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...The ministry acted after it emerged in the past few days that Gazprom Germania had been acquired by two other companies, JSC Palmary and Gazprom Export Business Services LLC, the ministry said....
...Its action is in contrast to Kremlin-owned Gazprom, whose reputation is in tatters as it risks breaking long-term obligations with some European customers over gas contracts....
...So Gazprom’s decision to repay a $1.3bn bond in full on Monday caught bondholders off guard....
...Companies that charter Sovcomflot ships, which sail from ports in the Baltic Sea and Black Sea, include Russian energy groups Lukoil and Gazprom as well as commodity traders Trafigura and Vitol....
...These include: The world’s largest natural gas company, Gazprom, one of Russia’s largest oil producers and refiners, Gazprom Neft, oil pipeline group Transneft and one of Russia’s largest power companies...
...Sibur and Gazprom declined to comment....
...The planned Sibur complex and a nearby gas processing plant run by state-owned Gazprom would both be fuelled by the 3,000km long Power of Siberia gas pipeline, a $55bn project that will be the first to run...
...Although Ekho is owned by state-run Gazprom Media, its liberal editorial line under Mr Venediktov has attracted considerable criticism from pro-Kremlin nationalists....
...“The Gazprom bond was a proxy sovereign,” he said. But Dmitry Konov, chief executive of Sibur, Russia’s largest petrochemicals company, said the recent deals looked “expensive”....
...Lesin served as an adviser to Mr Putin up until 2009 and later became the head of Gazprom Media, one of the state’s most powerful media holdings. In 2014, however, his star began to fade....
...In late 2013, he was appointed head of Gazprom Media. But he resigned from that post at the end of 2014....
...the Sukhoi superjets, which can seat about 80 people, come as Denis Manturov, Russia’s Minister of Trade and Industry, will head a group of companies operating in the civil and defence sectors, including Gazprom...
...Serbia imports the vast majority of its gas from Russia and is struggling to repay a $224m debt to Gazprom....
...Agropolychim and Grupa Azoty say they are diversifying away from Russia as much because of Gazprom’s high prices as security of supply. Gazprom could not be reached for comment....
...Big state companies including Russian Railways, oil firm Rosneft and Gazprom “have grown all too accustomed to the good life,” says a cabinet official....
...Rosneft, like other Russian state companies active on international debt markets including Gazprom, Gazprom Neft and Russian Railways, enjoys investment-grade status and is seen as a relatively safe bet....
...Gazprom has pledged to change to IFRS-based dividends in 2014....
...The cut will only apply for nine months and is similar to what Gazprom has granted to other countries....
...Gazprom officials insist they make sound investments based on business logic....
...Mr Timchenko and Mr Mikhelson’s surging fortunes came after they consolidated their joint holdings in Novatek at the end of 2010 to a controlling stake in a deal in which Gazprom sold its 9.4 per cent stake...
...Owner Gazprom Bank last December valued the company, which reprocesses more than the half of the country’s petroleum gas, at $7.4bn excluding debts....
...But he could help Gazprom hang on to the supplies it already has in his country....
...However, Mr Shushkovsky suggests Gazprom and Sibur’s priorities lie elsewhere....
...That is good news for Rosatom, the state-owned group aiming to become the Gazprom of nuclear power....
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