Putin Defends Yukos Deal as 'Perfectly Normal'
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The Russian leader strongly defended the purchase by a state-controlled company of the winner of Sunday's auction for the largest subsidiary of the oil giant Yukos.
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Russia does not aim to nationalise embattled oil giant Yukos but state firms could bid for assets of the company if they are sold to pay off the company's multi-billion-dollar tax debts, President Vladimir Putin said.
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President Putin offers guarded support for Iran's divisive nuclear programme after talks in Tehran.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin is defending his government&#39;s efforts to strengthen and centralize control in the wake of several recent terrorist attacks.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin  unambiguously backed the Kyoto Protocol on Tuesday, in his  first public comments since his government sent it to the  Kremlin- dominated parliament for ratification.
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President Vladimir Putin on Friday dismissed suggestions he was taking Russia back to its Soviet past and said he viewed freedom and democracy as key to a stable future.
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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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Russian President Vladimir Putin has said he has no problem working with Ukrainian presidential challenger Viktor Yushchenko if he wins the repeat elections on Dec. 26.
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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 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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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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The sale of the embattled Yukos oil giant's main production unit, Yuganskneftegaz, could settle the company's outstanding back-tax bill, Russian newspapers quoted a top economic adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin as saying in their Thursday editions.
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Tony Blair says Kremlin should not feel threatened by nuclear shield.
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President Vladimir Putin said Friday, the government has no plans to seize the embattled oil giant, but if its assets are sold, anyone, including government organizations, will be able to bid.
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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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For more than four years now the word President Vladimir Putin has used about the situation in Chechnya is &quot;normalisation&quot;.
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President Vladimir Putin said that he would agree to become prime minister if Dmitry Medvedev is elected as his successor.