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by John Helmer - Monday, May 12th, 2008
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By John Helmer in Moscow Herbies beats aluminium into profit shares Herbert Smith, one of the largest billing of the UK law firms, has been forced to reveal this month in the UK High Court that it is charging the Tajikistan government more than $100 million for a 3-year court claim ordered by the Tajik […]

by John Helmer - Monday, April 28th, 2008
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By John Helmer in Moscow Deripaska is obliged to pay Prokhorov more to leave one uncertainty for a greater one Oleg Deripaska, owner of United Company Rusal, the global aluminium producer, has invited a small group of reporters to have an Easter luncheon with him at Café Pushkin this Saturday. The hors d’oeuvre is the […]

by John Helmer - Thursday, April 24th, 2008
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By John Helmer in Moscow Russian miners’ union confident of gaining strike demands as Rusal postpones legal action. Striking bauxite miners at the Rusal-owned Severuralsk mine, in central Russia, have called off their occupation of one of the mine shafts, on signs that Rusal is ready to make wage, welfare, and other labour contract concessions. […]

by John Helmer - Monday, April 7th, 2008
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By John Helmer in Moscow An unprecedented strike by Russian bauxite miners halts Rusal production in Urals Richard the Lionheart (1157-99) was the greatest of English soldiers; the greatest artilleryman of all time. In laying siege to an enemy’s position, Richard applied the principle of concentrating force at the point of least resistance – bombarding […]

by John Helmer - Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
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IMF joins UK High Court in corruption investigations of Tajik aluminium dealing. “Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this sun of York”. That’s the opening of the most vicious dynastic bloodbath on the English stage, spoken by the nastiest of Shakespeare’s royal villains — the hump-back plotter who becomes Richard […]

by John Helmer - Thursday, March 20th, 2008
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By John Helmer in Moscow The UK High Court has opened for the first time documents showing how Deripaska created his empire. It was the 19th century poet Robert Browning, who claimed: “A man’s reach should exceed his grasp, or what’s a heaven for?” If Oleg Deripaska is a romantic overreacher like that, the UK […]

by John Helmer - Thursday, February 7th, 2008
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By John Helmer in Moscow Achilles heel uncovered by US court in Russian aluminium champion In seventy-four closely argued pages, US attorneys have this week applied to the US Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit (New York) to reverse a series of lower court judgements, and order trial of charges that Victor Vekselberg and […]

by John Helmer - Monday, January 14th, 2008
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By John Helmer in Moscow Norway and UK probe Hydro’s aluminium operations with BVI cutout companies. The High Court in London is considering a trial this year of claims to one of the largest missing aluminium smelter fortunes in the world. The missing money, estimated to be as high as $500 million per year, is […]

by John Helmer - Friday, January 11th, 2008
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By John Helmer in Moscow Nigeria’s President Yar’Adua promises US to reopen Rusal smelter deal. Oleg Deripaska, the Russian oligarch who controls UC Rusal, the world’s second largest producer of aluminium, is in hot water in Nigeria, and in Washington, DC, as US companies have persuaded the Bush Administration to back them in a bid […]

by John Helmer - Friday, November 30th, 2007
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