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Marathon Oil Company, part of the USX-Marathon Group (NYSE: MRO) and a unit of USX Corporation, and YUKOS Oil Company (RTS:YUKO), the second largest Russian oil company, announced today their plans to develop a strategic alliance. Both companies are looking to grow their respective international businesses and the alliance is expected to consider joint energy investments in different parts of the world. As part of the alliance a joint business development group is planned to be located in London to evaluate international investment opportunities.
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Earlier, members of the Latvian parliament sent a letter to Kalyuzhny asking him to ban the Russian-made film Nazism the Baltic Way from screenings in Russia, saying it instigated ethnic hatred. The film was about the participation of Estonian and Latvian legionnaires in punitive operations on the territories of Russia and Belarus during World War II.
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The political upheavals of the early twentieth century and the wholesale changes of political ideology gave written Russian its modern appearance after the spelling reform of 1918. Political circumstances and Soviet accomplishments in military, scientific, and technological matters (especially cosmonautics), gave Russian a world-wide prestige, especially during the middle third of the twentieth century.
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