Oleg Deripaska

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...

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...

Osborne to reveal Tory tax U-turn

By Andrew Grice, Political Editor George Osborne will unveil an anti-recession package including some tax cuts, in a U-turn to allow the Tories to take the fight over the economy to a resurgent Gordon Brown. Asked whether the...

Novolipetsk Won't Buy Maneely

17 November 2008Novolipetsk Steel, Russia's biggest steelmaker by market value, said Sunday that it has terminated an agreement to buy John Maneely Co. of the United States from The Carlyle Group. "I can confirm the contract...

Party donation rules to be tightened

The rules governing foreign donations to political parties are to be tightened in the wake of the Oleg Deripaska affair, the Government has confirmed. By Melissa Kite, Deputy Political Editor Justice Minister Lord Bach has...

Financial crisis: Businesses predict 3m jobless and borrowing up to £111bn

Britain is heading for a "prolonged and painful" recession which could see unemployment climb to 3 million and government borrowing soar to £111bn, according to an influential business group.The British Chambers of Commerce's...

Christina Patterson: You can tell a lot about people by their friends

"There is," said an unassuming man in a sports jacket on the stage of a West End theatre on Monday night, "this great confusion about celebrity and greatness." The man in the sports jacket was the poet, critic and civil servant...

Tajikistan: Aluminum Plant Embroiled in Protracted, Expensive Legal Case

Some big names are popping up in a multi-million dollar graft trial involving Talco, Tajikistan’s largest aluminum smelting plant. The case is being heard in London. Among the prominent personalities with alleged connections to...

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...

Osborne to review role and downplay green taxes

A chastened George Osborne is to step back from his frontline party-political role over the coming months to focus his attention on reviewing Tory economic policy amid growing fears among senior Conservatives that the shadow...

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