Russia rejects 'lies' over gas deal with Algeria
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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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Accusations of Libyan and Burkina Faso involvement in an alleged coup plot in Mauritania are rejected.
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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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Russia's foreign minister on Wednesday defended sweeping political changes announced by President Vladimir Putin earlier this week, telling the United States and other critics that the plans ar
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Chechnya's Kremlin-backed government on Thursday dismissed as a bluff a report on a Web site linked to separatist rebels that top leaders of the insurgency have called for a unilateral cease-fire in February.
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Kofi Annan rejects claims that France and Russia might have been willing to ease sanctions on Iraq in return for oil.
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Russia won the right on Friday to route  a major gas supply route to Europe through its ally Serbia, a  move analysts described as marking a Kremlin victory in a  "pipeline war" with the European Union.
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Russia has not &quot;slammed the door&quot; on the  Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) treaty, even though it has  pulled out of the pact, Russian media quoted the country&#39;s  foreign minister as saying on Friday.
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Russia on Wednesday rejected a NATO offer to hold a special conference on a key European arms pact and instead proposed working on a new agreement, local news agencies quoted a top defense ministry official as saying.
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Russia and the European Union failed to complete negotiations Thursday on a "strategic partnership" because of disagreements over security, but said they were confident that final agreement will be reached next ...
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Russia won the right on Friday to route a major gas supply route to Europe through its ally Serbia, a move analysts described as marking a Kremlin victory in a "pipeline war" with the European Union.
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Russia's Natural Resources Minister defended a decision that will keep foreign-controlled oil companies out of auctions of strategic raw materials resources, arguing Wednesday that tighter control would help Russia tackle widespread poverty in the country, a stated goal of president Vladimir Putin.
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Russia's atomic energy agency declined  to comment on Monday on Japanese news reports that North Korea  had offered Russia exclusive rights to its natural uranium  deposits in exchange for support at six-way talks on  Pyongyang's nuclear weapons.
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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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The government of Estonia has rejected an application from a Gazprom-backed pipeline project to survey the seabed off its coast. The decision is likely to delay plans to pipe Russian gas directly to Germany.  Estonia's Prime Minister Andrus Ansip cited "national issues" as the reason.
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CALGARY - Petro-Canada chief executive Ron Brenneman yesterday dismissed the risks of investing in Russia, a day after reaching a major deal with state-owned gas producer Gazprom.
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Algerian Energy Minister Chakib Khelil ruled out the creation of a gas cartel modelled on oil group OPEC, saying it would be impossible to create such an organisation.