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Russian mobile services provider VimpelCom has increased its stake in Kazakhstan-based telecoms operator Kar-Tel to 75%, in a bid to increase its share of the booming Kazakhstan market....
2008-07-10Finance
Boris Zilbermints, Deputy General Director of Russia's Gazprom Neft, has confirmed that the company is looking to acquire shares in Kazakhstan's MangistauMunaiGaz (MMG), alongside...
2008-07-07Finance
On June 30 the United Arab Emirates' Dubai World and Russia's Roskummunenergo jointly bid US$5.34bn for OGK-1. The company is the last of Russia's wholesale power producers for sale...
2008-07-02Finance
Severstal's CEO Alexei Mordashov has said he would consider reducing his stake in Russia's leading steelmaker by more than half if funds were needed for more acquisitions. Severstal...
2008-06-26Finance
Russian billionaire Suleiman Kerimov, majority shareholder in Polymetal, has sold a 68% stake in the miner to three businessmen. Polymetal is Russia's largest silver miner and third-largest...
2008-06-18Finance
Mikhail Prokhorov, the former chairman of Norilsk Nickel, the world's largest producer of nickel and palladium, and the current chairman of Polyus Gold, Russia's largest gold producer,...
2008-06-12Finance
Facing severe financial difficulty, Ukraine's state oil company Naftogaz on June 9 sent proposals to a range of banks a US$2bn loan, which will be used to fiannce the purchase of...
2008-06-12Finance
Just days after the United Steelworkers Union (USW) threatened to block an offer from India's Essar Steel Holdings , Russian steel maker Severstal has made a rival bid of...
2008-05-28
