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National Economic Trends -
CBR announces preliminary September statistics
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Combined profits in banking sector totaled 367 bln rubles in 9 mths – Melikyan
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Russian Money Supply Growth to Fuel Inflation, Citigroup Says
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Assessing Moscow’s Management of the Crisis - By Anders Aslund
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Warning Signals - The Complex Challenge of Attracting Foreign Investment Cannot Be Resolved by Simply Privatizing Key State Assets
Business, Energy or Environmental regulations or discussions -
Russia’s Micex Falls 2nd Day; Sberbank, Norilsk, Gazprom Decline
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RusAl first half net profit up $97 mln to $1.365 bln after reassessment
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Domestic market underpins outlook for Russian steelmakers
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MMK revisits plans for development of the Prioskolskoye iron ore deposit
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Russia's RusHydro power output down 16% on year in Jan-Sep
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Polymetal's Nesis Says Ukraine Next Target for Expansion: Video
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HAL, UAC & Rosoboronexport in JV to co-produce Multirole Transport Aircraft
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Polyus Gold suspends reverse takeover by KazakhGold
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TransContainer to begin road show
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CHERKIZOVO GROUP BEGINS CONSTRUCTION OF A GREENFIELD PORK FARM IN THE LIPETSK REGION
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PODGORICA, Montenegro — Montenegro regained 29 percent ownership in the nation’s biggest aluminum smelter, which is majority owned by Oleg Deripaska, enabling the government to have one representative on the managing board with the right to veto some of the company’s decisions. (AP)
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Siberian Coal Energy Company, also known as SUEK, signed up on Tuesday for a loan backed by export revenue, now increased to $900 million, almost 30 percent more than it initially sought. (Bloomberg)
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The government may sell as much as 15 percent of Russian Railways shares in an initial public offering after 2013, Interfax reported Tuesday, citing company chief executive Vladimir Yakunin. (Bloomberg)
Activity in the Oil and Gas sector (including regulatory) -
Russian gas exports up 13.3% in 9 mths - Econ Ministry
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Rosneft Raises Crude Output Target as Quarterly Net Doubles
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UPDATE 1- Rosneft Q3 net more than doubles, beats forecast
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TNK-BP, Ukraine To Cooperate In Gas Exploration
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TNK-BP Third-Quarter Net Rises on Inventories, Ruble (Update1)
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Higher output and prices push up TNK-BP sales
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LUKOIL says to invest $100 mln in Turkey in near-term
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LUKoil Output May Drop
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Sakhalin-1 Operator May Be Changed
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Audit Chamber warns Exxon Neftegas over Sakhalin-1 spending
Gazprom -
Gaz-System, Europol Gaz Sign Deal on Yamal Pipeline Management
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Gazprom Neft Launches Field - Russia's fifth largest crude oil producer, Gazprom Neft, has launched commercial production at its Ravninnoye field in the Yamal-Nenets region, in line with plans outlined earlier to boost oil output and offset current declines at mature West Siberian fields.
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Basic Political Developments
http://www.prime-tass.com/news/show.asp?topicid=0&id=488167
Nov 4: National Unity Day public holiday in Russia
Nov 5: Day-off for public holiday, working day moved to November 13
Saakashvili ready for dialogue with Russia
http://www.aysor.am/en/news/2010/10/27/saakashvili-russia/
Russia “has occupied Georgian territory,” nevertheless, we should start a dialogue with Russia, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili told TV5 Monde French TV Channel, according to RBK.ru. Saakashvili is in Montreux, Switzerland for the 13th Francophonie summit.
“We are ready for a dialogue, for talks without preconditions. We should resolve all problems through direct contacts. We are pragmatic, thus we realize that it is very dangerous to have a hostile neighbor. We should maintain dialogue with Russia. It is the first step. It should be followed by the second step which is necessary for changing the situation,” Saakashvili said.
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Yanukovych forms expert council on Ukraine-Russia relations
http://www.interfax.com/newsinf.asp?id=198176
KYIV. Oct 27 (Interfax) - Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych signed a decree on October 26 establishing a council of experts in charge of promoting Russian-Ukrainian relations, the presidential press service said on Wednesday.
Presidential chief-of-staff Serhiy Lyovochkin has already been appointed to head the council, which will act as a consultative body responsible for formulating suggestions on how to tackle problems in Ukrainian-Russian cooperation and supporting Kyiv's work within the interstate commission.
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Putin to lead government delegation to Ukraine
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20101027/161098231.html
02:37 27/10/2010
A delegation of Russian ministers led by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will visit Ukraine on Wednesday to discuss a wide range of bilateral issues, including energy cooperation, with Ukrainian top officials, the prime minister's spokesman said.
During the visit, Putin will meet with Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and Prime Minister Mykola Azarov, and take part in a meeting of the Russian-Ukrainian economic cooperation committee, Dmitry Peskov said.
The talks are expected to focus on cooperation between Moscow and Kiev in the trade, economic, energy, transport, scientific, agricultural, aviation and space spheres. Russian-Ukrainian interregional cooperation is also on the agenda, Peskov said.
Several cooperation agreements are planned to be signed following the talks. The Russian and Ukrainian prime ministers will give a joint news conference summing up the results of their meeting.
The Russian delegation includes Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov, Minister for Regional Development Viktor Basargin, Transport Minister Igor Levitin, Minister of Education and Science Andrei Fursenko, Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko, as well as representatives of other ministries and business community.
Gas issue
Russian Ambassador to Ukraine Mikhail Zurabov said energy cooperation between the courtiers will be "certainly discussed in details" during the talks.
According to Putin's spokesman, Russian gas supplies to Ukraine may be discussed during the meeting of the intergovernmental economic cooperation committee.
"It is quite possible that this topic will be addressed if the Ukrainian side raises it," he said, adding that Moscow was not planning to discuss the price Ukraine pays for Russian gas.
Ukrainian First Deputy Prime Minister Andryi Kluyev said on Tuesday that the Ukrainian side was going to address the gas price issue during the talks.
Ukraine's national energy company Naftogaz receives a 30-percent discount for Russian gas in exchange for the Ukrainian government's agreement to extend the lease on a Russian naval base in the Crimea until at least 2042, which was reached in April.
However, Azarov told RIA Novosti the price for Russian gas should reflect "changed realities."
Shmatko said in mid-October that Russia was considering Ukraine's proposal that the gas pricing formula should be changed.
Azarov ruled out on Tuesday a possibility of merging Russian energy giant Gazprom and Ukraine's gas monopoly Naftogaz proposed by Putin in May and strongly criticized by the Ukrainian opposition.
Zurabov said Russian and Ukrainian officials will discuss "prospects for modernizing the Ukrainian gas transportation system, the development of the entire pipeline system, and the use of Ukraine's transit capabilities."
Russian officials, including Putin, have said that Russia maintains its interest in modernizing Ukraine's gas transportation system, while continuing the construction of the South Stream pipeline intended to pump Russian gas to Europe under the Black Sea bypassing Ukraine.
Ukraine has repeatedly called on Moscow to quit its pipeline construction plans, saying that investments in Ukrainian pipes would be much more beneficial.
Expected agreements
Five intergovernmental cooperation agreements and five commercial deals are expected to be signed during the Russian ministers' visit to Kiev, Zurabov said.
Azarov said agreements on the creation of joint aircraft construction and nuclear enterprises were among the deals planned to be signed.
Russia's United Aircraft Corporation and Ukraine's Antonov have agreed to set up a joint venture in October to produce Antonov aircraft.
Russia and Ukrainian companies Atomenergomash and Turboatom are also in talks on the creation of a joint nuclear venture.
Russian energy producer TVEL and Ukrainian company Nuclear Fuel are planning to sign an agreement on the construction of a nuclear power plant in Ukraine.
Kluyev said on Tuesday that Russia and Ukraine may sign a new agreement on Russian oil transit soon.
"We are close to signing these agreements; negotiations are underway," he said.
The agreements are aimed to regulate guarantees and obligations on changes to oil transport tariffs through Ukrainian territory, which rose by 30 percent in January 2010, the Ukrainian first deputy premier said.
In 2009, the Russian and Ukrainian pipeline companies Transneft and Ukrtransnafta signed two agreements on the transportation of 1.5 million tons of Russian oil per quarter to two Ukrainian oil refineries in 2010 and the transfer of at least 15 million tons of oil a year through the Druzhba pipeline network.
MOSCOW, October 27 (RIA Novosti)
Russia, Ukraine to discuss new approaches on gas market
http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=15626904
27.10.2010, 08.41
KIEV, October 27 (Itar-Tass) - Russian-Ukrainian gas relations will be high on the agenda of the meeting of the intergovernmental committee for economic cooperation that will be co-chaired by the two countries’ prime ministers Vladimir Putin and Nikolai Azarov.
At the talks Ukraine wants to raise issues related to the agreement on Russian gas supplies of January 2009 and to discuss “new approaches to the work on the gas market in the Ukraine-Russia-EU format,” the Ukrainian prime minister’s spokesman, Vitaly Lukyanenko, told Itar-Tass.
The countries prepared eleven documents for signing, but how many will be signed will be known only after the meeting, he said.
According to Ukraine’s Fuel and Energy Ministry, state-run company Nuclear Fuel and Russia’s nuclear fuel producer Tvel are expected to sign an agreement on the construction of a nuclear fuel production plant in Ukraine. Another joint project in the nuclear power sector is Russia’s participation in the construction of the third and fourth nuclear power units of the Khmelnitsky nuclear power plant.
Ukraine’s Industrial Policy Ministry said the state-owned aircraft building corporation Antonov and Russia’s United Aircraft Corporation are expected to sign an agreement on creating a joint venture.
After the committee’s meeting Russia and Ukraine plan to sign intergovernmental agreements on interregional and border cooperation and on cooperation in air and sea rescue works in the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.
According to Ukraine’s state statistics committee, over the eight months bilateral trade increased by 81.1 percent to 21.3 billion dollars as against the same period in 2009.
Ukraine’s export to Russia increased by 70.3 percent to exceed 8 billion dollars. The import from Russia grew by 88.9 percent to 13.1 billion dollars. At the same time a negative balance of Ukraine’s trade increased by more than two-fold.
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