YUKOS Slides Toward Collapse as Unit Sold
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Russia's top oil exporter, YUKOS , slid  closer to collapse after it lost its main production unit to a  mystery buyer in a forced auction and its crude shipments  started to slow.
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Yukos shares plunged 18% on the Russian exchange yesterday after reports that the oil firm has been hit with another back-tax bill, bringing its total debt to $17bn (Â£9.
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Yukos shares plummeted nearly 10 per cent in the first minutes of trading on Moscow&#39;s stock exchanges Friday after an unconfirmed report that the embattled oil giant&#39;s prize production unit could be sold for a quarter of its recommended value
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Description: Yukos Oil&#39;s main asset is sold at auction to a little-known firm, the Baikal Finance Group. A US State Department spokesman says the Russian company&#39;s breakup has &quot;eroded Russia&#39;s reputation as
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Russia&#39;s top oil exporter, YUKOS, slid closer to collapse after it lost its main production unit to a mystery buyer in a forced auction and acknowledged on Monday that its crude shipments were slowing.
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A majority stake in the embattled Russian oil company Yukos' main production unit will be sold at an auction scheduled for Dec. 19, an announcement in the official government newspaper said Friday, confirming the country's largest oil producer will be broken up as part of a politically charged battle for control over the strategic resource.
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Russia pressed ahead on Friday with the last step in the destruction of oil major YUKOS, saying it will auction its main Siberian unit on Dec. 19 for $8.65 billion and hit it with a new tax claim.
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Shares in the beleaguered Russian oil company Yukos fell Monday following a report that tax officials are preparing a separate &#36;3 billion tax claim against its main subsidiary.
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Russian oil major Yukos is expected to face the auction of its main subsidiary by the end of the month at a price far lower than its estimated worth, a move analysts say could ruin the company and destroy the equity of minority shareholders.
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An independent assessor valued Yukos&#39; main production unit at $14.7 billion to $17.3 billion on Thursday, the same day a news agency reported that a controlling stake in the business could be sold for just over $4 billion.
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The Russian government said on Tuesday that it would sell part of the oil giant Yukos&#39;s most valuable subsidiary by the end of November, but at a price well below what investors and analysts consider its worth.
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Assets of Yukos, once Russia's biggest oil producer, will be sold at an auction March 27 as the company's liquidation begins, the government announced Thursday.
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Russian oil giant Yukos teetered nearer to collapse as the company said its shareholders would vote on whether the company should file for bankruptcy or liquidation next month.
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MOSCOW, DECEMBER 20: Russia Left Yukos and its investors guessing as to its next move on Monday after selling its main oil production unit to Baikal Finance Group, a mystery firm registered at a grocery in provincial Russia.
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Russia's top oil exporter, YUKOS, slid  closer to collapse after it lost its main production unit to a  mystery buyer in a forced auction and its crude shipments  started to slow.
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The sale by auction of the main production arm of Russian oil company Yukos is scheduled to take place today. Yukos&#39;s troubles began when its founder and key shareholder, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, broke an unwritten
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Russian state oil firm Rosneft has bought the core unit of Yukos, nationalizing more than 10 percent of the country&#39;s crude output and dealing a shattering blow to a once flourishing private enterprise.