Putin claims the right to re-nationalise Yukos
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The Russian president on Thursday hit out at the flawed privatisations of the early 1990s and argued that the state had every right to make amends by re-nationalising Yukos&#39;s core assets.
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President Vladimir Putin on Thursday strongly defended the purchase of Yukos oil assets by a state-owned company, saying the state was protecting its interests in moving to get control of the one of the biggest production facilities in Russia.
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CHELYABINSK, Russia  - 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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MOSCOW  - President Vladimir Putin backed a government proposal Tuesday to make the state oil company Rosneft a subsidiary of Gazprom - a major step toward giving foreign investors access to the natural gas giant's coveted local shares.
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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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Russian President Putin approved the suggestion made by Prime Minister Fradkov to promptly liberalize the share market of natural gas monopoly Gazprom .
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Russian President Vladimir Putin announces a radical overhaul of state bodies in response to recent attacks.
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Russia's liberal economy minister joined a growing backlash against the effective re-nationalization of the country's top oil exporter Yukos and argued that state energy companies should be privatized.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin told tycoons not to worry about more rigorous tax probes after repeated investigations into Yukos brought the country's number one oil giant to its knees and sparked worries of a state re-nationalization campaign.
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President Vladimir Putin affirmed the legality of the $9.3 billion sale of the crown jewel of the Yukos oil empire to a mysterious company, suggesting the new owners could eventually link up with another Russian energy company or a Chinese conglomerate.
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A Russian state oil firm has bought  YUKOS's core unit, effectively nationalizing 11 percent of the  country's crude output and dealing a heavy blow to YUKOS's  attempts to halt its own dismemberment.
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Free-market principles were followed when a state-owned oil firm bought a key Yukos asset, Russia's president says.
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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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VLADIMIR PUTIN, the Russian President, yesterday poured scorn on the US legal system when he defended the takeover of Yuganskneftegaz, the Yukos oil production
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Russian President Vladimir Putin announced initiatives Monday that would further strengthen the central government's control over the nation's political life.
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China lent Russia $6bn to help renationalise the key Yugansk unit of oil group Yukos, the Kremlin reveals.
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Russia's first post-Soviet leader Boris Yeltsin issued a veiled warning that President Vladimir Putin's decision to hand sweeping new powers to the Kremlin in the wake of the Beslan hostage crisis could roll back democratic freedoms.