Russia 110929 Basic Political Developments



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National Economic Trends


  • Inflation continues to decelerate in September - According to Rosstat, Russia's weekly consumer inflation was 0% last week (19-23 September), after shrinking by 0.1% since the beginning of September; YtD inflation amounted to 4.6%.

  • Russia Macro View - That Sinking Feeling

  • Ruble Weakens Third Day This Week Against Dollar, Euro at Open

  • Kremlin Moves Rumble the Ruble - By ANDREW PEAPLE

  • Russia strengthens positions at world grain markets

  • Russia Grain, Pulses Harvest at 86.4 Million Tons, Ministry Says

  • Russia resumes sugar exports for first time since 1999

  • Central Bank may ease requirements for two major banks - The Central bank of Russia (CBR) may refrain from introducing sanctions against Sberbank and the Bank of Moscow for infringing the law on the national payment system by introducing a temporary moratorium for the two financial institutions, RBC Daily reports today.

  • COMMENT: Russian banks - Late to the party - David Nangle of Renaissance Capital

Business, Energy or Environmental regulations or discussions


  • Russian shares down, indexes lose 0.9%-1%

  • Globaltrans to shell out $1.2bn on M&A

  • Aeroflot flies 23% more passengers in 8 mths

  • Billionaire Potanin May Seek Norilsk Control

  • Norilsk May Borrow $4 Billion for Buyback, Vedomosti Says

  • TMK considering USD 3 billion in investments in US Russia and Romania

Activity in the Oil and Gas sector (including regulatory)


  • Lukoil to start supplying lubricants to Afghanistan

  • Russian Watchdog Wants Oil Refiners Spun Off, Kommersant Says - Russia’s Anti-Monopoly Service proposed splitting oil companies into production, refining and retail businesses to defend independent retailers, Kommersant reported, citing Igor Artemyev, head of the body.

  • International conference on Arctic shelf opens in Murmansk

  • Kamchatka gasoline stations owners agree to lower fuel prices

  • TNK-BP Says It Paid $1 Billion to Partner With HRT in Amazon

  • BP to stay in Russia despite lawsuit and raids

  • Lukoil’s Lawsuit against Customs Agency Postponed - Experts should have completed the technical expertise on the case November 9

  • Gas imports from Russia are expected to reach USD 545/1000 cubic meters - The price of gas imports from Russia is expected to reach USD 545 for 1000 cubic meters this October, according to Agerpres newswire. This statement was made by Hilmar Kroat-Reder, member of the Petrom directorate and responsible for the natural gas market, during a conference on energy.

Gazprom


  • Gazprom to be offered several Belarusian assets - Russian state giant Gazprom may get its hands on several major Belarusian assets, Alexander Surikov, Russian ambassador to Belarus, claimed to Prime on Wednesday, as Belarus insisted it expects no delay to the next tranche of the Russian-led bail out programme.

  • Romania's top oil and gas company Petrom , controlled by Austria's OMV , is in talks to sell about 130 petrol stations it holds in Romania, almost a quarter of its total gas stations, to Serbian oil firm NIS, majority owned by Russia's Gazprom Neft , market sources said.

  • Gazprom Seeking Short-Term Debt Amid Market Rout: Russia Credit

  • UPDATE 2-Europe's fear of Russian gas behind Gazprom raids

  • Gazprom Gas Supply Contracts Are Focus of EU’s Antitrust Probe - By Aoife White and Anna Shiryaevskaya

  • The Empire Strikes Back: European Energy and the Return of Gazprom - Matthew Hulbert and Dr. Christian Brutsch

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Basic Political Developments


Ukrainian delegation in Moscow for gas talks – minister

http://www.interfax.co.uk/
29/09/11 8:58AM GMT

KYIV. Sept 29 (Russian Energy News) – A Ukrainian delegation is in Moscow for talks on gas issues on Thursday, Ukrainian Energy and…

CORRECTED GOOGLE TRANSLATION

Naftogaz went to negotiate with Gazprom

29.09.2011 11:04
Delegation of "Naftogaz Ukraine" has left on Thursday, Sept. 29, in Moscow for gas talks with Russia's OAO "Gazprom". This was announced by Minister of Energy and Coal Industry of Ukraine Yuriy Boyko.

According to him, the talks will discuss a wide range of issues.

Earlier, the head Gazpromexport Alexander Medvedev said that Gazprom asked European customers not to worry, saying that there is no threat of another "gas war" between Russia and Ukraine, which transports Russian gas to Europe.

In turn, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said that Ukraine and the Russian Federation in November, will change the existing contracts between NAK "Naftogaz Ukraine" and "Gazprom". He promised that the new price for Russian gas will be effective from January 1, 2012. However, the spokesman for OAO "Gazprom" Sergei Kupriyanov said that Russian and Ukrainian side has not agreed to the revision of gas supply contracts.

Ministry of Industry
http://minprom.ua/news/77329.html

September 29, 2011 11:27



Russia to insist U.S., NATO take realistic approach to missile threats - envoy to NATO


http://www.interfax.com/newsinf.asp?id=276611
BRUSSELS. Sept 29 (Interfax) - Problems of negotiations on missile defense aspects were discussed in a tense atmosphere at an ambassadorial meeting of the Russia-NATO Council on Wednesday, Russian permanent envoy to NATO Dmitry Rogozin told Interfax.

"I presented findings by American researchers from the University of Massachusetts, which confirm the Russian Federation's concerns that the U.S. plans of deploying its missile defense group in the northern seas and on Polish territory on the third and fourth stages will pose a real threat to the Russian strategic nuclear forces," he said.

"If our NATO partners do not believe our Russian researchers and experts, the Defense Ministry and the Foreign Ministry, then they should at least listen to their own experts. They virtually have nothing to parry such information," Rogozin said.

Russia will continue "to use authority, opportunities, and goodwill of our partners, researchers from Europe and the U.S., to ensure that the United States and those who support it in NATO regarding the missile defense deployment plans in Europe take an appropriate approach, which presumes that, if there are missile threats, then a system opposing them should be absolutely proportional to these risks," he said.

"And when all plans are being sewn together and all agreements are being signed already now, including with Warsaw, on deploying U.S. missile defense elements right near Russia's northwestern borders on the pretext of the so-called much talked-about Iranian missile threat, there should be no illusions that Russia will silently swallow such propagandistic moves. We won't swallow this, and if we don't obtain coherent reaction from our partners in the negotiations, we will have to resort to the best guarantee of which Czar Alexander III said calling the army and the navy Russia's only allies," Rogozin said.

va

(Our editorial staff can be reached at eng.editors@interfax.ru)



Russia-NATO Chicago summit possible if progress made on missile defense – Rogozin

29/09/11 7:28AM GMT

BRUSSELS. Sept 28 (Russian Military News) – The Russia-NATO Chicago summit, set for May 2012, is possible only if agreements have been reached…



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