No Yukos nationalisation aim but state firms could bid for assets: Putin
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Russia does not aim to nationalise embattled oil giant Yukos but state firms could bid for assets of the company if they are sold to pay off the company's multi-billion-dollar tax debts, President Vladimir Putin said.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin said  Thursday he had no plans to grab more power or change the  constitution when reforming Russia's government structure,  dismissing fears in the West he is watering down democracy.
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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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Russia does not intend to nationalize the Yukos oil company, but state-owned organizations will be able to bid if its assets are put up for auction, President Vladimir Putin said Friday.
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Russia's president Vladimir Putin says the purchase of Yukos' main asset by state-owned oil group Rosneft was done in accordance with free market principles.
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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 Yushchenko.
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COMPIEGNE, France  - Russian President Vladimir   Putin moved on Saturday to allay Western fears over Russia's   intentions toward European aerospace group EADS and offered the   prospect of more gas for Europe, saying Russia was a reliable   energy partner.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin on  Thursday strongly defended the takeover by state oil firm  Rosneft of stricken oil major YUKOS's key production unit,  Yuganskneftegaz, calling it a legitimate business deal.
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Russia will not radicalise the situation with ethnic Russians in Baltic countries, but it will seek its solution in the format of international humanitarian law, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday at ...
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Russia's President Putin denies claims that Russia is using its energy exports as a foreign policy tool.
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Russia's President Putin says the purchase of Yukos' main asset by state-owned oil firm Rosneft was in line with free market principles.
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President Vladimir Putin affirmed the legality of the &#36;9.3 billion sale of the crown jewel of the Yukos oil empire to a mysterious company, suggesting Tuesday that the subsidiary's new owners could eventually link up with another Russian energy company &#151; or even a Chinese conglomerate.
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President Vladimir Putin's  chosen successor, Dmitry Medvedev, dismissed fears on Thursday  that the Kremlin would nationalize Russia's economy and said  the state would not "grab everything for itself."
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Russia said on Saturday it would welcome more offers for the assets of oil major YUKOS as the only declared bidder, Gazprom, inked a cooperation deal with India's state-run ONGC oil firm.
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President Vladimir Putin gave his  blessing on Friday for state energy firms to bid for oil major  YUKOS' assets if bailiffs put them up for sale to recover a  huge back-tax bill.
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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.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin said little about his future plans during a national Q-&-A Thursday.