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        <title><![CDATA[Liezel Hill - Managing Editor:Commodities and Energy EMEA]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Commodity Windfalls Are Rolling Into Russia From War in Iran]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 11:57:52 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Rusal is among the Russian companies benefiting from the Iran war.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Russia’s Nornickel Faces Delay at Chinese Copper Smelter Project]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2026 09:03:17 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Russia’s Lukoil Agrees to Sell Overseas Assets to Gunvor]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2025 07:36:55 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Russia, Ukraine Exchange POWs in Deal Mediated by UAE]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2025 12:46:18 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Russia Says Novatek Fuel Terminal At Ust-Luga Port Catches Fire]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2025 06:45:56 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Russian Coal Sector’s Slide Into Crisis Shows Cracks in Economy]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2025 11:42:07 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[OPEC+ Moves Meeting to Saturday as Group Weighs Another Hike]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Salma El Wardany]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2025 08:22:15 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Top Russian Steelmaker Sees Risk of Shutdowns as Economy Slows]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2025 13:09:43 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Russia Says Power Restored in Ukraine’s Occupied Regions]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2025 07:18:13 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Tycoon Mordashov’s Local Spat Signals Changing Elite in Russia]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2025 09:07:30 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Moscow Installs Replica of Historical Stalin Monument in Metro]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2025 12:15:35 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>“Gratitude of the People to the Leader-Commander” at Taganskaya metro station in Moscow. Photographer: Alexander Nemenov/AFP/Getty Images</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Russia Shuts About 62 Miles of Black Sea Beaches After Oil Spill]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2025 08:57:53 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Volunteers collect oil-soaked sand during a clean-up operation in Anapa, Russia, in December, in a photo released by Russian state media.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ukraine Says Russian Ballistic Missile Hits Ship in Odesa Port]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2025 17:57:00 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>A jetty at the Black Sea shoreline on Arcadia Beach in Odesa, Ukraine, on Monday, Sept. 26, 2022. The threat of Russian strikes with Iranian Shahed-136 drones has hurt already struggling local businesses and created issues at the port, where crews and dockers feel unsafe loading ships, Odesa Mayor Gennadiy Trukhanov said.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Russia Is Unmoved by Trump’s Sanctions Threats and Offers on War]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:41:00 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Vladimir Putin attends a military parade in Moscow in 2024.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Russians’ Hunt to Shield Savings Pushes Gold Purchases to Record]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 05 Feb 2025 13:34:35 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Russia Claims It Damaged Gas Storage Facility in Ukraine]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 16 Jan 2025 05:49:01 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Putin Says Any Deal to Ship Gas Via Ukraine Will Be Difficult]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 26 Dec 2024 19:13:20 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Russia Temporarily Limits Enriched Uranium Supplies to US]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 15 Nov 2024 15:18:06 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Russia Has a Message for BRICS Summit Goers: Bring Cash]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 22 Oct 2024 07:55:49 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>The Kazan Expo center ahead of the BRICS summit.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Russia Tightens Squeeze on Foreign Businesses Seeking to Leave]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 11 Oct 2024 10:50:43 GMT</pubDate>
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