Putin acknowledges state&#39;s implication in Yukos intrigue
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The last week was marked with a very important event in Russia. It took the state a year to accomplish that: President Putin virtually acknowledged at the press conference in the Kremlin that the main objective
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NEW YORK, December 24  - Russian President Vladimir Putin made an attempt yesterday to justify the indirect transfer of Yukosâ (YUSA.
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Russian papers wonder what President Putin's nomination of Viktor Zubkov as PM means for the presidential election.
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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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Russian president Vladimir Putin backs plans to end restrictions on the foreign ownership of shares in energy giant Gazprom.
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The Russian president on Thursday hit out at the flawed privatisations of the early 1990s and argued that the state had every right to make amends by re-nationalising Yukos&#39;s core assets.
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Vladimir Putin began a state visit to Kiev yesterday with a television interview in which he held out the possibility of favourable treatment to Ukrainians, a move thought likely to be helpful to the pro-Moscow candidate in next Sunday&#39;s presidential
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President Vladimir Putin of Russia has denied that politics was driving a legal crackdown on the Yukos oil giant and its founder, Mr Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a day after the firm&#39;s biggest shareholder launched legal action against the Russian government.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that &quot;through its work within the Central Asian Cooperation Organization [CACO] Russia is hoping to seriously expand its practical scope for countering such threats as terrorism and religious extremism, and for
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Amid the intrigue surrounding the sale of the largest subsidiary of the Russian oil giant Yukos, the Kremlin effectively wound up with control of about 15 percent of the country&#39;s oil production, which industry analysts had speculated was the government&#39;s
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MOSCOW Russian President Vladimir Putin is taking steps to further strengthen the central government&#39;s control over the nation&#39;s political life.
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The nationalisation of Russian oil major YUKOS&#39;s main unit has cast doubt over the timing of plans to create a huge state energy holding and liberalise trade in the shares of gas monopoly Gazprom, analysts said on Friday.
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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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Russian President Vladimir Putin Thursday strongly defended the takeover by state oil firm Rosneft of stricken oil major YUKOS's key production unit, Yuganskneftegaz, saying it was a legitimate business deal.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin answers journalists&#39; questions during a news conference in Moscow&#39;s Kremlin, Dec. 23, 2004.
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LONDON (CBS.MW) -- Russian President Vladmir Putin told a group of media executives &quot;the state&#39;s goal has not been, is not and will not be&quot; to nationalize the country&#39;s emabattled oil giant Yukos (YUKOY) , AFX News reported, though said that state firms
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has confirmed Russia&#39;s willingness to start the early repayment of debts within the framework of the Paris Club.