Row brews over Russian beer pact
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Carlsberg denies claims from bid target Scottish & Newcastle it has breached an joint venture agreement.
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MOSCOW - The upper house of the Russian parliament on Wednesday rejected a bill that would have banned public beer consumption.  The bill already had been approved by the lower house of parliament, the State Duma, which is dominated by the pro-Kremlin United Russia party.
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The rejection sets up a possible showdown between Russia and the West over the disputed territoryâs final status.
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British brewer Scottish and Newcastle said Tuesday it has submitted a detailed claim to an arbitration court to secure control of Russian joint venture BBH amid a bitter row with co-owner Carlsberg.
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Russia&#39;s upper house of parliament on Wednesday passed a tougher version of a bill controlling public beer sales and consumption after rejecting the original last month.
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Business & money: Brewery company opens talks with Carlsberg and Heineken over proposed takeover
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The UK&#39;s biggest brewer, Scottish &amp; Newcastle, is joining forces with India&#39;s United Breweries to form a group that will have more than 50 percent of the Indian beer market.
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Two of the world's largest brewers - Belgium's Inbev and Holland's Heineken - announce new takeovers in Germany and Russia respectively.
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A battle over the definition of vodka that has divided eastern and western Europe nears its climax with a vote in the EU parliament.
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President Vladimir Putin signed into law a series of tough new restrictions on beer ads, a measure that lawmakers said should help reduce youth drinking and hooliganism.
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The state-run Russian company that claims the rights to Stolichnaya vodka has targeted British spirits and wine group Allied Domecq in its fight to control the hundreds of millions of dollars in annual sales of the famed Russian vodka in the United States.
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Beer giant Anheuser-Busch  won its latest battle against Czech brewer Budejovicky over the use of trademarks such as Budweiser on Tuesday with a ruling in the European Union's second-highest court.
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BERLIN/LONDON  - Bankers now in talks with Russian  gas firm Gazprom about paying for its bid for the oil  production arm of YUKOS will not go against a U.S. ruling that  the sale was illegal, banking sources said on Friday.
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A bitter row rages over gas giant Gazprom's plan to build a skyscraper in the historic centre of St Petersburg.
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MOSCOW  - Russia&#39;s economy minister German Gref is trying to halt plans for the Gazprom monopoly to bid for the main production unit of embattled Yukos, but is unlikely to succeed, analysts said.
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Should the King of Beers merge with the world's top brewer?
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A war of words over two British cultural centres in Russia heated up Tuesday with Moscow accusing Britain of "colonial" nostalgia after it refused orders to shut the offices.