RIA Novosti reported that Kyrgyzstan has offered Russian energy giant Gazprom the chance to buy 75% of the national gas company Kyrgyzgas for just USD 1, to help the beleaguered Kyrgyz firm settle its debt woes and cut the republic's ...
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RIA Novosti reported that US Russian joint venture Ford Sollers will halt production at its plant in near St Petersburg from December 17 until the end of 2012 and will resume its operations on January 9 after holidays. A company spokesman ...
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RIA Novosti reported that the state owned China Development Bank will provide USD 1.8 billion loan to finance a gas pipeline project in Kazakhstan. The KazTransGas Company said that the loan will be allocated to Beineu Shymkent Gas ...
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RIA Novosti reported that Russian British oil JV TNK-BP has won a tender to buy one of Russia’s last three major unexploited Soviet era oilfields in a deal likely to benefit oil giant Rosneft. The Federal Subsoil Agency said that ...
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RIA Novosti reported that in a new take on the meaning of strip mill, Belarusian metals plant BMZ has produced a corporate calendar for the coming year featuring naked female employees. While last year's calendar showed female workers ...
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RIA Novosti reported that Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich is buying a stake in mining and metals giant Norilsk Nickel to end a long-standing shareholder dispute over the company's corporate management. This follows an agreement ...
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RIA Novosti reported that Gazprom has appealed a ruling by the Moscow Commercial Court upholding the Federal Antimonopoly Service's decision on the company's overrating of liquid sulfur prices in 2011. The court said that in October, the ...
RIA Novosti reported that shares in Russian British oil major TNK-BP jumped 6% after Mr Igor Sechin CEO of Rosneft said his company plans to keep the brand following its acquisition by Rosneft. Mr Sechin said earlier that his company ...
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RIA Novosti reported that Russian and US oil majors Rosneft and ExxonMobil signed an agreement to jointly explore the commercial potential of oil fields in Western Siberia. The two companies will create JV in which Rosneft will hold 51 ...
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RIA Novosti reported that Mr Igor Sechin CEO of Russia's largest oil company Rosneft was elected to its board of directors at a shareholders meeting. Mr Sechin who has led Rosneft since 2004 while being a deputy prime minister in charge ...
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RIA Novosti reported that Russia may lose its investment grade rating if world oil prices plunge to USD 80 per barrel and the Russian government continues massive social and defense spending. Mr Alexei Kudrin ex finance minister of Rusia ...
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RIA Novosti reported that Rosneft, Russia's largest state owned oil company, could sign a final binding agreement with the AAR consortium to buy its 50% stake in Russo British oil venture TNK BP as soon as December. Mr Igor SechinCEO of ...
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RIA Novosti reported that Authorities of Pavlodar oblast link axing of over 400 employees of the steel plant with suspension of its export to Iran. Mr Myrzazhan Ussenov deputy head of entrepreneurship and industry department of Pavlodar ...
Tags: Steel Casting company, expansion of the product line, Pavlodar oblast
RIA Novosti reported that Estonia denied Nord Stream’s request to study areas of the Baltic Sea bed falling within the nation’s commercial waters. In August, the pipeline’s operator requested official permission from the ...
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RIA Novosti reported that Russian gas monopoly Gazprom is restarting gas supply talks with China as a high level Chinese delegation led by Prime Minister Mr Wen Jiabao arrives in Russia to discuss bilateral economic cooperation. Talks ...
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