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The Crisis: Electricity Providers Face Bankruptcy
Electricity suppliers across the country are cracking down as the number of delinquent private and corporate customers surges, as the dilapidated industry is mired in debt linked to unpaid consumer bills and the multibillion-dollar investment programs that investors signed onto during the privatization of Unified Energy System, which wrapped up just weeks before the financial crisis struck.
Market Matters: Uralkali Stock Stares Into A Chasm
Catching both the market and the potash producer by surprise, Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin reopened a 2006 investigation into the flooding of a Uralkali mine, sending the company's shares down 75 percent in London in the three trading days after the announcement.
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| Friday, November 21, 2008
Updated at 20 November 2008 23:22 Moscow Time | |
Published: 21 November 2008
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Business
Norilsk Profit May Fall 75% in 2009
By Nadia Popova / Staff Writer Norilsk Nickel’s profit may fall by as much as 75 percent in 2009 as demand has fallen in the midst of the financial crisis, the firm’s chief executive Vladimir Strzhalkovsky said Thursday. |
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S&P Lowers Rating Of Russian Standard
By Maria Levina / Special to The Moscow Times Standard & Poor’s docked Russian Standard Bank’s long-term rating by one notch Thursday, lowering it to B+ from BB- in the first downgrade of a major domestic lender since the financial crisis began. |
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Metalloinvest Cuts Output on Payment Arrears
Reuters Metalloinvest, the country’s largest iron ore miner, has slashed output of the steelmaking raw material as clients have fallen more than $350 million into payment arrears, its chief executive said Thursday. |
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Severstal Buys Canadian Miner
Reuters Severstal has taken control of Canadian miner High River Gold Mines by increasing its stake to 50.1 percent, the company's mining division said Thursday. |
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Uralkali Plunges on Output Cut
Reuters Uralkali shares plunged more than 30 percent in London on Thursday after the company slashed output in the final two months of this year and warned that it could reduce cash revenue by $650 million. |
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Central Bank Eases Auction Requirements
Reuters The Central Bank has eased requirements for banks allowed to take part in its collateral-free auctions to include those rated by Russian ratings agencies as well as by international ones. |
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Microsoft Gets New Russia Director
The Moscow Times Microsoft on Thursday appointed Nikolai Pryanishnikov, a former VimpelCom executive, to lead its Russia operations in a signal that the software giant might be contemplating a shift in strategy. |
Medvedev Wants Kiev to Pay $2.4Bln
Combined Reports President Dmitry Medvedev ordered Gazprom to recover a $2.4 billion debt owed by Ukraine for natural gas deliveries, days after the gas producer hailed progress on a new supply accord. |
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Business in Brief
Astana Plans $21Bln BailoutNew York Court Fines AlfaS&P Predicts More PainNew Citi Russia ChiefSubway Plans ExpansionLUKoil to Buy Repsol StakeAcron Sets Price LimitFor the Record |
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Getting Rid of Guests
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Doomed From the Start
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Making a Jester Out of Medvedev
By Yulia Latynina
The Real Issue Isn't a Shield in Central Europe
By Fyodor Lukyanov
Back-Scratching in America
By Alexei Pankin
U.S. Not a Threat After All
By Alexander Golts
Policing Immigrant Workers
By Alexei Bayer
Medvedev Learned His PR Skills From Chavez
By Vladimir Frolov
Don't Expect Miracles From the G20 Summit
By Martin Gilman
Preparing for Putin's Return to the Kremlin
By Nikolai Petrov
Obama and the KGB
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1,000 Presidential Pardons
By Mark H. Teeter
Tbilisi Protesters Could Be Doing Russia's Work
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A Guarded Liberalism
By Georgy Bovt
Eagerly Waiting for Change -- Within Russia
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Putin's Costly Crash Course in Economics
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Russia's Top Economist Needs to Face Reality
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