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On 19 March in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin offered to undertake a number of activities which would bring about an increase in exports of Russian energy resources to Japan, in connection with the damage to the Fukushima…
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On 17 March, the head of the Belarusian Central Bank Piotr Prokopovich stated that the Belarusian government hopes to obtain US$1 billion of Russian credit in the first half of this year, and around US$2 billion from the Eurasian Economic…
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On 9 March, foreign shareholders in several Russian regional energy holdings which produce electricity – Germany’s E.On, Italy’s Enel and Finland’s Fortum – wrote an open letter to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin protesting against the…
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On 13 March, local elections were held at various levels (including 12 regional parliaments) in 74 regions of Russia. These may be regarded as a test before December’s elections to the Duma. All the elections were won by the ‘party of…
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On 11 March, the state-owned Sbierbank, Russia’s largest bank, signed an agreement to acquire the Russian private investment bank Troika Dialog. The acquisition of this bank is another transaction which strengthens the state’s presence in…
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On 11 March, the firm of Rosnano (which is responsible for the development of the Russian nanotechnology market) became the first Russian state-owned corporation (goskorporatsiya) to be transformed into a joint stock company (albeit 100%…
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On 15 March, at a meeting of the heads of state and government of the Customs Union of Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus in Minsk, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin warned that a consequence of the contract to create a free trade area…
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| Iwona Wiśniewska
The objectives of this strategy are twofold: to use foreign capital and technology to increase extraction in Russia, and to strengthen Russia’s presence on foreign markets by exchanging assets with businesses outside Russia.
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| Jadwiga Rogoża
On 3 March, at a conference marking the 150th anniversary of the reforms of Tsar Alexander II, President Dmitri Medvedev gave a speech containing a clear criticism of the Putin system of power.
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On 3 March, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin endorsed the relaxation or abolition of the 'take or pay’ principle in Gazprom’s long-term contracts on the internal market, while maintaining it in export contracts. These more flexible conditions…