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February 18, 2011

Energy Blast – Feb 18, 2011

According to the Moscow Times, Urals crude oil traded at above $100 a barrel for the second day in a row Thursday for the first time since the economic recovery increased demand.  The launch of the mammoth Arctic Shtokman gas field in Russia&...
February 18, 2011

Today in Russian Business – Feb 18, 2011

Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin has, according to Reuters, said that the 2011 parliamentary and the 2012 presidential elections needed to be ‘fair and honest’ if support for economic reforms is to be gained.  Kudrin has also pointe...
February 18, 2011

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – Feb 18, 2011

TODAY: UN Rights Chief criticizes Russian failings; support for Khodorkovsky whistleblower; wife of jailed activist threatened.  Russian anger at militant’s US talk invite; top official proposes mandatory DNA database for migrants; Chin...
February 17, 2011

Vimpelcom Heading West

An interview a couple of days ago in the Wall Street Journal saw Vimpelcom’s Chief Executive Officer Alexander Izosimov express confidence about the company’s foreign acquisition plans which have eroded the company’s share of the...
February 17, 2011

Vimpelcom Heading West

An interview a couple of days ago in the Wall Street Journal saw Vimpelcom’s Chief Executive Officer Alexander Izosimov express confidence about the company’s foreign acquisition plans which have eroded the company’s share of the...
February 17, 2011

Kerimov’s VTB Acquisition and the Raiding of Yelena Baturina

Should it come at any surprise that Russia’s most wealthy woman, Yelena Baturina, the wife of former Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, should wake up to the news today that the offices of her company Inteko were being raided by dozens of machine-gu...
February 17, 2011

Energy Blast – Feb 17, 2011

President Medvedev’s two-day trip to Rome has yielded agreements with Italy in the energy sphere, principally that of Gazprom acquiring 33% of Italian gas company Eni’s shares in Libya’s Elephant oil and gas production field proj...
February 17, 2011

Energy Blast – Feb 17, 2011

President Medvedev’s two-day trip to Rome has yielded agreements with Italy in the energy sphere, principally that of Gazprom acquiring 33% of Italian gas company Eni’s shares in Libya’s Elephant oil and gas production field proj...
February 17, 2011

Today in Russian Business – Feb 17, 2011

According to Reuters, Boston Consulting Group has good news for the Russian car market, but is Russia being overoptimistic when it claims that its automotive industry is ‘back on track‘?  The chairman of Barclay’s (whose Rus...
February 17, 2011

Today in Russian Business – Feb 17, 2011

According to Reuters, Boston Consulting Group has good news for the Russian car market, but is Russia being overoptimistic when it claims that its automotive industry is ‘back on track‘?  The chairman of Barclay’s (whose Rus...