Putin claims the right to re-nationalise Yukos
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The Russian president on Thursday hit out at the flawed privatisations of the early 1990s and argued that the state had every right to make amends by re-nationalising Yukos&#39;s core assets.
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VLADIMIR PUTIN, the Russian President, yesterday poured scorn on the US legal system when he defended the takeover of Yuganskneftegaz, the Yukos oil production
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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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President Vladimir Putin put his sweeping political reform in motion Monday, sending a bill on changing the nation's electoral system to Russia's parliament.
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President Vladimir Putin said on Friday Russian state firms should be allowed to buy assets of oil major YUKOS (YUKO.RTS: Quote, Profile, Research) if they are put up for sale to cover the firm&#39;s huge back tax bill.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin  strongly defended the takeover by state oil firm Rosneft of  stricken oil major YUKOS' key production unit, Yuganskneftegaz,  calling it a legitimate business deal.
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President Vladimir Putin gave his  blessing on Friday for Russian state energy firms to bid for  oil major YUKOS's assets if bailiffs put them up for sale to  recover a huge back-tax bill.
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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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Free-market principles were followed when a state-owned oil firm bought a key Yukos asset, Russia's president says.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready to go after other oil companies the way he has hammered Yukos, a top Kremlin official has said.
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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.
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A Russian state oil firm has bought  YUKOS's core unit, effectively nationalizing 11 percent of the  country's crude output and throwing confusion over YUKOS's  attempts to halt its own dismemberment.
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The nationalisation of Russian oil major YUKOS&#39;s main unit has cast doubt over the timing of plans to create a huge state energy holding and liberalise trade in the shares of gas monopoly Gazprom, analysts said on Friday.
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Russian state oil firm Rosneft has bought the core unit of Yukos, nationalizing more than 10 percent of the country&#39;s crude output and dealing a shattering blow to a once flourishing private enterprise.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin throws a question mark over the future of Yukos, saying state-owned companies should be allowed to buy the oil firm's assets.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin announced initiatives Monday that would further strengthen the central government's control over the nation's political life.
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President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that the buyer of a key asset of the bankrupt Russian oil giant Yukos is a group of "individuals with a long history in the energy sector" and he said the sale, which went forward despite a U.S. court injunction barring it, followed Russian law and was an internal matter.