Norilsk Nickel

Steel maker Evraz seeks $1.8 bln state loan -paper

MOSCOW, Nov 18 (Reuters) - Russian steel maker Evraz Group has requested a $1.8 billion loan from state bank VEB to refinance debt incurred to acquire Canadian steel pipe maker IPSCO, Vedomosti business daily reported on...

Russian '08 state palladium sales down 46 pct-JM

By Robin Paxton MOSCOW, Nov 18 (Reuters) - Palladium sales from Russian state stocks are expected to fall 46 percent to 800,000 ounces in 2008, although a further 1 million ounces shipped in September have yet to be sold,...

RUSAL defers $700 mln Norilsk payment again- paper

MOSCOW, Nov 17 (Reuters) - Russian aluminium major RUSAL has agreed with billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov to defer again a $700 million tranche for the purchase of his stake in mining giant Norilsk Nickel, a newspaper said on...

Botswana: No Decision on Activox, Says Tati Mine

Five months after Norilsk Nickel International halted the further construction of the multi-billion Activox Refinery at the Tati Nickel Mine, no decision has been made regarding the fate of the project.

Russia Norilsk sees demand falling, level off in '09

MOSCOW, Nov 14 (Reuters) - Russian miner Norilsk Nickel expects the financial crisis to continue sapping demand for its products this year but it will not get any worse in 2009, a company executive said on Friday.

Russian markets mixed

Russian stocks were mixed Friday, with one major exchange recovering some of the recent days' massive losses as investors cheered the rally in U.S. markets and oil prices. The RTS jumped 3.9 percent to 644 points while the...

Sochi's Olympian Task

By ANTON TROIANOVSKI Vladimir Putin's Olympic dream has run into tough sledding. As this Soviet-era Black Sea resort town prepares to host the 2014 Winter Games, the global credit crisis is casting a chill on some of the...

Sochi's Olympian Task (at The Wall Street Journal Online)

SOCHI, Russia -- As this Soviet-era Black Sea resort town prepares to host the 2014 Winter Games, the global credit crisis is casting a chill on some of the biggest private investors in the Olympics infrastructure. Anton...

Nov 14. Norilsk Nickel shelled out RUB 26.52 bn to buy back 4,301,360 shares...

Nov 14. Norilsk Nickel shelled out RUB 26.52 bn to buy back 4,301,360 shares (2.25% of the charter capital), the metal giant said in a statement. The Arbitration Court of the Krasnoyarsk region issued a ruling on October 28...

New TNK-BP chief to be elected by Dec. 11

CANNES, November 13 (RIA Novosti) - Shareholders of Russian-British joint oil venture TNK-BP will elect a new CEO by December 11, a Russian billionaire shareholder said on Thursday. "The list has been drawn up, and the...

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