May 7, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia, South & Central Asia
Moscow Times Russian oil major Rosneft and gas producer Itera are in talks with Armenian authorities to acquire Armenia’s largest petrochemical plant, Nairit, which specializes in the production of chloroprene rubber, Vedomosti reported Tuesday. The report cited...
May 7, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia, South & Central Asia, Western Europe
Moscow Times 7 May 2013 Russian billionaire senator Suleiman Kerimov has purchased a 3.05 percent stake in embattled UK-based natural resources firm Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation PLC, the company said. According to a regulatory filing, on April 30 Kerimov...
May 6, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
Moscow Times 6 May 2013 Azerbaijan’s state oil fund SOFAZ has agreed to invest around $500 million in a new share offering by VTB, Russia’s second-largest bank, the fund said in e-mailed comments. VTB says it has already received firm orders for all of the...
May 2, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, East Asia, News, Russia
The Moscow Times First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov invited Japan to work with Russia on building a 10-kilometer bridge to connect Sakhalin Island with the Russian mainland. Shuvalov, who ws speaking Tuesday at a Russian-Japanese business conference, said...
Apr 26, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, Latin America, News, Russia
Moscow Times 25 April 2013 The executive order on the creation of a joint venture between Rosneft and Corporacion Venecolana del Petroleo, a subsidiary of Venezuelan oil company PDVSA, has officially gone into effect following its publication in the government...
