THE SOVCOMFLOT CRASH TEST – SHIPPING COMPANY ANNOUNCES $5.5 BILLION...
By John Helmer in Moscow Sovcomflot (SCF), the state owned Russian tanker operator, released this week a board-approved strategy for the next five years, proposing to invest $5.5 billion with a...
View ArticleEVRAZ REPORTS THIRD FATAL MINE BLAST IN TWO YEARS – RENAISSANCE CAPITAL...
By John Helmer in Moscow Evraz, the largest of Russia’s integrated steel and mining groups, has reported that an underground detonation of explosives in a shaft of its mine Yestyuninskaya — part of the...
View ArticleANOTHER FLASH FROM CAPT O MEDVEDEV
We interrupt this news bulletin to bring you a broadcast from Captain Obvious on location live above the Kremlin
View ArticleHOW PROFESSOR JAMES MORIARTY CAME TO RUSSIA, AND FATHERED GUESS WHO…. BEARS’...
At the Reichenbach Falls, May 4, 1891 This is how the two greatest criminal minds of the 19th century came to grips, and set the course for the history of Russia in both the 20th and 21st centuries....
View ArticleTHE PASSING OF A CARDINAL — ALROSA NAMES SPECIAL EXECUTIVE FOR RELATIONS WITH...
By John Helmer in Moscow Alrosa announced last week that it has appointed Vasily Grabtsevich as a special senior executive for managing relations between the two controlling shareholders of the...
View ArticleMILLENNIUM MEMORIES – REPRISE
By John Helmer in Moscow Many things can make a person greater than he or she really is, except time. Time activates the bacteria that strip the flesh off the bones, until only a forensic pathologist...
View ArticleBEACH COMICS – RECOMMENDED HOLIDAY READING
http://www.hkexnews.hk/listedco/listconews/sehk/20091231/LTN20091231035.pdf Risk Section, excerpts from pages 33-37: The Group has also benefited from the strategic guidance of Mr. Deripaska, the...
View ArticleNEW YEAR BREAK
We are taking our New Year break, but you’ll see – we’ll be back shortly on the run.
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