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• Gazprom agrees to pay more for Turkmenistan gas: company

  - 2008-07-25

  MOSCOW AFP — Russian gas giant Gazprom has signed an agreement with Turkmenistan raising the price it pays for gas from the Central Asian nation starting in 2009, a company spokesman told AFP on Friday. "There will be a price increase from next year, but for now I can...

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• Russian oil production to remain level in coming years: Gazprom

  - 2008-07-03

  BAKU AFP — The chief executive of Russian energy giant Gazprom, Alexei Miller, said on Thursday that the country's oil production would remain unchanged in the next few years. "We expect to produce the same volume of oil this year as we did last year," Miller, told journalists on...

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• Russia, Turkmenistan to complete gas price talks by July: report

  - 2008-06-07

  MOSCOW AFP — Russia and Turkmenistan could complete talks on a new price for next year's imports of Turkmen gas by July, the deputy chairman of the board of Russia's gas monopoly Gazprom said Saturday. "We are ready to complete the talks if Turkmenistan is ready -- this goal...

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• Germany probes Gazprom official's alleged Stasi past

  - 2008-05-07

  BERLIN AFP — A senior executive at a German subsidiary of the Russian energy giant Gazprom is under investigation for allegedly lying about his past as a former East German spy, a chief prosecutor said Wednesday. Felix Strehober, who was born in communist East Berlin in 1963 and now...

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• Gazprom sees price hike for gas exports to Europe

  - 2008-03-14

  MOSCOW AFP — The price of Russian gas for European customers could rise as high as 400 dollars (257 euros) per 1,000 cubic metres by the end of 2008, the head of state-run Gazprom was quoted as saying on Friday. Russian news agencies quoted Gazprom chief executive Alexei Miller...

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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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• 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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• Russia cuts gas to Ukraine by 25 percent

  - 2008-03-02

  MOSCOW AFP — Russia on Monday cut gas supplies to Ukraine by 25 percent after the two countries failed to reach agreement in a gas pricing dispute, Gazprom spokesman Sergei Kupriyanov said. "Gazprom today reduced supplies to Ukraine by 25 percent from 10:00 am," (0700 GMT), Kupriyanov said in...

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• Ukraine PM confident Russia won't cut gas

  - 2008-03-01

  KIEV AFP — Ukraine's prime minister, Yulia Tymoshenko, gave assurances Saturday that Russia would not go ahead with a threatened cut in gas supplies next week. "I am convinced that there will be no cut-off," Tymoshenko said at a press conference, without giving details. She said that Russian...

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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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