Reports: Minister bullish on Russia
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Russia's economics minister said Monday that the economy could grow 7 percent this year, beating the government's original forecasts, news reports said.
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Russia&#39;s natural resources minister said Friday that he thought his ministry would give the main production unit of the battered Yukos oil company a three-month warning before pulling its drilling licenses, the Interfax news agency reported.
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Russia is ready to normalise relations with Britain amid a mounting diplomatic row, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in Berlin, according to Russian news agency reports Friday.
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Russia has been sending negative signals to foreign investors in addition to its high-profile effort to take over Yukos Oil Co., reflecting what may be a growing rift within the government over its commitment to economic reform and international business.
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Russia's liberal economy minister joined a growing backlash against the effective re-nationalization of the country's top oil exporter Yukos and argued that state energy companies should be privatized.
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In a vivid sign of growing high-level dissension with government policies, Russia's economic development minister said that state-controlled companies are holding the country back and suggested that the government should privatize a giant oil producer it recently wrested from the Yukos company.
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MOSCOW Russia&#39;s foreign minister on Wednesday defended sweeping political changes announced earlier this week by President Vladimir Putin, telling the United States and other critics that the plans were an internal matter.
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Eleven energy ministers warned of rising political and commercial risks to Europe's energy markets as President Vladimir Putin issued a warning to &quot;unconscientious&quot; investors.
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Russia's foreign minister on Wednesday defended sweeping political changes announced by President Vladimir Putin earlier this week, telling the United States and other critics that the plans ar
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Russia is struggling to decide whether it should focus more on fighting inflation to keep goods affordable for consumers or on restraining the ruble to support local producers, the deputy prime minister, Alexander Zhukov, said Monday.
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MOSCOW, Russia -- The sale of embattled Russian oil company Yukos to a little known bidder has been called a scandal by some observers and led to speculation the government may make a grabbed for its assets.
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Trade between Russia and Poland may top seven billion US dollars this year, said Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Yakovenko on the eve of the Moscow visit by Polish Foreign Minister Wlodzimierz ...
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Russia&#39;s new Prime Minister Viktor  Zubkov displayed a tough Soviet style of management at his  first government meeting on Thursday, barking orders at  underperforming ministers and calling one of them &quot;comrade.&quot;
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Canada is interested in investing in Russia, the countryâs prime minister, Paul Martin, said on Tuesday. Russia and Canada are two great northern countries rich in natural resources, Interfax news agency quoted him as saying.
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BHP Billiton, the world's largest mining company, said it held talks with Russia's energy ministry this week amid reports it was considering a significant investment in the country's massive energy reserves.
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Chairman of the Russian Government Mikhail Fradkov has said that after a new prime minister is appointed in Ukraine, he is ready to discuss plans for economic cooperation between Ukraine and Russia with a newly ...
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Russia's prime minister-designate, Viktor Zubkov, told lawmakers on Thursday he planned changes in the cabinet line-up, and newspapers predicted Economy Minister German Gref would be the chief casualty.