Hilton Hotels Corp. has announced three new development alliances that will allow the company to introduce over 55 new hotels in the Caribbean, Central America, Russia and the United Kingdom in the next five years.
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June 6, 2007Russian Machines, a unit of industrial holding Basic Element, owned by russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska, would indirectly acquire 20 million shares of auto parts supplier Magna International, raising speculation that the company is generating cash for a bid to buy Chrysler Group.
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May 11, 2007Results of opinion poll published in Britain on Monday, April 23, show that British businessmen are very wary of their Russian counterparts and are worried about the growth of Russian investment in the UK. Poll results were published by the Financial Times.
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April 24, 2007According to Read/Write Web, Russia’s biggest online store OZON.ru received $18 million in funding this week from Cisco, Index Ventures and Holtzbrinck Ventures (the venture arm of one of Germany’s largest publishing companies).
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April 6, 2007State-owned Russian Railways plans to attract about $9 billion in investment next year, 20% more than in 2006, the company’s president said Monday.
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April 5, 2007A Russian uranium enrichment plant may be a part of a $150 million nuclear fuel bank, partially funded by Warren Buffett and promoted by the United Nations to discourage development of atomic weapons, a UN official said on Wednesday, March 21.
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March 22, 2007Prominent emerging markets investor Jim Rogers said Russian equity markets were overvalued and could burst “sooner rather than later,” revealing the skeletons in the cupboard of its “outlaw capitalism,” the Reuters reports.
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March 14, 2007The government of Brazil is holding negotiations with Russian billionaire Boris Berezovsky, who is currently living in exile in London, regarding possible investments.
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March 9, 2007German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in a newspaper interview published on Monday, March 5, that new shareholders should not be admitted to European aerospace company EADS’s shareholder pact. Merkel was answering a question about allowing Russian investors to buy into the pan-European company.
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March 5, 2007Data storage giant EMC Corp. will invest $100 million over the next four years in a new research and development center in St. Petersburg, Russia.
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