Somali pirates release S Korea fishing trawler, seize Greek tanker.

NAIROBI, February 10 (Itar-Tass) - Somali pirates on Thursday released
South Korea's fishing trawler Keummi 305 and seized the Greek tanker Irene
SL.
According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of South Korea, there are
39 Kenyans, two South Koreans and two Chinese aboard the Keummi 305. The
tanker was seized on October 9, 2010, close to the Kenyan island of Lamu.
It is still unclear whether sea bandits have received ransom. At present,
the ship is heading towards international waters, where the vessel will
get aid.
Also on Thursday, pirates seized the Greek super tanker Irene SL with
2 million barrels of oil on board off the coast of Oman. According to
available information, the crew of the ship that was en route from the
Persian Gulf to the Gulf of Mexico, consists of 7 Greeks, 17 Filipinos and
a Georgian citizen.
According to Ecoterra International, the pirates currently hold
captive 48 ships and more than 800 sailors.
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.Svyazinvest to elect new board at special shareholder meeting.

MOSCOW, February 10 (Itar-Tass) - The Svyazinvest state
telecommunications holding plans to hold an extraordinary shareholders'
meeting on Thursday, a source close to the Board of Directors of the state
holding told Itar-Tass.
"The meeting is to terminate the powers of the current Board of
Directors and elect its new members," said the source. According to him,
the holding's new Director General Vadim Semenov, President of the holding'
s main subsidiary - Rostelecom - Alexander Provotorov, Vice President of
Rostelecom Sergei Lukash, Chairman of the Board of Renaissance Capital
Alexander Pertsovsky, Director General of VEB Capital Yuri Kudimov, as
well as members of the current Board of Directors: Managing Director of
VTB Invest Mikhail Butrin, member of the Board of Directors of USB Bank
Marlen Manasov, Professor at the Higher School of Economics Ivan Rodionov
and Minister of Communications and Mass Media Igor Shchegolev, who heads
the Board now, have been nominated for the new Board of Directors of
Svyazinvest.
The current members of the Board of Directors of the holding were
elected on July 12, 2010. It comprises, aside from Shchegolev, Butrin,
Manasov and Rodionov, the managing partner of the Marshall Capital
Partners private equity fund Konstantin Malofeyev, former Russian
presidential adviser Leonid Reiman, head of the investment banking and the
financing department of MDM Bank Nikita Ryauzov, as well as ex-Director
General of Svyazinvest Yevgeny Yurchenko. Another member of the board -
Deputy Director of the Federal Security Guard Service (FSO) of Russia Yuri
Kornev - died last year.
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