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UK sanctions Russian separatists, including 'PM', 'Chair' of Donetsk and Luhansk, over Ukraine conflictThe move comes ahead of secondary legislation in the UK Parliament on Thursday, which will ban the import of iron and steel products as wel...
UK slaps sanctions on more Russians, imposes stiff import tariffsForeign Secretary Liz Truss said the asset freeze and travel ban now extended to 51 oligarchs and their families, as well as Russian Presid...
US to impose new sanctions on Russian oligarchs, including travel ban: SourceThe sanctions will match earlier EU measures against Russia's wealthiest figures and expand them to include a travel ban to the United Stat...
Russia’s ultra-rich count cost of $83 billion wealth wipeoutMarket declines have been so extreme that Russia’s central bank halted local trading on Monday, meaning some of the losses are understated....
Bribery probe accuses Gulnara Karimova, daughter of Uzbekistan's President in awarding telecom contractsThese days the 43-year-old former globetrotting socialite who once publicly praised God for “my face” is confined to her homeland.
Ex-Sistema Shyam CEO Dmitry Shukov to head VimpelCom's mobile unit in UzbekistanDmitry Shukov, ex-chief executive of Sistema Shyam Teleservices, has assumed the reins of Amsterdam-based VimpelCom’s mobile unit in Uzbeki...
UK forces sale of Russian billionaire's North Sea fieldsThe decision comes two weeks ahead of a general election in Britain and further sours Britain's relations with Russia in light of Western s...
China wants to buy Europe: Chinese investors have powerful attraction to EU companiesChinese buyers acquired Volvo in Sweden, a large stake in Peugeot, Sonya Rykiel in France, Pizza Express & clothing maker Aquascutum in the...
Russian companies face threat by sanctions imposed by US and European Unionnce many large Russian companies are controlled by the state or by billionaires with close ties to President Vladimir Putin, even narrowly ...
- Bailout could turn tables on Russia's oligarchs
They amassed some of the world's biggest fortunes in the wild privatizations of Russia's post-Soviet chaos and the oil boom that followed. ...
- Russia's Alfa Bank asks $400 million from state
A bank belonging to one of Russia's biggest tycoons said today it is seeking $400 million in government loans to stave off foreign creditor...
- Putin may use credit squeeze as a tool to ‘destroy’ oligarchs
Vladimir Putin came to power in 2000 vowing to destroy Russia’s oligarchs ‘as a class’. Within two years, he’d driven two into exile and im...
- Russian roulette fails to scare BP bosses
BP, Europe's second-largest oil company, reported a bigger-than-estimated increase in profit on record crude prices and vowed to “vigorousl...
- Mobile firm caught up in Georgia-Russia tension
Georgia accused a Russian mobile operator of illegally expanding its network into a breakaway Georgian region on Friday in the latest tense...
- Russian partners 'raiding' joint venture: BP
The chairman of British energy giant BP charged on Thursday that the company's Russian partners were "raiding" their oil joint venture TNK-...
- Bermuda fund ordered to give up $45 million after guilty plea
A Caribbean court has issued a US$45.5 million (euro29 million) confiscation order against a Bermuda fund that pleaded guilty to providing ...
- Altimo still interested in India
The Russian mobile company plans to invest over $ 2 bn in the next few years in Asian & emerging markets.