November 29th, 2006
Moscow Cablecom Corp., a provider of IPTV and Internet services in Moscow under the brand name “AKADO”, said it was warned its stock could be delisted from the Nasdaq Global Market because the company has not filed a 10-Q form for the period ended September 30.
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November 29th, 2006
Russian state-owned Sberbank’s supervisory board postponed a decision on a share issue that would be worth $8.7 billion at current prices, a senior finance ministry official told Reuters.
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Posted in Russia, Banks, Business & Finance, Russian Billionaires, Suleiman Kerimov, Sberbank | 1 Comment »
November 29th, 2006
Anatoly Chubais, head of Russian power monopoly Unified Energy Systems of Russia doubts that the ailment affecting Russian economist and politician Yegor Gaidar was caused by natural factors, the Interfax news agency reports.
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November 29th, 2006

The Bosphorus Strait was closed to vessel traffic as a Russian-flagged cargo ship crashed against a construction pontoon in the Turkish city of Istanbul late on Tuesday, Xinhua news agency reports.
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November 29th, 2006
Russia’s environmental watchdog has asked the Natural Resources Ministry to terminate five licensing agreements with a UK gold mining company, Peter Hambro Mining, the service said Wednesday. Read the rest of this entry »
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November 29th, 2006

An Italian contact of Alexander Litvinenko, the former Russian spy who died of radiation poisoning on Thursday, has not been contaminated by the deadly Polonium 210, his lawyer said on Wednesday, Reuters reports.
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November 29th, 2006
Russia’s largest cell phone company Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) reported on Wednesday the best quarterly financial results in its history exceeding market expectations for the third quarter across the board.
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November 28th, 2006
A senior executive at Russian state-controlled gas giant Gazprom has warned that the opening of the EU energy market to competition and political problems with Poland were forcing the company to look increasingly towards markets in Asia, the AFX News reports.
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November 28th, 2006
A Russian lawmaker and billionaire industrialist was being treated in a hospital Monday for severe burns suffered when a sports car he was driving slammed into a tree and caught fire in southeastern France over the weekend, police said. Read the rest of this entry »
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November 28th, 2006
Russian TV star Tina Kandelaki denies she was in the car with Russian billionaire Suleiman Kerimov when he crashed his Ferrari on the Riviera Saturday, Reuters news agency reported Tuesday. Read the rest of this entry »
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