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• Russia's Gazprom Neft still interested in Kurdistan-source Wednesday, 10 Oct 2012 | 4:13 AM ET

  MOSCOW, Oct 10- Gazprom Neft, the oil arm of Russia's top natural gas producer Gazprom, is still interested in Kurdistan's oil, a Gazprom Neft source said, rebutting reports it had frozen projects in the Iraqi province.

• UPDATE 1-UK Stocks-Factors to watch on Wednesday Oct 10 Wednesday, 10 Oct 2012 | 2:47 AM ET

  *Britain's FTSE 100 index is seen opening down 24-25 points, or 0.4 percent lower on Wednesday, according to financial bookmakers, tracking falls on Wall Street and in Asia on mounting concerns the latest corporate earnings will disappoint.

• UK Stocks-Factors to watch on Wednesday Oct 10 Wednesday, 10 Oct 2012 | 2:02 AM ET

  *Britain's FTSE 100 index is seen opening down 24-25 points, or 0.4 percent lower on Wednesday, according to financial bookmakers, tracking falls on Wall Street and in Asia on mounting concerns the latest corporate earnings will disappoint.

• Russian markets - Factors to Watch on Oct 10 Wednesday, 10 Oct 2012 | 1:48 AM ET

  MOSCOW- Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet Iraqi prime minister Nuri al-Maliki. MOSCOW- Putin to meet with officials to discuss the situation on the national and international grain market. MOSCOW- Court hearing in appeal by members of punk group Pussy Riot.

• UPDATE 2-Putin backs Russian push for Iraqi oil Wednesday, 10 Oct 2012 | 12:10 AM ET

  *Gazprom Neft still interested in Kurdistan- sources. NOVO-OGARYOVO, Russia, Oct 10- President Vladimir Putin lobbied Iraq's prime minister on Wednesday to support Russian energy investment, as the oil arm of gas export monopoly Gazprom pushes for a foothold in the semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan.

• Putin backs BP's sale plan for TNK-BP - FT Tuesday, 9 Oct 2012 | 9:28 PM ET

  LONDON, Oct 10- Russian president Vladimir Putin backs BP's plan to sell its 50 percent stake in TNK-BP. Sechin said, without giving a full direct quote, that President Putin endorsed the idea at a meeting in Russia last month with BP's top executives.

• RPT-Russia's Kudrin denies offered super-regulator post Tuesday, 9 Oct 2012 | 6:45 AM ET

  MOSCOW, Oct 9- Russia's former finance minister Alexei Kudrin, who has a reputation among investors for fiscal prudence, denied a news agency report that he had been offered the post of head of a proposed financial super-regulator.

• Russian markets - Factors to Watch on Oct 9 Tuesday, 9 Oct 2012 | 2:01 AM ET

  MOSCOW, Oct 9- Here are events and news stories that could move Russian markets on Tuesday. MOSCOW- Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev will meet his Iraqi counterpart Nuri al-Maliki. MOSCOW- Russia's second-biggest mobile phone operator MegaFon is expected to start pre-marketing its London initial public offering.

• UPDATE 1-Rosneft says discusses trading issues with Gunvor Tuesday, 9 Oct 2012 | 12:03 AM ET

  MOSCOW, Oct 9- Russia's top crude producer Rosneft said on Tuesday its powerful chief executive Igor Sechin met the co-owners of international oil trading house Gunvor to discuss trading issues, amid reports of a rift between Sechin and Gunvor's co-owner Gennady Timchenko.

• Gazprom expands Nord Stream without gas supply rise Monday, 8 Oct 2012 | 10:55 AM ET

  MOSCOW, Oct 8- Gazprom on Monday launched the second line of the Nord Stream pipeline which brings Russian gas to Germany via the bed of the Baltic Sea, but actual gas volumes remained unchanged due to lack of sufficient growth in demand.

• Moscow rally held to remember reporter's murder Monday, 8 Oct 2012 | 8:28 AM ET

  MOSCOW-- Around 200 people held a rally Sunday in Moscow to mark the sixth anniversary of the unsolved murder of crusading reporter Anna Politkovskaya. Participants held up candles and pictures of the journalist and spoke in remembrance of Politkovskaya, a sharp critic of Kremlin policies in Chechnya, who was shot inside her Moscow apartment building in 2006..

• UPDATE 1-Rosneft kicks off Russian oil's London charm offensive Friday, 5 Oct 2012 | 3:07 PM ET

  *Energy ministry, LUKOIL to meet investors this month. LONDON/ MOSCOW, Oct 5- Rosneft Chief Executive Igor Sechin met investors in London on Friday, launching a charm offensive by Russia's oil industry, which is trying to court foreign capital after a decade in which it became almost synonymous with resource nationalism.

• New Russian TV pressure on opposition forces Friday, 5 Oct 2012 | 2:24 PM ET

  "Anatomy of a Protest 2," a documentary on NTV that aired Friday, showed what it said was hidden camera footage suggesting Left Front leader Sergey Udaltsov met with a representative of former Bank of Moscow owner Andrei Borodin to discuss raising $200 million for protests against President Vladimir Putin.

• Rosneft kicks off Russian oil's London charm offensive Friday, 5 Oct 2012 | 2:11 PM ET

  LONDON/ MOSCOW, Oct 5- Rosneft Chief Executive Igor Sechin met investors in London on Friday, launching a charm offensive by Russia's oil industry which is trying to court foreign capital after a decade in which it became almost synonymous with resource nationalism.

• Russian markets - Factors to Watch on Oct 5 Friday, 5 Oct 2012 | 2:32 AM ET

  MOSCOW, Oct 5- Here are events and news stories that could move Russian markets on Friday. MOSCOW- Russia's Central Bank monthly monetary policy meeting;. MOSCOW- IFAD and Russia's agriculture ministry briefing in Moscow;.

• PRESS DIGEST - RUSSIA - Oct 4 Thursday, 4 Oct 2012 | 5:43 AM ET

  MOSCOW, Oct 4- The following are some of the leading stories in Russia's newspapers on Thursday. -The daily runs an interview with Igor Krylov, the director general of Pharmstandard, Russia's top drugmaker, who says the company produced 700 million packages of medicines in 2011..

• Russian markets - Factors to Watch on Oct 4 Thursday, 4 Oct 2012 | 2:28 AM ET

  MOSCOW, Oct 4- Here are events and news stories that could move Russian markets on Thursday. MOSCOW- "Russia Calling" investment conference held by VTB Capital. MOSCOW- Briefing by Alexey Simanovsky, First Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank of Russia.

• Tax rise deters Wintershall from Russia gas field scheme -agency Wednesday, 3 Oct 2012 | 10:46 AM ET

  MOSCOW, Oct 3- Russia's proposed increase in mineral extraction tax has deterred Germany's Wintershall from taking part in a gas field project in the country, according to an official of Russian gas producer Gazprom, quoted by Interfax news agency.

• PRESS DIGEST - RUSSIA - Oct 3 Wednesday, 3 Oct 2012 | 5:19 AM ET

  MOSCOW, Oct 3- The following are some of the leading stories in Russia's newspapers on Wednesday. -Russia's transport ministry proposed to spend 410 billion roubles to prepare the country's rail roads for the 2018 World Cup, as the government fails to find 2.6 trillion roubles Russian railways planned to spend earlier, the paper says.

• Russian markets - Factors to Watch on Oct 3 Wednesday, 3 Oct 2012 | 1:51 AM ET

  MOSCOW, Oct 3- Here are events and news stories that could move Russian markets on Wednesday. EVENTS: MOSCOW- Russia Calling VTB Capital investment conference. MOSCOW- Press conference by Aeroflot Chief Executive Vitaly Savelyev and SAP executives.