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Oleg Deripaska's Alleged Scheme To Protect His Trust Shareholders At The...
When Oleg Mukhamedshin, head of investment strategy for United Company Rusal, was in London recently, he complained the stock market isn’t giving Rusal’s share price a fair valuation, taking into...
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Why The Russian Adoption Ban Is Totally Illogical
Pavel (Pavlik) Morozov, aged 14, was murdered on September 3, 1932, along with his 9-year old brother, Fyodor. They were stabbed to death. Four people were convicted of the crimes – their grandfather...
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This NYSE-Listed Metal & Mining Company Is Basically Owned By The Kremlin (MTL)
Igor Zyuzin is almost entirely dependent on the Russian government for the solvency of his Mechel steelmaking and coalmining group.With between $9 billion and $10 billion in debt, Zyuzin, who owns...
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Low Prices Force Fertilizer Giant Eurochem Into A Corner
Eurochem, a Russian fertilizer miner and manufacturer owned by Andrei Melnichenko, is suing the South African mine technology company Shaft Sinkers for $800 million on account of a mining technology...
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Russia's Aluminum Monopoly Is Effectively Worthless
Russia’s aluminium monopoly Rusal, with its hidden Kremlin shareholders, has slipped below the worthlessness level on the Hong Kong Exchange – that is, its market cap is now less than the value of the...
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Vladimir Putin Gives Francois Hollande Another Two-Eyed Poke
Moe (Moses Horwitz) of Three Stooges fame stuck his fingers so often in Curly’s (Jerome Horwitz) eyes, it was Curly the audiences loved — until he died of too much drinking and eating. No chance that...
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Ukrainian Oligarch's Cash Crunch Could Drive Prices Even Lower For Damien...
After months of delay, Victor Pinchuk’s Interpipe group revealed in its financial report for last year — issued at the start of August but given a release date of May 23 – how much financial trouble...
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Russia Intensifies Control Over Northern Sea Route Shipping, But Suez May...
As larger cargo volumes and more international vessels move through Arctic waters, or the Northern Sea Route as the passage is generally called in Russian (SMP is the cyrillic acronym, NSR in English),...
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Vladimir Putin Prepares The Ground For The 2018 Election
How many angels can dance on the point of a pin was a trick question for medieval scholars: that’s because, theologically speaking, angels have no substance. So the correct answer is that an infinity...
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A Very Short List Of The Most Powerful People In Russia
If the common Russian opinion of who runs the country matches the evidence of who really runs Russia, that’s a reliable test of a democratic culture.There’s a catch. If just one man and a handful of...
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Shutdown Of Russian Steel Mill In Delaware Could Send A Message About US Trade
Struggling with a rising debt burden of more than $8.2 billion, the Evraz group, owned by Roman Abramovich, Alexander Abramov and Alexander Frolov, has suspended production at its Claymont steelmill in...
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Who Leaked The Story About The Oligarch's $95,000 Truffle?
Oligarchy versus democracy is a very old game, and so are the seven deadly sins. Why exactly men like Vladimir Potanin, Mikhail Prokhorov, Alisher Usmanov, Andrei Melnichenko et al. should calculate...
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What Are The Real Reasons For Russian Leaks About Libyan Arm Sales?
Private letters from foreign governments to President Vladimir Putin usually go into the Secret box. Applications by foreign governments for large-value arms deals from the Russian state exporter,...
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Russian Atomic Agency Closes In On The Biggest Reactor Deal In The World
In the world of mules there are no rules (so Ogden Nash wrote last century). In selling $50 billion worth of nuclear reactors, there are a few.Sergei Kirienko, the prime minister in charge of the...
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Here's The Latest In A Russian Oligarch's $100 Million Yacht Paint Lawsuit
Andrei Melnichenko has extra reason to be concerned about the sunlight — and we aren’t talking financial transparency. The owner of Eurochem, a large Russian producer of fertilizers, says he has...
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Khodorkovsky Faces A Perilous Network Of New Allies And Enemies
So far everything about the metamorphosis of Mikhail Khodorkovsky has gone like the cartoon – surprise launch into the air; flight without turbulence; soft landing among a flock of wellwishers; much...
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3 Important Questions About The Future Of Ukraine
Not since the British started the Δεκεμβριανά in Greece in 1944, and not unless you count Na Trioblóidí in Northern Ireland until 1998, has the possibility of civil war in civilized Europe loomed so...
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Here’s What’s Really Happening In Russia’s Pork Standoff With Europe
There is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads on to pork sausage. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our profitability.If Europeans do that, it’s classical...
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There Are Growing Questions About Money The Clintons Received From Ukrainian...
Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, the former and wannabe presidents of the US, say they have accepted more than $13 million from Ukrainian pipemaker Victor Pinchuk since 2006. But Pinchuk's records...
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Russia’s Attempted Crimea Annexation Would Include Huge Offshore Gas Reserves
One day before the President of Ukraine and the constitutional order of the country were toppled, Georhii Rudko, the chairman of the Ukrainian State Commission for Natural Resources, gave a notable...
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