Plans by the owners of Russia’s top gold producer, Polyus Gold, including Russian billionaires, Mikhail Prokhorov and Suleiman Kerimov, may be thwarted in their efforts to buy Kazakh gold miner KazakhGold Group.
The Kazakh government this week annulled a merger of the two evoking the 2007 Subsoil Law which allows the government to annul any contract involving the [...]
Tag Archives: Russia
Gold Tussle: Russia vs. Kazakhstan
Jul 13 2010 – 12:50 pm
Ukrainian billionaires behind Privat Group Take on Russian Billionaire Makhmudov
Jul 08 2010 – 9:25 am
Ukrainian billionaires, Henadiy Boholyubov and Ihor Kolomoyskyy, via Mantara Holding, a company close to the their jointly-owned Privat Group, may be in for a fight over Ukrainian locomotive-maker, Luhanskteplovoz, with Russian billionaire, Iskander Makhmudov.
Mantara Holding filed a lawsuit with the State Property Fund of Ukraine (SPF) to cancel the sale of Luhanskteplovoz to Transmashholding, Russia’s largest maker [...]
Ukrainian Billionaire Akhmetov Tries For Another Steel Mill
Jun 17 2010 – 11:12 am
After recently losing Ukraine’s fourth largest steelmaker, Zaporizhstal, to an unnamed group of Russian investors, Rinat Akhmetov, Ukraine’s wealthiest (with a fortune estimate by Forbes at $5.2 billion) is at it again.
Akhmetov’s Metinvest, Ukraine’s largest vertically integrated steel group, is negotiating a merger with Mariupol Ilyich Steelworks, the country’s largest flat rolled steel producer.
According to a note from financial [...]
Ukraine’s Richest Loses Deal for Coveted Steel Mill
Jun 02 2010 – 1:01 pm
Rinat Akhmetov, Ukraine’s wealthiest man with an estimated $5.2 billion steel and coal fortune according to Forbes, lost his bid for Ukraine’s fourth largest steelmaker, Zaporizhstal, in a surprise twist according to reports from Ukraine.
This week a group of undisclosed Russian investors took control of Zaporizhstal for a reported UAH 1.7 billion (about $220 million) [...]
Table Talk – what I’ve been reading
Apr 13 2010 – 3:33 am
Great piece in April 4, 2010 New York Times Magazine about photographer Roman Vishniac who chronicled prewar Eastern European Jewish life. The piece points out some of his images were manufactured and brings up again the question of what is truth, and what does personal perception bring to historical memory. The pictures in particular were [...]
Only 2 Women Billionaires in Eastern Europe, Russia and rest of CIS
Mar 15 2010 – 6:58 am
Where are all the women? We’re Half the Sky as but we’re always underrepresented as Catalyst reasearch points out (see my previous post titled International Women’s Day). The same is true for Eastern Europe, Russia and the rest of the CIS where only 2 women reached Forbes billionaire ranks out of some 40 or so [...]