Is BP getting cold feet in Russia?
Published: 26 March, 2008, 08:39
A new investigation has been launched after claims a sister firm of the Russian-British oil company TNK-BP – Sedanko- didn't pay one billion roubles in taxes.
On Tuesday, it emerged 148 of TNK-BP’s foreign workers, mainly technicians and engineers, lost their work permits.
And last week Russia's security service raided the company's Moscow offices as an employee was charged with industrial espionage.
26.03.2008, 08:15
Obama & Clinton dig for celebrity helpU.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama and actor Brad Pitt are related. And Democratic rival Hillary Clinton is related to Brad Pitt's wife Angelina Jolie. |
26.03.2008, 09:31
Dozens killed in Iraq clashesHeavy clashes continue in Baghdad's Sadr City and in the southern city of Basra where at least 40 people have been killed and hundreds wounded in two days of fighting. The Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has now given Shia militiamen three days to gi |
