Kremlin-friendly magnates top Russia rich list
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Metals magnate Oleg Deripaska is now Russia's richest man, boasting a $40 billion dollar fortune that towers over rival oligarch Roman Abramovich, according to the latest rich list from Russian magazine Finans.
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Russia is poised for a general election campaign highly influenced by President Putin's popularity, Steven Eke writes.
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ST. PETERSBURG -- Twisting as it rises 77 stories, the planned office development known as Gazprom City is testament to the muscle of Russia's richest company. A flickering gas flame captured in soaring glass, the design is also an ode to the country's energy-driven boom.
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Russia has sold the heart of the Yukos empire in an auction reminiscent of the country&#39;s notorious privatizations of the 1990s, analysts said Monday, as the former CEO of the oil company offered bitter season&#39;s greetings to the Kremlin from his courtroom
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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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Billionaire oligarch Mikhail Gutseriyev wanted by the Kremlin for tax evasion.
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Larry Page and Sergey Brin crack the list of 10 wealthiest people in the U.S. for the first time.
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Maria Sharapova and Nikolay Davydenko have been voted Russia's best players for the second year in a row, the country's tennis federation announced at its annual award gala on Sunday.
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Time Magazine names Russian President Vladimir Putin as its 'Person of the Year'.
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MOSCOW - Foreign investors beware: Mysterious Kremlin man Igor Sechin is now at the helm of the world&#39;s second largest crude producer after the company he chairs gobbled up prized Yukos asset Yugansk.
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The US oil giant got a good price, Russia&#39;s No. 1 oil company acquired a savvy partner, and Putin polished Russia&#39;s image.
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When the Kremlin came for billionaire Mikhail Khodorkovsky's oil company, he fought back and found himself in a Siberian prison. When it came for billionaire Mikhail Gutseriyev's oil company, he agreed to sell and went into hiding to avoid arrest.
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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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The leader of Russia's Communist Party accused President Vladimir Putin on Saturday of piling up vast powers and said the Kremlin's main party represented billionaires rather than ordinary people.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin was named Time magazine's "Person of the Year" for 2007 on Wednesday for bringing his country "roaring back to the table of world power."
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Russia's biggest political party is due to confirm Putin aide Dmitri Medvedev as its candidate for the presidency.
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TORONTO (CP) - Canada&#39;s rich are getting richer, according to Canadian Business magazine&#39;s sixth annual Rich 100, a ranking of Canada&#39;s wealthiest citizens that hits newsstands Monday.