Update 1: Kremlin Backs Gazprom Deal
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President Vladimir Putin backed a government proposal Tuesday to swap state-owned oil company Rosneft for shares in Gazprom - a major step toward removing restrictions on foreign investors&#39; access to shares in the natural gas giant.
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Russia&#39;s anti-trust body said on Saturday it had approved the state oil firm Rosneft&#39;s purchase on Thursday of the obscure buyer of the key production unit of beleaguered YUKOS oil company.
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Gazprom and U.S. energy company ConocoPhillips Co. have signed a memorandum of understanding on the development of a large Barents Sea gas field, the Russian state-run gas giant said Wednesday.
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President Vladimir Putin gave his  blessing on Friday for Russian state energy firms to bid for  oil major YUKOS's assets if bailiffs put them up for sale to  recover a huge back-tax bill.
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GAZPROM asserted its status as a major force in Russian oil yesterday by confirming that it would bid for Yuganskneftegaz, the Yukos oil subsidiary.
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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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MOSCOW  - The Russian gas giant Gazprom said its board of directors had given its go-ahead for the state-controlled firm to bid for the main production unit of embattled oil group Yukos.
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Bulgaria backs a gas pipeline deal with Russia that is set to strengthen Moscow's grip on energy to Europe.
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Russia's anti-trust body said on  Saturday it had approved the state oil firm Rosneft's purchase  on Thursday of the obscure buyer of the key production unit of  beleaguered YUKOS oil company.
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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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Gazprom, Russia&#39;s biggest taxpayer, decided to sell the entire stock of Gazpromneft, which it thinks &quot; has accomplished its mission,&quot; the Itar-Tass news agency quoted a source close to the gas giant as reporting on Tuesday evening.
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Russian president Vladimir Putin backs plans to end restrictions on the foreign ownership of shares in energy giant Gazprom.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin  strongly defended the takeover by state oil firm Rosneft of  stricken oil major YUKOS's key production unit,  Yuganskneftegaz, calling it a legitimate business deal.
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Russian gas monopoly Gazprom with the Ukrainian oil and gas company Naftogaz reached the agreement on Wednesday on investments interaction in the International Consortium for the management and development of ...
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KIEV -- President Leonid Kuchma won crucial political support yesterday from President Vladimir Putin of Russia, who sided with him in rejecting an opposition demand to rerun the presidential runoff held 11 days ago.
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The deal between Serbia and Russiaâs Gazprom comes four days after Russia announced a major deal with Bulgaria.
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MOSCOW, June 22 -- The state-controlled energy giant Gazprom on Friday bought a vast natural gas field in Siberia from a unit of  British-based petroleum conglomerate BP, continuing the Kremlin's policy of shifting control of the country's major energy projects from foreign to state hands.