Putin hints at China alliance for Yukos oil
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Gazprom, Russia&#39;s state-controlled gas monopoly, could team up with the China National Petroleum Corporation to develop the Yukos oil company&#39;s main production asset, sold to a mystery bidder on Sunday.
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China has agreed to step in and pay Russian rail fees to ensure that it continues to receive Yukos oil if the company is unable to cover the transport costs, officials at Russia's rail transport monopoly said Wednesday.
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President Vladimir Putin during a meeting with Energy Minister Victor hristenko earlier this month. Analysts suggest that the governmentâs action in humbling Yukos and its owner, Mikhail hodorkovsky, is
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China's prime minister arrived in Moscow on Thursday for talks with top officials on Russia's bid to join the World Trade Organization and China's efforts to secure a steady supply of Russian oil for its booming economy.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that a Chinese state oil company could participate in developing oilfields of the Yukos oil group's main asset sold at auction at the weekend.
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President Vladimir Putin backed a government proposal Tuesday to make the state oil company Rosneft a subsidiary of Gazprom &#151; a major step toward giving foreign investors access to the natural gas giant's coveted local shares.
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Russia is toying with China and Japan, both of which are courting its oil, in a pipeline drama that could see the downtrodden giant Yukos and its assets play the clinching role.
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Russia is considering forming a natural gas cartel, President Vladimir Putin has said, rejecting Western criticism of Moscow's reliability as an energy supplier and defending his record on democracy.
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China lent Russia $6bn to help renationalise the key Yugansk unit of oil group Yukos, the Kremlin reveals.
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Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov pledged Friday that Russia would keep meeting its oil export commitments to China, an apparent reference to fears that a cut in production at the beleaguered Yukos oil company could harm Beijing.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin met several top officials in Beijing Friday, winding up two days of official talks that were rich in symbolism but left unanswered many key questions about energy supplies to China.
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China lent Russia &#36;6 billion to help the Kremlin renationalize the key unit of oil major YUKOS, officials said on Tuesday, underpinning oil-hungry Beijing's efforts to tap into Russia's huge energy business.
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China is interested in participating in the bidding for Yuganskneftegaz, the top oil-producing subsidiary of the Russian oil giant Yukos, a Chinese economic official was quoted as saying in a report Thursday by the Russian news agency Interfax. The ...
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President Vladimir Putin of Russia suggested that the secretive buyers of the largest subsidiary of the oil giant Yukos might transfer the assets to other owners.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday defended the sale of a key unit of the Yukos oil firm to a little known company, calling it legal, and said he could live with a Ukraine presidency of Viktor ...
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China yesterday called on Russia to ensure oil giant Yukos meets commitments to Chinese customers. Yukos said on Friday it was suspending oil exports by rail to state-owned
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China emerged on Thursday as a dark horse contender for the assets of stricken Russian oil major Yukos as the company's state-driven break-up took yet another abrupt twist.