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Article: RUSSIA: TATAR PRESIDENT DEFENDS INTERESTS OF LOCAL OIL PRODUCERS.
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- IPR Strategic Business Information Database
- Article date:
- July 15, 2002
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Tatarstan President Mintimer Shaimiev said on 10 July that the several oil companies working in Siberia who suggested that oil production in the Volga region be stopped were lobbying their own interests, RFE/RL's Kazan bureau reported, citing Interfax. Shaimiev was commenting on the results of his visit to the Mordovian capital of Saransk, where he took part in an 8 July meeting on the socioeconomic development of the Volga Federal District that was chaired by President Putin. Shaimiev said the companies suggesting that oil extraction in the ...