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China, Russia sign gas, banking deals as Putin visits - Summary
Beijing - Russia agreed to supply gas to China via two pipelines on Tuesday, while the two sides signed other deals valued at 3.5 billion dollars. The deals came as Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao promised to prom...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Business ]

Putin sees South Stream ready earlier than planned
Moscow - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin believes that the South Stream pipeline, which would transport Russian gas to Europe via the Black Sea, could be ready earlier than planned, the Interfax news agency reported Thursday. Putin is meeting i...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Energy (Environment) ]

Putin to recount memories of fall of Berlin Wall in documentary
Moscow - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who was working in East Germany in 1989 when the Berlin Wall fell, is to recount his experiences of that time in a new documentary, reported Russian newspaper Kommersant Wednesday. Putin was based in th...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Culture (General) ]

Putin prods EU to lend 'a lousy billion' to Ukraine for gas payments
Moscow/Kiev - Winter is fast approaching, and chilling hints of new heating disruptions ahead are wafting westward again from Russia. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has been warning the European Union of late that supplies of Russian natural g...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Europe (World) ]

Putin spokesman: 'Astonishment' over GM decision on Opel
Moscow - The Russian government expressed its surprise Wednesday at the decision by US car giant General Motors to hold onto its European subsidiary Opel and not to sell it. Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, was quoted by ...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Business ]

Renault: No more money for Russian auto giant
Moscow/Paris - French carmaker Renault will not invest more money in troubled Russian market leader AvtoVAZ, despite a threat by Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin to dilute Renault's 25-per-cent stake in the company should it refuse to do so. Rus...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Europe (World) ]

China, Russia sign deals worth 3.5 billion dollars - Summary
Beijing - Russia agreed to supply gas to China via two pipelines on Tuesday, while the two sides signed other deals valued at 3.5 billion dollars. The deals came as Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao promised to prom...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Business ]

China, Russia to sign deals worth 5.5 billion dollars - Summary
Beijing - Deals valued at some 5.5 billion dollars are expected to be signed during Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's three-day visit to China, which began late Monday, Russian and Chinese media said. China and Russia would sign more than 20 ag...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Business ]

Putin: EU should help finance gas supplies to Ukraine
Moscow - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has called on the European Union to help finance the supply of Russian natural gas to Ukraine, which has repeatedly had problems paying its bills. After a meeting with Danish Prime Minister Lars Rasmusse...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Europe (World) ]

Putin warns EU of problems with gas deliveries
Moscow - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday warned of hindrances in delivery of natural gas to European consumers, citing once again payment problems with the Ukraine. According to the Interfax news agency, Putin informed Sweden in its role a...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Europe (World) ]

From Russia with aggravation: Cop airs complaints to Putin online
Moscow - A Russian police officer, annoyed with poor working conditions and overtime, skipped formal avenues for complaints and went straight to the top, via the internet, posting his grievances for the attention of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Dre...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Europe (World) ]

Putin feels a certain nostalgia for former East Germany - Summary
Moscow - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was fond of his life in the former communist East Germany, where he was based as a KGB officer up until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, he said in an interview on Russia's NTW television Sunday. I ...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Europe (World) ]

Putin gives the go-ahead for a nuclear plant in Kaliningrad
Moscow - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin gave the go- ahead Tuesday for a nuclear plant to be built in the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad, situated between Poland and Lithuania. The state nuclear holding Rosatom was seeking a Western investor f...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Energy (Environment) ]

Russia's Putin to visit China
Beijing - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will visit China from October 12-14 to meet Chinese leaders and attend a Central Asian security summit, China's Foreign Ministry said Tuesday. Putin's visit was timed to coincide with the 60th anniversa...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Asia (World) ]

China, Russia sign deals worth 3.5 billion dollars - 2nd Update
Beijing - China and Russia signed deals valued at 3.5 billion dollars on Tuesday ahead of talks between Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, a Russian official said. The two largest deals, each worth 500 million dolla...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Business ]

China, Russia sign deals worth 3.5 billion dollars - Update
Beijing - China and Russia signed deals valued at 3.5 billion dollars on Tuesday ahead of talks between Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, a Russian official said. An agreement for a loan of 500 million dollars by t...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Business ]

Putin's China visit to produce deals worth 5.5 billion dollars
Beijing - Deals valued at some 5.5 billion dollars are expected to be signed during Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's three-day visit to China, scheduled to begin late Monday, Russian and Chinese media said. China and Russia would sign more tha...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Business ]

Gorbachev slams Putin, Medvedev for handling of oil profits
Paris - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin have mismanaged the profits from oil sales and not done enough to end corruption, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev said in an interview published Monday in the French d...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Europe (World) ]

Putin nostalgic for life in former East Germany
Moscow - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was fond of his life in the former communist East Germany, where he was based as a KGB officer up until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, he said in an interview on Russia's NTW television Sunday. I ...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Europe (World) ]

Angry Russian cop now fearful after online video complaint
Moscow - A Russian police officer who posted two video clips on the internet to air his grievances directly to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin about pay and overtime work conditions said Sunday he now feared for his life. The Interfax agency cited Majo...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Europe (World) ]

Moscow lawmakers leave duma in protest over alleged election fraud
Moscow - Russia's opposition lawmakers on Wednesday staged a walkout from the State Duma to protest alleged fraud in Sunday's local elections in Moscow and elsewhere in the country. Only lawmakers from Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's United Russia pa...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Europe (World) ]

Reports: Blatter praises Russian World Cup bid in Putin meeting
Moscow - World football supremo Joseph Blatter met with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Thursday, with news reports quoting him as saying that he has a lot of sympathy for Russia's 2018 and 2022 World Cup bid. Russia unveiled the bid last we...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Sports ]



 
 

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