ECONOMIC INTERPENETRATION / (eu) privatisation

- Russia: the Russian government has relaunched the privatisation of 5.9% of the capital (or 50 million shares) of LOUKOIL, the country's foremost oil producer. Moscow can hope to make at least $800 million from the sale. Moscow has also launched the privatisation of SLAVNEFT, the country's seventh largest oil group. Through a call for tender, the State will, on 18 December, sell the 74.95% it has in the oil firm SLAVNEFT (109 million barrels of crude a year) for an initial price of %1.7...