Gazprom is focusing on the Altai pipeline because it can be completed earlier and will feed existing infrastructure in China, said Mr. Medvedev, the Gazprom deputy CEO.

The Korean language is not a member of a wider linguistic family, though links to Japanese and Altaic languages are being considered.

His specific account of the group’s meetings is in accord with the more general recollections of several other Saudis who knew bin Laden during his Al Thagher years.

Your first step is to coax him to move with you when you grasp his halter .

As acting CEO Altai Khangai put it in an interview earlier this year, one challenge for the exchange is the quality of the companies that are traded there.