russia: Searching for Yuganskâs mystery buyer
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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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PETER CAVE: A mystery Russian company has bought what&#39;s been described as the heart of the country&#39;s beleaguered oil giant, Yukos.
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RUSSIAN OIL FIGHT: The main production subsidiary of oil giant Yukos, Yuganskneftegaz, is scheduled to be auctioned off by the Russian government on Sunday to pay off &#36;28 billion in back taxes it says Yukos owes.
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The sale of Russian oil company Yukos' main production unit to a mystery buyer in a forced auction further erodes confidence in Russia's legal institutions, the State Department said on Monday.
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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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RBC, 30.11.2004, Moscow 12:09:36.Gazpromneft will take part in an auction on selling YUKOS&#39; oil producing subsidiary Yuganskneftegaz.
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MOSCOW, December 17 (Itar-Tass) -- Gazprom gas giant has applied to the Russian Federal Property Fund for taking part in the Yuganskneftegaz auction.
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Managers from a secretive, Kremlin-loyal oil company represented the mystery buyer of the beleaguered Yukos oil giant's core subsidiary, two Russian newspapers reported Tuesday.
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The mysterious auctioning off of part of Russia's Yukos oil giant dominates many editorials today. Some papers even point the finger at Russia's President Vladimir Putin.
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One of the seven great unsolved mysteries of mathematics may have been cracked by a reclusive Russian who is not remotely interested in the Â£560,000 prize his solution could win him, it emerged today.
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Venus Williams of the US returns a shot during a match against Elena Bovina of Russia at the Kremlin Cup tennis tournament in Moscow&#39;s Olympic Indoor stadium on Friday, Oct. 15, 2004.
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Top Russian oil exporter YUKOS  threatened to escalate its legal battle abroad Tuesday as the  mystery surrounding the buyer of its core asset began to lift  with newspapers linking it to Russia's No. 4 oil firm,  Surgutneftegaz.
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Russia's top oil exporter, YUKOS, slid  closer to collapse after a mystery buyer bought its main  production unit in a forced auction and its crude oil shipments  started to slow.
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Prosecutors searched the offices of the Yukos oil giant's biggest Siberian subsidiary Friday as this month's auction approached against the parent company's crippling back tax debts.
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MOSCOW : The Russian oil giant Yukos oil giant has asked US investment bank JPMorgan Chase to issue a second valuation of its top producer ahead of its expected auction by the state, the Interfax news agency quoted unnamed sources as saying.
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Prague, 20 December 2004 (RFE/RL) -- The question everyone in Russia is asking a day after an obscure company won a controlling stake in one of the country&#39;s largest oil producers is: Just who is Baikalfinansgrup?
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Russia's Gazprom monopoly will bid for the crown jewel of the embattled Yukos oil giant during an upcoming December auction, its chief said confirming long-held market rumors.