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Yevhen Bakulin and Aleksei Miller, the heads of Naftogaz and Gazprom, have signed a memorandum establishing a joint venture formethane extraction. Both parties have also announced the establishment of a new company to extract gas from the…
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The governmental commission chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov passed a final decision on 14 December to order the construction of the Moscow–Saint Petersburg motorway through the forest in Khimki near Moscow, as had initially…
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On 20 December, two and a half months after the parliamentary elections in Kyrgyzstan, the interim technical government, which had been ruling the country since July, relinquished its powers to a coalition cabinet supported by three of the…
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On 27 December, a Moscow court found Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the former president and major shareholder of the oil company Yukos, and his business partner, Platon Lebedev, guilty of the misappropriation of 218 million tonnes of oil. The…
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On 23 December, the Swiss-registered Miracle company, owned by Leonid Mikhelson, bought the rights from Gazprombank to a 50% stake in the Sibur holding, which controls a significant part of Russia’s chemical and petroleum gas processing…
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| Marta Szpala
The makeup of the new Kosovan parliament will not allow for the establishment of a stable government and is likely to prevent a normalisation of relations with Serbia.
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The commission receiving offers from strategic investors for the nuclear power plant building project on 3 December ended its operation without having selected a winner. One of the two offers received failed to meet the conditions, and the…
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The Hungarian parliament on 13 December adopted an amended pension act, which will enable the transfer of funds from the private to the state-controlled pillar of the pension system. This move will improve the condition of public finances…
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The management of the German construction company Hochtief announced on 10 December an increase of the company’s share capital by 10% through an issue of new shares. The additional shares were bought by Qatar’s state-controlled company…
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On 30 November Bulgaria’s National Electric Company (NEK) signed memoranda with Russia’s Rosatom, Finland’s Fortum and France’s Altran Technologies envisaging the establishment of a company for the building of the Belene nuclear power…