RUSSIA - Profile - Viktor Kalyuzhny.Having lost the post of energy minister in late May 2000, Kalyuzhny, 53, has since been appointed as special envoy envoy: see diplomatic service. Envoy - Motorola's integrated personal wireless communicator. Envoy is a personal digital assistant which incorporates two-way wireless and wireline communication. to the Caspian region. On a visit to Iran in early August, he called for a speedy solution to the question of the Caspian's legal status. Iranian foreign minister Kamal Kharrazi then said Tehran would accept a solution involving a 20% share of the sea's resources for Iran. As energy minister, Kalyuzhny scared foreign companies off in 1998/99 with his Soviet-era approach and his close links with Tyumen Oil, Sibneft, etc. He became energy minister in May 1999 in the government of Sergei Stepashin Sergei Vadimovich Stepashin (Серге́й Вади́мович Степа́шин) (b. March 2 1952, Lüshunkou, China) is a Russian politician. , replacing Sergei Generalov. Before that he was vice president of Eastern Oil. His current approach to the Caspian is in line with President Putin's new foreign policy doctrine A foreign policy doctrine is a general statement of foreign policy. In some cases, the statement is made by a political leader, typically a nation’s chief executive or chief diplomat, and comes to be named after that leader. stating that the region will be central to Russian Russian associated in some way with Russia. Russian blue a breed of cats with short, dense, silver-tipped blue-colored coat and vivid green eyes. interests. There is speculation that Russia could opt for an accommodating relationship as a more or less equal partner, or it might revert re·vert v. 1. To return to a former condition, practice, subject, or belief. 2. To undergo genetic reversion. to its traditional role as a dominant colonial power. |
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