Russian authorities have detained Ivan Mironov, the 25-year-old history student, who had been wanted over an assassination attempt on the head of the Unified Energy Systems of Russia joint-stock company, Anatoly Chubais, RIA Novosti news agency reported December 12. Boris Mironov, father of the detainee and former Russian Federation Press Minister has also been detained in Moscow recently.
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December 12, 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 29, 2006
Yegor Gaidar, Russia’s former prime minister and the architect of the country’s market reforms suffered a sudden, unexplained and violent illness on a visit to Ireland, a day after Alexander Litvinenko died. Anatoly Chubais, his former associate and the head of Russia’s electricity monopoly, said he suspected Yegor Gaidar may have been poisoned.
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Russia has been negotiating deals to provide electricity to North and South Korea, a Russian official said, although the talks are now in jeopardy because of U.N. Security Council sanctions against the communist nation, AP reports.
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November 15, 2006
The London Stock Exchange (LSE) and the British index and data company FTSE Group launched a new stock market index for Russian companies trading in London.
The FTSE Russian IOB Index is designed to measure the performance of Russia’s 10 biggest and most liquid companies trading on the London Stock Exchange’s International Order Book (IOB) under Russian Depositary Receipts, FTSE said in a statement.
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November 2, 2006
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