VOL. XL

No. 43

27-October-1997

FSU

Repairs On Chechen Pipeline Done, But Russia Plans Bond Issue To Finance New Route

The president of Chechenya's oil company Yunko, Mr. Khozh-Akmad Yarikhanov, said on 20October that repairs to the 150 kms. section of the Baku-Novorossysk crude oil pipelinerunning through the separatist republic would be complete by 25 October, but added thatthe repairs would need to be tested before the pipeline could be recommissioned. TheRussian pipeline monopoly Transneft...