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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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| Saturday, August 30, 2008
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Published: 21 April 2008
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UES Ready to Delay OGK-1 Sale 2 Years
Reuters Unified Energy System is ready to delay for up to two years the sale of electricity producer OGK-1 if a consortium of billionaires does not offer a premium price. |
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Price Freeze, Grain Duties May End
Reuters The Economic Development and Trade Ministry sees no need to extend a price freeze on food staples or prolong grain export barriers to keep consumer prices down, a deputy minister said Friday. |
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Former Ahold Exec Plans Retail Chain
Reuters A new discount retail chain headed by a former executive of Dutch supermarket group Royal Ahold will open its first store in July and plans to expand further, the official heading the project said Friday. |
Putin, Berlusconi Talk of New Alitalia Offer
By Francesca Mereu / Staff Writer President Vladimir Putin and Italian Prime Minister-elect Silvio Berlusconi on Friday rekindled ties by talking up a possible new bid by Aeroflot for troubled airline Alitalia and hinted that a gas deal between Gazprom and Italy's Eni involving Libya could be in the cards. |
Medvedev Mediates Power Spat
Reuters President-elect Dmitry Medvedev has stepped in to try to resolve a dispute between state-controlled power firms Unified Energy System and Rosneft, UES chief Anatoly Chubais said Friday. |
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Business in Brief
Raspadskaya Profit DoublesGazprom Neft's Output PlanPutin Orders Georgian TalksEmbargo Cost 1.1% of GDPExchange to Open in JuneOil Tax to Be Settled by July$2.6 Trillion Offshore CostFor the Record |
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Currency Exchange
USD/RUR - 23.5
EUR/RUR - 37.1
Weather
Hurdles Ahead.
Boosting Population a Vague Science
Armed With Nukes and a Vague Plan
Balancing Growth and Environment
Lots of Work but Too Few Workers
Rich Get Richer as Poor Get Poorer
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One Way to Live Happily Ever After
By Michele A. Berdy
Nation of Champions Starts in the Courtyard
By Georgy Bovt
Leonid Kuchma Built a Prosperous Ukraine
By Anders Aslund
Don't Trust Politicians With War
By Alexander Golts
Rethinking the War
By Alexei Pankin
The Age of Solzhenitsyn
By Alexei Bayer
How Pique and Spite Can Destroy Relations
By Vladimir Frolov
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
The Great Writer Who Buried Communism
By Yevgeny Kiselyov
The Same Old Presidential Reserve
By Nikolai Petrov
The Missiles of July
By Richard Lourie
Immunity From the Oil Curse
By Martin Gilman
