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Business: RenCap Cuts RTS '08 Target to 2,350
Renaissance Capital on Monday slashed its year-end forecast for the benchmark RTS Index from 3,000 to 2,350 and increased its equity risk premium for the country from 4 percent to 5.5 percent in a sign of continued investor jitters.
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| Thursday, August 21, 2008
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Published: 15 January 2008
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Sistema, Saraya Plan Hotel
Bloomberg Sistema-Hals, billionaire Vladimir Yevtushenkov's property unit, and Saraya Holdings plan to build a resort in Sochi, host of the 2014 Winter Olympics. |
Britain's Costliest New Home Sold
By Luke Baker / Reuters An Israeli diamond billionaire has bought the most expensive new property ever sold in Britain -- a $70 million home with a bulletproof front door costing $100,000, real estate dealers said. |
$15Bln City to Rise Just Outside Moscow
By Nariman Gizitdinov, Denis Maternovsky / Bloomberg The Kazakh developer plans to include ""a Russian Oxford and Hollywood."" |
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Kazakhstan Ups Share in Kashagan
By Raushan Nurshayeva / Reuters The Kazakh government said Monday that it would double its stake in the giant Kashagan oil field, paying just $1.78 billion and stripping Italy's Eni of its leading role in the project, which will be further delayed to the end of 2011. |
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Business in Brief
Dispute May Delay PipelineGazprom to Make OffersInvestments Abroad RecordSocial Tax May IncreaseAdvertisements CanceledPrices May Rise 1.8%Baltika's Stock BuybackMinistry Oversees PropertyBerezovsky Suit FiledLUKoil Considers ChainRusAl's Hydropower DealSteelmaker to Invest $350MNovolipetsk Seeks $2BlnRZD to Borrow $1Bln |
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Putin Approves Foreign Superjet Stake
Bloomberg President Vladimir Putin approved the purchase by Alenia Aeronautica of a stake in Sukhoi Civil Aircraft so the Italian company can help the Russian plane maker develop the Superjet airliner. |
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BoNY Asks Court to Dismiss Suit
By Anatoly Medetsky / Staff Writer The bank's lawyer offers judges a list of technicalities for why the case should not be heard. |
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After Shuffle, Mitvol Promises to Press On
By Tai Adelaja / Staff Writer Russian and foreign companies whose activities are deemed by the authorities to pose serious environmental threats will see no relief this year despite the resignation of the federal environmental watchdog's chief, a senior official said Monday. |
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Columnists
Russia's Upside in the Georgia Conflict
By Boris Kagarlitsky
Georgian Crisis Is a Trap for U.S. Leadership
By Fyodor Lukyanov
Looking Into Saakashvili's Caucasus Soul
By Yulia Latynina
A Tried and True Diversion Tactic
By Konstantin Sonin
Still Going for Their Gold
By Mark H. Teeter
Fighting Russian Tanks With Patriotic Defiance
By Matthew Collin
Medvedev's Toughest Presidential Test
By Georgy Bovt
The Failure of Realpolitik
By Alexander Golts
Finding Out Who's to Blame for This War
By Alexei Pankin
Georgia Set the Perfect Trap
By Vladimir Frolov
The Great Writer Who Buried Communism
By Yevgeny Kiselyov
The Same Old Presidential Reserve
By Nikolai Petrov
Cleaning the Kitchen, Clothes and Mechel
By Michele A. Berdy
WTO Can Place Russia on the Right Track
By Anders Aslund
Traffic Police Reflect Russia's Value System
By Alexei Bayer
The Missiles of July
By Richard Lourie
Immunity From the Oil Curse
By Martin Gilman
