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Polls Show A Cataclysmic Divide Among Ukrainian Voters
Majorities of voters in the southern and eastern regions of Ukraine believe there is no candidate running for the presidential election planned for May 25, whom they trust with a vote to represent...
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Ukrainians Are Paralyzed By Fear With No Clear Way Forward
Ukrainian voters are now united in only one thing – their fear.Countrywide, two out of three say they are afraid of military conflict with outside forces.One in two say they are more afraid of internal...
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The End Is Approaching For Eastern Ukrainian Oligarchs
Victor Pinchuk is either the greatest of patriots among the oligarchs of eastern Ukraine for having promoted an alliance with the European Union and the US presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton. Or...
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Poll Reveals The Impossible Stalemate Facing Ukraine
If the presidential election goes ahead on May 25, half the voters of eastern Ukraine will not vote. Of the half who do, half will vote for the frontrunner and US-backed candidate, Petro Poroshenko.The...
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Why Russia Won’t Invade Eastern Ukraine To Get The Military Supplies It Needs
If the programme of US sanctions cuts Russian military industries off from imports from the Ukraine, the new costs imposed on the Russian side may turn out to be less than the price of the sacrifice on...
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Pro-American Ukrainian Oligarch Victor Pinchuk Is The First Casualty Of...
Russian Customs reports this week that imports of steel pipes from Ukraine have dropped by 50% or more, compared to 2013.Steel industry sources in Moscow are predicting the Russian market may have...
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Meanwhile, The Russian Art Market Is On Fire
Putting money where the mouth is, the value of Russian artworks has reached a record high this month at auctions of Christie’s, Sotheby’s and MacDougall’s.Bad mouthing by the US State Department daily...
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Rosneft CEO Gave A Subtle Warning Against Increasing Sanctions On Russia
In the New York and London markets brokers and bankers explain that they are being discreetly called by US Treasury officials with this message: buying Russian equity or debt paper is legal, but in the...
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One Ukrainian Oligarch Is Loving The IMF’s Emergency Liquidity Assistance
The Ukrainian revolution has been very bad for business in the country. But for Igor Kolomoisky’s Privatbank there has been compensation of almost a billion dollars in state funds: publicly, rival...
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Ukraine's Richest Man Is Having A Lucrative War
Rinat Akhmetov is still the Ukraine’s richest man. If you believe the financial reports just issued by his Metinvest group, Ukraine’s largest steel, iron-ore, coal and coke maker, it’s a case of his...
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Will British And American Directors Keep Their Seats On Russian Boards?
The sanctions programme adopted against Russia to date aims, according to this week’s declaration by US President Barack Obama, at curtailing the capabilities of the Russian government to field, men...
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Russia's Counter-Sanctions Are Going To Be Painful For Russia
The Russian government commenced its counter-sanctions programme a month ago, on August 7. This extended what had been a quarter-billion dollar loss for Australian meat exporters, beginning on March...
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Ukraine's Pro-War Party Is Collapsing In The Polls
After the steady rise of enthusiasm for war in Ukraine voter polls through the summer, Ukrainian politicians in favour of the military campaign against Donetsk, Lugansk, and Russia, have suffered a...
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Support For Ukraine's Pro-War Parties Keeps Plunging
Polling of Ukrainian voters since the ceasefire in the civil war was negotiated on September 5 reveals that large, growing majorities of Ukrainians throughout the country are in favour of keeping to...
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Who Is Pulling The Strings At Russia's Diamond Monopoly?
When a man falls on his sword, his demise isn’t usually blamed on medical reasons.A statement from the state diamond miner Alrosa on Monday reported that chief executive Fyodor Andreyev “decided to...
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Russian Shipping Giant Gets Disastrous Ruling In Court
A decade of lawsuits promoted in the UK courts by Sovcomflot’s chief executive, Sergei Frank, has ended disastrously with a judgement issued against him and his company in the High Court today.Justice...
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The Kremlin Is Supporting A Sweet Deal For Oligarchs Caught In The Sanctions
Sanctioned by the US on March 20 for being a member of President Vladimir Putin’s “inner circle”, and by the European Union (EU) on July 30, Arkady Rotenberg has arranged for a member of the State Duma...
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Here Are Some Reasons Why Mikhail Prokhorov Is Trying To Sell The Brooklyn Nets
Mikhail Prokhorov thinks that his American basketball franchise, the Brooklyn Nets, has grown eightfold in value in the five years since he acquired it for $223 million.For the time being, though, no...
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Ukraine Lost Big In The US Midterms
From Yatseny Yatseniuk’s point of view, the US election results could not have been worse for the not-Ukrainian-prime-minister-yet. Petro Poroshenko, the Ukrainian president defeated when a minority of...
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The Booming Russian Art Market Has Finally Hit A Ceiling
If the flock of smart tarts speaking Russian into their smartphones along King and New Bond Streets in London last week were a sign, nothing much has changed in the Russian art market. Christie’s and...
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