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The Moscow Times: Putin Will Make Appeal to Renault
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The Moscow Times: Putin Will Make Appeal to Renaulthttp://www.themoscowtimes.com/business/article/putin-will-make-appeal-to-renault/390280.html 25 November 2009 Combined Reports Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will talk to Renault management personally in Paris this week before finalizing plans to rescue Lada maker AvtoVAZ, First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov said Tuesday. “We will start implementing AvtoVAZ’s development program after high-level talks in Paris,” Shuvalov said in a statement. The government is keen for Renault to offer to increase its current 25 percent stake in AvtoVAZ, which owes 60 billion rubles ($2.08 billion) in short-term loans. The French partner has yet to reveal its plans. Putin will meet with French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Thursday in Paris, where they are expected to oversee the signing of a memorandum between the companies. AvtoVAZ, which Putin insists must involve the French carmaker as a key investor in Russia’s largest car firm, employs nearly 100,000 workers in Tolyatti. (Reuters, MT) Bloomberg: Poland, Russia May End Gas Talks Tomorrow, Rzeczpospolita Says http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aDqPezOCZ8hM By Marta Waldoch Nov. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Poland and Russia may tomorrow end negotiations of an agreement increasing deliveries of gas to Poland to about 10.3 billion cubic meters from next year, Rzeczpospolita reported, without saying where it got the information. To contact the reporter on this story: Marta Waldoch in Warsaw on mwaldoch@bloomberg.net Last Updated: November 25, 2009 01:35 EST NOVEMBER 25, 2009, 3:12 A.M. ET Dow Jones: Poland May Sign Gas Deal With Russia Thursday - Officialhttp://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20091125-702455.html WARSAW (Dow Jones)--Poland may sign a new natural gas agreement with Russia as early as Thursday, Polish Economy Minister Waldemar Pawlak told Polish public radio Wednesday. "The agreement will be signed if there are no obstacles," he said. According to Pawlak, the agreement guarantees stable natural gas deliveries to Polish gas monopoly PGNiG (PGN.WA) from Russia's OAO Gazprom (GAZP.RS) at a reasonable price. "The price in the contract has not changed and is linked with oil prices, which guarantees supplies at a relatively reasonable price," he said. In late October, PGNiG said it reached an agreement with Gazprom to increase natural gas supplies to Poland. Its implementation requires changes to Polish-Russian government-level gas agreements. The latest agreement includes the extension of an existing gas supply contract until 2037, and involves the operations of EuRoPol Gaz, the operator of the Polish section of the Yamal-Europe gas pipeline, and the tariff policy for EuRoPol Gaz. PGNiG said it will increase Russian gas purchases to 10.27 billion cubic meters a year, measured in accordance with Polish norms. -By Marcin Sobczyk, Dow Jones Newswires; +4822 447-2432; marcin.sobczyk@dowjones.com
ATHENS, November 24 (RIA Novosti) - Greece and Bulgaria will benefit from joint energy projects with Russia, Greek President Karolos Papoulias said during an official dinner to mark the visit of his Bulgarian counterpart. "We [Greece and Bulgaria] could become the main hubs of energy supplies to Europe, international players in the energy sector," he said. He added that the construction of the Burgas-Alexandroupolis oil pipeline and the South Stream project could be implemented "in the near future," and that the political and economic benefits of the projects "are evident." "Greece, Bulgaria and Russia have a very close cooperation in the energy sector. This cooperation is in our interests," he said. Burgas-Alexandroupolis is a project between Russia, Greece and Bulgaria to pump Russian and Caspian oil from the Bulgarian Black Sea port of Burgas to the Greek Aegean port of Alexandroupolis. Once completed, the pipeline will pump 35 million metric tons of oil a year (257 million bbl), a volume that could eventually be increased to 50 million metric tons (368 million bbl). Under an inter-governmental agreement signed in 2007, Russia holds 51% in the project company, while Greece and Bulgaria hold 24.5% each. Greece and Bulgaria have also joined the South Stream gas project, which is a part of Russia's efforts to cut dependence on transit nations and is a rival project to the EU-backed Nabucco, which would bypass Russia. It is scheduled to be completed by 2015. Kyivpost: Moscow slams 'hypocrisy' of Ukraine officialshttp://www.kyivpost.com/news/russia/detail/53535/ Today at 10:07 | Interfax-Ukraine Moscow, November 24 (Interfax) - Moscow expressed annoyance at an incident at Kyiv's Boryspil airport on Nov. 24 in which two Russians were denied entry to Ukraine, slamming it as "one more incident" that "highlighted the hypocrisy of state officials who verbally advocate a constructive dialogue with Russia but in practice block bilateral contacts." "The Ukrainian authorities did not allow two Russian scholars who had arrived in Kyiv, V. L. Frolov and Y. V. Meskova, to take part in an international conference on key problems of youth policy in Ukraine and in Russia that is being arranged by nongovernmental organizations," Russia's Foreign Ministry said in a statement. "It appears that certain political forces in Ukraine are clearly displeased with the bilateral dialogue that has gradually been resuming recently and that aims to create conditions for returning the nature of mutually beneficial partnership to our relations," it said. "Responsibly-minded politicians in Kyiv would be well-advised to think hard about potential consequences of this practice and to take measures to eradicate it as soon as possible," the ministry said. Ukrainian State Border Guard Service spokesman Serhiy Astakhov told Interfax onNov. 24evening that the two scholars "were denied entry to Ukraine under instructions to that effect from law enforcement agencies." No comments have come so far from any of Ukraine's law enforcement agencies or from the country's Foreign Ministry.
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