IRAQI PARLIAMENT RATIFIES RUSSIAN OIL DEAL.

Publication: Monitor Volume: 1 Issue: 128

Iraq’s National Assembly has ratified an agreement to cooperate in oil and gas development with Russia, the official al-Qadissiya newspaper reported on Monday. Russia is an advocate of a gradual easing of United Nations sanctions on Iraq and Baghdad and is in turn giving Russian firms preferential treatment.

Russian Election Rulings.