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• Ukraine PM rejects gas supply deal with Russia

  - 2008-03-06

  KIEV AFP — Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko on Thursday rejected part of a gas supply deal with Russia, a day after the end of a three-day cut in supplies that raised concerns in Europe. The deal would "preserve corrupt schemes and abuses, lead to the bankruptcy of (state...

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• Nigeria deal in the offing: Russia's Gazprom

  - 2008-02-20

  ABUJA AFP — Russian gas giant Gazprom is optimistic that talks with the Nigerian authorities will result in a deal worth more than seven billion dollars, a Gazprom executive said Wednesday in Abuja. "We have good signs that there will be a deal," Boris Ivanov, the CEO of Gazprom's...

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• Russian President Putin to accept PM's job if ally wins Kremlin

  - 2007-12-17

  MOSCOW AFP — Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday he is ready to become prime minister if his ally Dmitry Medvedev wins a March 2 presidential election, an arrangement that analysts say could leave Putin wielding major power. His announcement came at a congress of the ruling United Russia...

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• Russian regulators delay ruling on TNK-BP licence

  - 2007-06-15

  MOSCOW AFP — British-Russian joint venture TNK-BP on Friday won at least a temporary reprieve after threats by Russian officials to strip the company of its licence to operate the vast Siberian gas field of Kovykta. Interfax news agency and the Vedomosti business daily reported that a meeting scheduled...

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• Shell's Sakhalin-2 to face lawsuits in 2007

  - 2006-12-12

  MOSCOW AFP — Russia will file lawsuits against the giant Sakhalin-2 energy project led by British-Dutch Shell in March 2007, crusading Russian environmental official Oleg Mitvol has said. After a presentation to the government, "we will set terms and conditions for signing contracts with legal firms, and by the beginning...

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• Shell offers Russia's Gazprom proposals for entering Sakhalin field

  - 2006-12-11

  MOSCOW AFP — British-Dutch Shell has made new proposals for Russia's Gazprom to enter the massive Sakhalin-2 energy project it heads, Gazprom has said. This followed months of pressure from environmental regulators which analysts said was aimed at giving Gazprom control. "On December 8, a meeting took place between Gazprom...

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• Top Russian business daily sold to Kremlin-connected billionaire

  - 2006-08-30

  MOSCOW AFP — Kommersant, one of Russia's leading business dailies and a rare outlet for criticism of the government, has reportedly been sold to Kremlin-connected metals magnate Alisher Usmanov. "It's possible that not every detail of the deal has been completed, but it can be talked about as an established...

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• Sweden fears impact of Baltic Sea pipeline

  - 2006-08-18

  STOCKHOLM AFP — The Swedish government said it feared that a German-Russian project to build a gas pipeline under the Baltic Sea could damage the environment and stir up long-buried toxic materials. Russian energy giant Gazprom, the controling partner in the bilateral consortium slated to build the 1,200-kilometer (740-mile)...

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• Russians protest against Moscow media stranglehold

  - 2006-04-16

  MOSCOW AFP — A thousand people have protested in Moscow against the government's clampdown on independent media, five years after the Kremlin effectively took control of private channel NTV. The protestors, who included well-known television reporters who have lost their jobs, brandished placards reading "Today censorship, tomorrow dictatorship" and...

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• Russian-German gas pipeline to start European delivery in 2010

  - 2005-06-26

  ST. PETERSBURG AFP — Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that the joint gas pipeline being built by German chemical giant BASF and Russia's Gazprom in the Baltic Sea will begin delivery to Europe in 2010. The Russian government on Friday gained control of Gazprom, the world's biggest producer...

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