MOSCOW, Feb 27 (Reuters) – Russia’s central bank said on Friday it had started repurchase operations with Russian stocks on Feb. 26.

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Not long ago, Russia’s state-controlled energy giant Gazprom was among the world’s largest companies in terms of market capitalization, and as it grew so did the perception—fervently denied by company executives—that it was an arm of the Kremlin and that its goals were as much geopolitical as commercial. NEWSWEEK’s Michael Freedman met recently with Alexander Medvedev, Gazprom’s deputy chief …

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Alexander Medvedev: ‘We’ll Be a $1 Trillion Company’
Newsweek
Medvedev: Let's start with the $1 trillion: if we believe that the stock exchanges around the world will come back to the normal way of reflecting the real value of companies, not the speculative value, we are sure that Gazprom, which was undervalued

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MOSCOW, Feb 27 (Reuters) – Russia’s central bank said on Friday it had started repurchase operations with Russian stocks on Feb. 26.

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KYIV. Feb 27 (Interfax) – Ukrainian Fuel and Energy Minister Yuriy Prodan has said that he is confident that national joint-stock company Naftogaz Ukrainy will pay on time for gas supplied by Russia’s Gazprom in February 2009.

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BRATISLAVA, Feb 27 (Reuters) – Here are news stories, press reports and events to watch which may affect Slovak financial markets on Friday.

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MOSCOW, Feb 27 (Reuters) – Russia’s central bank said on Friday it had started repurchase operations with Russian stocks on Feb. 26. Repo operations are the central bank’s main instrument for providing rouble liquidity to commercial banks. “The central bank has started from February 26 direct equity-repo operations on MICEX stock exchange with shares included in the lombard list ,” the central …

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The Czech National Bank (ČNB) has issued a license to the Prague Energy Exchange (PXE) to expand the exchange into commodity derivatives.

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Northern Offshore shares fall 10% after $16m profit
Royal Gazette, Bermuda
On February 22 the company announced that it had made the required filing with the Oslo Stock Exchange with regards to $15 million accounts receivable with Gazflot, a wholly owned subsidiary of Gazprom, and that it intends to pursue its remedies for

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Russia's c.bank starts repos with shares
Reuters
"The central bank has started from February 26 direct equity-repo operations on MICEX stock exchange with shares included in the lombard list ," the central bank said in a statement. The list includes Russia's major companies such as gas giant Gazprom

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