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Russia’s chief doctor was right. Going to a protest rally in near-Arctic like conditions is bad for your health. Especially if you were already ill. As I was when I joined some 120,000 people on Saturday at an anti-Putin march that ended up within shouting distance from the Kremlin.

More than 250 dead as temperatures plunge to nearly -40C, with Russia forced to reduce gas supplies to the continent.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is in Bulgaria, urging the country to break its energy dependence on Russia by diversifying its oil and gas supplies.

More than 250 dead as temperatures plunge to nearly -40C, with Russia forced to reduce gas supplies to the continent.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Saturday that Gazprom should take great effort to ensure natural gas exports to Europe, which is experiencing an extremely cold snap.

Low supplies in Western Europe have caused tension to the east during an especially frigid winter.

Freezing weather sweeping across Europe is causing a shortage of vital Russian gas supplies to several countries, officials say.

Russian company in dispute with European Union as it says countries demand more than it is contractually obliged to deliver

The price of gas around Europe has risen sharply due to increased demand as a result of the cold weather and reports of reduced supply from Russia.

Faced with a cold snap, some Gazprom customers in Europe have complained that deliveries of Russian natural gas have declined, but Gazprom said they were asking for above-contract volumes, a Gazprom export official, Sergei Komlev, said on Friday.

Russia's largest oil company, Rosneft, saw 2011 net profit jump 19.7 percent year-on-year to $12.452 billion to US GAAP, the company said in a statement on Friday.

Ukraine's government is blaming Russia for natural gas shortages in some European countries as a severe cold spell grips the region.

Russian gas giant Gazprom will build a connection to Montenegro in the South Stream gas pipeline, which is to carry Russian natural gas under the Black Sea to Europe, the company said on Friday.

Europe has been receiving less Russian gas through Ukraine's pipelines because Russia has cut blue fuel supplies, Ukrainian Energy Minister Yuriy Boyko said on Friday.

The presidential human rights council will request the Kremlin to pardon 30 convicts in questionable cases; including former Yukos head Mikhail Khodorkovsky.

Russian gas export monopoly Gazprom is to increase its gas supplies to Europe and neighboring states as severe cold hits the EU, Gazprom export head Alexander Medvedev said on Thursday.

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OAO Gazprom, Russia’s natural-gas exporter, said third-quarter profit fell 4.4 percent as the ruble weakened, leading to a foreign exchange loss.

Exxon Mobil Corp.’s failed shale-gas wells in Poland may hobble the nation’s effort to become one of the world’s major energy sources and dismantle Russian dominance of Eastern European natural-gas markets.

Freezing weather throughout Europe sent wheat and electricity prices higher and disrupted gas supplies and shipping, with some regions preparing for their lowest temperatures in more than 60 years.

TNK-BP vice president and UK native Alexander Dodds was hospitalized with a skull fracture after falling from stairs when exiting a plane at Moscow's Vnukovo Airport.

The side frames of freight cars on a train carrying oil through the Amur region in the Russian Far East broke Tuesday morning, causing 17 oil tanks to fly off the cars.

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Russian stocks may extend their best start to a year since 2006 as steady oil prices buoy domestic consumption and growth exceeds that in the global economy, according to Aberdeen Asset Management Plc.

OAO Gazprom, Russia’s natural-gas exporter, said third-quarter profit fell 4.4 percent as the ruble weakened, leading to a foreign exchange loss.

MOSCOW — Prime Minister Vladimir Putin laid out his economic vision in the third of a weekly series of articles titled “Ideas for Russia” on Monday and called for a smaller state presence in business, a fight against corruption, institutional reform and a drive to wean Russia off its oil dependency.

MOSCOW — Side frames of freight cars on a train carrying oil through the Amur region in the Russian Far East broke Tuesday morning, causing 17 oil tanks to fly off the cars, RIA-Novosti reported.

Russia’s UTair, the world’s largest civil helicopter operator, is in talks over creation of a Brazilian joint venture for servicing oil platforms, the company’s head Andrei Martirosov said on Tuesday.

Watching Russian presidential candidate Vladimir Zhirinovsky do nothing is an edifying experience and infinitely more interesting, I’d wager, than watching any of his rivals do pretty much anything at all.

High oil prices mean more cash flowing into the Russian government. The country is dependent on energy exports to keep its budget surplus in tact. Oil futures cracked $100 a barrel this week, before settling at $99.56 for the May contract for WTI crude.?? Still, prices like that bode well for Russia?s public coffers. International ...

First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov said Thursday that he thinks former Yukos owner Mikhail Khodorkovsky should be pardoned.

IMF experts believe that high oil prices will allow the Russian government to take measures to strengthen, protect and reform the economy. Russia is benefiting from the rising tensions in the Middle East, which are driving up the price of a barrel of oil, but experts believe this geopolitical factor will soon subside. Moreover, expensive oil is slowing down Russia’s economic growth, and without economic reforms even expensive oil cannot guarantee economic stability.

Ukraine hopes to find a solution to the gas dispute with Russia soon, President Viktor Yanukovych said on Friday in Davos at the World Economic Forum.

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OSLO: The Norwegian oil major is eager to join the development of huge offshore fields in Russia?s Arctic. But first it wants tax breaks from Moscow.

Despite the prospect of rising oil prices, EU sanctions on Iran could do Russia serious harm

Russia’s two biggest oil firms will step in to save Premier League side Tom Tomsk after Prime Minister Vladimir Putin urged them to help the team, which is at risk of financial collapse, Tomsk regional governor Viktor Kress said Thursday.

Russia's delayed privatization plan includes the sale of a small stake in pipeline monopoly Transneft alongside a host of other companies over the coming six years, according to a schedule distributed by the Economic Development Ministry.

Petroleos de Venezuela, the state oil company, and a group of Russian companies started drilling the first oil well on the Junin 6 block in the Orinoco crude belt.

The development of one of the biggest remaining fields in the Timan-Pechora province moves closer.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that he guaranteed state oil giants Rosneft or Gazpromneft would bail out debt-stricken Premier League side Tom Tomsk, as long as the club's ownership structure becomes completely transparent.

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega is seeking as much as $600 million in Russian government investment to help the Central American country modernize and develop its oil and tourism industries.

Smaller Russian oil companies such as Gazprom Neft and TNK-BP Holding are better buys than their bigger competitors, as they provide higher dividends and have better production prospects, according to Troika Dialog.

Igor Artemyev, head of the Federal Anti-Monopoly Service, said the majority of more than 70 legal cases in regional and federal courts were won against Russian oil companies after the fuel supply crisis that paralyzed parts of the country in the spring of last year.

A property developer in oil-rich Azerbaijan says the company is aiming to construct the world's tallest building on a chain of artificial islands in the Caspian Sea.

Lithuania took a step toward less dependence on Russian gas by deciding Monday to pick Norway's Hoegh LNG to provide an offshore platform for liquefied natural gas imports.

Ukraine intends to gradually reduce the volume of gas bought from Russia starting from 2013.

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Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller eyes hungry buyers for Barents gas in world’s largest market.

One thing that many people have overlooked about the current unrest in Russia is the depth of support for left wing values. Is a new red dawn about to rise over the Kremlin?

Russian equities traded in New York fell, paring their biggest weekly advance in almost two months, as signs the global economy is slowing pushed crude oil to a two-month low. OAO Gazprom dropped the most in three weeks.

Russia, the world’s largest crude-producing country, is planning to raise its oil production by 1% year-on-year in 2012 to 516 million metric tons

Kiev and Moscow are not discussing the sale of Ukrainian state assets to Russia as part of a future gas deal, Ukrainian Energy Minister Yury Boyko said on Saturday.

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The first Russian oil company pre-qualified for operations on the Norwegian shelf is opening an office in Norway.