RUSSIA - Profile - Igor Yusufov.The energy minister since June 2001, Yusufov had never worked in energy or the petroleum industry before. He has had some experience in foreign trade and also worked in Cuba, where he learned to speak Spanish fluently flu·ent adj. 1. a. Able to express oneself readily and effortlessly: a fluent speaker; fluent in three languages. b. . But the energy ministry has lost much power in recent years, with Deputy PM Khristenko setting oil export quotas and export taxes and Gref's ministry being in charge of the PSAs. Analysts in Moscow suggest that the ministry is being transformed gradually from a Soviet-style regulator regulator, n the mechanical part of a gas delivery system that controls gas pressure that allows a manageable flow of drug vapor to escape. regulator see reducing valve. into something similar to a state-owned consultancy and mediator mediator n. a person who conducts mediation. A mediator is usually a lawyer, or retired judge, but can be a non-attorney specialist in the subject matter (like child custody) who tries to bring people and their disputes to early resolution through a conference. Yusufov says the ministry should maintain its distance from the industry, working instead to foster links between Russia and both oil producing and consuming states. Yusufov was brought in to succeed Alexander Gavrin, who was sacked in February 2001 as a result of an energy crisis in the Russian Far East Russian Far East, formerly Soviet Far East, federal district (1989 est. pop. 7,941,000), c.2,400,000 sq mi (6,216,000 sq km), encompassing the entire northeast coast of Asia and including the Sakha Republic, Maritime Territory (Primorsky Kray), . |
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