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• No resolution in Ukraine-Russia gas dispute: Gazprom

  - 2008-03-02

  MOSCOW AFP — Russia and Ukraine have not managed to resolve their gas payment conflict, a spokesman for Russian gas giant Gazprom said on Sunday, as a deadline approached after which Moscow has threatened supply cuts. "There has been no agreement yet. We expect to reduce supplies. We are...

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• Russian press gives Sarkozy credit for Total-Gazprom deal

  - 2007-07-13

  MOSCOW AFP — A deal to allow French company Total help develop Russia's giant Shtokman gas field was sealed by a phone call between the French and Russian presidents, Russia's top business dailies reported Friday. "A telephone conversation between Vladimir Putin and Nicolas Sarkozy ensured Total's participation in developing...

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• Russian Economic Forum opens under boycott cloud

  - 2007-04-22

  LONDON AFP — A boycott by top Moscow officials cast a cloud over the opening Sunday of a showcase event for Russian businesses. The blow fell after a Russian press report suggested that the Kremlin ordered the no-show because of increasing strains between Moscow and London. Missing from...

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• Ukraine, Russia solve gas price dispute before winter

  - 2006-10-24

  KIEV AFP — Ukraine and Russia reached agreement on a compromise gas price, opening the way to reduced tensions between the two countries and an easing of European concerns about the reliability of Russian energy supplies. The Russian-Ukrainian companies RosUkrEnergo and UkrGaz-Energo signed a deal on deliveries of Russian natural...

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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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• 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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• 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's Gazprom to bid on Yukos crown jewel

  - 2004-11-30

  MOSCOW AFP — Russia's Gazprom monopoly will bid for the crown jewel of the embattled Yukos oil giant during an upcoming December auction, its chief said confirming long-held market rumors. Gazprom's recently-created subsidiary Gazpromneft, which is due to absorb the state's oil company Rosneft, has concluded that "the most...

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