Putin defends auction sale of giant oil company to little known ...
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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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Russian President Vladimir Putin said state-run companies may bid for OAO Yukos Oil Co. assets in any sale to collect back taxes, raising the prospect of further government control over the nation&#39;s oil and gas industry.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin denied charges that the widely publicized trial of Yukos founder and the nation's richest man Mikhail Khodorkovsky was political.
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BEIJING, Dec. 23 -- Russian President Vladimir Putin has affirmed that the sale of Yukos&#39;s biggest subsidiary company Yugansk to BaikalFinansGroup complied with the law.
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President Vladimir Putin suggested that the secretive buyers of the largest subsidiary of the oil giant Yukos might transfer the assets to other owners.
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President Vladimir Putin on Thursday strongly defended the purchase of Yukos oil company assets by a state-owned firm, saying the state was just getting its due in moving to get control of the second largest oil production facility in Russia.
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President Vladimir V. Putin suggested that the secretive buyers, as had been suspected, might transfer the assets to other owners.
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President Vladimir V. Putin said on Friday that state-run companies might bid for assets of Yukos in any sale to collect back taxes.
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When the Russian government&#39;s 7.6 percent stake in Lukoil - the world&#39;s No. 2 oil company by reserves - is auctioned Wednesday in the nation&#39;s biggest privatization, industry watchers aren&#39;t expecting any surprises.
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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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Baikal Finance Group, an unknown  company, won an auction for Russian oil company's YUKOS's core  asset Sunday with a $9.4 billion bid and analysts said whomever  was behind the bid enjoyed Kremlin favor.
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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 oil major YUKOS denied on  Wednesday reports it planned to sell its Lithuanian refinery  Mazeikiu Nafta to help cover its huge back tax bill.
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the main production unit of beleaguered Yukos. The oil giant insists the auction is state-sponsored theft and claims it is the victim of a Kremlin vendetta.
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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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The White House deserves kudos for protesting the sale of the main production unit of the Russian oil giant Yukos by the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, to a company that no one had ever heard of before.
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Russian press reports say oil company Surgutneftegaz is the mystery purchaser of the main assets of Russia&#39;s Yukos empire, which was auctioned for $9.35 billion to a shell company at the weekend.