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Russia's leading online social network was briefly banned on Friday, in a move dismissed as a "mistake" but which follows intensifying official pressure on the company.
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By Katya Golubkova and Lidia Kelly. MOSCOW, Oct 2- Russian President Vladimir Putin said he was worried about rising inflation but stopped short of calling for curbs on grain exports to contain food prices after drought decimated this year's harvest.
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MOSCOW, Oct 2- Igor Sechin, chief executive of Rosneft, a contender to buy BP's stake in a Russian rival TNK-BP, will meet with minority shareholders in London on Friday, a Rosneft spokesman said. The CEO has said BP could use some proceeds from a planned sale of its stake in TNK-BP, its Russian joint venture, to buy a direct equity stake in Rosneft.
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MOSCOW, Oct 2- Russia's economy should sustain its current 4 percent growth rate over the next three years, President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday, playing up its relatively strong performance as the global economy slows.
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MOSCOW, Oct 2- Russia's economy should sustain its current 4 percent growth rate over the next three years, President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday. Although growth would be slower than before the 2008-09 crisis it would be "more balanced and of higher quality", Putin told an investment conference hosted by VTB Capital.
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*Trafigura may not own 8 pct of Norilsk- Potanin By Polina Devitt and Clara Ferreira-Marques. MOSCOW, Sept 28- Vladimir Potanin, the largest shareholder in Russia's Norilsk Nickel, told Reuters that tensions had escalated with the other main owner of the world's top nickel and palladium producer, dashing hopes of a keenly awaited reconciliation.
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*Trafigura may not own 8 pct of Norilsk- Potanin By Polina Devitt and Clara Ferreira-Marques. MOSCOW, Sept 28- Vladimir Potanin, the largest shareholder in Russia's Norilsk Nickel, told Reuters that tensions had escalated with the other main owner of the world's top nickel and palladium producer, dashing hopes of a keenly awaited reconciliation.
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MOSCOW- The VTB Capital " RUSSIA CALLING!" MOSCOW- Russia's Deputy Agriculture Minister Ilya Shestakov holds a briefing. MOSCOW- Russia's monthly oil output and export and gas output data.
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MOSCOW, Oct 2- Russian shares fell on Tuesday after a rally the day before, led by the heavyweight energy sector, and the rouble edged lower, showing little reaction to comments by the central bank on inflation concerns ahead of a policy meeting.
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MOSCOW, Oct 1- Matthias Warnig, a former East German Secret agent turned investment banker who has known Russian President Vladimir Putin since the 1990 s, has been appointed chairman of Russia's RUSAL, replacing Barry Cheung, who resigned.
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Under legislation that goes into effect on Nov. 1, Internet sites carrying content banned in Russia will be placed on a register, after which Internet providers will have one day to block access. Google Inc, the owner of YouTube, said it was ready to block access of the film to users in Russia once it received the court's decision, the RIA agency reported.
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MOSCOW, Oct 1- Here are events and news stories that could move Russian markets on Monday. MOSCOW- Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev meets Facebook. MOSCOW- Moscow City Court starts hearings on appeal against conviction of three members of the punk band Pussy Riot;.
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MOSCOW, Oct 1- Matthias Warnig, a former East German secret agent turned investment banker who has known Russian President Vladimir Putin since the 1990 s, has been appointed chairman of Russia's RUSAL, replacing Barry Cheung, who resigned. Warnig headed Dresdner Bank's operations in Moscow more than a decade ago.
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MOSCOW-- Facebook head Mark Zuckerberg was in Moscow on Monday, where top officials were pressing him to expand the company's operations in Russia. A Facebook spokeswoman, who refused to be named because she wasn't authorized to discuss the matter with the media, said the company has no immediate expansion plans for Russia.
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Putin's new Russia feels a lot like the old one, where intimidation and thuggery have trumped democracy, says CNBC's Maria Bartiromo.
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Russia’s entry into the World Trade Organisation (WTO) is good news but investors shouldn’t expect miracles straight away, Murat Ulgen, chief economist for Central & Eastern Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa at HSBC, told CNBC.
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Riots are heating up in Russia as a 2-year prison sentence was given to a popular Russian punk band that spoke out against the government, with Nationally Syndicated Radio Talk Show Host John Batchelor.
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Russia has yielded many leading industrial companies that rank among global leaders in mining, metallurgy, petrochemicals and telecommunications. Despite the rapid development of the regional economy and the strides made over the past 20 years, WTO membership promises to be an important catalyst for growth in the Russian market.
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European policymakers should come up with a sweeping solution to stop the spreading of the debt crisis sooner rather than later, to restore confidence to markets, participants in a panel organized by CNBC at the Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum said on Thursday.
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Russia's success in the eyes of foreign investors hinges on how the country will deliver on its promised privatization process – and officials present at the Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) were quick to reassure markets that they still mean business.
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“I doubt it will be enough,” a chief economist tells CNBC.com. “This is just 2 percent of GDP, and I would expect the cost of a euro zone breakup to be bigger than that for Russia.”