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MOSCOW. Jan 22 (Interfax) - Russia's Federal Anti-monopoly Service (FAS) has opened a case against JSC Arkhangelsk Pulp and Paper Mill (MOEX: ACBK) owing to an increase in the price for cardboard and paper used to produce corrugated cardboard, for which the company has a dominant market position, the FAS said on Monday in a statement. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. Sept 18 (Interfax) - U.S. company International Paper has completed the sale of 50% of shares in Swiss holding company Ilim SA, which owns the largest pulp and paper producer in Russia - Ilim Group, to its Russian JV partner - Ilim Global Timber Rus LLC, owned by Zakhar Smushkin and Boris Zingarevich. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. March 22 (Interfax) - The Central Bank of Russia (CBR) has begun discussing with brokers the possibility of opening accounts for investors directly on the Moscow Exchange (MOEX: MOEX), national daily Kommersant reported on Friday, citing sources. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. Feb 12 (Interfax) - Russia exported wood and wood products, as well as pulp and paper products (HS codes 44-49) worth $9.9 billion in 2023, 29.7% less than in 2022 ($14 billion), the Federal Customs Service (FCS) said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. Dec 21 (Interfax) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has instructed the Defense Ministry and the Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media to organize citizens' military registration without having to visit military enlistment offices in person and to introduce electronic military draft papers. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. Dec 21 (Interfax) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has instructed the Defense Ministry and the Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media to organize citizens' military registration without having to visit military enlistment offices in person and to introduce electronic military draft papers. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. March 27 (Interfax) - IVA Technologies, a Russian developer of a videoconferencing service, plans to carry out an initial public offering in 2024, business daily Vedomosti reported on Wednesday, citing two software market sources. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. Feb 6 (Interfax) - The volume of supplies of timber products from Russia to China in 2023 remained approximately at the level of 2022, totaling 13.643 million tonnes, the press service of the Federal Forest Management Agency (Roslesinforg) said in a statement. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. Dec 21 (Interfax) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has instructed the Defense Ministry and the Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media to organize citizens' military registration without having to visit military enlistment offices in person and to introduce electronic military draft papers. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. Dec 21 (Interfax) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has instructed the Defense Ministry and the Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media to organize citizens' military registration without having to visit military enlistment offices in person and to introduce electronic military draft papers. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. Nov 20 (Interfax) - Russia's pulp and paper industry should be exempt from the export duty tied to the dollar rate, which currently stands at 7%, Deputy Industry and Trade Minister Oleg Bocharov proposed on Monday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

ASTANA. Aug 11 (Interfax-Kazakhstan) - The government agencies and quasi-public organizations will only be allowed to purchase office paper from domestic producers, according to a draft government resolution published in the Open Online Legal Database. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

ST. PETERSBURG. March 28 (Interfax) - A subcommittee of the Russian government commission for control over foreign investment has given the green light for U.S. company International Paper to sell its 50% stake in Swiss holding company Ilim SA, which owns leading Russian pulp and paper producer Ilim Group, to its partners in the joint venture, Ilim reported. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

YEKATERINBURG. July 11 (Interfax) - Russia's forestry industry needs to modernize in order to increase production of goods with higher added value, including by building modern pulp-and-paper mills, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

YEKATERINBURG. July 11 (Interfax) - Russia's forestry industry needs to modernize in order to increase production of goods with higher added value, including by building modern pulp-and-paper mills, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

KEMEROVO. Jan 24 (Interfax) - Siberian Business Union Holding Company (SDS) is selling its 75% stake in JSC Altaimash, owner of JSC Altaivagon, Russia's third largest freight car manufacturer, to Taltek Group, national daily Kommersant reported. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. Dec 27 (Interfax) - Multinational cosmetics company Avon, which has been owned by Brazil's Natura & Co since 2020, has decided not to sell its business in Russia, although there were real suitors for it, national daily Kommersant reported on Wednesday, citing sources. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. Jan 26 (Interfax) - International Paper has entered into an agreement to sell its 50% interest in Ilim SA, the holding company for leading Russian pulp and paper producer Ilim, to its partners in the joint venture for $484 million, the U.S. company said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. Nov 30 (Interfax) - Freight One, which NLMK principal owner Vladimir Lisin recently sold to Aurora Invest, has replaced its chief executive officer. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. Nov 20 (Interfax) - Russia's pulp and paper industry should be exempt from the export duty tied to the dollar rate, which currently stands at 7%, Deputy Industry and Trade Minister Oleg Bocharov proposed on Monday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. Dec 19 (Interfax) - German appliance maker Bosch is in the final stage of talks to sell its factories in Strelna, outside St. Petersburg, to Turkish investment company Can Holding, national daily Kommersant reported on Tuesday, citing the founder of appliance maker Jacky's, Hussein Imanov and a number of industry sources. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. Dec 15 (Interfax) - Belarus has tabled a new proposal to rates for transporting oil across its territory to Europe. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. Dec 15 (Interfax) - Belarus has tabled a new proposal to rates for transporting oil across its territory to Europe. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. Dec 15 (Interfax) - Belarus has tabled a new proposal to rates for transporting oil across its territory to Europe. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. April 24 (Interfax) - Rosneft (MOEX: ROSN) has proposed to impose a six-month moratorium on reducing the damper fuel subsidy to zero and eliminate the provision under which there are no payments at all if the cut-off price is exceeded for one type of fuel, either gasoline or diesel. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. April 24 (Interfax) - Rosneft (MOEX: ROSN) has proposed to impose a six-month moratorium on reducing the damper fuel subsidy to zero and eliminate the provision under which there are no payments at all if the cut-off price is exceeded for one type of fuel, either gasoline or diesel. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

CHELYABINSK. March 29 (Interfax) - Russia's Prosecutor General's Office (PGO) alleges in its lawsuit to seize shares in pasta maker Makfa and a number of affiliated companies that these businesses have corrupt origins, national daily Kommersant reported on Friday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. March 20 (Interfax) - An agreement has been reached to sell the Russian business of French food multinational Danone, Health & Nutrition (H&N), to Russian investors, business daily Vedomosti reported on Wednesday, citing a source close to the company. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

ALMATY. April 6 (Interfax) - A plant manufacturing office paper in Kazakhstan has suspended operations due to a limited supply of resources from Russia, the state agency Kazinform has reported, citing the plant's press service. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

ALMATY. April 6 (Interfax) - A plant manufacturing office paper in Kazakhstan has suspended operations due to a limited supply of resources from Russia, the state agency Kazinform has reported, citing the plant's press service. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

ALMATY. April 6 (Interfax) - A plant manufacturing office paper in Kazakhstan has suspended operations due to a limited supply of resources from Russia, the state agency Kazinform has reported, citing the plant's press service. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. Nov 2 (Interfax) - Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) (MOEX: MTSS), Russia's leading mobile service provider has resumed negotiations on the sale of its cell tower company, national daily Kommersant reported on Thursday, citing sources. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. Oct 10 (Interfax) - Nearly three-quarters (73%) of Russians believe electronic documents will completely replace paper ones over the next two decades, the findings of a poll by VCIOM published on its website on Tuesday say. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. Sept 14 (Interfax) - A division of Gazprombank (MOEX: GZPR) is in talks to acquire the Mega chain of shopping malls in Russia owned by Sweden's Ingka Centres, national daily Kommersant reported on Thursday, citing sources. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. Feb 29 (Interfax) - Production of cellulose, as well as products manufactured from it in Russia in January 2024, has hit a positive trend after declining throughout the previous year. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. Feb 21 (Interfax) - French food multinational Danone, the Russian assets of which have been placed under the temporary management of Russia's Federal Property Agency, plans to sell its business in Russia to Vamin, a company based in Tatarstan, the Financial Times reported. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. Feb 19 (Interfax) - Russia's Industry and Trade Ministry plans to raise the scrapping fee for farm machinery by five to ten times, national daily Kommersant reported on Monday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. Feb 15 (Interfax) - Mercedes-Benz Group's Daimler Truck, which halted operations in Russia in 2022 but was still a "dormant shareholder" of Kamaz (MOEX: KMAZ), sold its 15% stake in the leading Russian truck maker in 2024, Kamaz CEO Sergei Kogogin said in an interview with Vedomosti published on Thursday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. Feb 9 (Interfax) - Russia's Finance Ministry has submitted a proposal to the government to add a flat markup to the mineral extraction tax (MET) on coal in the amount of 380 rubles per tonne, national daily Kommersant reported on Friday, citing industry sources. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. Feb 9 (Interfax) - Russia's Finance Ministry has submitted a proposal to the government to add a flat markup to the mineral extraction tax (MET) on coal in the amount of 380 rubles per tonne, national daily Kommersant reported on Friday, citing industry sources. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. Dec 15 (Interfax) - The Russian assets of international alcohol group Global Spirits might be placed under the temporary management of the Federal Property Agency. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. Dec 14 (Interfax) - The SPB Exchange (SPB: SPBE), which was hit by U.S. sanctions in November, will pivot to developing a derivatives market with settlements in rubles, national daily Kommersant reported on Thursday, citing sources. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

ALMATY. April 6 (Interfax-Kazakhstan) - Goida.kz, a Kazakhstan-based copy paper producer, has sharply reduced its production because of restrictions on feedstock deliveries from Russia, the state news agency Kazinform said referring to the company's press release. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. April 3 (Interfax) - Dostavka Morem (formerly Daylesford Merchant), a major Russian exporter of agricultural products, has acquired a stake in Taman Grain Terminal Complex LLC (ZTKT). [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

KALUGA. Dec 22 (Interfax) - Kronospan, a manufacturer of wood-based panels founded in Austria, opened its Ultra Decor Rus LLC mill to produce base paper for decorative printing in the Kaluga special economic zone in Russia's Kaluga Region on Wednesday, an Interfax correspondent reported from the opening ceremony. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. Nov 20 (Interfax) - Russian retailer Vkusvill has acquired the AnderSon chain of family cafes, national daily Kommersant reported, citing sources. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]