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Article: Daily Headline News for August 17, 2007.
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- Russia & CIS Business and Financial Newswire
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- August 17, 2007
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Daily Headline News for August 17, 2007
Digest of headline news as of 5:30 p.m. Moscow time on August 17, 2007: BUSINESS *** FORTUM TO SELL 35.5% OF LENENERGO
Finnish power company Fortum has decided to sell 35.5% of Russia's Lenenergo to a consortium made up of VTB, I.D.E. Electricity Distribution Investments 1 Ltd and Unified Energy System of Russia.
The deal is worth 295 million euros, the Finnish company said in a statement.
*** GAZPROM NEFT TO BUY YUGRANEFT STAKE IN SIBNEFT-YUGRA Gazprom Neft has sent Sibneft-Yugra an offer to acquire its stake in Sibneft-Yugra, which amounts to 0.98%, a source close to Gazprom Neft told ...