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

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	3 February 2010
	Current Affairs

	U.S. and Russian arms-control negotiators have reached an "agreement in principle" on the first nuclear-arms-reduction treaty in nearly two decades, administration and arms-control officials said Tuesday.

	Russia and Ukraine's national security services traded espionage accusations on Tuesday, just days before Ukrainians vote in presidential polls.

	Russian officials say a bomb explosion on railroad tracks in St. Petersburg injured one worker and is being considered a terrorist attack.

	Politics

	Senior members of the ruling United Russia party, which has a parliamentary majority, said they were planning to demand the resignation of Sergei Mironov, speaker of the upper house of the Russian parliament over his criticism of polices conducted by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

	Report

	As Ukraine prepares to vote in a new president in an election run-off on Sunday, the BBC's Jamie Coomarasamy reports from Crimea, where people are ambivalent about their Ukrainian nationality.

	Business & Economics

	The Russian Economic Development Ministry can now safely say that the end of the economic recession is just around the bend for Russia.

	Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday urged the government to come up with a plan to make the energy-dependent country more attractive to foreign investors.

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