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Market Matters: RTS Has Toughest Week Since '99
Trading on the dollar-denominated RTS exchange was suspended three times on Friday as anxiety deepened over whether the U.S. House of Representatives would pass a $700 billion financial sector bailout package and share prices on Russian and international markets plummeted.
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| Saturday, October 11, 2008
Updated at 10 October 2008 0:56 Moscow Time | |
Published: 6 December 2007
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Business in Brief
Meat Shortage for Far EastLithuanian Heat Up 15%Sitronics, MTS Sign DealsMongolia to Buy WheatPharmstandard Sales Jump1.2% Consumer Price RiseTNK-BP to Invest $1BlnUES Delays TGK-4 SaleMol Plans Gas Transit Line$1.4Bln to Develop FishingProkhorov Rejects Bid PleaMorgan Stanley Into Dixy$1Bln Atomic Investment |
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State Mulls Rapid Food Export Ban
Reuters The government may adopt a legislative tool which will enable it to slap an immediate export ban on some agricultural commodities instead of waiting for more than a month, the Economic Development and Trade Ministry said Wednesday. |
State-Led Drive Aims to Close Technology Gap
By Lyubov Pronina / Bloomberg The government is focusing attention and funding on making the country a scientific and technological power again. |
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Tymoshenko Wants to Scrap Gas Deal
Bloomberg Yulia Tymoshenko, the former Ukrainian prime minister poised to return to office, wants to scrap a natural gas accord with Russia, raising concern that a price dispute between the two countries could be repeated. |
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Taxes, Inflation Blamed for 25% Fall in Gazprom Profit
Bloomberg Gazprom said profit fell 25 percent in the second quarter as inflation and taxes drove up costs. |
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Pipeline to China Cost Hits $12Bln
Reuters The cost of an oil pipeline from Russia to China has risen to $12 billion, and the countries' struggle to agree on a pricing deal for a similar gas pipe could drag on for years, a Russian energy official said Wednesday. |
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Khodorkovsky Lawyer Sees New Trial
Reuters Jailed tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the former head of Yukos, will probably be put on trial again next year for embezzlement and money laundering, one of his lawyers said Wednesday. |
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$1M Find In Storchak Apartment
Reuters A prosecutor said Wednesday that $1 million in cash had been found in the apartment of Deputy Finance Minister Sergei Storchak, who faces charges of attempting to embezzle $43 million. |
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Crisis -- What Crisis?
By Yulia Latynina
What Will Happen Next to the U.S. Dollar
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A Selective Definition of Democracy
By Alexei Pankin
Medvedev's New Doctrine
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Making Strategic Assets Accessible to Investors
By Vladimir Frolov
Prepare for a Bumpy Ride
By Boris Kagarlitsky
Why Russians Put Stalin at the Top of the List
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Medvedev's Cure for the Far East
By Nikolai Petrov
Global Economy Rests On American Shoulders
By Konstantin Sonin
U.S. Should Recognize South Ossetia
By Richard Lourie
Russia's Animated Debate
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