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2009-07-03
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Russia expects to earn 57 billion rubles ($1.8 bln) annually from oil exports to China.
-- According to Sergei Shmatko, Energy Minister of Russia
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2009-06-20
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Russia's Lukoil has broken into Western Europe's most lucrative oil refining and retail market by taking over Dow Chemicals' 45 percent stake in Total Raffinaderij Nederland (TRN).
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2009-06-10
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"Our position is that we cannot go below the level of 1,500 nuclear warheads. But the final decision is to be made by the country's political leadership."
-- Nikolai Solovtsov, Russian Strategic Rocket Forces Commander, at a meeting of the Defense Ministry's Public Council, at the training center of the Russian Strategic Rocket Forces' Military Academy
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2009-06
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Russia banned imports of over 1,000 types of milk products from Belarus, a major item of its budget revenues, saying producers in the ex-Soviet republic had failed to comply with new Russian standards.
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2009-04
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In London, Britain, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his USA counterpart Barack Obama met for the first time.
They agreed to negotiate a replacement for the START I by the end of the year.
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2009-02-20
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On February 20, the Russian Federation Security Council and the State Council will approve a new national security strategy to go through 2020. Without saying the "United States," the draft document clearly identifies the United States as Russia's primary rival for the next decade. It goes on to say that the primary focus of the struggle will be for hydrocarbons in some very specific areas. The Middle East and Central Asia are mentioned specifically. In these areas, according to the document, the struggle could develop into a military confrontation.
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2009-02-18
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Russia's first-ever plant for liquefied natural gas (LNG) was inaugurated near Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk in the presence of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, Britain's Prince Andrew, Netherlands Economic Affairs Minister Maria van der Hoeven, and Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso. The plant will process gas from the Sakhalin-2 extraction project, consisting of several offshore fields in the Sea of Okhotsk.
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2009-01-23
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Russia and Iran signed an agriculture agreement in Moscow. The Russian Minister of Agriculture called Iran a Russia "strategic partner." Although the agreement is a small step, this is the first time Russia using that phrase in public.
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2008-11-11
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"We are aware of the concerns and fears expressed by some energy consumers.
There are absolutely no grounds for such fears. We are not establishing a cartel, nor are we striking any cartel deals.
However, energy producers, as well as consumers, have the right to and must coordinate their decisions, exchange information, and do their best to ensure uninterrupted hydrocarbon supplies on global markets."
-- Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister of Russia, in response to fears by Western consumers that the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF), a group of natural gas producing countries, will manipulate prices
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2008-11-06
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Russia's decision to deploy missiles was "beyond comprehension."
-- Valdas Adamkus, President of Lithuania
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