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MOSCOW. Aug 12 (Interfax) - The founder and principal owner of leading Russian cargo airline Volga-Dnepr, Alexei Isaikin, who has been hit by UK sanctions in June, is divesting his stakes in all of the group's Russian and foreign entities and handing the reins to management, national daily Kommersant reported on Friday, citing industry sources. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. June 9 (Interfax) - German automaker Volkswagen has offered employees at a contract assembly line at a GAZ Group plant in Nizhny Novgorod six months' severance pay if they voluntarily resign, national daily Kommersant said on Thursday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. Sept 11 (Interfax) - Twelve out of 86 Russian constituent territories, which held elections last weekend, have seen violations, and a total of 1,307 ballot papers have been declared invalid, Russian Central Elections Commission (CEC) Chairperson Ella Pamfilova said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

KEMEROVO. Sept 15 (Interfax) - The Russian government is considering imposing an export duty on coal, national daily Kommersant reported on Thursday, citing sources. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

KEMEROVO. Sept 15 (Interfax) - The Russian government is considering imposing an export duty on coal, national daily Kommersant reported on Thursday, citing sources. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. Oct 4 (Interfax) - The Kremlin did not see any credible information on "the wealth of Russian President Vladimir Putin's inner circle" in the so-called Pandora Papers published recently and views these files as a compilation of unfounded allegations that cannot serve as grounds for any inquiries, Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. Oct 4 (Interfax) - The Kremlin did not see any credible information on "the wealth of Russian President Vladimir Putin's inner circle" in the so-called Pandora Papers published recently and views these files as a compilation of unfounded allegations that cannot serve as grounds for any inquiries, Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. May 5 (Interfax) - Russian electric furnace steel producers have asked the authorities to reduce the windfall tax they will have to pay by the amount of excises on liquid steel they paid in 2022, business daily Vedomosti reported on Friday, citing a letter industry association AEMP sent to Deputy Finance Ministry Alexei Sazanov in April. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. April 10 (Interfax) - Russia might raise the base price, or so-called cut-off price used to calculate the export duty on wheat to 17,000 rubles per tonne from the current 15,000 rubles, business daily Vedomosti reported, citing sources at exporting companies. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. April 4 (Interfax) - Russian gas producer Novatek (MOEX: NVTK), which hopes to buy Shell's (SPB: RDS.A) 27.5% stake in the Sakhalin-2 project, has secured President Vladimir Putin's agreement to allow the Anglo-Dutch energy major to get all of the 94.8 billion rubles for its stake and transfer the money out of Russia, national daily Kommersant reported on Tuesday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. April 4 (Interfax) - Russian gas producer Novatek (MOEX: NVTK), which hopes to buy Shell's (SPB: RDS.A) 27.5% stake in the Sakhalin-2 project, has secured President Vladimir Putin's agreement to allow the Anglo-Dutch energy major to get all of the 94.8 billion rubles for its stake and transfer the money out of Russia, national daily Kommersant reported on Tuesday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. April 4 (Interfax) - Russian gas producer Novatek (MOEX: NVTK), which hopes to buy Shell's (SPB: RDS.A) 27.5% stake in the Sakhalin-2 project, has secured President Vladimir Putin's agreement to allow the Anglo-Dutch energy major to get all of the 94.8 billion rubles for its stake and transfer the money out of Russia, national daily Kommersant reported on Tuesday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. March 31 (Interfax) - Kraft Heinz has reached an agreement to sell its baby food business in Russia to Chernogolovka Group, a major local beverage and snack producer, national daily Kommersant reported on Friday, citing a letter the U.S. food giant's CEO in Russia and the CIS, Mary Gukasyan sent to partners. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. March 23 (Interfax) - Polyus (MOEX: PLZL) is interested in acquiring GV Gold's Golets Vysochaishy asset in the Irkutsk region's Bodaibo district, the Kommersant newspaper said, citing its own sources. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. Feb 28 (Interfax) - Allied Blenders & Distillers (ABD), the producer of the world's third most popular whisky, The Officer's Choice, is entering the Russian market, national daily Kommersant said on Tuesday, citing Alcohol Siberian Group (ASG), the exclusive distributor of the Indian company's two brands. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. Feb 17 (Interfax) - NLMK Group (MOEX: NLMK), one of Russia's largest steelmakers, is revisiting plans to sell its plants in the Urals, and might now also sell its mini mill in Kaluga Region, which is also part of its long products division. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. Feb 3 (Interfax) - French food company Danone, which announced last October that it planned to sell control of its Russian dairy product business, has included a buyback option in the deal, national daily Kommersant, citing two sources familiar with the talks on the deal, reported on Friday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. Jan 19 (Interfax) - Russia's Agriculture Ministry, which has proposed to raise the export duty on rapeseed as of March 1, might also propose to hike the export duty on soybeans by 150% to 50% from the current 20%, Deputy Agriculture Minister Oksana Lut said at a meeting with leading oil crop processors, Vedomosti reported on Thursday, citing two participants in the meeting. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. Dec 14 (Interfax) - Rosatom Group is in talks to acquire a controlling stake in the Russian developer of Elbrus processors, JSC MCST, in a deal that could value the whole company at 5 billion-7 billion rubles, national daily Kommersant said on Tuesday, citing sources on the Russian microelectronics market. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. May 23 (Interfax) - Although it anticipates a record wheat harvest this year, Russia is concerned about re-exports of its grain from fellow Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) members and wants all of them to impose quotas and duties on grain exports. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. May 23 (Interfax) - Although it anticipates a record wheat harvest this year, Russia is concerned about re-exports of its grain from fellow Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) members and wants all of them to impose quotas and duties on grain exports. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

ROME. May 17 (Interfax) - Italian energy company Eni is considering opening accounts at Gazprombank (MOEX: GZPR) in euros and rubles in order to pay for gas supplies from Russia, business daily Il Sole 24 Ore reported. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

ROME. May 17 (Interfax) - Italian energy company Eni is considering opening accounts at Gazprombank (MOEX: GZPR) in euros and rubles in order to pay for gas supplies from Russia, business daily Il Sole 24 Ore reported. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. April 29 (Interfax) - Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom has managed to secure additional financing for the development of Northern Sea Route (NSR) infrastructure, as Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin has ordered the allocation of 118 billion rubles in budget funding to 2030 for the construction of another two nuclear icebreakers, national daily Kommersant reported on Friday, citing a list of instructions issued on April 15. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. April 29 (Interfax) - Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom has managed to secure additional financing for the development of Northern Sea Route (NSR) infrastructure, as Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin has ordered the allocation of 118 billion rubles in budget funding to 2030 for the construction of another two nuclear icebreakers, national daily Kommersant reported on Friday, citing a list of instructions issued on April 15. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. April 29 (Interfax) - Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom has managed to secure additional financing for the development of Northern Sea Route (NSR) infrastructure, as Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin has ordered the allocation of 118 billion rubles in budget funding to 2030 for the construction of another two nuclear icebreakers, national daily Kommersant reported on Friday, citing a list of instructions issued on April 15. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. April 28 (Interfax) - Russian Railways (RZD) (MOEX: RZHD) might receive subsidies to finance current operations, national daily Kommersant reported on Thursday, citing sources. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. April 6 (Interfax) - Russian coal companies, whose exports have lost priority on the country's eastern railways, have proposed to remove all transit containers from the Baikal-Amur Mainline (BAM) and Trans-Siberian Railway and ship them through Kazakhstan, national daily Kommersant reported on Wednesday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. April 6 (Interfax) - Russian coal companies, whose exports have lost priority on the country's eastern railways, have proposed to remove all transit containers from the Baikal-Amur Mainline (BAM) and Trans-Siberian Railway and ship them through Kazakhstan, national daily Kommersant reported on Wednesday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. April 6 (Interfax) - Russian coal companies, whose exports have lost priority on the country's eastern railways, have proposed to remove all transit containers from the Baikal-Amur Mainline (BAM) and Trans-Siberian Railway and ship them through Kazakhstan, national daily Kommersant reported on Wednesday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. April 6 (Interfax) - Russian coal companies, whose exports have lost priority on the country's eastern railways, have proposed to remove all transit containers from the Baikal-Amur Mainline (BAM) and Trans-Siberian Railway and ship them through Kazakhstan, national daily Kommersant reported on Wednesday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. April 6 (Interfax) - The Russian authorities are discussing the possibility of making the Central Bank of Russia the sole payment agent for foreign debt obligations, including for corporate issuers, business daily Vedomosti said on Wednesday, citing a source close to the government. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. March 17 (Interfax) - The deterioration of the economic situation in Russia is forcing the government to put major railway infrastructure projects on hold, starting with the Northern Latitudinal Railway (NLR), national daily Kommersant said on Thursday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. Aug 5 (Interfax) - Russia's Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) has proposed to exempt Rosatom Group's project to build four floating nuclear power plants (FNPP) to supply power to KAZ Mineral's Baimsky GOK mining operation in Chukotka from state regulation of electricity rates. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. Aug 5 (Interfax) - Russia's Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) has proposed to exempt Rosatom Group's project to build four floating nuclear power plants (FNPP) to supply power to KAZ Mineral's Baimsky GOK mining operation in Chukotka from state regulation of electricity rates. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

HONG KONG. Aug 19 (Interfax) - Japanese energy and gas companies are expected to soon sign contracts to buy liquefied natural gas (LNG) with the new operator of the Sakhalin-2 project in Russia as the deadline to do so is approaching, newspaper Asahi reported. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

HONG KONG. Aug 19 (Interfax) - Japanese energy and gas companies are expected to soon sign contracts to buy liquefied natural gas (LNG) with the new operator of the Sakhalin-2 project in Russia as the deadline to do so is approaching, newspaper Asahi reported. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. Aug 4 (Interfax) - The Russian government has helped three Internet companies service convertible bonds, the holders of which have the right to tender them for early redemption due to the long pause in exchange trading of these companies' shares, national daily Kommersant said on Thursday, citing a source close to the Cabinet. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. July 14 (Interfax) - Petropavlovsk's (MOEX: POGR) largest creditor, Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company (UMMC), and its largest shareholder, Konstantin Strukov, have submitted bids to buy the gold miner's assets, national daily Kommersant reported on Thursday, citing sources. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. July 12 (Interfax) - British cosmetics manufacturer and retailer Lush plans to close all of its remaining stores in Russia, national daily Kommersant reported on Tuesday, citing three retail real estate consultants. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. July 12 (Interfax) - Russian electric scooter rental service Whoosh has sold its European business to the CEO of Estonian e-scooter sharing service Prime, Lauri Truve, business daily Vedomosti reported on Tuesday, citing Whoosh founder Dmitry Chuiko. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]