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| | Asia Times: Barak surprisingly embraces Gusinsky |
 | | Barak has intervened for domestic political reasons in an internal Russian matter, risking Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's displeasure. | | | Gusinsky is a key leader of the Russian-Jewish population, some of whom view his prosecution as part of an anti-Semitic campaign by Vladimir Putin or at least a strong limitation on free speech. | | | Gusinsky may indeed be a good friend of the Israeli prime minister, and that might get Barak votes, but it could cost Israel ground where it ultimately matters most: Moscow and Washington. |
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| | RUSNET :: CIS Today :: 2003/11/03 :: Potanin: Yukos Problem Didn\'t Fall From Sky |
| | Of the nation's handful of billionaires, only one, Vladimir Potanin, has publicly expressed an opinion on Khodorkovsky's arrest and the subsequent sequestering of his oil giant's shares -- and Potanin's opinion is remarkably similar to President Vladimir Putin's. | | | Sergei Markov, a political analyst close to the Kremlin, said Putin has made it clear to Potanin, Khodorkovsky and the other oligarchs that businesses must be patriotic. | | | Unlike Khodorkovsky, who openly funds parties opposed to the pro-Kremlin United Russia, Potanin made his peace with the Putin administration over the origins of his vast wealth early on and agreed to toe the party line. |
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| | CNN.com - Transcripts |
| | Vladimir Putin will be on the ticket again and if his party's recent victory is any indication he will win reelection by a landslide. | | | DOBBS: Putin may be just another politician calculating that the ends justify the means. | | | When President Putin came on the scene in 2000, he made it clear that big business should mind its own business. |
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| | Pravda.RU Russian Business Tycoons To Join Session Of Business Elite Forum In New York |
| | Representatives of Russian business elite will inform their US partners of the results of the third meeting with President Vladimir Putin of Russia which discussed such topical issues of bilateral relations as the liberalisation of currency legislation in Russia, changes in tax legislation and measures to stop flow of capitals. | | | Vladimir Putin Holds A Regular Conference With Russian Government Members | | | Presidents Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko will take part in a ceremony of laying the foundation of the new building of the Russian embassy in Belarus Thursday More in detail... |
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| | Analysis: Oligarch spotting - (United Press International) |
| | It is reported that Potanin made Putin aware of Norilsk Nickel's social expenditures and commitment to charities for social services the state cannot effectively fund. | | | Potanin was quick to denounce fellow oligarch Mikhail Khordorkovsky when the latter was arrested on charges of tax fraud and tax evasion. | | | Potanin was just as quick to curry favor with the Kremlin when presenting Norilsk Nickel's investment plans for the present fiscal year in January. |
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| | The Embassy of the Russian Federation in the Republic of India |
| | Moscow, June 30: - President Vladimir Putin said the period marked by the lack of clarity in the rights and duties at all levels of government has passed and that it is time for regional authorities to start playing a greater role in the country's economic development. | | | Russian business could be more proactive in U.S. - Putin | | | Party of power preparing legislation for Putin's reelection |
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| | Bloomberg.com: Europe |
| | Sept. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Vladimir Bogdanov, chief executive officer of oil producer OAO Surgutneftegaz, ran Russian President Vladimir Putin's campaign in west Siberia four years ago, touting the need for companies to ``work honestly'' to help the state. | | | Bogdanov also shares Putin's view that companies should invest in their communities. | | | Surgut paid an effective tax rate, or net income divided by taxes paid, of 25 percent from 2000 to 2003, according to Hermitage Capital. |
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| | Analysts also credit two years of political stability under President Vladimir Putin and a series of pro-business economic changes, including lower taxes. | | | This is two years that President Vladimir Putin has led the country and, counting his months as acting president, this is half the presidential term a good time to look at the results so far. | | | Head of Base Element (the new name of Siberian Aluminum, now that its aluminum assets have been transferred to Russian Aluminum) and managing shareholder of Russian Aluminum, Deripaska is probably more dependent on the Kremlin than the other bears. |
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| | NCSJ- Home |
| | Gusinsky to a villa he owns, initiating an extradition case in the courts, and handing Russian President Vladimir Putin a major victory in his campaign to take over the NTV network and stifle critical reporting on his government. | | | Media-Most head Vladimir Gusinsky was arrested in Spain in December under a Russian-issued warrant that he understated his company's assets to get loan guarantees from Gazprom. | | | Gusinsky, who came under fire earlier this year by Russian authorities after he criticized government policies, has denied accusations that he falsified assets in his main company, Media-Most, while taking loans from a government-controlled gas company, Gazprom. |
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| | Asia Times Online - The trusted source for news on Central Asia |
| | The question for Potanin, therefore, is whether he should reconsider the Gold Fields deal, or proceed with the planned acquisition, and call Putin's bluff. | | | Vladimir Potanin, the controlling shareholder of Norilsk Nickel (NorNickel), Russia's largest mining company and the world's dominant nickel supplier, ought to know. | | | Questions about the security of the deal, and the lack of government approval (which Potanin had sought, and received, when he took over Stillwater Mining in the US last year) have made it difficult for Citibank to find other banks willing to take over the $800 million loan when it expires in September. |
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| | Commanding Heights : Vladimir Potanin on PBS |
| | VLADIMIR POTANIN: I think that Putin really believes that the only way for Russia is to join the international society, to join with Europe and the international society in terms of integration in the whole world system. | | | VLADIMIR POTANIN: Again, we should realize that the situation at that time was very difficult for those who started the reforms. | | | VLADIMIR POTANIN: Frankly speaking, I decided to become a businessman at the moment when I understood that it is possible, because I grew up in a country where it was not possible. |
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| | Pravda.RU Steel-Making Accounts For 20 Percent Revenues To Russia's Treasury |
| | Russias President Vladimir Putin signed into law yesterday a bill Of tobacco smoking limitation. The bill was approved by the State Duma (lower house) a month ago. | | | The state of affairs in the metallurgical sector is described in a RIA Novosti interview by Vladimir Lisin, chairman of the directors' board of Russia's largest Novolipetsk Steel-Making Combine. | | | Lisin said that, according to specialist calculations, ever worker in the metallurgical sector ensures jobs for seven workers in allied sectors of the economy. |
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| | President Vladimir Putin has promised support to Russian bankers and Western capital |
| | Putin said the conference on the role of the bank sector in Novosibirsk that the “government agrees with the bank community that the activity of affiliates of foreign banks in Russia must be restricted and, in essence, banned”. | | | Putin added that foreign banks must set up in Russia their daughter companies, “be Russia’s legal entities and subordinate to Russian legislation”. | | | Potanin asked for the support, saying that “it is easier to come to foreign markets at the back of the state”. |
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| | President Vladimir Putin's government seems to be renewing a campaign against the oligarchs as the elections draw nearer. | | | A non-Jewish oligarch, Vladimir Potanin, was chosen to be their public liaison to government. | | | Vladimir Gusinsky, whose former empire included the independent NTV television station, was detained Thursday after arriving from Tel Aviv, Israel, where he has lived since April 2001. |
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| | Untimely Thoughts: a homepage devoted to understanding Russia. |
| | The promotion of Dmitry Medvedev as First Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Sergei Ivanovs elevation to Deputy Prime Minister strongly suggests that the Kremlin has put into play its plan to anoint a compromise candidate to succeed Vladimir Putin in 2008. | | | Is Vladimir Putins presidential chief of staff and Gazprom chairman, Dmitry Medvedev, the person to succeed him? | | | Another, though an extremely unlikely scenario, is the making the rounds surrounding Operation Successor 2008 a Kremlin induced political crisis that would attempt to legitimize Vladimir Putins continuance in power as president, with even stronger powers. |
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| | Vladimir Putin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Domestic and foreign critics accuse Putin of having orchestrated the trials of oligarchs such as Boris Berezovsky, Vladimir Gusinsky, and later Mikhail Khodorkovsky as part of an effort by his Kremlin to gain control over the media and large sectors of the Russian economy. | | | For its part, Putin's administration has argued that its actions against the oligarchs are intended to contain and reverse serious damage inflicted on Russia's economy by years of insider capitalism. | | | Within a year of Putin's election, Gusinsky went from being a would-be kingmaker to living in self-imposed exile; his once-influential media conglomerate (Media-MOST) dissolved into bankruptcy due to a cut off in credits by state-owned and state-allied businesses and under the weight of criminal and civil court decisions. |
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| | Gusinsky, Vladimir -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, a former career KGB officer, was named acting president and held both posts until a presidential election at the end of March. | | | Vladimir Putin's popularity remained consistently high in 2001, and Russians drew renewed confidence from the fact that their country was headed by a young and vigorous leader. | | | Putin was elected in the first round of that election with 53% of the vote. |
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| | Alexander's Gas & Oil Connections - Surgutneftegaz hopes to see boost oil and gas output by 2003 |
| | Bogdanov said he expected the issue of gas pipeline access to be resolved this year since Russia's President Vladimir Putin has promised to intervene. | | | Indeed, Bogdanov said that the company would be able to borrow on easier terms if it made a point of using its own funds. | | | Though Bogdanov said that Surgutneftegaz would seek some foreign loans to fund its investment program, it seems logical to assume that the company will use its own funds to the greatest extent possible. |
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| | Pravda.RU Russia Should Choose Maximum Profitable Way To Enter WTO |
| | Vladimir Putin discussed investments in the Russian economy with head of the Exxon-Mobil Corporation Lee Raymond. | | | This is the opinion expressed by Vladimir Lisin, member of the board of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs and chairman of the board of directors of the Novolipetsk metallurgical combine. | | | Vladimir Lisin believes that Russia's entry into the WTO should not do any harm to the Russian economy. |
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| | Pravda.RU Potanin's charity fund to award scholarships |
| | Skinheads, neo-Nazis and other rabid nationalists must receive a timely, and deservedly harsh, legal qualification, called Sergei Yastrzhembsky, President Vladimir Putin's aide, while addressing a news conference in Yekaterinburg, administrative and industrial centre in the Urals More details... | | | The most gifted students of Russia's north-western region are going to receive scholarships from nickel magnate Vladimir Potanin's charity fund. | | | Educational programmes are the main area of activity of Potanin's charitable fund, which was established in 1999. |
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| | DO YOU APPROVE of Vladimir Putin as the new Prime Minister? |
| | DO YOU APPROVE of Vladimir Putin as the new Prime Minister? | | | There are two main reasons: Parliamentary and presidential elections are over, and President Vladimir Putin has made clear his irritation with media owners who try to use their outlets as instruments of influence. | | | This goes for Vladimir Gusinsky, who has promised financial support for Berger and Parkhomenko; and for steelworks magnate Vladimir Lisin from Novolipetsk, who will finance Shakirov’s new daily. |
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| | RUSSIA -- WAR AGAINST, OR WAR BETWEEN, THE OLIGARCHS? |
| | In response to President Vladimir Putin's promise to hold a roundtable with Russia's oligarchs on his return from the G7 Okinawa meeting, Boris Nemtsov, SPS leader and former deputy Prime Minister, quipped that he hoped that enough of them would be left to take part. | | | As leading businessmen were preparing to meet with President Vladimir Putin for a roundtable discussion July 28, Vladimir Potanin - who had been accused of rigging a privatization auction for Norilsk Nickel to the tune of dollars 140 million - said the oligarchs must change their ways. | | | Vladimir: On November 13 former oligarch Gusinsky will be charged with fraud and former oligarch Berezovsky may be arrested for embezzlement from Aeroflot. |
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| | Russian London / Who are the next Abramoviches? / |
| | With Khodorkovsky incarcerated, Business Week claims that Vladimir Potanin is now the richest man in Russia, with a $32bn business empire and personal wealth of $3bn. | | | Potanin, it is whispered, could be Putin's next target unless he is very careful. | | | Vladimir Yevtushenkov's Sistema is the largest non-energy group in Russia, and the biggest mobile phone operator, controlling the world's fourth-biggest network. |
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| | Putin Power - RW #287 |
| | Russian President Vladimir Putin has had a busy year consolidating his power. | | | During the past year, Russian President Vladimir Putin has taken to saying that his decisions will be based on Russia's national interests. | | | Vladimir Putin Moves to Consolidate Power in Russia |
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| | BIGpedia - Vladimir Putin - Encyclopedia and Dictionary Online |
| | Western critics accuse Putin of having orchestrated the trials against "oligarchs" such as Boris Berezovsky, Vladimir Gusinsky, and later Mikhail Khodorkovsky to regain control over the media and large sectors of the Russian economy. | | | Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (Владимир Владимирович Путин in Cyrillic lettering) (born October 7, 1952) has been the President of Russia since December 31, 1999. | | | Transcript of an American TV discussion held in November 2003; discusses whether Putin is a democrat or a dictator |
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| | Putin vows to sustain post-soviet privatisation plan |
| | Moscow, July 31: President Vladimir Putin reassured the country's business elite he would not overturn post-Soviet privatisations, allaying one of the main fears of corporate Russia. | | | He was seconded by one leading businessman, Vladimir Potanin of the huge Interross holding. | | | Potanin agreed that businesses wanted to act according to the law rather than benefit from inside contacts. |
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| | Russian Metal Baron Seeks Putin's Help in Case [Free Republic] |
| | Vladimir Potanin, a former first deputy premier who became one of the wealthiest and most powerful of Russia's ''oligarchs'' when he won control of Norilsk in the mid 1990s, sent a letter to President Vladimir Putin asking for his help. | | | Nationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky told Interfax news agency the move could presage revisions of other sell-offs to probe the "huge amount of money'' which he said was lost to the state. | | | Norilsk was one of the companies privatized in the mid-1990s under a shares-for-loans plan whereby banks offered the state loans in return for the right to manage shares in companies. |
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| | Kommersant - New Russia's First Independent Newspaper |
| | We talk about who appeared on the Russian big business scene in that period and who left it; how relations between the government and those who are generally regarded as industry owners formed; and the successes and failures observed for businessmen under Vladimir Putin. | | | On May 7, 2004, Vladimir Putin officially became Russia's new president, and so the time has come to carry out a new large-scale stocktaking of the country. | | | Each supplement is devoted to one of the major economic sectors. |
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| | Vladimir Gusinsky: Russian oligarch who became Kremlin's arch enemy |
| | Gusinsky was once owner of the popular NTV television network, the last national channel openly to criticise President Vladimir Putin's policies, especially in the war-torn separatist republic of Chechnya. | | | Gusinsky, 51 this October, sold his last media assets a year again and has lived discreetly abroad unlike another exile Russian media tycoon and Putin critic Boris Berezovsky, who has been more open in his criticism of the government. | | | BizVantage – The Net advantage in business, investing or technology - when knowing now counts. |
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| | Pravda.RU Russian Prosecutor General's Office broadens charges against Vladimir Gusinsky |
| | Russian President Vladimir Putin is sure Canadian Governor General Adrienne Clarkson's visit to Russia will become "an important landmark" in development of Russian-Canadian cooperation, which "comes to embrace more and more spheres as it progresses." This is what he told journalists after his Tuesday talks with the governor general. | | | Sent to Greece, the extradition request for Vladimir Gusinsky has a broader charge formulation in comparison with the 2001 request sent to Spain, the Russian Prosecutor General's Office says. | | | Anatoly Chubais: Russia should aim to create liberal empire in CIS |
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