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Volkswagen Group expands presence in Russia with agreements with GAZ

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The Volkswagen Group and GAZ Group have extended their manufacturing agreement for Volkswagen and ŠKODA models in Russia until 2025. TDI engines for GAZ light commercial vehicles, opening up new business opportunities in international markets. Petersburg and other major cities in Russia as well as some export markets.

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Opinion: Is Russia Plotting To Bring Down OPEC?

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Energy is the foundation of Russia, its economy, its government, and its political system. Even a casual glance at the IMF’s World Economic Outlook statistics for Russia shows the tight correlation since 1992 between GDP growth on the one hand and oil and gas output, exports, and prices on the other (economic series available here ).

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Volkswagen Group returns to profitability with new record for sales revenue and operating result in 2016

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In spite of further challenges resulting from the diesel issue and the persistently difficult conditions in vehicle markets such as Brazil and Russia, the Group delivered 10.3 It expects trends in the passenger car markets in the individual regions to be mixed in 2017. from 9.931 million in 2015. in 2017.

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Hyundai and Kia make €100M strategic investment in Arrival to co-develop electric commercial vehicles

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Founded in 2015, Arrival has production plants and R&D centers in the US, Germany, Tel Aviv, Russia and the UK. The partnership with Arrival enables Hyundai to accelerate its two-track strategy to deliver battery electric and hydrogen fuel cell solutions for the European commercial vehicle market.

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Volkswagen Passenger Cars brand delivers almost 2M vehicles globally in period to April; 46% to China

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Volkswagen Passenger Cars delivered 567,800 (545,300; +4.1%) vehicles on the overall European market in the first four months, of which 298,400 (279,300; +6.8%) were handed over in Western Europe (excluding Germany). Deliveries on the home market of Germany rose slightly to 184,100 (180,500; +2.0%) units. The brand recorded a 16.2%

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Volkswagen Passenger Cars delivers more than 3M vehicles in first half year for first time

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The situation on global markets will remain challenging in the second half of the year and will keep us very much on our toes. — Christian Klingler, Board Member for Sales and Marketing for the Volkswagen Group and the Volkswagen Passenger Cars brand. 67,400 (77,300; -12.8%) units were handed over to customers in Russia.

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Volkswagen Passenger Cars grows January deliveries by 4.8% to 515,700 vehicles; 52% to China

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The results marked the first time Volkswagen Passenger Cars has started the year with deliveries in excess of half a million, said Christian Klingler, Board Member for Sales and Marketing for the Volkswagen Group and the Volkswagen Passenger Cars brand. The sales situation in Europe regained momentum in the first month of the year.

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