BISTRO, BISTRO CRIED THE RUSSIAN TO SARKOZY
By John Helmer in Moscow Did Nicolas Sarkozy, the small rightwing candidate for President of France, benefit from the brief imprisonment in Lyon of one Russian billionaire, and from the award of a...
View ArticleNEW RUSSIAN APPROACH TO COAL-MINE ACCIDENTS — GIVE THE MINE TO THE STATE
By John Helmer in Moscow Less than a year after announcing the purchase of major coalmine group Prokopievskugol for about $100 million, Vladimir Lisin, one of Russia’s richest men and proprietor of the...
View ArticleNOVOSHIP AGREES TO MERGER LIMIT, AS RUSSIAN SHIP MONOPOLY VETOED
By John Helmer in Moscow Limits on the transfer of shares between Russia’s state-controlled tanker companies, Novorossiysk Shipping Company (Novoship) and Sovcomflot, will fall short of the ambition of...
View ArticleMORDASHOV TO PAY $570 MN FOR ITALIAN LOSSMAKER
Ahead of official announcements by Severstal and Lucchini, sources close to the Russian steelmaker expect that Severstal will sign an agreement this week to pay $570 million for a 62-percent stake in...
View ArticleGLAZYEV, THE JOKER IN THE PACK
It was the 19th century English poet William Wordsworth who once warned that “in modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most; it is the honest man who doesn’t know what he is doing.”...
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