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by the end of the year?” He also asked whether the company would be forced to boost its fees accordingly. “We are okay with that, but the question is whether oil companies are ready,” he was quoted as saying. “Should the fee be in dollars our roubles?” he asked while pointing that all fees are now in roubles. “How often would we have to change them due to currency
fluctuations on and off?” Grishanin asked. He argued that Transneft neither produces nor processes crude oil as it only offers pipeline infrastructure. Nikolay Tokarev, CEO of Transneft, on May 28 asked Russian officials to cut down fees in a move that would make the company see lower income.
30 June 2020
AN INCREASE IN U.S. AND RUSSIAN AERIAL ACTIVITY OVER THE NORTH PACIFIC The United States has taken action to respond to Russia’s beefed-up aerial activity around each other’s border in the Pacific. A couple of U.S. B-52Hs from Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana arrived at the base in Alaska in a move that prompted the Russian military to build up its maritime patrol presence in the area. Recent weeks have seen a couple of incidents with both sides intercepting each other’s planes flying towards the two’s borders. 22
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