Interfax reported that Russian Aluminum or Rusal and OJSC Rosenergoatom have signed a two year agreement on the supply of electric power at a price of three cents per kWh. A joint statement issued by the companies said that the contract ...
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Russian president Mr Vladimir Putin on Thursday called for the billionaire owners of the Alfa-Access-Renova consortium to invest the USD 28 billion cash they will get from selling their 50% stake in TNK-BP locally. Mr Putin told reporters ...
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The US has confirmed it will resist efforts by China, Russia and their allies to put the internet under the control of the United Nations. The confirmation came in a statement issued by the US Department of State on US proposals to be ...
Tags: internet, telecommunications, network, IT industry
The UK should take more control of the internet to counter the US stranglehold, says an IT entrepreneur. “A British scientist invented the world wide web, so why are we now made to feel lucky to be involved?” said Scott ...
Tags: UK, IT industry, US stranglehold, IT service
OJSC MMC Norilsk Nickel announced that in 2012 the Company fulfilled its obligations with respect to the long term target program Relocation of Norilsk and Dudinka citizens to regions of the Russian Federation with more favorable natural ...
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Reuters reported that Rosneft is talking to oil majors and traders, including Shell, Total and Glencore, to raise up to USD 10 billion using future oil exports as collateral to complete its purchase of TNK-BP and become the world's biggest ...
Tags: oil majors and traders, future oil exports, oil producer, trade finance
Ukraine's Energy and Coal Industry Ministry has again requested of the Energy Community Secretariat the immediate initiation of consultations over the South Stream gas pipeline project which runs counter to Ukraine's national interests. ...
Tags: gas pipeline project, unified energy market, gas-transport system
The Russkaya compressor station site (near Anapa, Krasnodar Territory) hosted the celebrations dedicated to the construction start-up of the South Stream gas pipeline. The celebrations were attended by Vladimir Putin, President of the ...
Russian billionaire Vladimir Potanin and aluminum giant Rusal will settle their disputes over ownership rights in the world’s largest nickel producer, GMK Norilsk Nickel in a London arbitration proceeding, Bloomberg reported Friday, ...
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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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Mr Vladimir Putin president of Russia will meet his Ugandan counterpart Mr Yoweri Museveni to discuss broader trade and economic cooperation with the East African country. As per report,during the negotiations the sides intend to discuss ...
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Rosneft President Igor Sechin Tuesday met Chinese Vice Premier Wang Qishan to discuss the terms of an intergovernmental agreement to build and operate a refining and petrochemical complex in China's Tianjin, the state-owned Russian oil ...
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Lobbying among countries and various special interests to"take control"of the internet is intensifying in advance of the International Telecommunications Union(ITU)World Conference on International Telecommunications in Dubai next week. ...
Tags: UN, ITU, ITRs, World Conference on International Telecommunications, Dubai
Russia has introduced a law ostensibly aimed at sites containing images of child sexual abuse and other illegal material, but it has raised fears of censorship. In July, both houses of Russia's parliament voted in favour of the law that ...
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A warm winter is rare in the Arkhangelsk region, an inhospitable, vast Russian tundra bordering the Barents and Kara seas. But this year it came close, with temperatures rarely dropping below -6C until the middle of January. Welcome relief, ...
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