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Lukoil, Norilsk Nickel, Polyus Gold: Russian Equity Preview
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Utilities in the Political Spotlight - The Russian Utilities sector reforms have not yet been completed and so the risk of failure has been dragging down the stocks since the beginning of the crisis. However, in April the sector finally came under the political spotlight. In the first week of April during his speech to the State Duma, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin addressed the Russian Electric Utilities sector.
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Russian Railways seeks extra state aid-paper: Russian Railways, the country's largest employer, will seek an extra 30 billion roubles ($910 million) in state help as this year's losses could be double what was previously expected, Kommersant reported on Tuesday.
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Evraz Pledged Loan to Plant - Evraz Group pledged plants in Canada and Siberia to borrow $1.8 billion from the VEB to refinance foreign loans, according to its annual report.
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NLMK cuts Q1 revenue a third, halves earnings (Part 2)
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Car maker Sollers could pass on 2008 dividends
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GAZ unlikely to be bidding for Opel – Troika
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GAZ Joins Bid for GM's Opel Unit – The Moscow Times
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VTB May Offer to Buy Back Shares at IPO Price, Kommersant Says
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VTB: A gift to minorities in the offing
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Cyprus's Hellenic Bank gets Russian licence
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INTERVIEW: Home Credit and Finance Bank in Russia moves into retail
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Razgulay starts to buy back rescheduled bonds
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Telenor’s First-Quarter Profit Falls 65 Percent on VimpelCom
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Sistema Up on Possible Sale - Sistema gained the most in five months in Moscow trading after saying it may sell its stake in Comstar United TeleSystems to Mobile TeleSystems.
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Cedar Point Enters Russian Cable Market With VoIP Switching Solution
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Cristal champagne vs. Christall Russian vodka - A State-owned Christal Vodka, a sister brand to the famous Stolichnaya, has taken Cristal the Champagne to court. The name they say is so similar to theirs, it may confuse the customer. Russian copyright watchdog Rospatent has ruled in favor of, you guessed it, vodka.
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Seventh Continent: Press reports about Carrefour deal and bond restructuring
Activity in the Oil and Gas sector (including regulatory) -
Rencap: Oil and gas Time for a pause? - Russian oil companies remain one of the most sensitive asset classes to the oil price. As the Brent price recovered 36% YtD, the Russian oil and gas sector, up 34%, outperformed the international majors by 38%.
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Management of Shtokman Development AG is going to meet with the members of the Association of Oil and Gas Producers on May 15
Gazprom
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H1N1 FLU
Russia bans pork imports from UK over swine flu
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MOSCOW, May 5 (Itar-Tass) - Russia has banned the import of pork from Great Britain to prevent a swine flu virus (H1N1 strain) affecting Russia, chief sanitary inspector Nikolai Vlasov told a news conference on Tuesday.
Earlier, pork imports from Mexico, Spain, some provinces of Canada and US states – Texas, California, Kansas, New York, Ohio and South Carolina were barred.
It is also banned to carry non heat treated meat products in hand luggage of air passengers and to use such meat in flight-catering of aircraft and vessels that visited Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, the Dominican Republic, Columbia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Nicaragua, Panama, Salvador. This list also includes such U.S. states as Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Kansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Florida.
Russia bans pork from Alberta: watchdog
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia said on Tuesday it would ban live pigs and raw pork from Canada's Alberta province, adding to the list of countries and states it has banned imports from because of fears about the spread of a deadly flu virus.
The ban will apply to pork produced and packed after May 4, Rosselkhoznadzor animal and plant health watchdog said in a statement.
Russia has already banned pigs and raw pork from the Canadian provinces of British Columbia, Nova Scotia and Ontario and Spain.
Russia banned imports of all meat from Mexico, where the outbreak started, Central American and Caribbean countries and the U.S. states of California, New York, South Carolina and Texas.
It has also banned imports of live pigs and pork not submitted to thermal treatment at 80 degrees Celsius (176 degrees Fahrenheit) for no less than 30 minutes from Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, New Jersey and Ohio.
(Reporting by Aleksandras Budrys; editing by Sue Thomas)
Polish FM to visit Moscow to discuss cooperation strategy
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MOSCOW, May 5 (Itar-Tass) - Radoslaw Sikorski, Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs, arrives here on Tuesday for a visit. Talks between the Polish Minister and Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Lavrov are scheduled for May 6.
A session of the inter-agency committee on a strategy for Russo-Polish cooperation is to be held under the co-chairmanship of the two Ministers. The main theme of the meeting will be "Relations between Russia and Poland within the European Context".
According to Russia's Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrei Nesterenko, items on the agenda of the talks concern "the key aspects of the development of the international situation, Europen stability matters, and international problems of current concern, including interaction in the light of the financial downturn".
Figuring improtantly at the talks will be "matters concerning science, culture, ecology, communications, mass media, and effotts to combat crime". The two Ministers are also to devote attention to regional cooperation, specifically matters concerning the Kaliningrad Region.
"The theme of international energy security will be discussed in the light of the Russian initiative aimed at working out a new international-legal basis for international cooperation in the field of energy. The Polish side will told in detail about our position on the inadmissibility of attemtps at drawing Georgia and Ukraine into NATO and at ingratiating the Saakashvili regime, and of plans to deploy components of the US anti-ballistic missile system on Polish territory," Nesterenko emphasized.
The diplomat recalled that the format of the committee, co-chaired by the Foreign ministers of the two countries, "makes it possible promptly to survey the state of affairs in key areas of bilateral cooperation, and exchange views on ways to refine it".
Poland is Russia's major trading partner in the Eastern Europe. "Bilateral trade turnover in 2008 ran at $27,200 million (a 51.8-percent increase as compared with that in 2007), including expoit running at $20,200 million, and import amounting to $7,000 million," Nesterenko pointed out. At the same time, he believes, up-to-date co-production, investment, and innovations projects are not present widely enough in Russo-Polish economic relations so far.
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