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  • Dec 23rd, 2004
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    • Putin Defends Yukos Deal as ‘Perfectly Normal’

    President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia today strongly defended the purchase
    by a state-controlled company of the winner of Sunday’s auction for the largest
    subsidiary of the oil giant Yukos.

    "Today, the state, using absolutely legal, market mechanisms, is ensuring
    its interests – I consider this perfectly normal," Mr. Putin told reporters
    at a news conference in Moscow, referring to the purchase by Rosneft of the Baikal
    Finans Group, which had widely been thought to be a shell company.

    from the New York Times
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