Russia sets seal on state takeover of Yuganskneftegaz
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MOSCOW  - Russia&#39;s anti-monopoly agency approved state oil company Rosneft&#39;s acquisition of the firm which won an auction for the embattled Yukos oil giant&#39;s core asset.
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Russia&#39;s President Vladimir Putin insisted on Thursday that the state was protecting its legitimate interests by swallowing the main asset of the Yukos oil giant, in the first renationalisation of the post-Soviet era.
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Russia moved to bolster its role in the strategic energy sector as gas giant Gazprom said it would acquire state oil firm Rosneft, handing the government control of the world's largest gas producer.
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State-controlled Russian oil company Rosneft said Thursday it acquired licenses formerly held by Yukos to develop a number of eastern Siberian oil fields.
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Russia&#39;s anti-trust body said on Saturday it had approved the state oil firm Rosneft&#39;s purchase on Thursday of the obscure buyer of the key production unit of beleaguered YUKOS oil company.
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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 on  Thursday strongly defended the takeover by state oil firm  Rosneft of stricken oil major YUKOS's key production unit,  Yuganskneftegaz, calling it a legitimate business deal.
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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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Moscow. (Interfax) - The assets of Yuganskneftegaz, the core production unit of Yukos sold at a December 19 auction, will be transferred to a separate, wholly state-owned company, the Russian Industry and
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A Kremlin statement issued earlier today reads that the President signed the Protocol last night. It was approved in Duma, a subwing of the Russian Parliament, and the Federal Council.
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Russian state-owned oil company Rosneft has bought the mysterious buyer of Yukos&#39; most important production unit, Russian news agencies reported late Wednesday, in a deal that appeared to move the unit one step closer to ownership by state-controlled gas
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The Russian government has approved a plan for the merger of natural gas giant Gazprom and the state-owned Rosneft oil company, a news agency reported Thursday.
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Russia does not intend to nationalize the Yukos oil company, but state-owned organizations will be able to bid if its assets are put up for auction, President Vladimir Putin said Friday.
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An oil company controlled by the Russian government said that it had bought the company that had won Sunday's auction for the largest subsidiary of Yukos.
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MOSCOW - Russian state-owned oil company Rosneft has bought the mysterious buyer of Yukos&#39; most important production unit, Russian news agencies reported, in a deal that appeared to move the unit one step closer to ownership by state-controlled gas giant
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MOSCOW/SCHLESWIG, Germany  - Russian President  Vladimir Putin threw his weight behind the controversial sale  of top oil firm YUKOS's core asset Yugansk on Tuesday despite a  threat from the stricken company to escalate its legal battle  in foreign courts.
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State-controlled companies have every right to bid for Yukos assets if they are sold to pay off the firm&#39;s whopping tax debt, although the government is not seeking to nationalize the company, President Vladimir Putin said Friday.