Russia's Sakhalin-1 energy project 'respects environmental norms': Rosneft
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The head of Russian oil group Rosneft said that the Sakhalin-1 energy project, which the company is developing with US group ExxonMobil, fully respected environmental legislation.
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Royal Dutch Shell  and its partners in the $22 billion Sakhalin-2 project have accepted cash and a promise of future cooperation with Gazprom  in a deal to let the Russian firm into the venture, a source close to talks between the companies said on Tuesday.
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The Czech Republic said on Tuesday it would not be intimidated by Russia over plans to site parts of a U.S. missile defence system on its soil, and said attempts at "blackmail" by Moscow would backfire.Comment
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Excerpt from report by Russian RBK TV on 5 September  [Presenter] Rosprirodnadzor [the Russian Federal Service for Regulation of the Use of Natural Resources] demands that the Sakhalin-2 project should be put on hold.
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Russia's state environmental agency has said it had launched a legal challenge to work at Sakhalin-2, a massive oil and gas project led by British group Shell, as efforts continued by state-owned Gazprom to obtain a stake in the project.
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President Vladimir Putin gave his seal of approval for Russia's crucial backing of the Kyoto Protocol, clearing the way for the U.N. environment pact aimed at curbing global warming to come into force early next year.
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Russian economic growth is unlikely to suffer because of government support for the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, a leading analyst says.
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Russia's cabinet said it supported the Kyoto Protocol, Interfax reported, in the first concrete sign that Moscow would ratify the pact and enable the UN's global warming treaty to enter into force.
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Europeans welcomed Russia's move toward ratifying the Kyoto Protocol, but environmentalists cautioned that the accord, rejected by the United States, can only be a "first step" toward negotiating deeper cuts in greenhouse gas emissions.
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Russia has suspended 12 water use licenses for the Shell-run Sakhalin-2 oil and gas project after uncovering violations of environmental law, the ministry of natural resources said in a statement.
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By Martin Flanagan  PRESSURE from Russian authorities has started threatening the timetable of the Shell-led Sakhalin-2 project, its operator said yesterday, amid concerns it may fail to supply Asia and the United States in 2008.
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Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L) CEO Jeroen  van der Veer met Gazprom  chief Alexei Miller on  Friday in Moscow to discuss admitting the Russian gas monopoly  to the Sakhalin-2 project, a Gazprom official said.
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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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Iran has met its commitments to Russia  over building the Islamic Republic&#39;s first nuclear power plant  and is ready to go beyond those commitments to assist the work,  an Iranian official said on Sunday.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a bill that marks Russia&#39;s ratification of the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, clearing the path for the United Nations environmental pact to be implemented next year.
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The Russian government approved the Kyoto Protocol Thursday, giving decisive support to the long-delayed climate change treaty that should allow it to come into force worldwide.
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China welcomed on Thursday Russia&#39;s ratification of the Kyoto climate change protocol and urged countries that have not done so to follow suit.