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Plastics in the snow: Sibur takes the lead in Russia's burgeoning petrochemical sector
Ben Aris in Tobolsk
In Tobolsk's imperial heyday the Siberian city
in the Tyumen region was the administrative centre for all the wilds of the taiga that stretch from Russia’s Ural mountains to the coast in Vladivostok. In those days it was a prosperous trading city that made its money from the Tsarist- era oil: furs.
EU tries to pressurise Putin into prisoner swap for Sentsov
Jason Corcoran in Strasbourg
The European Parliament is ramping up the pres- sure on Russian President Vladimir Putin to ar- range a prisoner swap for Oleg Sentsov following the Ukrainian film director’s award of the prestig- ious 2018 Sakharov Prize for human rights.
Sentsov, who is currently an inmate in a penal colony in Siberia serving a 20-year term, was not
Sibur is building a $9bn new petrochemical complex in the heart of Siberia from Russian jail
Founded in 1590, the city lost some of its shine in the Soviet era until the modern version of oil was discovered in western Siberia in the 1970s. The city that sits on the confluence of the Tobol and Irtysh rivers is best known to Russians as housing the prison that was home to Fyodor Dostoyevsky,
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Europe is pressuring Putin to release film director Oleg Sentsov from a Russian jail
there in person to collect his award in Strasbourg on December 12. The prize, consisting of a cer- tificate and €50,000, was received on his behalf by his lawyer Dmitriy Dinze and his cousin at a ceremony in the European Parliament during the plenary session.
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