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• Italy's ENI planning two major investments in Russia

  - 2006-12-04

  MOSCOW AFP — Italian energy group ENI is planning to invest up to 10 billion euros (13 billion dollars) in the Russian energy sector, Russian newspapers have reported ENI's CEO Paolo Scaroni as saying. "Italy's ENI, whose hunt for Russian energy assets has so far not been crowned with success...

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• Chinese company could take part in Yuganskneftegaz sale

  - 2004-12-30

  MOSCOW AFP — Chinese oil conglomerate CNPC could be offered up to 20 percent of a state-owned Russian firm that will own Yuganskneftegaz, the main asset of the dismembered Yukos energy giant, the industry and energy minister said. "The assets of Yuganskneftegaz will be transferred to a separate company,...

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• Russian state protects its interests in buying main Yukos asset: Putin

  - 2004-12-23

  MOSCOW AFP — Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the state was protecting its interests by buying the main asset of oil giant Yukos, in the first renationalisation of the post-Soviet era. "Today the state, using absolutely legal market mechanisms, is protecting its interests. I consider that absolutely normal,"...

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• Russian state protecting its interests over Yukos: Putin

  - 2004-12-23

  MOSCOW AFP — Russian President Vladimir Putin insisted that the state was protecting its rightful interests by swallowing the main asset of the Yukos oil giant, in the first renationalisation of the post-Soviet era. "Today the state, using absolutely legal market mechanisms, is protecting its interests. I consider that...

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• Russia's Yukos pins hopes on US court to stop sale of core asset

  - 2004-12-16

  MOSCOW AFP — Stricken Russian oil giant Yukos was hoping that a US court would grant it bankruptcy protection, scaring off Western banks planning to finance a Russian state-directed takeover of its main asset. Yukos filed for voluntary bankruptcy on Wednesday in a US district court in Houston, Texas,...

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• Police raid Yukos office as oil giant pins hopes on US court to stop sale of core asset

  - 2004-12-16

  MOSCOW AFP — Russian police raided the office of Yukos and questioned a company executive, Interfax news agency quoted the general prosecutor's office as saying, a day after the ailing oil giant filed for voluntary bankruptcy in a US court. The police search was carried out "as part of...

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• Sale of Yukos asset to go ahead despite US court ruling: official

  - 2004-12-16

  MOSCOW AFP — The sale of Russia's embattled Yukos oil giant's core asset, its main oil-pumping division Yuganskneftegaz, is to due to go ahead as planned despite a US court ruling ordering a 10-day halt to the sale, Russia's federal property fund's spokesman said in comments quoted by ITAR-TASS. ...

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• Russia welcomes foreign bids for assets of embattled Yukos oil giant

  - 2004-12-04

  NEW DELHI AFP — Russia said it would welcome Indian and other companies bidding for the assets of Russian oil giant Yukos, the country's biggest oil exporter, due to be sold off later this month. Russia is putting up for auction Yukos's main oil producing unit, Yuganskneftegaz, and has...

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