Entries by tag Business (2011)

Business December 28, 12:00 AM How Some KGB Oldtimers Tried to Bump Off a Visa Business by Tatyana Bokova-Foley
Retired secret service agents attempt raid on VFS Global. Raid attempt is foiled.
Business May 31, 6:00 PM The Un-Oligarchical Alexander Lebedev by Russia! Staff
Alexander Lebedev – the billionaire owner of Russia’s Novaya Gazeta and Britain’s The Independent – is leaving business for politics because he has grown tired of battling corrupt officials.
Business June 1, 9:00 AM Russia’s Supply of iPad 2 Sells Out in Two Days by Russia! Staff
Two days — that’s how long it took to sell out the 10,000-unit supply of the newest Apple tablets in Russia after the iPad 2 went on sale here, several months after it became available in the US.
Business April 18, 3:00 PM Expert: Situation at Norilsk Nickel Resembles Soviet Plant by Russia! Staff
As Russia struggles to improve its investment climate and attract more foreign direct investment, the country’s largest corporations are starting to resemble the nearly-forgotten Soviet economic plants, with incompetent management, lack of supervision, and very creative accounting, according to the report published in Moscow this week.
Business January 24, 9:00 PM The Philanthropist of Dagestan by Tatyana Bokova-Foley
The Suleiman Kerimov Foundation has disbursed around $60 million to social projects in Dagestan and Russia.
Business January 4, 3:00 PM Interros to Not Take Part In Norilsk Nickel’s Shares Buyback Effort by Russia! Staff
Vladimir Potanin’s Interros, which owns a 25-percent stake in Russian miner Norilsk Nickel, will not take part in the major Norilsk’s shares buyback effort, announced by the company earlier this week, according to a source in Interros.