How far will Russia's new President Dimitry Medvedev emerge from the shadow of Vladimir Putin, the man who will be his Prime Minister and whose path he has vowed to continue? The world, and especially Russia's neighbors in Europe, will wait anxiously to see.
Averting what could have been another gas crisis across Europe, Russia and Ukraine have fixed a price on natural gas for 2008 while Kiev has promised to pay its 2007 gas debts.
New moves to pressure Ukraine on gas supplies could be driven by Moscow's political agenda, but they could also signal the Russian gas giant's own supply problems
Exxon Mobil (No. 2) had a record $39.5 billion profits, which is impressive enough. Even more remarkable is that its earnings grew $3.4 billion in 2006, while Royal Dutch Shell (No. 3) had only a small increase, and BP (No. 4) saw profits fall. Russian gas giant Gazprom (No. 52) grew its profits 37%, to $20.3 billion.
Deutsche Post (No. 57), with its iconic yellow DHL trucks, sped past the U.S. Postal Service (No. 64) to lead the mail, package, and freight delivery category. Meanwhile, HP (No. 41) edged out IBM (No. 42) in computers by a slim $234 million margin, and Verizon (No. 39), Gazprom (No. 52), and Caterpillar (No. 151) became new leaders in their industries.
BP Plc said on Friday its Russian joint venture TNK-BP had agreed to sell Gazprom its 62.9 per cent stake in Rusia Petroleum, the company which holds the licence for the Kovykta gas field in East Siberia.
How far will Russia's new President Dimitry Medvedev emerge from the shadow of Vladimir Putin, the man who will be his Prime Minister and whose path he has vowed to continue? The world, and especially Russia's neighbors in Europe, will wait anxiously to see.
Averting what could have been another gas crisis across Europe, Russia and Ukraine have fixed a price on natural gas for 2008 while Kiev has promised to pay its 2007 gas debts.
New moves to pressure Ukraine on gas supplies could be driven by Moscow's political agenda, but they could also signal the Russian gas giant's own supply problems
Exxon Mobil (No. 2) had a record $39.5 billion profits, which is impressive enough. Even more remarkable is that its earnings grew $3.4 billion in 2006, while Royal Dutch Shell (No. 3) had only a small increase, and BP (No. 4) saw profits fall. Russian gas giant Gazprom (No. 52) grew its profits 37%, to $20.3 billion.
Deutsche Post (No. 57), with its iconic yellow DHL trucks, sped past the U.S. Postal Service (No. 64) to lead the mail, package, and freight delivery category. Meanwhile, HP (No. 41) edged out IBM (No. 42) in computers by a slim $234 million margin, and Verizon (No. 39), Gazprom (No. 52), and Caterpillar (No. 151) became new leaders in their industries.
BP Plc said on Friday its Russian joint venture TNK-BP had agreed to sell Gazprom its 62.9 per cent stake in Rusia Petroleum, the company which holds the licence for the Kovykta gas field in East Siberia.
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Moscow and Kiev officials have praised a deal to end a pricing dispute for Russian natural gas that caused shortages in Ukraine and throughout Western Europe.
German officials Monday pressured Russia and Ukraine to agree on a new natural gas contract, but also said Germany has 2-1/2 months during which it can find other means to fill any gap caused by the dispute.
Russia has promised to restore full natural gas deliveries to European nations, but the dispute between the country's state-owned gas monopoly and Ukraine appeared to remain at an impasse.
Russia's state-owned natural gas monopoly Gazprom suspended the flow of natural gas to Ukraine over a pricing dispute Sunday, a move the Ukrainian president decried as "unacceptable."
Ukraine could accept a Russian compromise deal in a dispute over natural gas supply prices, but more talks are needed, a spokesman for the Ukrainian prime minister is reported to have said.
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