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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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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...
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)...
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...
Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, will be warned today that Moscow risks losing the Western investment and technical knowledge needed to develop its energy industry if it does not forge a new pact with the EU. Mr Putin is hosting talks with the European Commission president, Jose...
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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...
MOSCOW AFP — Russia's liberal economy minister joined a growing backlash against the effective re-nationalization of the country's top oil exporter Yukos and argued that state energy companies should be privatized. Economic Development and Trade Minister German Gref is seen as one of the few die-hard liberals in President...
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. ...
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...
By Anthony Hilton, Evening Standard, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 1--WORRYING SIGNALS FROM RUSSIA: Investors in the Russia's biggest oil company, Yukos, dismayed at the moves by the Russian government to seize its prize assets to compensate for past non-payment...
KEDAINIAI, Lithuania, AFP — Viktor Uspaskich, a Russian-born millionaire who is a new force in Lithuanian politics, makes no secret of his old ties to Russian energy giant Gazprom, which supplies all of Lithuania's gas, but says he has his adopted country's interests at heart. After amassing a personal...
MOSCOW AFP ? The Russian government will auction off its 7.6-percent stake in the country's second-largest oil company Lukoil, Economic Development Minister German Gref revealed. He said in a report carried Thursday by the Interfax news agency the government would discuss the move next week and would then announce...
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