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		<title>Energy Blast &#8211; Nov 24, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/energy-blast-nov-24-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Investing Lessons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Atomstroyexport]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Belarus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chubu Electric Power Co.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy dependency]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Turkey's highest court has reversed the decision to have Atomstroyexport build its first nuclear power plant, due to allegations of unfairly high prices issued by the Russian company, and concerns about energy dependency. &#160;Russia will give Belarus a 30-40% discount...]]></description>
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		<title>The Iron (Pipeline) Curtain</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/the-iron-pipeline-curtain/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/the-iron-pipeline-curtain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:32:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[gas dispute;]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stephen Fidler at the Wall Street Journal has an interesting piece running today about the annual winter pipeline politics (though the sensible agreement yesterday in Yalta may diminish a lot of fears).&#160; There are some interesting facts and numbers in...]]></description>
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		<title>Energy Blast &#8211; Nov 18, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/energy-blast-nov-18-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/energy-blast-nov-18-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:16:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Investing Lessons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alexander Medvedev]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chair]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Commission of European Communities;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gas bills]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gazprom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[key reforms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kiev]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prime Minister]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric plant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Slovakia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stockholm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vladimir putin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yenisei river]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In spite of recent measures taken to avoid more EU gas disruptions this winter, and a new Russia-EU partnership set to be discussed in detail at this week's Stockholm summit,&#160;Slovakia's Prime Minister can't see Kiev being able to pay its...]]></description>
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		<title>Energy Blast &#8211; Nov 17, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/energy-blast-nov-17-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/energy-blast-nov-17-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:08:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Investing Lessons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Analyst]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bushehr nuclear plant;]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[gas crisis]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[natural gas reserves]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[pipeline network;]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Qom plant]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[vladimir putin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yulia Tymoshenko]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Russia's Energy Minister and the EU Energy Commissioner have signed a memorandum establishing an early warning mechanism to anticipate potential gas cuts and allow time to find solutions to problems before deliveries are physically affected. &#160;But the memorandum may be...]]></description>
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		<title>Energy Blast &#8211; Nov 16, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/energy-blast-nov-16-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/energy-blast-nov-16-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:37:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Investing Lessons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[British Gas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[gas supplies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gazprom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islamic Republic of Iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[liquefied natural gas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mahmoud Ahmadinejad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Norway]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oil shortages;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[president]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prime Minister]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia's border;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Singapore]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Slovenia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Stream
 pipeline;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Stream;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sweden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uppsala University in Sweden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vladimir putin]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">tag:www.robertamsterdam.com,2009://1.22159</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Uppsala University in Sweden says the IEA's annual World Energy Outlook 'drastically underplayed&#160;the scale of future oil shortages'. &#160;Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has won Slovenia's approval for the South Stream pipeline, 'undermining European Union efforts to reduce dependency on Russian...]]></description>
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		<title>Energy Blast &#8211; Nov 13, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/energy-blast-nov-13-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/energy-blast-nov-13-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:47:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Investing Lessons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Belarus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gas Prices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gazprom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[international energy agency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medvedev]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oil demand]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oil Prices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[president]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[state giant]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The International Energy Agency increased its forecast for 2010 global oil demand as the pace of economic recovery in Asia and the Middle East quickens, but has apparently cautioned that rising oil prices could jeopardize the green shoots of recovery....]]></description>
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		<title>Does Time, In Fact, Equal Money?</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/does-time-in-fact-equal-money/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/does-time-in-fact-equal-money/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:13:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Investing Lessons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aleksei Kudrin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aleksei Miller]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anatoly Chubais]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrei Kostin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[central bank]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chechen President]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dmitry Kozak;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dmitry Medvedev]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Finance Minister]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[First Deputy Chairman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gazprom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Girard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[head]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Igor Sechin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[president]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Presidential administration;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Samara Governor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sberbank]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Seth Hettena]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever come across something so brilliant you wish you had thought of it yourself? Well that's what Seth Hettena has just put together, via sourcing from Vedomosti: an aggregation of the preferred timepieces worn by high-level Russian officialdom as a...]]></description>
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		<title>Mobius: Taking a closer look at Russian markets</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/mobius-taking-a-closer-look-at-russian-markets/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/mobius-taking-a-closer-look-at-russian-markets/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:20:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prieur du Plessis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Investing Lessons]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[consumer products]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emerging markets guru Mark Mobius shares his (bullish) ideas on Russia in this post. ]]></description>
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		<title>Pipeline Pact</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/pipeline-pact/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/pipeline-pact/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:12:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Investing Lessons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Angela Merkel]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Berlin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chancellor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Commission of European Communities;]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Eastern Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy consumers]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[gas deliveries;]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nord Stream
 pipeline;]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This in from the Wall Street Journal on the somewhat disturbing, political dimensions of Russia's Nord Stream pipeline.&#160; Approved just last week by Finland and Sweden after ecological concerns were overcome, the project is now ready to get off the...]]></description>
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		<title>Energy Blast &#8211; Nov 10, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/energy-blast-nov-10-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/energy-blast-nov-10-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:15:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Investing Lessons]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nord Stream
 pipeline;]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The US is apparently willing to give Iran more time to decide whether it will accept the UN's recent proposal on uranium enrichment abroad.&#160; Bad news for Gazprom - the company's profits fell by 48% in the first six months...]]></description>
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		<title>RA&#8217;s Daily Russian News Blast &#8211; Nov 10, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/ras-daily-russian-news-blast-nov-10-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/ras-daily-russian-news-blast-nov-10-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:25:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TODAY: Youtube policeman faces slander investigation; Omsk students threatened with expulsion; Committee to Protect Journalists urge global attention to threats against media in Russia. Merkel thanks Gorbachev; Medvedev approves new military bill; advocates abolition of death penalty. Delay for Gazprom...]]></description>
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		<title>Energy Blast &#8211; Nov 6, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/energy-blast-nov-6-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/energy-blast-nov-6-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:52:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently U.N. inspectors have found 'nothing to be worried about' upon their first examination of the formerly clandestine uranium enrichment site in Qom in Iran.&#160; 'The [Obama] administration must consider whether it makes sense to grant the regime two more...]]></description>
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		<title>Energy Blast &#8211; Nov 5, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/energy-blast-nov-5-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/energy-blast-nov-5-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:53:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Investing Lessons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy hegemony]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Energy Minister]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Yury Prodan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Naftogaz Ukrainy has apparently released a statement admitting that a 'dire economic situation' means that the company is struggling to pay its October gas bill.&#160; The Moscow Times reports however that Ukrainian Energy Minister Yury Prodan has assured Russia that...]]></description>
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		<title>Gas Crisis Cooling Down?</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/gas-crisis-cooling-down/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/gas-crisis-cooling-down/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:01:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[central bank]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[datestring]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[gas interruption]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Winter is upon us, and the last couple of days have seen rumors rumbling about the possibility of another gas interruption - due to payment problems at Ukraine's end.&#160; It is alleged that Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko alerted Vladimir...]]></description>
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		<title>Energy Blast &#8211; Oct 30, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/energy-blast-oct-30-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/energy-blast-oct-30-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:28:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Investing Lessons]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dmitry Medvedev]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rafael Correa;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Kennedy Jr.]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rossiyskaya Gazeta;]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iran is 'unwilling to accept' a deal that would see most of its enriched uranium shipped abroad. 'Tehran is obviously probing to see whether President Obama can play hardball or whether he can be played.' &#160;Russia will share the 'prize'...]]></description>
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		<title>Energy Blast &#8211; Oct 29, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/energy-blast-oct-29-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/energy-blast-oct-29-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:45:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Investing Lessons]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Britain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy infrastructure]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new World Bank report says that Russia is likely to bear the brunt of changes to regional climate brought on by global warming. &#160;Gazprom, currently&#160;feuding with Rosneft&#160;over blocked access to energy infrastructure,&#160;may rework its 'tough line' of fining European...]]></description>
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		<title>Energy Blast &#8211; Oct 28, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/energy-blast-oct-28-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/energy-blast-oct-28-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:23:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[chief economist]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Yamal-Europe gas pipeline]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Rosneft has been fined $180 million by the Federal Anti-Monopoly Service for deliberately driving up wholesale prices for gasoline and other oil products in the first half of 2009, and Lukoil was warned that it could face a similar penalty...in...]]></description>
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		<title>Energy Blast &#8211; Oct 23, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/energy-blast-oct-23-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/energy-blast-oct-23-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:31:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Investing Lessons]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bulgaria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China Investment Corp]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[gas transit network;]]></category>
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 pipeline;]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a meeting with Italian prime minister&#160;Silvio Berlusconi,&#160;Vladimir Putin made a surprise announcement that the South Stream pipeline, a joint project between Gazprom and Italy's Eni, could be finished before its official start-up date of 2013. &#160;Plans for South Stream's...]]></description>
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		<title>Putting The TV On Mute</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/putting-the-tv-on-mute/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:25:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Anton Nazarov]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ An interesting opinion piece today by Vladimir Ryzhkov in the Moscow Times sees one of the last bastions of media freedom - Ren TV - looking like it may have to fight for its independence.&#160; The increasingly popular station,...]]></description>
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		<title>Energy Blast &#8211; Oct 22, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/energy-blast-oct-22-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/energy-blast-oct-22-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 08:19:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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 pipeline;]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gazprom has expressed an interest in acquiring a U.S. shale-gas producer, to access the know-how to develop similar resources domestically, says the Moscow Times.&#160; GDF Suez has said it has discussed a 10-20% increase in its Russian gas supply with...]]></description>
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		<title>Belgrade And Moscow Tie Energy Knot</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/belgrade-and-moscow-tie-energy-knot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:50:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first ever visit by a Russian President to Serbia has yielded another 'strategic partnership', this time soldered with a $1.5 billion loan to the debt-hit nation.&#160; A certain diplomatic interdependence between the two countries seems to be a de...]]></description>
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		<title>Energy Blast &#8211; Oct 21, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/energy-blast-oct-21-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/energy-blast-oct-21-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:10:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Luke Harding has two pieces on Russian climate change in today's Guardian: an audio report on Northern-Siberia's seasonal shifts, and a special report on the Yamal peninsula. &#160;Rumors abound that China, Japan, Russia and France have been in secret talks...]]></description>
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		<title>Does Tower Disapproval Go All The Way To The Top?</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/does-tower-disapproval-go-all-the-way-to-the-top/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/does-tower-disapproval-go-all-the-way-to-the-top/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:31:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Valentina Matviyenko;]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Gazprom tower, which threatens to imperil St Petersburg's UNESCO heritage status, has been the subject of several public protests of late and, as you may remember, some imaginative headlines.&#160; Now the&#160; project seems to have encountered a new adversary.&#160;...]]></description>
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		<title>Energy Blast &#8211; Oct 20, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/energy-blast-oct-20-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/energy-blast-oct-20-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:26:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA['Today's price of around $70 a barrel is increasingly viewed as a new floor for the [oil] industry.' &#160;Perhaps the reason why Russia is wary of coordinating production limits with OPEC can be explained by the success achieve by Russian...]]></description>
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		<title>Today in Russian Business &#8211; Oct 20, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/today-in-russian-business-oct-20-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/today-in-russian-business-oct-20-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:22:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Investing Lessons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alexei Ulyukayev]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Big Brother]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Central Bank First Deputy Chairman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Endemol]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gazprom]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[the 2014 Winter Olympics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gazprom's plan to build a 400-meter skyscraper in St. Petersburg is reportedly causing a government split, with many ministers stepping up vocal opposition to the tower. &#160;Central Bank First Deputy Chairman Alexei Ulyukayev wants state-controlled companies and banks to limit...]]></description>
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		<title>Energy Blast &#8211; Oct 19, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/energy-blast-oct-19-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/energy-blast-oct-19-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 08:44:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Investing Lessons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alexander Lebedev's Timan Oil and Gas]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dmitry Medvedev]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[France]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[oil transactions]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is hosting today's Vienna meeting between Russia, France, the U.S, and Iran, which will attempt to finalise an agreement on sending Iranian uranium abroad for enrichment. &#160;Iran says it will enrich the uranium itself,...]]></description>
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		<title>Russia&#8217;s Broken Energy Model</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/russias-broken-energy-model/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/russias-broken-energy-model/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:40:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Broken Energy Model]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[David Clark]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy export revenues]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Clark, chair of the Russia Foundation, has a good piece in the Financial Times about Russia's rejection of the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT), which will come into effect this coming Monday.&#160; Although Clark makes some good points regarding some...]]></description>
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		<title>China Drives a Hard Energy Bargain on Russia</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/china-drives-a-hard-energy-bargain-on-russia/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/china-drives-a-hard-energy-bargain-on-russia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:14:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[energy deals]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[oil-based pricing formula]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day the Financial Times had a good editorial on Vladimir Putin's visit to China to sign a plethora of business and energy deals, and naturally, the holy grail of all such diplomacy:&#160; becoming a bigger supplier of natural...]]></description>
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		<title>Energy Blast &#8211; October 15, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/energy-blast-october-15-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/energy-blast-october-15-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:33:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Investing Lessons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aladdin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Azerbaijan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cambridge professor]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[conocophillips]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to ITAR-TASS, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has commented that Russia does not object to selling energy resources using domestic currencies.&#160; How done is the Russia-China gas deal? wonders the the FT.&#160; Gazprom will buy 500 million cubic meters of...]]></description>
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		<title>Energy Blast &#8211; October 14, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/energy-blast-october-14-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/energy-blast-october-14-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:39:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Benita Ferrero Waldner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chantal Jouanno]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[gas deliveries;]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gazprom and the Chinese National Petroleum Corporation have come to an agreement on the framework of gas deliveries to China; issues related to pricing still remain.&#160; Apparently Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin has said Russia could start gas deliveries...]]></description>
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		<title>Energy Blackmail is a Well Practiced Art</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/energy-blackmail-is-a-well-practiced-art/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/energy-blackmail-is-a-well-practiced-art/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:20:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Nord Stream pipeline is back in the news this week, and unfortunately it's not main stream press reviews of Grigory Pasko's documentary.&#160; The Financial Times was carrying a three-frame photo in its special Russia business pull-out section of Vladimir...]]></description>
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		<title>Energy Blast &#8211; October 13, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/energy-blast-october-13-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/energy-blast-october-13-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:23:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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 pipeline;]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[TNK-BP is on the lookout for oil and gas production projects in Iraq as the country builds up to its second round of international bidding.&#160; A piece in the New York Times examines how the Nord Stream pipeline could reinforce...]]></description>
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		<title>Energy Blast &#8211; October 12, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/energy-blast-october-12-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/energy-blast-october-12-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 09:41:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[deputy premier]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Greenpeace;]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Russia and China have asserted a desire to increase cooperation in the energy industry, at the fifth round of Russian-Chinese energy talks in Beijing, attended by Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin and China's deputy premier Wang Qishan.&#160; When Vladimir Putin...]]></description>
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		<title>RA&#8217;s Daily Russian News Blast &#8211; October 12, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/ras-daily-russian-news-blast-october-12-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/ras-daily-russian-news-blast-october-12-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 08:20:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TODAY: United Russia sweep polls at regional elections; accusation of vote-rigging fly.&#160; Mitvol receives unusual delivery.&#160; Medvedev had no time for Yushchenko at CIS summit; positive on Obama's peace prize; Ecuador looking for weapons deals?; Russia bids to host World...]]></description>
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		<title>Energy Blast &#8211; October 9, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/energy-blast-october-9-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/energy-blast-october-9-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 09:06:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Investing Lessons]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad has said that some countries have offered to provide Iran with uranium enriched to 20% for peaceful use as nuclear reactor fuel.&#160; In a move to decrease energy consumption, Russia plans to ban the production and...]]></description>
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		<title>Today in Russian Business &#8211;  October 9, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/today-in-russian-business-october-9-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/today-in-russian-business-october-9-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 08:49:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[VEB, which holds a blocking state in Vimpelcom, will apparently agree to the merger of the mobile operator with Ukrainian company Kyivstar.&#160; Car sales in Russia fell 52% in September year-on-year, a slight improvement on August's drop of 54%.&#160; State-controlled...]]></description>
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		<title>Energy Blast &#8211; October 7, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/energy-blast-october-7-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/energy-blast-october-7-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 09:30:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Russia has denied yesterday's report in the Independent that the country discussed changing the dollar as the global currency of oil; France has called it speculation.&#160; Iran's finance minister Shamseddin Hosseini says he has occasionally discussed a move away from...]]></description>
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		<title>Energy Blast &#8211; October 6, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/energy-blast-october-6-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/energy-blast-october-6-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 09:29:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Independent reports that Gulf Arab states have been engaged in secret talks with Russia, China, Japan and France to replace the US dollar with a basket of currencies in the trading of oil:&#160; 'This sounds like a dangerous prediction...]]></description>
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		<title>Energy Blast &#8211; October 5, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/energy-blast-october-5-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/energy-blast-october-5-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 09:17:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The Financial Times enumerates Gazprom's problems: are its ambitions to increase production any more than pipe dreams?&#160; Competition for energy reserves in the Arctic Circle could prompt friction between Russia and NATO, a new commander at the alliance has...]]></description>
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		<title>Gazprom as the Problem Child</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/gazprom-as-the-problem-child/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/gazprom-as-the-problem-child/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:05:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alexander Ananenkov]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fatih Birol;]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Miriam Elder has a good one in the FT today about the problems at Gazprom, no doubt worsened by European incoherence:"If the company cuts [its investment] too much, it may be harmful for them if demand surges. They will miss...]]></description>
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		<title>Energy Blast &#8211; October 2, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/energy-blast-october-2-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/energy-blast-october-2-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 09:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Russia set a new monthly record for crude oil production in September, at 10 million barrels per day for the first time in a single month.&#160; Naftogaz has not repaid its $500 million eurobond.&#160;&#160; Russia will await the approval of...]]></description>
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		<title>Energy Blast &#8211; October 1, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/energy-blast-october-1-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/energy-blast-october-1-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 08:21:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Naftogaz Ukrainy apparently intends to pay the interest due on its debts, to avoid default on its eurobonds which mature today.&#160; 'With its debt considered quasi-sovereign, a default by Naftogaz would be a first for a sovereign company in eastern...]]></description>
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		<title>Energy Blast &#8211; September 30, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/energy-blast-september-30-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/energy-blast-september-30-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:24:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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 pipeline;]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gazprom will cut output in 2009 by 13.8%, the lowest in history, due to dwindling consumer demand domestically and in the former USSR.&#160; The company has apparently said it is considering adding a third partner to the South Stream pipeline.&#160;...]]></description>
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		<title>Energy Blast &#8211; September 29, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/energy-blast-september-29-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/energy-blast-september-29-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 08:27:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg reports that oil has been trading around $66 a barrel, as spare capacity has staved off fears of supply disruption due to political disputes between Iran and the US.&#160; Apparently German firm RWE has not renounced its plans to...]]></description>
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		<title>Energy Blast &#8211; September 28, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/energy-blast-september-28-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/energy-blast-september-28-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 09:30:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gazprom is set to bid for gas and oil fields in Iraq with Turkey's state-run oil company Turkish Petroleum Corporation.&#160; Rosneft, Lukoil and Gazprom Neft will also participate in bids.&#160; Venezuela's Science and Technology Minister Jesse Chacon has asserted that...]]></description>
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		<title>Energy Blast &#8211; September 25, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/energy-blast-september-25-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/energy-blast-september-25-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 09:42:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vladimir Putin told a meeting of international oil company heads that he is seeking 'stable and long-term' cooperation for gas extraction in the Yamal peninsula, which the country hopes could lead to a 25% share of the world's LNG market.&#160;...]]></description>
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		<title>Energy Blast &#8211; September 24, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/energy-blast-september-24-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/energy-blast-september-24-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 08:58:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gazprom is apparently making plans to construct and run power plants in Turkey in partnership with the country's own Aksa.&#160; Kazakhstan will postpone a feasibility study for a gas pipeline along the Caspian coast to Russia until 2010 while the...]]></description>
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		<title>RA&#8217;s Daily Russian News Blast &#8211; September 24, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/ras-daily-russian-news-blast-september-24-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 07:53:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TODAY: Russia relenting on Iran sanctions; calls missile defense decision constructive; arms reductions talks are apparently progressing apace; Medvedev urges for Middle East arms cuts too.&#160; Island cooperation for Japan and Russia; Georgia undecided on Guantanamo guests; Poland - officially...]]></description>
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		<title>Gazprom Continues its Italian Shell Games to Steal Yukos</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/gazprom-continues-its-italian-shell-games-to-steal-yukos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:17:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two interesting pieces of news coincide today from the sordid world of Russian energy politics.&#160; First, permissions to build the 403-meter "Gazscraper" tower in St. Petersburg were muscled through local government by Valentina Matvienko over the protests of preservationists, while...]]></description>
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		<title>Energy Blast &#8211; September 23, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/energy-blast-september-23-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/energy-blast-september-23-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 09:35:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters reports that the Russian government may sell part of its 75% stake in the country's largest oil producer, Rosneft.&#160; Andrei Sharonov, a former deputy economy minister, has said that the government could sell up to 25% without any significant...]]></description>
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		<title>Energy Blast &#8211; September 18, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/energy-blast-september-18-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/energy-blast-september-18-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 09:47:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times suggests that antagonism regarding issues of sovereignty over Arctic waters has had a deleterious effect on the RUSALCA Arctic Sea mission.&#160; Bloomberg reports that BG Group will seek to recover at least $700 million in export...]]></description>
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		<title>RA&#8217;s Daily Russian News Blast &#8211; September 18, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/ras-daily-russian-news-blast-september-18-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/ras-daily-russian-news-blast-september-18-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 08:37:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ TODAY: US missile defense in Eastern Europe plans officially scrapped in favor of 'more efficient' new program.&#160; A matter of concession or conviction on Obama's part; mixed reaction from former would-be host countries fearful of Russian dominance; is the...]]></description>
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		<title>Energy Blast &#8211; September 16, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/energy-blast-september-16-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/energy-blast-september-16-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 09:24:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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 pipeline;]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Natural Resources Deputy Minister Sergei Donskoi has said that Russia would welcome foreign companies looking to explore the country's oil and gas reserves as domestic firms lack the 'strength and money' to carry out these operations themselves.&#160; State-run electricity companies...]]></description>
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		<title>Energy Blast &#8211; September 15, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/energy-blast-september-15-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/energy-blast-september-15-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:40:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alexander Lebedev]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ria-Novosti reports that GDF Suez will, by the end of October, become a shareholder in the company building the Nord Stream gas pipeline under the Baltic Sea, Gazprom's deputy CEO has announced.&#160; Norway's StatoilHydro is looking for new exploration possibilities...]]></description>
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		<title>Medvedevs Call for Reform Rings Hollow</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/medvedevs-call-for-reform-rings-hollow/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/medvedevs-call-for-reform-rings-hollow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:24:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chairman]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We've been enjoying reading Dmitry Medvedev's article today, which although entitled "Go Russia!" is actually much more pessimistic in tone.&#160; I like to see a well earned place for cynicism in politics, and in the case of Russia's authoritarian drift...]]></description>
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		<title>Energy Blast &#8211; September 10, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/energy-blast-september-10-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/energy-blast-september-10-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:35:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alexei Miller]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Deputy Prime Minister]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[RFE/RL examines the viability of Hugo Chavez' gas OPEC idea - which, it suggests, will face obstacles in the form of pipeline infrastructure and the manifold differences between the oil and gas markets.&#160; According to Bloomberg, the Oil Minister for...]]></description>
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		<title>Energy Blast &#8211; September 9, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/energy-blast-september-9-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/energy-blast-september-9-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 09:15:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Abdullah al-Sabah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bogdan Sokolovsky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economics minister]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hugo Chávez]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Russia's refusal to upgrade gas contracts with Ukraine jeopardizes gas transit to Europe, says Bogdan Sokolovsky, the representative of the Ukrainian president on international aspects of energy security.&#160; The Ukrainian economics minister has reportedly assured Moscow that it will stick...]]></description>
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		<title>Clan Wars Ramping Up Over Gazprom</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/clan-wars-ramping-up-over-gazprom/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/clan-wars-ramping-up-over-gazprom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:57:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dmitry Medvedev]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy arrangements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Energy Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[European Union]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some weeks ago, I had noticed a new separation of tone and policy toward Ukraine between Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev, with the former closing deals and renegotiating contracts, while the latter becoming more antagonistic and confrontational on the energy...]]></description>
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		<title>Today in Russian Business &#8211;  September 8, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/today-in-russian-business-september-8-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 09:28:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Angela Merkel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Angela Merkel's party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bank of Moscow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bloomberg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[E4]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gazprom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[head]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Herbert Moos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Magna]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MegaFon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[microsoft]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nikolai Tsekhomsky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[operating system]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[state oil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Chief Financial Officer]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vladimir Potanin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[VTB]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Chief Financial Officer of VTB, Nikolai Tsekhomsky, has resigned. He will be replaced by Herbert Moos.&#160; Microsoft claims that the Federal anti-monopoly service's probe into its activities, which has now closed, found no breach of ant-trust laws in regard...]]></description>
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		<title>RAs Daily Russia News Blast, Sept 7, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/ras-daily-russia-news-blast-sept-7-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 14:14:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alexei Miller]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[ceo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chechnya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Council of Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dealer network]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dmitry Medvedev]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Focus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Minister]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GAZ;]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[gm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[head]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human rights commissioner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[industrial worker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mikhail Khodorkovsky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Moscow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oleg Deripaska]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[president]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sergei Lavrov]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[St. Petersburg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thomas Hammarberg]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Yasnogorsk Machine-Building Factory]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[[Again, my apologies for the late posting of this news blast, as I'm covering all the bases on my own today... - Best, James]TODAY:&#160; The United States sells even more arms during a recession, Gorbachev's towering ego, more gas spats...]]></description>
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		<title>Breaking Up Eni Is Hard to Do</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/breaking-up-eni-is-hard-to-do/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/breaking-up-eni-is-hard-to-do/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:57:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[activist investor group]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy dinosaurs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy security argument]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eni]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[gas pipeline]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gazprom]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Knight Vinke]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mikhail Khodorkovsky]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[oil sales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Amsterdam]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I saw this note on FT Lex which essentially argued for the Italian energy company Eni to be split up into two separate companies in order to maximize value.&#160; Today they are running another piece about the activist investor...]]></description>
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		<title>Energy Blast &#8211; September 3, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/energy-blast-september-3-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/energy-blast-september-3-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 08:36:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bloomberg]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Denmark]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy affairs]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gazprom]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Indian President Pratibha Patil has arrived in Moscow to discuss nuclear energy among other issues.&#160; In August, Russia increased oil production by 1.3% in comparison with 2008, as Lukoil and Rosneft both increased production in new fields and exports...]]></description>
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		<title>Energy Blast &#8211; September 2, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/energy-blast-september-2-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/energy-blast-september-2-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 09:09:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boyko Borissov]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bulgaria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Burgas-Alexandroupolis pipeline]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Caucasus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electricity]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[gas link]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gas problems]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[vladimir putin]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Russia may raise electricity prices more than the 5% planned following the Sayano-Shushenskaya power station disaster, says Reuters.&#160; Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has stated that the country's gas problems with Russia have been almost entirely resolved.&#160; According to the...]]></description>
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		<title>RA&#8217;s Daily Russian News Blast &#8211; September 2, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/ras-daily-russian-news-blast-september-2-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/ras-daily-russian-news-blast-september-2-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 08:20:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Abkhaz leader]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anita Prazmowska]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[the fifth anniversary of Russia's worst terrorist attack]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[TODAY: Poles riled by Russia's take on war; conciliation comes with recrimination; Beslan families still seeking justice; Lavrov advises against freezing Iran out; Bagapsh verbal attack on Georgian ships; Gazprom tower causing friction. Tropical fish.The Guardian reports on the historiographical...]]></description>
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		<title>Putin Tackles Polish Gas Corruption</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/putin-tackles-polish-gas-corruption/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/putin-tackles-polish-gas-corruption/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:23:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[company official]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[I.R.I.S. s.a. TG3Z3510AFCS Headset]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Coming from the people who brought you the Khodorkovsky show trial, the release of alleged gas mobster Semyon Mogilevich on bail, and campaign to return merchant of death Viktor Bout from his Thai jail cell to freedom (or a career...]]></description>
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		<title>Gazprom&#8217;s Rebound Relies on Western Rule of Law</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/gazproms-rebound-relies-on-western-rule-of-law/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/gazproms-rebound-relies-on-western-rule-of-law/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:55:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alpha Bank;]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ron Smith;]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Just an interesting little bit here from a rather bullish analysis article on Gazprom's coming rebound from the poor first quarter results from NewEurope (the author is referring to an interview with Ron Smith from Alpha Bank).&#160; Some Russian banks...]]></description>
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		<title>Energy Blast &#8211; August 31, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/energy-blast-august-31-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 08:37:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gas Monopoly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gazprom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kazakhstan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leonid Fedun;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Korea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oil production]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[steel pipe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the 60th anniversary of the Russia's first nuclear test]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[USD]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency has filed a report suggesting that North Korea has failed to put a stop to its uranium enriching program and that Russia and China need to wholeheartedly back further sanctions.&#160; According to Bloomberg, Japan...]]></description>
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		<title>RA&#8217;s Daily Russian News Blast &#8211; August 31, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/ras-daily-russian-news-blast-august-31-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 07:41:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ TODAY: NATO head upbeat on relations with Russia; Medvedev looks to imams for help with Caucasus Islamic insurgents; suggests a TV channel.&#160; Russia on the defensive regarding WW2; 70th anniversary of its start to prove a diplomatic minefield?&#160; St...]]></description>
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		<title>Energy Blast &#8211; August 28, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/energy-blast-august-28-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 08:58:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[gas transit;]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Presidential aide Sergei Prikhodko has stated there has been 'progress' in the construction of a nuclear power plant in Belarus with Russia's assistance.&#160; Energy was a focal point for discussion between Russian presidential envoy to the Far East Viktor Ishayev...]]></description>
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		<title>Energy Blast &#8211; August 27, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/energy-blast-august-27-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 09:26:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The Russian government plans to invest as much as $1.9 trillion in its energy sector by 2030 in an attempt to increase idling oil and gas output.&#160; Mongolian President Tsakhiagiin Elbegdori has proposed that a Russia-Mongolia natural gas pipeline...]]></description>
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		<title>The Costs of Playing Chicken with Kiev</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/the-costs-of-playing-chicken-with-kiev/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/the-costs-of-playing-chicken-with-kiev/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alfa Bank]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[An amusing turn of phrase from the Financial Times's take on Gazprom horrible first quarter results (-62%!!).&#160; While many stock analysts have been laying on the abuse on Gazprom, and of course we're skeptical of its opacity and political instrumentalization,...]]></description>
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		<title>Energy Blast &#8211; August 26, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/energy-blast-august-26-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/energy-blast-august-26-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reconstructing an oil deposit consumed by fire in the north Siberia's Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area will cost $48 million.&#160; Despite the huge blaze, pipeline operator Transneft says that regional oil supplies are secure.&#160; The conflagration was blamed on a lightning strike.&#160;...]]></description>
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		<title>Reforming Ukraine through Gas Loans</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/reforming-ukraine-through-gas-loans/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/reforming-ukraine-through-gas-loans/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:54:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interesting piece here from Transitions Online about the ERBD loan to Ukraine to help them pay their bill to Gazprom ... however this money will only come at the price of Kiev incorporating urgent economic and political reforms.Backed by the...]]></description>
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		<title>Energy Blast &#8211; August 24, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/energy-blast-august-24-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/energy-blast-august-24-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 09:28:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following the hydropower disaster, Vladimir Putin has instructed Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko to submit proposals for regulating the wholesale power market to prevent high increases in prices.&#160; Anti-monopoly chief Igor Artemyev has said that oil companies should beware of a...]]></description>
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		<title>Energy Blast &#8211; August 21, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/energy-blast-august-21-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/energy-blast-august-21-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 09:09:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[bloomberg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dramatic gas shortages]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following the hydropower plant disaster, President Medvedev instructed the government 'to provide uninterrupted energy supply to industrial enterprises, social institutions and the population'. Apparently Rushydro will not raise its prices to offset the cost of repairs.&#160; Russian regions reportedly owe...]]></description>
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		<title>The Latest Western Insult to Russia</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/the-latest-western-insult-to-russia/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/the-latest-western-insult-to-russia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 21:23:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK, folks, this has gone far enough.&#160; There's no need for the United States and Europe to continue in their unchecked and outrageous aggression against Russia, renewing Cold War tensions and antagonism, no matter how jealous they are of her...]]></description>
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		<title>Energy Blast &#8211; August 14, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/energy-blast-august-14-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/energy-blast-august-14-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 09:05:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Angela Merke]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chancellor]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[RusHydro has sold investors 3.5 billion of 7.5 billion new shares in a public offering, with the rest bought by its own unit for a later resale.&#160; Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has approved a Russian-Turkish draft protocol on cooperation in...]]></description>
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		<title>China Imports Putinism in Rio Tinto Case</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 21:31:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the Russian state laid siege to Yukos and imprisoned Mikhail Khodorkovsky, many things were accomplished:&#160; state officials behind Rosneft and Gazprom illegally became overnight billionaires, energy resources were sharpened into an even greater political weapon, and the key proponent...]]></description>
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		<title>Grigory Pasko: The Gas Emperor</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/grigory-pasko-the-gas-emperor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:58:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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 pipeline;]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago the Russian mainstream media were talking about all the agreements reached with Turkey during the most recent visit of the Prime Minister, hailing the accords as the latest Putinite achievement. Supposedly positive but vague results were...]]></description>
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		<title>Energy Blast &#8211; August 11, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/energy-blast-august-11-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/energy-blast-august-11-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 09:20:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin has said there is no immediate necessity for Russia to extend a loan to Ukraine to ensure its buying of natural gas.&#160; In a highly critical open letter to Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko, Dmitry Medvedev...]]></description>
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		<title>The Tricky Turks</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/the-tricky-turks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/the-tricky-turks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why would Turkey sign on to a massively expensive and redundant underwater pipeline that would eliminate the transit business at the lucrative but over-trafficked Bosporus Straits?&#160; Because when it comes to Gazprom and Eni's South Stream, it is very different...]]></description>
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		<title>Energy Blast &#8211; August 10, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/energy-blast-august-10-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 09:11:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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 pipeline;]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Italian President Silvio Berlusconi has been unabashed about taking the credit for getting Turkey to participate in the South Stream pipeline deal, seeing it as a reflection of his gift for 'great commercial diplomacy'.&#160; For a timeline of important dates...]]></description>
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		<title>Turkey&#8217;s Geostrategic Energy Role</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/turkeys-geostrategic-energy-role/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 14:47:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Given all the news this week of Russia and Italy's South Stream deal with Turkey in exchange for a nuclear power plant, I thought I would repost an article written by Robert Amsterdam last fall in Energy Risk on Turkey's...]]></description>
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		<title>The Gazprom MO on Sakhalin</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/the-gazprom-mo-on-sakhalin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 14:42:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Streetwise Professor picks apart two dovetailing pieces of news - the first that Russia is making unprecedented pressures on ExxonMobil's Sakhalin-1 project to export more of its production for domestic consumption inside Russia, followed by the announcement that Gazprom will...]]></description>
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		<title>Energy Blast &#8211; August 7, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/energy-blast-august-7-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 08:27:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vladimir Putin has rejected the 15-year old international Energy Charter Treaty.&#160; According to the Prime Minister, Turkey and Russia 'agreed on everything' regarding South Stream at their energy deal meeting and added, 'it is obvious there is demand' for the...]]></description>
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		<title>Energy Blast &#8211; August 6, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/energy-blast-august-6-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 09:34:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Turkey has apparently approved 'in principle' plans for the South Stream pipeline to pass through its waters.&#160; Russia may decrease the price at which it will offer to sell power from a proposed nuclear plant to be built in Turkey.&#160;...]]></description>
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		<title>Energy Blast &#8211; August 5, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/energy-blast-august-5-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/energy-blast-august-5-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 09:08:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko, during Vladimir Putin's upcoming visit to Turkey it is expected that deals on energy projects will be secured.&#160; Russia will sign an agreement with Turkey on building a pipeline to transport Black Sea Oil...]]></description>
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		<title>Bill Browder&#8217;s Big Move</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/bill-browders-big-move/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 15:04:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have long argued that there exists a component of Russia's failure to reform, deepen democracy, and respect rule of law as a normative member of the international community that is solely the responsibility of Western complicity - our banks,...]]></description>
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		<title>Boris Nemtsov: &#8220;Dictators are incapable of cooperation&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I'm abroad, I often get asked who of the leaders of the Russian opposition I think stands out in some way. Usually I name Boris Nemtsov, Garry Kasparov, and Vladimir Ryzhkov. In doing so I always reiterate that I...]]></description>
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		<title>Energy Blast &#8211; July 30, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/energy-blast-july-30-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 09:20:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Abu Dhabi National Energy Co.]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[gulf of mexico]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Russia and Cuba have signed an agreement for joint oil exploration in the Gulf of Mexico, with Moscow offering $150 million in credit for construction materials.&#160; A recent US Geological Survey has estimated that as much as 9bn barrels of...]]></description>
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		<title>To BRIC or not to BRIC</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/to-bric-or-not-to-bric/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:17:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Congo]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[higher oil prices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[road network;]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anders Aslund thinks Russia's economy isn't up to the ranks of its famed acronym partners.&#160; He's not the first to say it.&#160; Although Aslund has been saying this for a long time, most observers agree that some tough times are...]]></description>
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		<title>South Stream vs. Nabucco</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/south-stream-vs-nabucco/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:33:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Professor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Stream
 pipeline;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Stream;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stern]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[These pipelines don't compete, says Jonathan Stern of Oxford, because the Russian one just seeks a new route for existing supplies at 4x the project cost, while the other has no supply or purchase contracts yet.&#160; Stern also thinks that...]]></description>
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		<title>Energy Blast &#8211; July 28, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/energy-blast-july-28-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 08:31:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Britain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Commission of European Communities;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy cooperation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gazprom]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Igor Sechin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Managua]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nabucco pipeline;]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Natural Gas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nicaragua]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Russian Vice Prime Minister Igor Sechin's visit to Venezuela has concentrated on energy cooperation.&#160; Gazprombank has agreed to offer a $4 billion loan to finance the development of minerals and other raw materials in the oil-rich nation.&#160; The governments have...]]></description>
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		<title>¡Bienvenidos a Caracas, Comandante Sechin!</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/%c2%a1bienvenidos-a-caracas-comandante-sechin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 06:33:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you want to know what Russia's energy ambitions are in the emerging markets of Africa, Asia, and Latin America, I used to tell people that all you had to do was carefully track the travel schedule of Vladimir Putin.&#160;...]]></description>
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		<title>Foreign Policy in the Pressure Cooker</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/foreign-policy-in-the-pressure-cooker/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/foreign-policy-in-the-pressure-cooker/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:21:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Centre for European Policy Studies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Though this paper bears a date of "June 2009," I have just now come across it.&#160; Stanislav Secrieru of the excellent Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) has a piece which considers whether or not the economic crisis and lower...]]></description>
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		<title>Energy Blast &#8211; July 27, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/energy-blast-july-27-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 09:33:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gazprom chief Alexei Miller has argued that the increase on gas extraction tax proposed by Vladimir Putin is unwarranted at the moment, and has suggested that an import duty for natural gas could instead raise funds.&#160; Gazprom Neft claims to...]]></description>
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		<title>Energy Blast &#8211; July 24, 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 07:14:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The European Investment Bank is apparently willing to finance the $11.24 billion Nabucco pipeline.&#160; Belarus will pay $50 million of its $252 million debt to Gazprom for gas next month.&#160; After the huge interest shown in Gazprom's eurobonds, it is...]]></description>
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		<title>Energy Blast &#8211; July 23, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-russia-stocks/energy-blast-july-23-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 09:02:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Russia has approved a $4.1 billion atomic energy plan.&#160; Medvedev has announced that the Security Council will discuss a series of projects on the use of supercomputers to analyze the efficiency of the country's nuclear deterrent.&#160; The&#160; major response to...]]></description>
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		<title>Energy Blast &#8211; July 22, 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 09:08:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gazprom hopes to see a profit from sales in the domestic gas market in 2009, where it sells more than 50% of its gas.&#160; The company has lowered the guidance on its five-year dollar-denominated eurobond tranche to 8.25% from 8.5%...]]></description>
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		<title>Energy Blast &#8211; July 21, 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 09:05:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oil prices are hovering around the $63 mark, with the market 'see-sawing based on people's perception of the US economy -- they don't really know if the recovery is durable', says Bloomberg.&#160; Gazprom borrowed more than $11 billion in the...]]></description>
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