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The possibility of discovering new hydrocarbon deposits within the north-eastern segment of the European part of Russia will reduce the cost of transporting hydrocarbons to major industrial centres. And access to Russia’s most important transport artery, the Northern Sea Route, in the context of the growing importance of the tanker fleet and reorientation of sales markets proves the need to build up the region’s resource base. However, it is necessary to take into account the environmental and climatic risks associated with hydrocarbon production in the Arctic conditions, as well as their transport. This paper presents the data of paleoreconstructions of sedimentation settings of Precambrian sedimentary strata in the light of updating the history of development of the Mezen-Belomr region and studying the reservoir properties of the Riphean-Wendian part of the sedimentary cover section. As a result, formations with enhanced filtration-capacity properties were identified. The Vendian part of the section is characterised by good values of open porosity (up to 20.89%).

Let me remind British readers of the thousands of hours that are \"stolen\" from Russian citizens when they complete the UK's visa application forms, which are a whopping 10 pages. The time, money, effort and inconvenience that Russians face in obtaining UK visas put Ms [Elder]'s ordeal into perspective.

Your assessment of the gas dispute between Russia and Ukraine (\"The Winter Gas War,\" Review & Outlook, Jan. 7) fails to reflect the reality of the situation. This is not a crisis of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's making. It is...

The Globe's editorial on the gas dispute between Russia and Ukraine (Putin Strikes Again - Jan. 7) fails to reflect the reality of the situation. This is not a crisis of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's making.

The central charge in your article, that Russia is fast turning into the Soviet Union, is as unsustainable as it is unfair (Back to the USSR, 10 December). Indeed, your report's...

First, this is a crisis affecting not just Russia but every country in the world. Second, far from our economy \"floundering\" as the article claimed, many experts acknowledge that Russia is in better shape to weather the storm than our fellow members of the G8 - membership, by the way, that it would simply be impossible to imagine being extended to the USSR. Unlike many other countries, Russia deliberately put aside hundreds of billions of dollars to help our economy and our citizens through difficult periods. On relations beyond our borders, we are accused on the one hand of expansionist ambitions and having designed a \"blueprint to bring back the Soviet Union's geography\", and on the other of \"becoming increasingly isolationist\". It seems we can't win. And it is wrong to state that \"Russia's territory now includes Abkhazia and South Ossetia\" - they have both made clear that they are determined to retain their hard-won independence, something we are committed to respect.

There can now be no doubt about the motivations of those behind the long and sustained campaign to blacken Russia's image and destabilise the Russian government from afar over the last...

There can now be no doubt about the motivations of those behind the long and sustained campaign to blacken Russia's image and destabilise the Russian government from afar over the last few years. In the clearest possible terms, Boris Berezovsky told the world last week that he wants to foment a violent revolution in Russia against a democratically elected president. \"I am calling for revolution and revolution is always violent,\" he says, confirming ominously that \"there are practical steps\" which he is taking. The campaign against the president is also personal and slanderous. Berezovsky has made outrageous slurs alleging the president's involvement in Alexander Litvinenko's death, without a shred of evidence. He claims that Russia's security services were behind the series of apartment bombings in 1999 that killed nearly 300 people, when [Vladimir Putin] was prime minister. Again, he does not have anything to back up his claims. In his interview last week, Berezovsky pretty much admitted this, saying that he had dedicated much of the last six years to \"trying to destroy the positive image of Putin\". The irony is that, for all Berezovsky's allegations, he personifies how far Russia has changed and moved on. As one of the sharpest critics of President Putin, Andrei Piontkovsky, director of the Moscow-based Independent Institute for Strategic Studies, says, \"Berezovsky is the embodiment of robber capitalism\".

Sir: Your editorial \"Ignorance and denial still conspire to prevent action\" (31May) was wrong to suggest that 25 years on from the first identified case of Aids, world leaders remain numb to the reality of this devastating global epidemic.

Sir, In your editorial \"The dangers of crying 'Comrade Wolf' \" (May 11), you write that President Vladimir Putin \"worryingly\" used his annual address to the Federal Assembly to jab back at Dick Cheney's hawkish remarks in a way that bodes ill for co-operative results at the Group of Eight summit in St Petersburg in July. Gone, you say, is the language of partnership.