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Deripaska Under Pressure in Mega Aluminium Merger

trueversy — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 05:30:35 +0000

By John Helmer in Moscow
Oleg Deripaska is under unexpected personal pressure, at home and abroad, just when his plan to take control of one of the largest bauxite and aluminium producers in the world is close to final government approval. And that is exactly why the trouble for Deripaska is growing now.
Russian government authorization this month of the creation of a monopoly aluminium concern, integrating domestic and foreign bauxite, alumina, and aluminium production assets, has followed a no-objection ruling from the European Commission (EC) in Brussels. The unconditional ruling was issued by the EC on February 1.
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Bistro, Bistro Cried the Russian to Sarkozy

trueversy — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 05:30:35 +0000

By John Helmer in Moscow
Did Nicolas Sarkozy, the small rightwing candidate for President of France, benefit from the brief imprisonment in Lyon of one Russian billionaire, and from the award of a medal, days later in Paris, to another Russian billionaire, who happened to be the business partner of the first?
And was Sarkozy helped by Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres, ministre blanchisseur, official custodian of French culture, receiver of kickbacks, and arranger of unorthodox donations to presidential campaign chests?
In short, on January 30, when Donnedieu de Vabres awarded the medal of Officer of the Legion of Arts and Letters to Vladimir Potanin, was this the end to an ingenious quartet of hostage-taking and ransom on the French side, procuring and precious metals on the Russian?
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Myanmar to promote its traditional medicine - Feng Yingqiu

trueversy — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 05:30:30 +0000

A two-day 9th Traditional Medicine Practitioners Conference of Myanmar is due to open in the country’s new capital of Nay Pyi Taw later on Tuesday, aimed at promoting the development of the coun…

World economic crisis hits Burmese workers in Malaysia - Min Lwin

trueversy — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 05:30:29 +0000

Ye Min Tun, of the Malaysia-based organization Burma Workers’ Rights Protection, told The Irrawaddy that more than 300 Burmese migrant workers had returned to Burma in late November, paid off by…

ASEAN summit in Thailand postponed until March

trueversy — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 05:30:29 +0000

Crisis-hit Thailand has postponed a summit of the Southeast Asian bloc ASEAN scheduled for mid-December until March, a government spokesman said today.

The future of Burma’s nonviolent campaign for democracy - Gemma Dursley

trueversy — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 05:30:29 +0000

Since Burma’s pro-democracy protests of 2007, many of those at the centre of the Saffron Uprising have been quietly jailed, and the optimism that many allowed themselves to embrace last September ha…

An unnatural disaster in Burma - Chris Beyrer and Frank Donaghue

trueversy — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 05:30:29 +0000

In the field of disaster relief studies it is a truism that the first responders, whether in an earthquake or a cyclone, are generally ordinary people in the affected area who have survived. They are …

Trueversy

Deripaska Under Pressure in Mega Aluminium Merger

Bistro, Bistro Cried the Russian to Sarkozy

Terms and conditions

Introduction to The Russia Journal Archives

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Myanmar to promote its traditional medicine - Feng Yingqiu

World economic crisis hits Burmese workers in Malaysia - Min Lwin

ASEAN summit in Thailand postponed until March

The future of Burma&rsquo;s nonviolent campaign for democracy - Gemma Dursley

An unnatural disaster in Burma - Chris Beyrer and Frank Donaghue

The future of Burma’s nonviolent campaign for democracy - Gemma Dursley