Venezuela denies plan to buy Russia subs
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The Venezuelan government has no immediate plans to buy Russian submarines, the defense minister told the state news agency Friday, denying a Russian newspaper report.
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Russia is considering forming a natural gas cartel, President Vladimir Putin has said, rejecting Western criticism of Moscow's reliability as an energy supplier and defending his record on democracy.
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MOSCOW, Dec. 17 -- Russia pledged Friday to  ignore a U.S. court ban on the looming auction of oil giant Yukos' key production unit, while a consortium of Western banks reportedly put on hold billions of dollars in credit for the state-run Russian gas company that was expected to buy the unit.
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RUSSIAN oil giant Sibneft today rejected any suggestion of a conflict of interest existing between Chelsea and CSKA Moscow who are due to meet in the Champions League.
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Venezuela's foreign minister on Wednesday rejected accusations by U.S. Secretary of State-designate Condoleezza Rice that President Hugo Chavez's government is meddling in the affairs of neighboring countries.
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Venezuela's president, Hugo ChÃ¡vez, last night denied turning his country into a dictatorship and said democracy was blossoming despite an "imperialist conspiracy" to overthrow his government.
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A Kremlin official rejected as &quot;lies&quot; media claims that Moscow would like to create an OPEC-style cartel to supply the European Union with gas, after it signed a cooperation deal with Algeria.
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Venezuela accuses the US of detaining its foreign minister in an airport incident - a charge the US denies.
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Russian officials Wednesday shrugged off the decision by embattled oil giant Yukos to file for bankruptcy protection in the US, saying the move was politically motivated.
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Venezuela's leader Hugo Chavez rejects US and EU criticism as he prepares to revoke a  TV station's licence.
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Russia angrily denied allegations Thursday that Russian forces had smuggled a cache of high explosives out of Iraq prior to the U.S. invasion in March 2003.
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Russian Defence Minister rejects allegations that have sparked a crisis in the between Russia and Israel.
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Yesterday the authorities of Russia and Israel rejected rumors about a crisis in bilateral relations.
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Russia denied Friday it was withholding information from a panel investigating alleged corruption in the multibillion-dollar U.N. oil-for-food program in Iraq.
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ConocoPhillips on Tuesday said Venezuela assumed control of its operations in the country after it was unable to reach an agreement with the government over the nationalization of two multibillion-dollar oil projects.
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Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov denied Friday that Russia was holding secret talks with Syria over a deal to provide the Middle Eastern country with high-precision missile systems.
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Spain's foreign minister defends his claim that the former government supported the 2002 Venezuela coup.