Apr 15, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
VTB Capital, the investment arm of Russia’s VTB Group, has acquired a minority holding in National Satellite Company, Russia’s largest satellite TV operator working under the Tricolor TV< brand name. While announcing the partnership this past Tuesday, the partners in...
Apr 15, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia, Western Europe
Moscow Times 14 April 2013 The daughter of Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev has bought the Greek resort island where shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis famously married Jacqueline Kennedy in the 1960s, Rybolovlev’s investment office said. The sale price was...
Apr 8, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, North America, Russia, Western Europe
TMT Investments, a UK-headquartered venture fund backed by Russian businessmen, has invested $350,000 in Graphicly, a US startup that helps publishers and self-published authors produce and distribute text and visual content on major digital publishing platforms....
Apr 8, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, Events, Russia, Western Europe
Heureka Conference, in partnership with East-West Digital News, invites Russian startup entrepreneurs and investors to Berlin on May 14 to be part of the most hands-on and educative networking conference for the digital economy in Germany, Europe and the global...
Apr 7, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
The Times 5 April 2013 Alexander Lebedev sold his Red Wings airline yesterday for one rouble (2p) after a fatal crash last year led to the grounding of his fleet. The Russian billionaire — who owns The Independent and Evening Standard newspapers — said on his personal...
Apr 5, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News
WARSAW, April 4 (Reuters) – Zbigniew Komorowski, one of Poland’s richest men who built a fortune from grain and dairy markets after Poland’s democratic transition in 1989, is selling most of his agricultural holdings in a disposal that could be worth...
