Mar 14, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
Moscow Times (from Reuters) 14 March 2013 Representatives of the Alfa Group, set to earn billion of dollars from the sale of British-Russian oil venture TNK-BP, have sounded out former BP CEOs John Browne and Tony Hayward about investing jointly in international oil...
Feb 28, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
Feb 28 (Reuters) – Russia’s richest man, Alisher Usmanov, has commenced a placing of a 7.4 percent stake in Mail.Ru, the Russian internet group said, after the company forecast slower revenue growth this year. London-listed Mail.Ru said in a filing that a...
Feb 28, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
MOSCOW, March 1 (Reuters) – Arkady Rotenberg, a construction tycoon and former judo sparring partner of Russian President Vladimir Putin, has bought a stake in Rostelecom in a move that could trigger a management change at the state-controlled telecoms group....
Feb 26, 2013 | News, Russia
Moscow Times 26 February 2013 Russian-focused Renaissance Capital will strip itself down to a pure-play investment bank and sell all noncore assets after its business divorce from founder Stephen Jennings, its CEOs said.
Feb 26, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
DUBAI/LONDON, Feb 26 (Reuters) – Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund has hired UBS to advise on a possible $3 billion investment in Russian state-controlled bank VTB, three people with direct knowledge of the matter said. VTB has been working on a capital...
