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Until World War II Baku was the chief petroleum centre of the USSR

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	23 July 2007
	Current Affairs

	Attackers dressed in dark clothes and wielding metal pipes raided a camp of environmentalists protesting nuclear-waste processing at a Siberian chemicals plant, killing one activist.

	Fighter planes from Britain and Norway scrambled on Friday to keep watch on Russian bombers that were approaching the countries' air space, officials said.

	Alexander Litvinenko’s murder is set to affect the content of any new partnership agreement between the European Union and Russia, as the repercussions of the case continue to broaden.

	Politics

	A sign-up campaign in support of abolishing the deputy immunity will be launched in Ukraine on Monday. The pro-presidential bloc "Our Ukraine – People’s Self-Defence" initiated the campaign.

	Report

	The chummy days had to end, though, when London became a refuge from the intrigues of an increasingly authoritarian Russia

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