Putin Defends Auction Sale of Yukos Unit
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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday defended the sale of a key unit of the Yukos oil firm to a little known company, calling it legal, and said he could live with a Ukraine presidency of Viktor ...
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Russian President Vladimir Putin  strongly defended the takeover by state oil firm Rosneft of  stricken oil major YUKOS' key production unit, Yuganskneftegaz,  calling it a legitimate business deal.
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Yukos' main shareholder files a legal complaint to prevent Russia selling off the embattled oil giant's key unit,  reports say.
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Russia said on Friday it would go ahead and sell Yuganskneftegaz, the main oil production unit of YUKOS, despite a US bankruptcy court order seeking to block Sunday&#39;s auction for 10 days.
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President Putin insists Russia does not want to interfere in Airbus, after a Russian bank buys into parent firm EADS.
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MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin delivered a tough defense Thursday of the secretive transfer of the crumbling Yukos oil empire&#39;s most lucrative fields to a state company, adding acidly that a US judge who sought to block the sale most likely couldn&#39;t
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MOSCOW  - Russia forged ahead with the weekend auction of the core asset of crippled oil giant Yukos despite a disputed US court order barring the sale, with state-controlled gas giant Gazprom entering the bidding.
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Russia said on Friday it would go ahead  and sell Yuganskneftegaz, the main oil production unit of  YUKOS, despite a U.S. bankruptcy court order seeking to block  Sunday's auction for 10 days.
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The oil wing of Russia's state-controlled natural gas giant Gazprom does not intend to pull out of this weekend's auction of the main production unit of the embattled Yukos oil company, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported Friday.
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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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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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Russian President Vladimir Putin Thursday strongly defended the takeover by state oil firm Rosneft of stricken oil major YUKOS&#39;s key production unit, Yuganskneftegaz
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has defended the acquisition of Yuganskneftegaz, core asset of embattled oil major Yukos by the state-run Rosneft, saying that the state was protecting its interests in moving to get control of one of the biggest
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MOSCOW  - Russia's Federal Property Fund plans to go ahead with the auction of the largest production unit of the embattled oil giant Yukos regardless of a U.S. court injunction against a sell-off that is likely to put the heart of the company's operations under state control, an official said Saturday.
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President Vladimir Putin on Thursday strongly defended the purchase of Yukos oil assets by a state-owned company, saying the state was protecting its interests in moving to get control of the one of the biggest production facilities in Russia.
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President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that the buyer of a key asset of the bankrupt Russian oil giant Yukos is a group of "individuals with a long history in the energy sector" and he said the sale, which went forward despite a U.S. court injunction barring it, followed Russian law and was an internal matter.
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Russia said on Friday it would go ahead  with an auction to sell the key asset of embattled oil company  YUKOS YUKO.MM despite a U.S. bankruptcy court decision to  block it for several days.