Oleg Deripaska

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Halliburton wins Aramco contract NEW YORK: Halliburton has won a broad five-year oilfield service contract from Saudi Aramco to develop wells in the world's largest oil field, South Ghawar, the company said. Teton files for...

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PETER OBORNE: Tony Blair looks haunted, but with new claims that he was behind torture and war...

One can only fear for Tony Blair after last Thursday's European summit at Brussels. For the truth is that evidence continues to amass that, under the Blair premiership, the British state was responsible, at times, for some...

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UPDATE 1-Montenegro moves toward control of aluminium plant

By Petar Komnenic PODGORICA, Nov 20 (Reuters) - The Montenegrin state took a step towards assuming control of the country's only aluminium plant, agreeing to front a bailout package that signals an end to a dispute with the...

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Magna, GM and Opel: A bad idea, badly executed

Competing head-to-head against its own customers was never going to be a great growth strategy for Magna. is a senior writer with Canadian Business. After all, the Canadian billionaire’s desire to take control of Adam Opel,...

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Russia VEB to buy RUSAL stake with own cash-FinMin

YALTA, Ukraine, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Russia will let state bank VEB keep the profits from investing government cash, and it will spend some of the money on a stake in indebted aluminium giant UC RUSAL, Finance Minister Alexei...

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Nov 20. Vnesheconombank could snap up nearly one third of aluminum giant...

Nov 20. Vnesheconombank could snap up nearly one third of aluminum giant Rusal's initial public offering (IPO) to which the bank recently extended an unprecedented amount of state support, i.e. a USD 4.5 bn loan facility. The...

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TNK-BP finally gets new chief executive

BP Plc's and its billionaire partners in TNK-BP agreed to appoint Vice President Maxim Barsky as head of the Russian oil venture from 2011, ending a shareholder conflict that disrupted operations last year.

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Russia May Invest in Rusal IPO

BY ALEXANDER KOLYANDR AND GREGORY L. WHITE MOSCOW–A Russian state bank is likely to take a stake in the initial public offering of UC Rusal, marking the first government ownership of the embattled aluminum giant, a person close...

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Rusal tests Hong Kong's waters

Members of the Listing Committee of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange gather on Thursday to discuss the listing plans of United Company Rusal, the first application lodged by a Russian company to sell shares in the city's market....

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Sir John Mortimer, the subject of a great Mandrake scoop, is remembered

As Sir John Mortimer gave me one of my most talked about stories his dramatic admission that he had, in 1961, fathered a secret son by the actress Wendy Craig I will of course be attending the old boy's memorial service at...

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