1.   When Mr Putin sacked the energy minister, Mr Chubais was sternly reprimanded.

2.   And oil workers are threatening a strike next week unless the energy minister Galo Abril is dismissed.

3.   -- Richardson will meet with energy ministers in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Mexico and Norway to emphasize the need for more oil production.

4.   A sour note for reform advocates was the inclusion of Ignazio Pichardo, president of the long-ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, as energy minister.

5.   Adamov, the energy minister, had been criticized for his nuclear waste import plan, which environmentalists had said would turn Russia into an international nuclear waste dump.

6.   After enough horse-trading, Segev became energy minister and Goldfarb deputy housing minister.

7.   Earlier this year, the energy minister resigned in the face of a corruption inquiry.

8.   Energy ministers and officials meet to discuss investment opportunities and developments, project finance structuring, tax minimization, and competing with national oil companies.

9.   European Union energy ministers failed to agree on a plan to open electricity markets to competition, admitting defeat in reaching their yearend deadline.

10.   Four months later, Nemtsov, now first deputy prime minister and energy minister, is mired in scandal.