Kazakhstan Election Centers on Oil Riches
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As this Central Asian oil-producing nation prepares for critical parliamentary elections Sunday, both the government and opposition are trying to play the oil card to their own advantage.
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Kazakhstan has learned at the knee of its neighbor, as Western oil companies are discovering.
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Booming Azerbaijan is the key to the West's energy freedom. It's a precarious place for such a crucial job
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Oil sands aren't the only hot commodity in Alberta.
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Oil-rich Kazakhstan prepared to vote Sunday in a parliamentary poll criticized by the West and all but written off as unfair by opposition parties.
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ConocoPhillipsâs nearly $2 billion strategic investment in Russia may have been marked by an American flag flying over the headquarters of Lukoil, the countryâs second largest oil producer.
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Russia is trouncing the West in the race to gain access to its neighbors enormous oil and gas reserves.
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ASTANA, Kazakhstan -- President Nursultan Nazarbayev's party took an early lead in elections for parliament yesterday and his daughter's new party was running second.
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As expected, the Kremlin-backed candidate Alu Alkhanov has won more than 70 per cent of the vote, and is already outlining his plans for the war-weary region.
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Baku, buoyed by oil revenues in recent years, plans to bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics.
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Kazakhstan and an Eni-led   consortium of oil majors have set January 15 as the new  deadline for talks over the fate of the giant Kashagan  oilfield, Kazakh energy minister Sauat Mynbayev said on Monday.
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ALMATY, Kazakhstan -- For years, Rakhat Aliyev and his wife, Dariga Nazarbayeva, were the power couple of Kazakhstan, building empires in media, banking and politics under the protective wing of Papa -- President Nursultan Nazarbayev.
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Environmentalists in Russia are finding an unlikely ally in the Kremlin as it works to stall projects by oil companies on an island unfathomably rich with oil and gas.
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ST. PETERSBURG -- Twisting as it rises 77 stories, the planned office development known as Gazprom City is testament to the muscle of Russia's richest company. A flickering gas flame captured in soaring glass, the design is also an ode to the country's energy-driven boom.
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The oil giant finds the fastest way to profits may be through the Kremlin's top leadership.
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MOSCOW Houston-based ConocoPhillips is seen as the front-runner in an auction for a stake in the Russian oil company Lukoil. A seven-point-six percent stake in the world&#39;s Number Two oil company by reserves
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With the price of oil and natural gas at nosebleed levels, you might imagine that energy policy would be a high priority in the current presidential campaign.