- 21:02 28/03/2006
Russian energy giant Gazprom will receive a $1.526-billion syndicated loan from foreign banks ABN AMRO and Calyon, an ABN AMRO news release said Tuesday.
- 20:52 28/03/2006
The Russian Foreign Ministry said Tuesday that the March 25 events in the Belarusian capital of Minsk were a failed attempt to repeat the tactics used by opposition forces in several other former Soviet republics to protest election results.
- 20:37 28/03/2006
The Moscow Arbitration Court has appointed a temporary external manager to oversee beleaguered oil company Yukos during its ongoing bankruptcy case.
- 20:28 28/03/2006
Mikhail Fradkov spoke to journalists after visiting the plant that will process gas from the Ormen Lange field in the Norwegian Sea: "Russia and Norway maintain cooperation in many spheres, oil and gas being the most interesting of them to us as partners."
- 19:50 28/03/2006
The creditor banks of embattled oil giant Yukos have asked to replace a claimant in the company's bankruptcy case, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported from the courtroom Tuesday.
- 19:44 28/03/2006
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Tuesday he would attend the upcoming European Union meeting on the Iranian nuclear issue in Berlin.
- 19:18 28/03/2006
A subsidiary of Russia's top civilian nuclear power company said Tuesday it would ensure stable nuclear fuel supplies to South Korea.
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The Syrdarya station is the country's biggest hydro-electric power plant, at 3,000 megawatts, generating one third of the country's electrical power. It is being privatized under a government program, adopted in 2001, alongside three other major thermal power plants, one of which is near the capital, Tashkent.
- 18:32 28/03/2006
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- 16:21 28/03/2006
Russia's defense minister provided a detailed picture of the future of the Russian armed forces Tuesday, including covering the development of its nuclear arsenal and further personnel cuts in its mammoth army.
- 16:14 28/03/2006
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"In seeking to build a system of inter-state relations based on principles of equality, friendship, pragmatism, and mutually beneficial cooperation, Russia looks forward to an intensive dialogue with the Ukrainian president, new Cabinet and new Supreme Rada [parliament]," the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
- 15:38 28/03/2006
"[The stories] are complete nonsense," Sergei Ivanov told a news conference, referring to a Pentagon report based on what it said are captured Iraqi documents that show Moscow passed intelligence information on U.S. troop movements to Saddam.
- 15:37 28/03/2006
- 15:13 28/03/2006
Members of Russia's ruling party plan to use the platform of the London Economic Forum in April to call for the extradition of fugitive Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky, a United Russia member said Tuesday.
