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ST. PETERSBURG, Mar 25 (PRIME) -- The current situation on the Russian labor market is better than in 2008–2009, the number of unemployed people fell to about 5.5% in 2015 from 9% in the previo...

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MOSCOW, Mar 25 (PRIME) -- South Korea’s Samsung Electronics will continue localizing its production facilities in Russia and develop cooperation with local partners, Kim Y Tak, president of the...

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MOSCOW, Mar 25 (PRIME) -- Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service has received a request by Highland Fund, a consortium of Chinese companies, to buy 13.3% in the Bystrinsky GOK ore mining and dre...

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MOSCOW, Mar 25 (PRIME) -- Petrochemical companies Taneco, a unit of Russian oil company Tatneft, and Gazprom Neftekhim Salavat, an affiliate of gas giant Gazprom, may not restart exports of oil p...

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MOSCOW, Mar 25 (PRIME) -- Russian investigators are about to prove that privatization of now defunct oil company Yukos was unlawful, spokesman for the Investigative Committee Vladimir Markin told...

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MOSCOW, Mar 25 (PRIME) -- Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service has cleared Discovery Holdings, a unit of the National Media Group and Discovery Communications, to buy two thirds of local chann...

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MOSCOW, Mar 25 (PRIME) -- Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service has cleared Discovery Holdings, a unit of the National Media Group and Discovery Communications, to buy two thirds of local chann...

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MOSCOW, Mar 25 (PRIME) -- The Russian government will limit the number of banks which can keep state money, but the measure will be cancelled once the Analytical Credit Ratings Agency (ACRA) star...

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MOSCOW, Mar 25 (PRIME) -- The Russian government will limit the number of banks which can keep state money, but the measure will be cancelled once the Analytical Credit Ratings Agency (ACRA) star...

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MOSCOW, Mar 25 (PRIME) -- Russian gas giant Gazprom will start pumping gas via the two lines of pipeline Nord Stream-2 in late 2019, CEO of affiliate Gazprom Transgaz Saint-Petersburg Georgy Foki...

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MOSCOW, Mar 25 (PRIME) -- Russian gas giant Gazprom will start pumping gas via the two lines of pipeline Nord Stream-2 in late 2019, CEO of affiliate Gazprom Transgaz Saint-Petersburg Georgy Foki...

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VLADIVOSTOK, Mar 25 (PRIME) -- Privatization of Russian uncut diamond monopoly ALROSA is unreasonable in the current market situation, Deputy Prime Minister Yury Trutnev, presidential envoy to th...

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MOSCOW, Mar 25 (PRIME) -- Russia’s Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Oversight has ordered its territorial branches to enhance control over the quality of grain exports, the watc...

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MOSCOW, Mar 25 (PRIME) -- The Russian stock market will firm at opening on Friday because oil prices have started to recover, while Western trading floors are closed for Easter Holidays, analysts...

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MOSCOW, Mar 25 (PRIME) -- Russian investigators are about to prove that privatization of now defunct oil company Yukos was unlawful, spokesman for the Investigative Committee Vladimir Markin told...

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MOSCOW, Mar 25 (PRIME) -- The Russian authorities will list their absolute spending priorities for regions in 2016, and the Finance Ministry will report this data and expected incomes to the gove...

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MOSCOW, Mar 25 (PRIME) -- Russia’s inflation risks remain high, they are connected with the situation on the global oil market, high inflation expectations, and uncertainty over some budget par...

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MOSCOW, Mar 24 (PRIME) -- Russian stocks decreased on Thursday, depressed by falling global trading floors, Brent oil price and the ruble, analysts said.

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MOSCOW, Mar 24 (PRIME) -- Russian metals giant Norilsk Nickel may sell up to 20% to Chinese investors in the Bystrinskoye copper, iron and gold field, or the Bystrinsky GOK ore dresser, CEO Vladi...

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BOAO, China, Mar 24 (PRIME) -- The Russian government is considering target selling stakes in large infrastructure companies to private pension funds, but no final decision has been made, Deputy ...

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MOSCOW, Mar 24 (PRIME) – The government’s commission for foreign investment control has approved purchase by Swiss company Molumin AG of 75% in Geotekhnologiya, which owns a license for Russi...

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MOSCOW, Mar 24 (PRIME) -- The board of directors of Russian steel producer Novolipetsk Steel (NLMK) will recommend dividends exceeding the amount envisaged by the dividend policy for October–De...

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MOSCOW, Mar 24 (PRIME) -- The government always discusses measures to reduce fiscal pressure when it is possible, but the tax burden may fall only if state obligations decrease, President Vladimi...

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MOSCOW, Mar 24 (PRIME) -- Russian metals giant Norilsk Nickel is in negotiations with the central bank on purchases of palladium from the state fund, CEO Vladimir Potanin told reporters on Thursd...

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MOSCOW, Mar 24 (PRIME) -- Russian gas giant Gazprom is interested in building a new pipeline for gas supplies to Europe through the Black Sea and continues talks with foreign partners, but the su...

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BOAO, China/MOSCOW, Mar 24 (PRIME) -- Russia’s gross domestic product (GDP) fell 2.7% in January–February, but the current condition of the country’s economy is “near zero”, Economic De...

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MOSCOW, Mar 24 (PRIME) -- Russian metals giant Norilsk Nickel may sell up to 20% to Chinese investors in the Bystrinskoye copper, iron and gold field, or the Bystrinsky GOK ore dresser, CEO Vladi...

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MOSCOW, Mar 24 (PRIME) -- Russian metals giant Norilsk Nickel may sell up to 20% to Chinese investors in the Bystrinskoye copper, iron and gold field, or the Bystrinsky GOK ore dresser, CEO Vladi...

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MOSCOW, Mar 24 (PRIME) -- Russian consumer prices have risen 7.8% year-on-year so far and will stand at less than 8% for the whole year, Economic Development Minister Alexei Ulyukayev told report...

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MOSCOW, Mar 24 (PRIME) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin has generally approved government proposals to allowprivate pension funds to participate in privatization, Economic Development Minister...

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MOSCOW, Mar 24 (PRIME) -- Russian oil major Lukoil is ready to invest in Iranian fields as much as it invested in Iraq, Vice President Leonid Fedun told reporters Thursday.

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BOAO, China, Mar 24 (PRIME) – The Russian government may decide in a month on adjustments of requirements for localization of car production due to devaluation of the ruble, Deputy Prime Minist...

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BOAO, China, Mar 24 (PRIME) -- Russian industrial output will rise more confidently starting from March and will register a small increase overall in 2016, Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich...

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BOAO, China, Mar 24 (PRIME) -- Russian industrial output will rise more confidently starting from March and will register a small increase overall in 2016, Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich...

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MOSCOW, Mar 24 (PRIME) -- Russia’s Far East Shipping Company (FESCO) and Marine Trade Port Olya have launched intermodal cargo traffic between Russia and Iran with shipments across the Caspian ...

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MOSCOW, Mar 24 (PRIME) -- Russian stocks are likely to fall at Thursday’s opening thanks to a negative external background and insignificant changes in oil prices, analysts said.

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MOSCOW, Mar 24 (PRIME) -- Construction company Mostotrest has signed a 96.9 billion ruble contract with SGM-Most, a unit of Arkady Rotenberg’s Stroygazmontazh, which is building a bridge across...

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WASHINGTON, Mar 24 (PRIME) -- Major European banks BNP Paribas, Credit Suisse Group, Deutsche Bank AG, HSBC and UBS Group AG agreed to withdraw from the placement of Russian U.S. $3 billion Eurob...

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WASHINGTON, Mar 24 (PRIME) -- Major European banks BNP Paribas, Credit Suisse Group, Deutsche Bank AG, HSBC and UBS Group AG agreed to withdraw from the placement of Russian U.S. $3 billion Eurob...

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MOSCOW, Mar 23 (PRIME) -- Russian stocks decreased on Wednesday pressured by an oil price decline and overall moderately negative foreign background, analysts said.

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MOSCOW, Mar 23 (PRIME) -- Russian hydropower giant RusHydro and French engineering company Alstom will likely drop plans to build a joint plant for production of hydropower equipment, RusHydro CE...

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MOSCOW, Mar 23 (PRIME) -- Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service will unlikely reach a compromise in its discord with Google, as the U.S giant “is behaving aggressively”, the antitrust autho...

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BOAO, China/MOSCOW, Mar 23 (PRIME) -- The Russian authorities hope to stabilize the economy in 2016 and expect the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to start growing in 2017–2018, Deputy Prime Minis...

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BOAO, China/MOSCOW, Mar 23 (PRIME) -- The Russian authorities hope to stabilize the economy in 2016 and expect the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to start growing in 2017–2018, Deputy Prime Minis...

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GORKI, Moscow Region, Mar 23 (PRIME) -- European investors, including German, French, and Italian, are interested in operating in Russia, Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) Director Kirill Dmi...

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MOSCOW, Mar 23 (PRIME) -- Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service will unlikely reach a compromise in its discord with Google, as the U.S giant “is behaving aggressively”, the antitrust autho...

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MOSCOW, Mar 23 (PRIME) -- Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service will unlikely reach a compromise in its discord with Google, as the U.S giant “is behaving aggressively”, the antitrust autho...

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MOSCOW, Mar 23 (PRIME) -- Russian airport Domodedovo has hiked its tariffs above inflation, Director of the Federal Antimonopoly Service Igor Artemyev told reporters on Wednesday.

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MOSCOW, Mar 23 (PRIME) -- Russia’s independent gas producer Novatek should export natural gas to Europe through gas giant Gazprom’s pipelines, the Federal Antimonopoly Service Director Igor A...

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MOSCOW, Mar 23 (PRIME) -- Russia’s independent gas producer Novatek should export natural gas to Europe through gas giant Gazprom’s pipelines, the Federal Antimonopoly Service Director Igor A...

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MOSCOW, Mar 23 (PRIME) -- Russia’s United Metallurgic Company (OMK) has won in a tender to supply large-diameter pipes to oil pipeline monopoly Transneft with a bid amounting to 1.22 billion ru...

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MOSCOW, Mar 23 (PRIME) -- Russia’s United Metallurgic Company (OMK) has won in a tender to supply large-diameter pipes to oil pipeline monopoly Transneft with a bid amounting to 1.22 billion ru...

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MOSCOW, Mar 23 (PRIME) -- Russians lost more than 200 billion rubles in private pension funds in 2015, and the government has to take measures to protect its citizens, Deputy Prime Minister Olga ...

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MOSCOW, Mar 23 (PRIME) -- The Russian central bank has issued an order obliging banks to submit consolidated quarterly reports under International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), according ...

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VLADIVOSTOK, Mar 23 (PRIME) -- Russia plans to spend 1 billion rubles from the budget in 2016 to build a floating nuclear heat and power plant Akademik Lomonosov in the Chukotka Autonomous Distri...

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VLADIVOSTOK, Mar 23 (PRIME) -- Russia plans to spend 1 billion rubles from the budget in 2016 to build a floating nuclear heat and power plant Akademik Lomonosov in the Chukotka Autonomous Distri...

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MOSCOW, Mar 23 (PRIME) -- U.S. bank J.P. Morgan has improved its 2016 Russia’s gross domestic product (GDP) forecast to a 0.8% contraction from previously expected 1.5% as the bank has increase...

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MOSCOW, Mar 23 (PRIME) -- MEGOGO, one of the biggest video services working on the post-Soviet space, has expanded into movie distribution, it said Wednesday in a statement.

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MOSCOW, Mar 23 (PRIME) -- Russian companies can extend their presence in the Iraqi part of Kurdistan, ambassador Ilya Morgunov told PRIME in an interview published Wednesday.

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MOSCOW, Mar 23 (PRIME) -- Russians use electronic payments more actively despite the economic crisis, and the e-commerce market will continue growing in 2016, according to a joint research conduc...

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MOSCOW, Mar 23 (PRIME) -- The Russian stock market will open with lower on Wednesday because oil prices are shrinking and the U.S. has warned that terrorists plan new attacks in Europe, analysts ...

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MOSCOW, Mar 23 (PRIME) -- Russian metals and mining group Mechel and Gazprombank plans to sign final documents for the Elga coal project in early April, business daily Kommersant reported Wednesd...

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MOSCOW, Mar 23 (PRIME) -- The Russian Energy Ministry will discuss on Wednesday setting zero duties for oil exports but raising the rate of the mineral extraction tax (MET) in order to earn more ...

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MOSCOW, Mar 22 (PRIME) -- Russian stocks closed mixed on Tuesday, because tragic events in Brussels put stocks under pressure, but reviving oil prices provided some support to the ruble and the m...

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MOSCOW, Mar 22 (PRIME) -- The international community should coordinate its efforts to fight terrorism and Tuesday’s blasts in Brussels again stress this necessity, Prime Minister Dmitry Medved...

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YEREVAN, Mar 22 (PRIME) -- Russia and Armenia are discussing a decrease of the gas price for Armenia at the level of the countries’ governments, Armenian Prime Minister Ovik Abramyan told repor...

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MOSCOW, Mar 22 (PRIME) -- Russian state industrial corporation Rostec plans to sell non-core assets for about 10 billion rubles in 2016, Vasily Brovko, director for communications and strategic r...

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MOSCOW, Mar 22 (PRIME) -- An increase of the retirement age in Russia is unavoidable and it would be better to announce its beginning in late 2016, Economic Development Minister Alexei Ulyukayev ...

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MOSCOW, Mar 22 (PRIME) -- The international community should coordinate its efforts to fight terrorism and Tuesday’s blasts in Brussels again stress this necessity, Prime Minister Dmitry Medved...

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MOSCOW, Mar 22 (PRIME) -- The international community should coordinate its efforts to fight terrorism and Tuesday’s blasts in Brussels again stress this necessity, Prime Minister Dmitry Medved...

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MOSCOW, Mar 22 (PRIME) -- The international community should coordinate its efforts to fight terrorism and Tuesday’s blasts in Brussels again stress this necessity, Prime Minister Dmitry Medved...

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MOSCOW, Mar 22 (PRIME) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin has discussed the situation on the oil market and a forthcoming meeting to agree on oil output freeze with Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, t...

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MOSCOW, Mar 22 (PRIME) -- Russia’s Federal Service for Natural Resources Oversight forecasts slower reserve growth in 2017–2019 due to decrease of financing, the authority said in a statement...

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MOSCOW, Mar 22 (PRIME) -- Russia’s Federal Service for Natural Resources Oversight forecasts slower reserve growth in 2017–2019 due to decrease of financing, the authority said in a statement...

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MOSCOW, Mar 22 (PRIME) -- Russian independent gas producer Novatek has initiated preliminary talks with Thailand’s PTT to sell it liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Novatek’s future projects, C...

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MOSCOW, Mar 22 (PRIME) -- Russian independent gas producer Novatek is ready to buy shares at 571.34 rubles per share from shareholders dissenting with a deal to raise foreign financing for the Ya...

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PRAGUE, Mar 22 (PRIME) -- The Czech Republic has signed only a “mild version” of a letter by 10 E.U. countries opposing Russia’s Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline project, Czech Industry and Trade...

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MOSCOW, Mar 22 (PRIME) -- Russian stocks are likely to open flat on Tuesday as the stable oil price and neutral external background provide no strong signals for any kind of movement, analysts sa...

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VIENNA/MOSCOW, Mar 22 (PRIME) -- OPEC Secretary General Abdalla Salem El-Badri said late Monday he hoped the meeting of oil producing countries in Doha on April 17 will be successful.

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MOSCOW, Mar 21 (PRIME) -- Russian stocks decreased on Monday on profit taking after reaching resistance levels, and on the back of oil price volatility, analysts said.

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MOSCOW, Mar 21 (PRIME) -- Russia’s Inter RAO Export and Cuba’s Energoimport have signed a contract on construction of four power units with a combined capacity of 800 megawatts (MW) in Cuba, ...

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MOSCOW, Mar 21 (PRIME) -- Nord Stream 2 AG, the operator of Russia’s Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline, believes that the pipeline will increase the E.U. energy security and expand competition on the ...

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MOSCOW, Mar 21 (PRIME) -- Russian banks are expected to have a combined profit of 500 billion rubles in 2016, the central bank’s First Deputy Chairman Alexei Simanovsky said Monday.

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MOSCOW, Mar 21 (PRIME) -- The Russian economy may start growing by the second half of the year already if it faces no new shocks, Deputy Finance Minister Alexei Moiseyev said at a forum of the Ru...

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MOSCOW, Mar 21 (PRIME) -- Russian mobile operator MTS aims at keeping dividend payments at a stable level, Vice President Alexei Kornya told reporters Monday.

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MOSCOW, Mar 21 (PRIME) -- Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has approved a list of large state-run projects for financing, including construction of a car bridge between Crimea and the Krasn...

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ATHENS, Mar 21 (PRIME) -- The Greek privatization fund Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund (HRADF) has postponed an auction for railway operator TrainOSE in which Russian Railways participat...

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ATHENS, Mar 21 (PRIME) -- The Greek privatization fund Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund (HRADF) has postponed an auction for railway operator TrainOSE in which Russian Railways participat...

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MOSCOW, Mar 21 (PRIME) -- Epidemic expansion of smartphones and other mobile devices in Russia has boosted the use of the mobile Internet, which is becoming one of the core income sources for mob...

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NOVOSIBIRSK, Mar 21 (PRIME) -- The government of Russia’s Kemerovo Region and local company NefteKhimServis have signed an agreement to construct a second, 30 billion ruble stage of the Yaya Oi...

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MOSCOW, Mar 21 (PRIME) -- Russian telecom operator Rostelecom leads state companies by dividends with an average of 39.8% of its net profit, calculated under International Financial Reporting Sta...

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MOSCOW, Mar 21 (PRIME) -- The Russian stock market will open lower on Monday because oil prices have started sagging and are approaching a U.S. $40 per barrel level, analysts said.

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MOSCOW, Mar 21 (PRIME) -- Foreign and offshore companies may participate in an auction for the country’s largest non-developed gold field Sukhoi Log, Natural Resources and Environment Minister ...

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MOSCOW, Mar 21 (PRIME) -- Rating agency Standard &Poor’s (S&P) has confirmed Russia’s long-term sovereign foreign currency credit rating at BB+, the highest grade of the speculative range, an...

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WASHINGTON, Mar 21 (PRIME) -- Canada has added 14 Russian companies, including civil and military equipment and machinery producer Izhmash and power engineering company Technopromexport, and 5 in...

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WASHINGTON, Mar 21 (PRIME) -- Canada has added 14 Russian companies, including civil and military equipment and machinery producer Izhmash and power engineering company Technopromexport, and 5 in...

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MOSCOW/DUBAI, Mar 21 (PRIME) -- A Boeing 737-800 belonging to air carrier Flydubai crashed during landing in Russia’s Rostov-on-Don on March 19 at 3:42 a.m., local time, killing 55 passengers a...

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MOSCOW/DUBAI, Mar 21 (PRIME) -- A Boeing 737-800 belonging to air carrier Flydubai crashed during landing in Russia’s Rostov-on-Don on March 19 at 3:42 a.m., local time, killing 55 passengers a...

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MOSCOW, Mar 18 (PRIME) -- Russian mobile operator MTS expanded its retail chain by 21.7% in 2015 to 5,166 outlets, the company said in a statement Friday.

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MOSCOW, Mar 18 (PRIME) -- The growth of oil prices and an expected Russian central bank’s decision to keep its key rate flat at 11% pushed domestic stocks higher on Friday, analysts said.

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MOSCOW, Mar 18 (PRIME) -- The central bank believes that foreign investors are interested in Russian assets, and the country can sell Eurobonds despite Western governments’ recommendation to th...

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MOSCOW, Mar 18 (PRIME) -- Russian industrial producer prices decreased 1.5% on the month and rose 3.5% on the year in February, the Federal State Statistics Service said in a statement on Friday.

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MOSCOW, Mar 18 (PRIME) -- The Russian central bank has maintained its key rate at 11%, because despite some stabilization on financial and commodity markets and lower inflation, inflation risks a...

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MOSCOW, Mar 18 (PRIME) -- The Russian central bank has maintained its key rate at 11%, because despite some stabilization on financial and commodity markets and lower inflation, inflation risks a...

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MOSCOW, Mar 18 (PRIME) -- The European Union sees Russia’s Nord Stream-2 natural gas pipeline project as commercial, but it must comply with the European legislation; the union is also ready to...

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MOSCOW, Mar 18 (PRIME) -- The European Council released a statement on Friday, calling on U.N. countries to join the sanctions against Crimea’s accession to Russia.

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MOSCOW, Mar 18 (PRIME) -- The European Union sees Russia’s Nord Stream-2 natural gas pipeline project as commercial, but it must comply with the European legislation; the union is also ready to...

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MOSCOW, Mar 18 (PRIME) -- The European Union sees Russia’s Nord Stream-2 natural gas pipeline project as commercial, but it must comply with the European legislation; the union is also ready to...

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MOSCOW, Mar 18 (PRIME) -- Deputy CEO of Russian state development bank Vnesheconombank (VEB) Anatoly Ballo has quit the post, a spokesman for the bank told PRIME on Friday.

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MOSCOW, Mar 18 (PRIME) -- International rating agency Moody’s has withdrawn national scale ratings of 108 Russian companies, the agency said in a statement on Friday.

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MOSCOW, Mar 18 (PRIME) -- Russian stocks may increase on Friday at the trading session start because investors will be waiting for signals that the central bank will ease the monetary policy at a...

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MOSCOW, Mar 18 (PRIME) -- Russia’s central bank has revoked the license of Moscow-based bank StarBank, ranked 166th by assets as of March 1, the authority said in a statement on Friday.

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MOSCOW, Mar 17 (PRIME) -- Russian stocks grew on Thursday supported by mild rhetoric from the U.S. Federal Reserve System (Fed) and a hike in oil prices, analysts said.

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MOSCOW, Mar 17 (PRIME) -- Russian uncut diamond mining giant ALROSA plans to produce 34–39 million carats of diamonds in 2016, President Andrei Zharkov said Thursday in a conference call.

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MOSCOW, Mar 17 (PRIME) -- Russian uncut diamond mining giant ALROSA plans to produce 34–39 million carats of diamonds in 2016, President Andrei Zharkov said Thursday in a conference call.

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MOSCOW, Mar 17 (PRIME) -- Russian bank Transcapitalbank plans to file a bankruptcy suit against Territorial Generating Company-2 (TGC-2) to an arbitration court, as seen by PRIME Thursday in mate...

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MOSCOW, Mar 17 (PRIME) -- The Russian communications service has welcomed an idea of regulating activities of online cinemas, but the issue needs more work, Alexander Zharov, head of the Federal ...

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MOSCOW, Mar 17 (PRIME) -- Russia will do all planned external borrowing despite any restrictions, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said Thursday at a lecture in Moscow’s Financial University.

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MOSCOW, Mar 17 (PRIME) -- The Russian government is discussing the establishment of a state monopoly for production of alcohol, but a final decision is yet to be made, Finance Minister Anton Silu...

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MOSCOW, Mar 17 (PRIME) -- Russia’s car output fell 17.5% on the year to 100,600 vehicles in February, the Federal State Statistics Service said in a statement Thursday.

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MOSCOW, Mar 17 (PRIME) -- The Russian budget has not adjusted to new economic conditions yet and deficit will exceed 3% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), if an average oil price stands below U.S. ...

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MOSCOW, Mar 17 (PRIME) -- The Russian budget has not adjusted to new economic conditions yet and deficit will exceed 3% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), if an average oil price stands below U.S. ...

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MOSCOW, Mar 17 (PRIME) -- Russia’s industrial output increased 0.9% on the year and 3% on the month in February, the first increase since January 2015, the Federal State Statistics Service said...

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MOSCOW, Mar 17 (PRIME) -- Russia’s industrial output increased 0.9% on the year and 3% on the month in February, the first increase since January 2015, the Federal State Statistics Service said...

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MOSCOW, Mar 17 (PRIME) -- Russian mobile operator MegaFon has no plans to float its infrastructure unit, the First Tower Company, and negotiations with private investors can start no sooner than ...

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MOSCOW, Mar 17 (PRIME) -- The interest rates of loans and deposits with Russian banks will soon decline, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said at an open lecture in a university on Thursday.

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MOSCOW, Mar 17 (PRIME) -- Russia’s capital outflow will fall further in 2016, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said at a meeting with students of the Financial University on Thursday.

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MOSCOW, Mar 17 (PRIME) -- Recently, Russia’s Uralkali’s General Meeting of shareholders has not supported the Company’s Board of Directors on the question of the cancellation of the reorgan...

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MOSCOW, Mar 17 (PRIME) -- Recoverable oil reserves in Russia rose by 730 million tonnes and gas reserves by 1.095 trillion cubic meters in 2015, according to documents of the state committee for ...

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MOSCOW, Mar 17 (PRIME) -- Oil prices of above U.S. $50–60 per barrel are unreasonable as this price level may relaunch investments in non-efficient projects and raise supply at the world oil ma...

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MOSCOW, Mar 17 (PRIME) -- Leasing companies will have the right to claim 500 billion rubles from Russian airline Aeroflot if the government reduces its stake in the company, Deputy CEO Shamil Kur...

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MOSCOW, Mar 17 (PRIME) -- Russia could build a 2–2.3 billion ruble pipeline to export sulfuric oil with a capacity of 30 million tonnes in a year, Sergei Andronov, a vice president of oil pipel...

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MOSCOW, Mar 17 (PRIME) -- Russia could build a 2–2.3 billion ruble pipeline to export sulfuric oil with a capacity of 30 million tonnes in a year, Sergei Andronov, a vice president of oil pipel...

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MOSCOW, Mar 17 (PRIME) -- Russia’s federal budget deficit may reach 5.5% of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2016, former Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said at a congress Thursday.

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MOSCOW, Mar 17 (PRIME) -- Iran has blocked yandex.com, an international Web site of Russian Internet giant Yandex, as it gave an opportunity to find information contradicting Islamic values, but ...

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MOSCOW, Mar 17 (PRIME) -- Russia’s central bank has revoked the licenses of Moscow-based Ekaterininsky Bank, ranked 493rd by assets as of March 1, and National Corporate Bank, ranked 487th, as ...

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CHISINAU, Mar 17 (PRIME) -- Romania and nine other E.U. countries have sent a letter to the European Commission, saying that Russia’s Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline project is adverse to the intere...

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MOSCOW, Mar 17 (PRIME) -- Russian stocks may increase at the opening on Thursday on the back of oil prices growing over U.S. $40 per barrel again, analysts said.

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MOSCOW, Mar 17 (PRIME) -- Russia’s Energy Ministry believes that oil output must be retained at the January’s level for the rest of 2016, Minister Alexander Novak told reporters late Wednesda...

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MOSCOW, Mar 17 (PRIME) -- Russian Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich and Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry have discussed implementation of agreements concerning possible resuming of a...

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MOSCOW, Mar 16 (PRIME) -- Russian stocks increased on Wednesday, because oil prices rose on the back of news that OPEC and non-OPEC countries will meet soon to discuss output freeze, analysts sai...

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MOSCOW, Mar 16 (PRIME) -- Eight E.U. governments have signed a letter objecting to the Nord Stream-2 project that would double the amount of gas shipped directly from Russia to Germany, according...

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MOSCOW, Mar 16 (PRIME) -- The Russian government has no money in the current budget to support state monopoly Russian Railways’ purchase of assets in Greece even if the deal is economically fea...

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MOSCOW, Mar 16 (PRIME) -- The Moscow Arbitration Court has found the conclusions of the antimonopoly service that Google abused its dominant position on the local market of preinstalled applicati...

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MOSCOW, Mar 16 (PRIME) -- The debt problem of Russian metals and mining company Mechel is nearly settled, CEO Andrei Kostin told reporters Wednesday.

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MOSCOW, Mar 16 (PRIME) -- The debt problem of Russian metals and mining company Mechel is nearly settled, CEO Andrei Kostin told reporters Wednesday.

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MOSCOW, Mar 16 (PRIME) -- Oil exporting countries will meet on April 17 in Doha to discuss freezing oil output, Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak told reporters on Wednesday following negot...

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MOSCOW, Mar 16 (PRIME) -- Oil exporting countries will meet on April 17 in Doha to discuss freezing oil output, Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak told reporters on Wednesday following negot...

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MOSCOW, Mar 16 (PRIME) -- Russia’s budget deficit amounted to 112.7 billion rubles in January–February, or 0.9% of country’s gross domestic product (GDP), the Finance Ministry said in a sta...

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MOSCOW, Mar 16 (PRIME) -- Russian mobile operator VimpelCom, working under the Beeline brand, has acquired 50.2% Sim Telecom, a virtual cellular operator known as Sim Sim, dealing in contracts fo...

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MOSCOW, Mar 16 (PRIME) -- Russian mobile operator VimpelCom, working under the Beeline brand, has acquired 50.2% Sim Telecom, a virtual cellular operator known as Sim Sim, dealing in contracts fo...

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MOSCOW, Mar 16 (PRIME) -- Russia will resume air flights to Egypt soon, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told reporters on Wednesday.

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MOSCOW, Mar 16 (PRIME) -- The Russian government has no money in the current budget to support state monopoly Russian Railways’ purchase of assets in Greece even if the deal is economically fea...

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MOSCOW, Mar 16 (PRIME) -- The Russian government has no money in the current budget to support state monopoly Russian Railways’ purchase of assets in Greece even if the deal is economically fea...

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MOSCOW, Mar 16 (PRIME) -- Onebank, a bank in Russia’s North Ossetia-Alania republic, ranked 537 by assets as of January 1, no longer allows its clients to withdraw deposits, a call center offic...

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MOSCOW, Mar 16 (PRIME) -- Russia’s gross domestic product (GDP) may still grow 0.7% in 2016 in line with the current ministry’s forecast, Economic Development Minister Alexei Ulyukayev said W...

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VIENNA, Mar 16 (PRIME) -- Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI) expects that its Russian subsidiary will earn a significant profit in 2016, RBI’s CEO Karl Sevelda told reporters on Wednesday.

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MOSCOW, Mar 16 (PRIME) -- Oil producers including Gulf OPEC members support holding a meeting next month to discuss a deal to freeze output even without Iran on April 17, OPEC sources said, as po...

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MOSCOW, Mar 16 (PRIME) -- Oil producers including Gulf OPEC members support holding a meeting next month to discuss a deal to freeze output even without Iran on April 17, OPEC sources said, as po...

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MOSCOW, Mar 16 (PRIME) -- Russia’s gross domestic product (GDP) may still grow 0.7% in 2016 in line with the current ministry’s forecast, Economic Development Minister Alexei Ulyukayev said W...

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MOSCOW, Mar 16 (PRIME) -- Russia’s gross domestic product (GDP) may still grow 0.7% in 2016 in line with the current ministry’s forecast, Economic Development Minister Alexei Ulyukayev said W...

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MOSCOW, Mar 16 (PRIME) -- A working group at the Russian communications service has worked out an amendment to the law on information that seeks to equate so-called mirror Web sites, copies of pi...

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MOSCOW, Mar 16 (PRIME) -- Russian electronics company Roselektronkontrakt will start manufacturing smartphones and tablets, as well as other electronic equipment, with the volume of production at...

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WASHINGTON, Mar 16 (PRIME) -- The U.S. sanctions against Russia are not connected to Moscow’s actions in Syria and will be lifted only after the Minsk agreements are fulfilled, spokesman for th...

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MOSCOW, Mar 16 (PRIME) -- Russian stocks may open near the level of Tuesday’s close on Wednesday because Russian warplanes leaving Syria are sparking hopes of a geopolitical tensions’ relieve...

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MOSCOW, Mar 15 (PRIME) -- Ukrainian energy company Naftogaz Ukrainy plans to raise claims against Russian gas giant Gazprom filed to the Stockholm Arbitration Court; in particular, it plans to in...

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KOLOMNA, Moscow Region, Mar 15 (PRIME) -- The Russian government plans to spend up to 2.7 billion rubles to support the machine-tool building industry in 2016, and additional state support is env...

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MOSCOW, Mar 15 (PRIME) -- Russian stocks edged down on Tuesday as market mood was spoiled by a negative external news flow and lower prices for oil, the backbone of the country’s economy, analy...

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MOSCOW, Mar 15 (PRIME) -- French cosmetics company L'Oreal plans to invest 2.5 billion rubles in expansion of its plant in Russia’s Kaluga Region until July 2017, the company said in a statemen...

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MOSCOW, Mar 15 (PRIME) -- Top Russian lender Sberbank has no plans to expand its business in Europe until it shifts to the European digital platform, and will even reduce its presence abroad in 2...

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MOSCOW, Mar 15 (PRIME) -- The Russian government has not yet decided to extend the freeze of accumulative part of pension savings in 2017, Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets told reporters Tuesd...

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MOSCOW, Mar 15 (PRIME) -- Russian independent gas producer Novatek has closed a deal to sell 9.9% in its liquefied natural gas (LNG) project Yamal LNG to China’s Silk Road Fund (SRF) for 1.087 ...

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MOSCOW, Mar 15 (PRIME) -- Russian independent gas producer Novatek has closed a deal to sell 9.9% in its liquefied natural gas (LNG) project Yamal LNG to China’s Silk Road Fund (SRF) for 1.087 ...

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MOSCOW, Mar 15 (PRIME) -- The Federal Tax Service filed for bankruptcy of Russian airline Kogalymavia, whose a plane crashed over the Sinai peninsula last year, on Tuesday, as seen by PRIME in co...

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MOSCOW, Mar 15 (PRIME) -- Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service opened an administrative case against Google for abusing a dominant position on the market on Monday and summoned the company’s...

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MOSCOW, Mar 15 (PRIME) -- Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service opened an administrative case against Google for abusing a dominant position on the market on Monday and summoned the company’s...

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KOLOMNA, Moscow Region, Mar 15 (PRIME) -- The Russian government plans to spend up to 2.7 billion rubles to support the machine-tool building industry in 2016, and additional state support is env...

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KOLOMNA, Moscow Region, Mar 15 (PRIME) -- The Russian government plans to spend up to 2.7 billion rubles to support the machine-tool building industry in 2016, and additional state support is env...

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MOSCOW/KOLOMNA, Moscow Region, Mar 15 (PRIME) -- Russian car producer AvtoVAZ has appointed Nicolas Maure, former CEO of Renault in Romania, as CEO, the company said in a statement on Tuesday.

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MOSCOW, Mar 15 (PRIME) -- Moscow may file a suit to the World Trade Organization (WTO) against an E.U. decision to impose anti-dumping duties on cold rolled steel imports from Russia, as the E.U....

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MOSCOW, Mar 15 (PRIME) -- An auction for the largest non-developed gold field Sukhoi Log, earlier postponed from January–March, is expected to take place in 2016, Deputy Prime Minister Alexande...

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MOSCOW, Mar 15 (PRIME) -- Russian car producer AvtoVAZ has appointed Nicolas Maure, former CEO of Renault in Romania, as CEO, the company said in a statement on Tuesday.

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MOSCOW, Mar 15 (PRIME) -- Vasily Sidorov, a member of the board of directors of Russian Railways and former president of mobile operator MTS, has been elected as a chairman of the board of direct...

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