Russia 100322 Basic Political Developments



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National Economic Trends


  • PTI: Unemployment topical in Russia again, says poll

  • Moscow Times: Unemployment Falls to 8.6%, Even as Economy Backtracks

  • Bne: Russian economic recovery slows further, as the economy contracts in February

Business, Energy or Environmental regulations or discussions


  • Bloomberg: EuroChem 2009 Profit Declines 60% to 11.1 Billion Rubles

  • Bloomberg: Prof-Media May Delay $500 Million London IPO, Kommersant Says

  • Reuters: UPDATE 1-Russia's Russkoye Morye plans $200 mln Moscow IPO

  • Diamond World: Alrosa likely to be transformed into open joint stock company

  • VTB Capital: RusHydro to launch another unit at Sayano-Shushenskaya HPP today - bringing installed capacity at the power plant to 1.3GW - expected, but still positive

  • Alfa: Feedback from Rusal site visit

  • Cbonds: Fitch Revises Outlook of Russia-based Renaissance Capital to Stable, Rates New HoldCo ‘B’

  • Handy Shipping Guide: F.S.Mackenzie Opens Fifth Freight Office In Russia

  • Moscow Times: For the Record

    • Sakhalin Energy, a Gazprom venture that includes Royal Dutch Shell, may begin to earn a profit between 2013 and 2015, Deputy Energy Minister Stanislav Svetlitsky said Friday, Interfax reported. (Bloomberg)

    • KamAZ is in talks with “several” potential Chinese partners and may form a venture in the country next year, spokesman Oleg Afanasiyev said Friday. (Bloomberg)

    • AvtoVAZ will start producing Renault’s Logan sedan and Sandero compact at its main factory in Tolyatti starting in 2014, Vedomosti reported Friday. (Bloomberg)

    •  Sberbank may pay a 2009 dividend of 8 kopeks per common share and 45 kopeks for preferred stock, the lender said Friday. (Bloomberg)

Activity in the Oil and Gas sector (including regulatory)


  • Oil and Gas Eurasia: Russia Losing $1.3bn in Flared APG

  • Oil and Gas Eurasia: Putin, Oil Majors Tussle Over Ag Discounts

  • RenCap: LUKOIL's Caspian launch delayed by one month

  • RBC: Lukoil posts jump in Q4 2009 net profit

  • Moscow Times: State Won’t Buy Into LUKoil

  • Steel Guru: LUKoil to drill first exploration well at Iraq West Qurna 2

  • Reuters: UPDATE 1-Surgut shares soar on index reweighting –traders

  • Rigzone: TNK-BP Ramps Up Production in Orenburg
    Reuters: ONGC in talks with 3 Russian cos for partnerships

  • India Times: OVL to bid for Sakhalin-3 with Russian cos

Gazprom


  • Moscow Times: EU Clears Poland’s Long-Term Gazprom Deal

  • Steel Guru: Finnish shipwrights studying Yamal gas fields - Managers of Gazprom Dobycha Yamburg Ltd are very interested in projects of Aker Arctic a Finnish research centre. Tankers designed by the company in the future may be used for Parusovaya group of fields near the operating infrastructure of Yamburg oil and gas condensate field.

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Basic Political Developments



Georgian Times: Ukrainian Media Says Guatemala May Recognize Independence of So-Called South Ossetia

http://www.geotimes.ge/index.php?m=home&newsid=20955
Guatemala may recognize independence of so-called South Ossetia, the Ukrainian edition ‘wek.com.ua’ says.
President of Guatemala Alvaro Colom arrived in Moscow yesterday. He will meet Russian President Dmitry Medvedev today.
According to the Ukrainian edition, one of the main results of the meeting might be recognition of so-called South Ossetia by Guatemala instead of some financial guarantees from Russia.
President Colom will also meet representatives of Russian business and discuss the issue on attraction of Russian investments to Guatemala.
The President of Guatemala visited Russia by invitation of the Russian President. The visit will end on 23 March. IPN 2010.03.22 13:34

The Voice of Russia: Medvedev to meet President of Guatemala


http://english.ruvr.ru/2010/03/22/5497092.html


Mar 22, 2010 07:20 Moscow Time

This Monday Russian President Dmitry Medvedev receives his Guatemalan counterpart Alvaro Colom in Kremlin. They are to discuss closer cooperation in trade, energy and oil production and to sign a joint declaration on the outcome of their meeting. The relations between the two nations became closer after at a session of the International Olympic Committee held in Guatemala in 2007 the Russian city of Sochi won the right to host the Olympiad of 2014. In 2007 Russian and Guatemalan Presidents officially met for the first time, and this February Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov visited Guatemala. This is President Colom’s first visit to Russia. He also plans to visit St. Petersburg.

Guatemala Times: President of Guatemala on official visit to Russia


http://www.guatemala-times.com/news/guatemala/1462-president-of-guatemala-on-official-visit-to-russia-.html
Sunday, 21 March 2010 15:10 Barbara Schieber

Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom arrives in Moscow later in the day with a package of cooperation proposals. A Russian-Guatemalan summit meeting will take place on March 22, 2010. The visit is taking place at Dmitry Medvedev's invitation. The package of cooperation proposals includes oil and gas, telecommunications, transport and tourism. Guatemala's President Alvaro Colom, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and other Russian top officials will be discussing the possible cooperation mechanisms.

On Monday there will be the signing of a joint declaration and a draft of bilateral deals, including on military technical cooperation between the two countries. President Colom during his visit, the first top-level visit in the history of bilateral relations, will have a meeting with the Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill. Guatemala is home to the one and only Orthodox monastery in Central America.

The Foreign Minister of Russia, Sergey Viktorovich Lavrov, was in Guatemala on the 15th of February 2010 on his first official visit. He meet with Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom, Foreign Minister Haroldo Rodas, the chairman of the National Congress of Guatemala and the mayor of Guatemala City, ex-president Alvaro Arzu.

During his visit the dialogue was focused on the prospects of enhancing bilateral cooperation in various fields, from trade-and-economic to humanitarian, and to exchange views on a wide range of international and regional issues. Also the Foreign Ministers Lavrov and Rodas signed an Intergovernmental Agreement on cooperation in fighting against illicit traffic in and use of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances.

In 2007, the Russian embassy was opened in Guatemala, which had until recently remained one of the few Latin American countries where Russia had no permanent representation at ambassadorial level.

 

Itar-Tass: Trans-Atlantic freight shipment line to be opened in St Petersburg

http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=14941459&PageNum=0

22.03.2010, 04.09

ST. PETERSBURG, March 22 (Itar-Tass) -- Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, his Danish counterpart Lars Rasmussen and Ecuadorian Minister of Industries Xavier Abad Vicuna will take part in the opening ceremony of the trans-Atlantic ocean freight route Guayaquil (Ecuador)-Panama Canal-Rotterdam-Bremerhaven-St. Petersburg, the Russian government’s press service told Itar-Tass.

The Ecubex project is the first direct trans-Atlantic freight shipment route between Russia and Latin America.

Direct ocean service will be carried out once a week by six new ice-strengthened ships of 2,500 TEU equipped with refrigerator facilities. The direct Ecuador-St. Petersburg route is expected to open new markets for Russian exporters (equipment to Chile’s coal mining provinces, fertilizers to Ecuador’s and Colombia’s farms, foodstuffs to Central American and Caribbean countries) and will expand imports of fruit from Latin America.

Itar-Tass: Putin, Halonen to meet with Finnish businessmen in St Petersburg

http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=14941454&PageNum=0

22.03.2010, 01.29

ST. PETERSBURG, March 22 (Itar-Tass) -- Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Finnish President Tarja Halonen, currently here on a working visit, will meet on Monday with Finnish businessmen, the governmental press service told Itar-Tass.

The meeting is expected to be attended by Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov and Economics Minister Elvira Nabiullina.

Like Putin’s previous meeting with Finnish businessmen in June 2009 in Helsinki, this meeting will address both pressing issue of bilateral trade and economic cooperation and would-be joint projects involving industrial potential of Russia, Finland and third countries.

The meeting is expected to focus on the development of cooperation in the timber industry, shipbuilding, power generation, including nuclear, agro-industrial sector, transportation and telecommunications.

Finland ranks 12th among Russia’s foreign trade partners, and 6th among European Union countries. In 2009, Russia was Finland’s number one foreign trade partner. In 2009, Russian-Finnish trade turnover was some 13 billion U.S. dollars, including exports of 9.1 billion U.S. dollars and imports of 3.9 billion U.S. dollars.



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