Evrofinance Capital, a 6.2 percent shareholder in Russia's MICEX exchange, has asked the central bank to block MICEX's merger with the country's RTS stock exchange, Kommersant business daily reported on Friday.
// Jul. 29, 2011 - 08:07 GMT
Norilsk Nickel, the world's largest nickel and palladium producer, posted an 8.5 percent fall in its second-quarter nickel output to 64,694 tons compared to the previous quarter, Norilsk Nickel said on Thursday.
// Jul. 28, 2011 - 06:53 GMT
Kazakhstan has increased the rate of its customs duties on the export of oil products by 16.2%, but has not changed the duties on crude oil, the government said in a statement on Thursday.
// Jul. 28, 2011 - 04:25 GMT
Royal Dutch Shell may invest no less than $1 billion in geological exploration and production of shale gas in the Kharkiv region in north-east Ukraine, Deputy Governor Yury Sapronov said on the regional government website on Wednesday.
// Jul. 27, 2011 - 08:00 GMT
Russia may have to increase taxes in 2013 following the presidential elections next year but will try to avoid this, Deputy Finance Minister Sergei Shatalov said late on Tuesday.
// Jul. 27, 2011 - 07:03 GMT
Russian anthracite coal maker Siberian Anthracite plans to hold an initial public offering on the London Stock Exchange in the fall, a banking source said on Wednesday.
// Jul. 27, 2011 - 06:47 GMT
Russia's largest nickel miner Norilsk Nickel saw 2010 net profits rise 17 percent to $3.1 billion to IFRS, the company said in a statement on Friday.
// Jul. 22, 2011 - 07:32 GMT
Gazprom subsidiary Marketing&Trading Singapore, or GM&TS, has signed a fourth memorandum of understanding on liquefied natural gas supplies to India with Indian Oil Corporation Limited, Gazprom said in a statement on Thursday.
// Jul. 21, 2011 - 08:22 GMT
Russia's central bank has withdrawn the operating license from Moscow-based mid-sized AMT Bank over irregularities in its financial statements, the regulator said on Thursday.
// Jul. 21, 2011 - 07:50 GMT