Putin advisor calls Yukos asset sale âscam of the yearâ
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Andrei Illarionov, the outspoken senior economic adviser to Vladimir Putin, Russia&#39;s president, said on Tuesday that the sale of Yuganskneftegas the main production asset of Yukos
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RBC, 14.09.2004, Moscow 16:47:50.News about Russian President Vladimir Putin&#39;s approval of Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov&#39;s proposal to exchange a stake in Gazprom for Rosneft assets spurred an upward trend on the stock market, traders say.
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A top Yukos executive told a US audience that Moscow was undervaluing his company's assets to keep Western firms out of the Russian market as the struggling giant sold off its facilities to pay off back taxes, ITAR-TASS reported.
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Russia's justice ministry announced plans to sell a part of the Yukos oil giant to cover the company's outstanding back taxes, officials said.
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MOSCOW A top economic adviser to President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday denounced the government&#39;s takeover of the main asset of Yukos as the &quot;swindle of the year,&quot; and warned that growing state interventionism might prevent the economy from growing at its
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Russia has sold the heart of the Yukos empire in an auction reminiscent of the country&#39;s notorious privatizations of the 1990s, analysts said Monday, as the former CEO of the oil company offered bitter season&#39;s greetings to the Kremlin from
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With a Putin aide now at its helm, Russia's state-run oil firm seems set to grab the falling giant's assets
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Russian President Vladimir Putin throws a question mark over the future of Yukos, saying state-owned companies should be allowed to buy the oil firm's assets.
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President Vladimir Putin on Thursday strongly defended the purchase of Yukos oil company assets by a state-owned firm, saying the state was just getting its due in moving to get control of the second largest oil production facility in Russia.
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The mysterious auctioning off of part of Russia's Yukos oil giant dominates many editorials today. Some papers even point the finger at Russia's President Vladimir Putin.
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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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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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Russia has sold the heart of the Yukos empire in an auction reminiscent of the country's notorious privatizations of the 1990s, analysts said Monday, as the former CEO of the oil company offered bitter season's greetings to the Kremlin from his courtroom cage.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin on  Thursday 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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Assets of Russia's beleaguered Yukos oil company should be sold for at least &#36;15 billion, a senior official said Monday, as the company's main production unit is evaluated for sale against a crushing back-tax bill.
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Russia's President Putin says the purchase of Yukos' main asset by state-owned oil firm Rosneft was in line with free market principles.
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Russian Presidential advisor Andrey Illarionov called the sale of Yuganskneftegaz the fraud of the year at a press conference reviewing the year.