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		<title>Energy Blast – May 25, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 09:50:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Citizen M</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A consortium of oil companies, including Italy&#8217;s Eni and Russia&#8217;s Lukoil have reportedly made a major oil discovery in the eastern part of the Libyan Desert in Egypt.  The Brazilian offshore area Spain&#8217;s Repsol is exploring with China Petroleum apparently contains the equivalent of at least 1.25 billion barrels of oil.  China National Offshore Oil [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Today in Russian Business – May 25, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 09:41:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Out of all the BRICs, Goldman Sachs&#8217; Jim O&#8217;Neil has good things to say about Russia at the moment.  Sberbank will be the only Russian bank to help arrange the initial public offering of telecoms company MegaFon.  The Moscow Times reports on the bountiful road construction contracts Mostotrest, run by Putin&#8217;s close friend and judo [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – May 25, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 09:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Citizen M</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TODAY: Navalny vows prison threat will not deter anti-Putin struggle; opposition walk out of meeting on new protest fine bill; US criticizes Russia&#8217;s rights record; is Putinism an anachronism?  Black Sea dolphin deaths shock ecologists; Russia sees dirty tricks behind Sukhoi superjet crash; 4 Russian bikers arrested in Iraq &#8216;They won’t scare us with iron [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Unfortunate Gift of Foresight</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 16:34:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Citizen M</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In popular culture the year 2012 is charged with impending apocalypse, largely thanks to its apocryphal significance in the Mayan calendar.  Could this be the year that sees Putinism lurch towards a grizzly end?  A new report today from the Moscow-based Center for Strategic Research portends doom and gloom: There is a “critical lack of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Energy Blast – May 24, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 10:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Citizen M</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Russia&#8217;s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says Iran is ready to negotiate on its controversial nuclear program.  Gazprom, which plans to raise investment even further this year, has again delayed crude production at Russia&#8217;s first delve into offshore Arctic oil, the Prirazlomnoye field.  Apparently the energy monopoly is reconsidering the composition of the consortium to develop [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Today in Russian Business – May 24, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 09:48:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Citizen M</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg describes how the Greek exit from the euro could send Russia into a financial quagmire.  Russia’s economy would apparently shrink 2.1% in a worst-case scenario, with as much as $95 billion in capital leaving the country in the event of the &#8216;Grexit&#8217;, says the chief economist at Sberbank.  President Putin has ordered the government [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – May 24, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 09:42:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Citizen M</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TODAY: Putin refuses to veto new bill raising protest fines; Navalny and Udaltsov released from jail but faces new pressures; Russia test fires ICBM successfully; military jet crashes; Russia&#8217;s new health minister Kremlin human rights council head Mikhail Fedotov has been scolded by President Putin for publicly criticizing the new bill raising fines for protests, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Energy Tsar Returns to Rosneft</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 12:33:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Citizen M</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Kremlin&#8217;s anointed energy tsar, close Putin ally and siloviki overlord Igor Sechin, who will not serve in the new cabinet, has apparently had his loyalty to the regime rewarded with the directorship of Rosneft.  This was a role he once enjoyed, but had removed from his clutches in 2011 when then President Medvedev ordered [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Energy Blast – May 23, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 09:06:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Citizen M</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The director of the UN nuclear watchdog, Yukiya Amano, has told the press that he expects to sign a deal with Iran to facilitate investigation into suspected work on atom bombs, &#8216;soon&#8217;.  President Putin has signed a decree adding four key energy companies and Rosneft to the list of Russian strategic enterprises that will, most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Today in Russian Business – May 23, 2012</title>
		<link>http://robertamsterdam.com/2012/05/today-in-russian-business-may-23-2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 08:52:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Citizen M</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First Deputy Chairman Alexei Ulyukayev has told the press that Russia’s economy may expand faster than the government estimates this year, as the country proves relatively insulated against the euro-region debt crisis.   The OECD believes now is no time for Russia to rest on its laurels, despite giving it a higher forecast for GDP [...]]]></description>
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