea merited modest coverage on the major evening television news programs, but did not have much resonance in GOR official circles. The GOR continues to emphasize the "new maturity" in Russian-Ukrai [...]	2007-03-01 13:50:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UP RS
07MOSCOW873	RUSSIA:AEROFLOT-BOEING DEAL UPDATE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Hard as it may be to believe, the Aeroflot wide-bodied tender is not over, and Boeing has not written off the deal (as speculated in the press). Yet prospects diminish as Boeing's delivery advantage slips with each passing month the contract remains unsigned -- even though Aerofl [...]	2007-03-01 14:19:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EAIR PREL RS
07MOSCOW875	RUSSIA'S GAS WEAKNESS [...] (C) Summary. Owing in part to rapid economic growth but also in large part to poorly managed resources by Gazprom, Russia is facing a gas production crunch. While this problem was recognized early on by analysts, the GOR seems to have only awakened to the dilemma relatively recently. Gazprom [...]	2007-03-01 14:38:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
07MOSCOW933	RUSSIAN SCIENCE: TURNING BIOWEAPONS INTO BOTTLE [...] (C) SUMMARY: A super-secret, elite bioweapons institute during Soviet times, the Institute of Immunological Engineering (IIE) now hosts an American company on its territory in an attempt to replace the state funding that ceased in 1994. Institute Director Dr. Sergey Pchelnitsov, who has spe [...]	2007-03-05 13:04:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	KIPR KPAO TBIO RS
07MOSCOW953	UZBEKS FREED AFTER HIGH DRAMA IN IVANOVO [...] (C) UNHCR has confirmed that 12 of the 13 Uzbeks held in Ivanovo under an extradition request from Uzbekistan were released by Russian authorities March 5, three days after a court ordered them freed. The other, a citizen of Kyrgyzstan, is expected to be released as well, following a separate [...]	2007-03-06 14:42:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM RS
07MOSCOW960	"VICTORY" FOR "A JUST RUSSIA" [...] (SBU) Five youth groups have announced their intention to establish a coalition called "Victory" which would support the newly framed left of center pro-Kremlin party, "For a Just Russia" (SR). "Victory" is positioning itself as a competitor to the youth wing of United Russia (YR),the domi [...]	2007-03-07 07:42:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PGOV PINR SOCI RS
07MOSCOW966	OTHER RUSSIA'S BOUNCE FROM GOR OVERREACTION [...] (C) An adviser to ex-Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov, United Civil Front leader Garry Kasparov, and Yabloko Deputy Chairman Sergey Ivanenko told us in the wake of the March 3 Other Russia demonstration in St. Petersburg (reftel) that: -- While reports of violence were overblown, St. Petersbu [...]	2007-03-07 12:02:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PINR PHUM SOCI RS
07MOSCOW976	SENIOR HEALTH OFFICIAL TAKES THE FALL FOR MINISTER [...] (C) SUMMARY: On March 5 Prime Minister Fradkov fired Ramil Khabriyev, head of the Russian Federal Supervision Service for Health Care and Social Development (Roszdravnadzor). Fradkov cited continuing problems with inconsistent supply and deficit spending for drugs provided under the government [...]	2007-03-07 15:09:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	TBIO ETRD ECON SOCI PGOV PINR RS
07MOSCOW978	MUCH SPECULATION, LITTLE PUBLICALLY-AVAILABLE [...] (C) The March 2 death of veteran Kommersant military correspondent Ivan Safronov has sent shock waves through Moscow's journalistic community. Investigations by the Prosecutor General's office and the Kommersant staff have to date produced no serious evidence that would point to suicide, forc [...]	2007-03-07 16:15:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM SOCI PINR RS
07MOSCOW979	DCM RAISES WORLD VISION'S SUSPENSION WITH THE MFA [...] (C) The DCM expressed our concern over the suspension of World Vision's activities in Chechnya with MFA North America Department Director Igor Neverov in a March 5 meeting. He noted our continued support for World Vision, its history of excellent work in the region, and asked if MFA could pro [...]	2007-03-07 16:39:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM PINR PREL RS
07MOSCOW980	RUSSIAN ENERGY: PROSPECTS FOR DEALS IN THE SECTOR [...] (C) Summary. Despite increased GOR control over the sector, U.S. majors are involved in several high-profile deals and below-the-radar deals are becoming more common as well. Russia will need western expertise -- most urgently on the gas side -- as it moves to exploit the offshore and the ea [...]	2007-03-09 03:55:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
07MOSCOW982	EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: IGOR [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, Igor Kochemasov, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. The party is listed on BIS [...]	2007-03-09 07:18:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MUMBAI134	KAKODKAR GIVES POSITIVE HEARING TO U.S. INDUSTRY [...] (C) DAE Secretary Anil Kakodkar made a strong positive impression on members of USIBC's nuclear trade delegation during their March 8 meeting in Mumbai. In a briefing following the meeting, most delegation members told us that Kakodkar made compelling arguments to include reprocessing rights i [...]	2007-03-09 14:05:00	Consulate Mumbai	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG SENV BEXP EFIN EINV EPET EMIN ETRD PREL
07MUNICH196	CRISIS AT SIEMENS - JUST HOW BAD IS IT? [...] Manufacturing giant Siemens, a household name in Germany and in much of the world, has become embroiled in a recent string of scandals ranging from "outsourced" job losses to accusations of bribery of customers and unions that have tarnished the firm's reputation. Even before the March 27 ar [...]	2007-04-03 14:40:00	Consulate Munich	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD PGOV EINV PREL EUN GM
07MUNICH412	NAVIGATING A MESS: EADS OFFICIALS ON GALILEO [...] (SBU) Senior EADS-Astrium officials told ConGen Munich the recent collapse of the Galileo consortium of private firms resulted as much from squabbling between EU states over apportionment of contracts as a failure to find a workable economic model. They described the current economic model as [...]	2007-07-13 13:56:00	Consulate Munich	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON TSPA EAIR ETRD PGOV EINV PREL EUN FR GM
07MUNICH463	BIOGAS IN BAVARIA: A MODEL FOR ENERGY INDEPENDENCE? [...] ConGen Munich visited a biomethane plant in Pliening, Bavaria built and run by Schmack Biogas AG, a leader in the biogas field. The plant is a showcase for the state of the art in biogas technology, and an example of the potential of biomass as a fuel source. Schmack representatives are optim [...]	2007-08-13 05:40:00	Consulate Munich	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD PGOV EINV PREL ENRG TRGY KGHG GM
07MUNICH81	PUTIN AND GATES DOMINATE MUNICH SECURITY [...] (SBU) The February 9-11 43rd Munich Conference on Security Policy (formerly known as "Wehrkunde") on "Global Crises - Global Responsibilities" was dominated by differing visions of the Transatlantic role in global security. Chancellor Merkel, Secretary Gates, Senators McCain and Lieberman, a [...]	2007-02-12 17:28:00	Consulate Munich	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	NATO OSCE PARM PREL GM IR AF RS
07MUSCAT201	GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT NUCLEAR TERRORISM: [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-28 13:58:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL PTER KNNP MU
07MUSCAT400	MEDIA REACTION: VIRGINIA TECH SHOOTINGS, ARAB NUCLEAR [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-24 12:35:00	Embassy Muscat	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KPAO KMDR MU
07MUSCAT810	IRAN TRANSIT POINT FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION TO OMAN [...] (C) Summary: Thousands of illegal immigrants, primarily from Pakistan and Afghanistan, enter Oman by boat across the Gulf of Oman from Iran every year. Contacts in the Royal Oman Police (ROP) Coast Guard accuse elements of the Iranian Republican Guard (IRGC) of facilitating the flow of illegal [...]	2007-08-27 10:41:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM SMIG ELAB IR MU
07MUSCAT83	SOMALI MIGRANTS ENTER OMAN THROUGH OPEN BORDER [...] (C) Summary: Emboffs recently visited sections of Oman's border with Yemen, observing that much of the border lacks fencing and generally is open to illegal traffic. Somali immigrants continue to enter Oman along well-traveled smuggling routes, though not in large numbers. Many of the Somali [...]	2007-01-28 10:58:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL PHUM MOPS ETTC MNUC SO YE MU
07NAIROBI1134	AMISOM Equipment Plane Afire on Mogadishu Landing [...] (U) A cargo plane carrying military equipment for Uganda's AMISOM contingent reportedly landed while on fire at Mogadishu International Airport this morning, March 9. According to the African Union's representative in Nairobi, who was in contact with Ethiopian and Ugandan military officers a [...]	2007-03-09 10:30:00	Embassy Nairobi	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER ASEC MOPS SO ET UG
07NAIROBI1221	KENYA'S FOREIGN POLICY PRIORITIES, DIPLOMATIC [...] (SBU) Summary: Kenya has ambitious plans to open a number of diplomatic missions around the world. The overriding goal of Kenyan diplomacy is to promote economic development through greater market access and increased investment and remittances. Africa has replaced Europe as the chief preocc [...]	2007-03-15 11:54:00	Embassy Nairobi	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	KE PREL SENV
07NAIROBI3021	THE TWELFTH SUMMIT OF THE COMESA AUTHORITY OF [...] This is a summary of the Twelfth COMESA Summit proceedings held in Nairobi, Kenya, from May 22-23, 2007. The Summit was preceded by meetings of the Committee of Experts, Ministers of Justice, Ministers of Foreign affairs and COMESA Council of Ministers. The Fourth COMESA Business Summit and t [...]	2007-07-25 04:16:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA
07NAIROBI4397	JOINT STATEMENT OF U.N. COUNTER-TERRORISM [...] (SBU) The Fifth Special Meeting of the U.N. Counter-Terrorism Committee with Regional and Sub-Regional Organizations on "Prevention of Terrorist Movement and Effective Border Security" was held in Nairobi on October 29-31. A draft "Joint Statement and Plan of Action" on counter-terrorism was [...]	2007-11-07 09:28:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KDEM PGOV KE
07NAPLES118	APULIA: INNOVATION AT HOME, OUTREACH TO THE BALKANS [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-19 20:52:00	Consulate Naples	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON PGOV PREL IT
07NDJAMENA189	CHAD'S POSITION ON A UN BORDER FORCE HARDENING [...] (U) On February 28 the Ambassador was called to the Foreign Ministry to receive a statement from Acting Foreign Minister Djidda Moussa Outman clarifying Chad's reservations on proposals by the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations (UNDPKO) to the UN Security Council (UNSC) for a peacekeepi [...]	2007-02-28 15:54:00	Embassy Ndjamena	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KPKO PGOV PHUM PREL UNSC CD
07NEWDELHI1101	CONGRESS LEADERS CRITICIZE NUCLEAR DEAL AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: Following a string of electoral defeats in Bihar, Mumbai, Uttarakhand, and Punjab, the most influential voices in the Delhi cocktail circuit as well as some of our most insightful political contacts in the states are telling us with one voice that Sonia Gandhi and her personal ad [...]	2007-03-06 16:38:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR ECON KISL KDEM KNNP PARM IN
07NEWDELHI1328	PRIME MINISTER WARM ON U.S.-INDIA-JAPAN TRILATERAL [...] (C) Summary. PM Singh told Ashley Tellis he hoped a U.S.-India-Japan trilateral dialogue could become official at the Foreign Secretary level. The PM's comment seems to reflect a fairly broad sentiment in New Delhi, as recent public speakers have come out in support of closer trilateral ties [...]	2007-03-19 13:39:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM IN JA
07NEWDELHI1412	EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: ISTRAC, BANGALORE, [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12(c) of the Export Administration Act. 2. Acting Export Control Officer (ECO) Perry Davis and BIS FSN Prem Narayan conducted a Post-shipment Verification (PSV) at ISRO Telemetry Tracking and Command Network ( [...]	2007-03-23 06:40:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC ETRD BEXP IN
07NEWDELHI1977	DELHI DIARY, APRIL 20-25 [...] (U) Below is a compilation of political highlights from Embassy New Delhi for April 20-25, 2007 that did not feature in our other reporting, including: -- Mid-Election Scandal Could Shake Up Politics -- Bhutan,s Voters Elect "Yellow" in Mock Polls -- Another Bomb Found and Defused in Bhutan [...]	2007-04-25 13:24:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV CVIS KCRM KDEM PHUM SOCI PTER MOPS
07NEWDELHI2722	INDIA ENHANCING TIES WITH LIBYA [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ministry of External Affairs Director for West Africa and North Africa N.J. Gangte characterized External Affairs Minister (EAM) Pranab Mukherjee's 26-28 May visit to Tripoli as "a political blessing to the bilateral economic activity." Mukherjee and Libyan FM Abul Rehman S [...]	2007-06-12 05:54:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IN LY ENRG KPET ECON
07NEWDELHI2766	DELHI DIARY, JUNE 6 - 13 [...] (U) Below is a compilation of political highlights from Embassy New Delhi for June 6 - 13, 2007 that did not feature in our other reporting, including: POL-MIL: -- India, China announce joint military exercises -- Russian Ground Force commander visits India -- Russia continues to gouge I [...]	2007-06-13 13:18:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PREF PHUM PGOV MASS MARR KOMC KSTC RS
07NEWDELHI2865	DELHI DIARY, JUNE 13-20 [...] (U) Below is a compilation of political highlights from Embassy New Delhi for June 13-20, 2007 that did not feature in our other reporting, including: -- Gloomy Pakistan Envoy -- GOI Ministry of Defense sends Shekhar Dutt to Bait the Bear -- Doctor in India Arrested for Female Feticide -- [...]	2007-06-20 11:47:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IN
07NEWDELHI2912	NEW DELHI WEEKLY ECON OFFICE HIGHLIGHTS [...] (U) Below is a compilation of Economic highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of June 18-22, 2007. FIRST ROUND ON INDIA/EC FTA TALKS TO BEGIN NEXT WEEK -------------- 2. (SBU) European Commission Trade Counselor Bermejo told us that the first round of negotiations for an Indian [...]	2007-06-22 11:12:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN EINV EAIR PTER KTFN PREL ENRG ECON IN PK IR
07NEWDELHI2918	INDIAN OFFICIALS PRESS PDAS WARLICK ON UN REFORM, [...] (C) Summary. In side meetings around the U.S.-India Peacekeeping Joint Working Group, Indian officials: -- pressed PDAS Warlick to support India's bid for a permanent UN Security Council; -- briefed on India's efforts within the G4 and the wider UN membership for the perm seat; -- agreed o [...]	2007-06-25 01:02:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KUNR IN
07NEWDELHI3281	CD DEMARCHE DELIVERED: INDIA HEDGES ON ALL BUT [...] No summary [...]	2007-07-18 12:56:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV PREL PHUM UNGA IN
07NEWDELHI3521	INDIAN VIEWS ON CENTRAL ASIA: AIRBASE HOPES AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ministry of External Affairs Deputy Secretary for Eurasia L. Savithri denied that India was SIPDIS establishing a military base in Ayni, Tajikistan, as had been reported in the press, insisting that the Government of India (GOI) was only involved in a civilian project of runwa [...]	2007-08-03 10:08:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PBTS MOPS MARR KISL SNAR AF KZ CH
07NEWDELHI362	INDIAN AND CHINESE OFFICIALS MUM ON BORDER TALKS [...] SUMMARY: (C) Indian and Chinese officials are adhering to a joint "gag rule" regarding their ninth round of border talks held on 17-18 January, probably exercising understandable caution after Chinese Ambassador Sun Yaxi's brash claims to the state of Arunachal Pradesh cast a pall over Pre [...]	2007-01-23 11:58:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR PBTS IN CH
07NEWDELHI364	INDIA CHOOSES NATIONAL INTERESTS OVER HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee visited Burma on January 19-22 to enlist the junta's help in India's counterterrorism efforts in the Northeast, to cooperate on the erection of border fences, and to attempt to secure a natural gas supply. The visit was trumpeted as a su [...]	2007-01-23 12:42:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER IN CE
07NEWDELHI3664	HAL CHIEF ASSERTS U.S. LICENSING, VISA PROCEDURES [...] (C) This is an action request for the Department. Please see paragraph 8. 2. (C) Summary. Charge agreed to meet with the Chairman of Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) at the latter's request on the margins of a visit to Bangalore to accompany U.S. Senator John Ensign. After briefing Cha [...]	2007-08-13 06:31:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR ETRD CVIS IN
07NEWDELHI3728	INDIAN PARLIAMENT ADJOURNS AGAIN OVER NUCLEAR [...] (C) Summary. Both houses of the Indian Parliament were forced to adjourn on August 16 as opposition and Left parties disrupted proceedings, saying Prime Minister Singh had misled Parliament on the civil-nuclear agreement. Indian media reporting on Spokesman Sean McCormack's August 15 statemen [...]	2007-08-16 12:32:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM TSPL KNNP ETTC ENRG TRGY IN
07NEWDELHI3756	NEW DELHI WEEKLY ECON OFFICE HIGHLIGHTS AUGUST 13-17, 2007 [...] (U) Below is a compilation of Economic highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of August 13-17, 2007. NO BANK FUNDING FOR DOMESTIC M AND A ACTIVITIES IN INDIA --------------------- 2. (U) In a conversation with Vishwavir Ahuja, Managing Director and Country Chief of Bank of Amer [...]	2007-08-17 12:28:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR EFIN EINV ETRD ENRG SENV IN
07NEWDELHI3905	SCO SUMMIT: INDIA "WATCHING AND WAITING" ON THE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Following the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Bishkek, Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) Director for Eurasia Sandeep Arya and Under Secretary L. Savithri told PolOff Aug. 23 that the Government SIPDIS of India (GOI) was not interested in seeking full membe [...]	2007-08-27 12:10:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS ENRG MARR CH KZ KG TX TI UZ
07NEWDELHI3972	DELHI DIARY, AUGUST 22-30 [...] (U) Below is a compilation of political highlights from Embassy New Delhi for August 22-30, 2007 that did not feature in our other reporting, including: -- Narayanan in Moscow for Defense Talks -- India and Russia to Conduct Indra 2007 War Games in Russia in September Narayanan in Mosc [...]	2007-08-31 09:09:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV MARR MASS MOPS RS IN
07NEWDELHI4343	INDIA HOSTS SECOND MEETING OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE [...] Summary: India successfully hosted ICG-2 in Bangalore, India September 4 - 7, 2007. The meeting convened under the auspices of the India Space Research Organization and the UN Office of Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) and brought together regional and global navigation satellite system (GNSS) p [...]	2007-09-21 12:27:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	TSPA KSCA IN
07NEWDELHI4414	DELHI DIARY, SEPTEMBER 15-27 [...] (U) This week's product is a joint effort of Embassy New Delhi and Consulate General Mumbai in conveying items of interest for September 15-26, 2007 that did not feature in our other reporting, including: -- India to Launch Israeli Spy Satellite? -- BJP President Urges UN Resolution 1373 Sa [...]	2007-09-28 05:19:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KISL PTER MARR MOPS PHUM IS PK TI
07NEWDELHI4419	NEW DELHI WEEKLY ECON OFFICE HIGHLIGHTS FOR SEPTEMBER [...] (U) Below is a compilation of Economic highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of September 24-28, 2007. MIXED SIGNALS ON RETAIL --- 2. (U) Two key GOI figures in the U.S. this week gave conflicting messages on the future of organized retail in India. Minister of Commerce and Ind [...]	2007-09-28 09:49:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN EINV EPET ETRD SENV IN
07NEWDELHI4597	DELHI DIARY, OCT 5-12 [...] (U) Below is a compilation of political highlights from Embassy New Delhi for October 5-12, 2007 that did not feature in our other reporting, including: -- FM Mukherjee Visiting Moscow -- India Put the Brakes on Rail Service to Dhaka -- Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's Trip to Africa -- Sin [...]	2007-10-12 13:31:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ELTN MOPS MARR ENRG EPET BG SN SF
07NEWDELHI4758	DELHI DIARY, OCT 23-26 [...] (U) Below is a compilation of political highlights from Embassy New Delhi for October 23-26, 2007 that did not feature in our other reporting, including: -- India, China and Russia Jointly Oppose Further Burma Sanctions -- Bhutanese Election Dates Announced India, China and Russia Jointl [...]	2007-10-26 11:50:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PHUM ENRG MARR CH RS BT BM IN
07NEWDELHI4761	INDIAN DEFENSE MINISTER CHIDES RUSSIANS ON ARMS [...] (U) SUMMARY: While meeting with his Russian counterparts for high-level military discussions in Moscow October 16 ) 20, Indian Defense Minister Antony signed an agreement with Russia to co-develop a fifth generation fighter jet intended to rival the F/A-22 Raptor and the F-35 Joint Strike Figh [...]	2007-10-26 11:53:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MASS MARR KOMC KSTC IN RS
07NEWDELHI4767	MEA INSISTS INDIAN POLICY ON U.S.-LED MISSILE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Following the October 24 trilateral meeting in Harbin, China, reporters asked Indian Minister for External Affairs Pranab Mukherjee if India was going to join a U.S.-led missile defense system. Mukherjee dismissed the idea as "groundless." Despite press reports here signaling an [...]	2007-10-29 01:07:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MCAP MARR IN RS CH
07NEWDELHI4857	JASWANT SINGH SUPPORTS THE NUCLEAR DEAL BUT [...] (C) Summary: In separate November 5 meetings with senior BJP leaders and former Foreign Ministers Yashwant Sinha and Jaswant Singh, the Ambassador argued that the 123 Agreement and Hyde Act had no impact on India's strategic program and urged them to take a statesmanlike attitude towards the n [...]	2007-11-05 14:07:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM TSPL KNNP ETTC ENRG TRGY IN
07NEWDELHI5047	DELHI DIARY, NOVEMBER 16-21 [...] (U) Below is a compilation of political highlights from Embassy New Delhi for November 16-21, 2007 that did not feature in our other reporting, including: -- MEA Concerns about Negotiating with the Taliban -- PM Singh Uses ASEAN to Urge Burma to Expedite the Reconciliation Process -- Three [...]	2007-11-21 09:41:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PINR IR PK AF CH SN KS JP
07NEWDELHI5054	RAHUL PROVIDES STAR POWER, CONGRESS REAFFIRMS [...] (SBU) Summary: Rahul Gandhi generated the buzz and excitement for party faithful at his official coming out party at the All India Congress Committee (AICC) meeting on November 17. Beside the celebration of Rahul (Refs A,B),the party strongly supported Congress President Sonia Gandhi,s and P [...]	2007-11-21 12:50:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL PINR PARM ENRG IN
07NEWDELHI5157	DELHI DIARY, NOVEMBER 22-30 [...] (U) Below is a compilation of political highlights from Embassy New Delhi for November 22-30,2007 that did not feature in our other reporting, including: -- India Freezes Arms sales to Burma -- India votes against the UN's draft resolution on Burma -- PM Singh to Visit China -- Indian is Fi [...]	2007-11-30 13:50:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PTER SENV ECON CH BM IN
07NEWDELHI5206	NUCLEAR DEBATE RERUN GETS PERSONAL [...] (SBU) Summary: Personal attacks between the ruling Congress Party and opposition BJP leaders marked the eight-hour-plus December 4-5 Rajya Sabha (upper house) nuclear debate in Parliament. Going over the same arguments as in previous Parliament debates, the Left and United National Progressiv [...]	2007-12-05 13:11:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM TSPL KNNP ETTC ENRG TRGY IN
07NEWDELHI5327	INDIAN DEFENSE SECRETARY TO GC HAYNES: TIES [...] (C) Summary. In a December 14 meeting among Department of Defense General Counsel William J. Haynes, Indian Defense Secretary Vijay Singh, and Integrated Defense Staff Chief SIPDIS General Hardev Singh Lidder, Singh and Lidder: -- Accepted responsibility on India for failure to complete [...]	2007-12-17 10:55:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR IN
07NEWDELHI5335	MENON ND CHAVAN ASSURE U.S. FIRMS OF NUCLEAR [...] (SBU) Summary: Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon and Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office Prithviraj Chavan assured a visiting trade mission of nuclear-related firms December 10-11 that India would purchase U.S. reactors. Menon recognized that a "letter of intent" would help the [...]	2007-12-17 12:41:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM TSPL KNNP ETTC ENRG TRGY BEXP EINV
07NEWDELHI5380	DELHI DIARY, DEC 17-21 [...] (U) Below is a compilation of political highlights from Embassy New Delhi for Decemebr 17-21, 2007, that did not feature in our other reporting, including: -- Court Orders Reopening Riots Case Against Congress Leader Jagdish Tytler -- Rajasthan Gujjars Threaten Warpath Again -- India-China [...]	2007-12-20 12:39:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF CVIS PREL PGOV KJUS PHUM SOCI NP VM CH
07NEWDELHI658	INDIA COMPLETES PLANS TO BUY FORTY MORE SUKHOI 30S [...] (U) Reporting from Aero India in Bangalore, Indian media quoted Chief of Air Staff S.P. Tyagi on February 8 as saying India would soon sign a deal to import 40 more Sukhoi-30 planes from Russia. The news, which was overshadowed in morning papers by multi-billionaire Ratan Tata's "exhilarating [...]	2007-02-09 12:57:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV MARR ETRD PINR IN
07NEWDELHI663	MUKHERJEE TREADS CAREFULLY IN IRAN, BUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Indian Foreign Minister Mukherjee tried to steer clear of controversy in a February 6-7 visit to Tehran, according to MEA Joint Secretary Dilip Sinha. Emphasizing that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) must play a central role, and that the nuclear issue must be resol [...]	2007-02-12 01:29:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM KNNP KISL PGOV ENRG EPET ETTC IR
07NEWDELHI664	MUKHERJEE TREADS CAREFULLY IN IRAN, BUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Indian Foreign Minister Mukherjee tried to steer clear of controversy in a February 6-7 visit to Tehran, according to MEA Joint Secretary Dilip Sinha. Emphasizing that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) must play a central role, and that the nuclear issue must be resol [...]	2007-02-12 01:29:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM KNNP KISL PGOV ENRG EPET ETTC IR
07NEWDELHI701	INDIAN NSA NARAYANAN DISCUSSES RUSSIAN MIG-35, [...] (S) Summary: Lieutenant General Maples, Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, met with Indian National Security Advisor MK Narayanan on February 8th to discuss joint efforts to increase U.S.-India defense cooperation. NSA Narayanan explained India's longstanding concern about Chinese d [...]	2007-02-12 14:08:00	Embassy New Delhi	SECRET	PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN
07NEWDELHI783	GUTIERREZ WEIGHS IN WITH FM MUKHERJEE ON BELL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Even while extolling the significant growth in U.S. ) India economic and political ties and assuring the GOI,s continued support, Indian External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee stubbornly defended to Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez, Under Secretary Frank Lavin, and Ambas [...]	2007-02-15 13:10:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN
07NEWDELHI816	INDIA, RUSSIA, AND CHINA TRILATERAL MEETING [...] (C) Summary. In their seventh trilateral meeting, the foreign ministers of India, Russia, and China discussed substantive issues including cooperation on terrorism, crime, trade, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan and UN reform. Deliverables were few; however, the meetings have served to institutional [...]	2007-02-16 12:22:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RS CH IN
07NEWDELHI870	ITALIAN PM PRODI HAS "SATISFYING" TRIP TO INDIA [...] (C) Summary. Italian Prime Minister Prodi and his 400-person entourage wrapped up their five-day trip to India on February 15 in New Delhi. The trip was marked by a heavy emphasis on business opportunities between the two countries (reftel) and personal rapport between Prodi and Prime Mini [...]	2007-02-21 12:57:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KNNP PARM TSPL ECON IT IN
07NEWDELHI880	EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: SABERO ORGANICS [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12(c) of the Export Administration Act. 2. Acting Export Control Officer (ECO) David Nardella and BIS FSN Prem Narayan conducted a Post-shipment Verification (PSV) at Sabero Organics Gujarat Ltd. (Sabero)),Di [...]	2007-02-22 09:19:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC ETRD BEXP IN
07NEWDELHI881	EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: SABERO ORGANICS [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12(c) of the Export Administration Act. 2. Acting Export Control Officer (ECO) David Nardella and BIS FSN Prem Narayan conducted a Post-shipment Verification (PSV) at Sabero Organics Gujarat Ltd. (Sabero)),Di [...]	2007-02-22 09:20:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC ETRD BEXP IN
07NEWDELHI882	EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: SABERO ORGANICS [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12(c) of the Export Administration Act. 2. Acting Export Control Officer (ECO) David Nardella and BIS FSN Prem Narayan conducted a Post-shipment Verification (PSV) at Sabero Organics Gujarat Ltd. (Sabero)),Di [...]	2007-02-22 09:21:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC ETRD BEXP IN
07NEWDELHI944	MOD ASSURES STAFFDEL FARKAS INDIA WILL CHOOSE [...] (C) Summary. On February 23, MOD Acting Joint Secretary for Planning and International Cooperation Kiran Chadha, Chadha told Steffdel Farkas: -- India's procurement policy is guided by the Defense Procurement Policy of 2006; -- promised that in upcoming procurements India will be "choosin [...]	2007-02-26 12:57:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR ETRD IN
07NICOSIA1002	FM LAVROV DELIVERS SUPPORT FROM MOSCOW [...] (C) SUMMARY: Greek Cypriot opinion leaders characterized Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov's December 9-10 visit to the island as "Russia Riding to the Rescue." Lavrov's timing was impeccable, and seemingly too providential (for the G/C cause) to be coincidental. He arrived shortly before two [...]	2007-12-19 14:52:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV CY RU SE
07NICOSIA115	ARMENIANS IN CYPRUS: FITTING IN BEATS FALLING OUT [...] SUMMARY: Successful for four hundred years in maintaining their unique culture, language and religion, Cyprus's Armenians -- who enjoy "official religious group" status under the Republic's 1960 convention -- nonetheless seek closer ties to the majority Greek Cypriot population. As such, Arm [...]	2007-02-07 09:12:00	Embassy Nicosia	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM PREF CY TU
07NICOSIA165	AREA ADMINISTERED BY TURKISH CYPRIOTS -- SEVENTH ANNUAL TIP [...] (U) Paras 3-6 are sensitive but unclassified --not/not for Internet distribution. 2. (U) Embassy Nicosia hereby submits information for the April 2006 - March 2007 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report. Embassy POC is Terry Steers-Gonzalez, Political Section, Tel: (357) 22-39-3364, Fax: (357) [...]	2007-02-27 07:15:00	Embassy Nicosia	UNCLASSIFIED	KCRM CY PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB

07NICOSIA168	REPUBLIC OF CYPRUS -- SEVENTH ANNUAL TIP REPORT SUBMISSION [...] (U) Paras 3-6 are sensitive but unclassified --not/not for Internet distribution. 2. (U) Embassy Nicosia hereby submits information for the April 2006 - March 2007 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report. Embassy point of contact is Terry Steers-Gonzalez, Political Section, Tel: (357) 22-39-336 [...]	2007-03-01 14:39:00	Embassy Nicosia	UNCLASSIFIED	KCRM CY PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB

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