IRKUTSK. Jan 24 (Interfax) - East Siberian Railway, a Russian Railways (RZD) subsidiary, transported 8,992,000 tonnes of oil to China in 2007, or 12.4% less than in 2006, East Siberian Railway said.

The following are highlights from Magadan's state-

By Steven Lee Myers The old Soviet ambulance lurched along a dirt road that would have been impassable to most vehicles.

Text of report by Russian news agency Ekho Moskvy Ulan-Ude, 6 June: The Republic of Buryatia's Supreme Court today ruled invalid the favourable conclusion made by the state environmental study on the route of an oil pipeline passing 800 m.

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