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Russian Firms Set Up Eastern Siberian Oil, Gas Consortium.

Kyodo News International, Tokyo Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Dec. 26--MOSCOW--Three state-run and private Russian companies have set up a consortium to develop oil and natural gas fields in Eastern Siberia under the encouragement of President Vladimir Putin's administration.

The decision to set up the consortium by state-controlled gas monopoly Gazprom, state oil company Rosneft and private oil firm Surgut was made at a meeting Monday that Putin attended, according to the Kommersant newspaper.

The president's pre

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