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...His gallery sold $1.2m of works to American buyers, including “Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine of Alexandria” by Renaissance artist Bernardino Zaganelli (active 1494-1519, $400,000) and had two other...
...The winner, announced this week, was ‘Red Fortress’ by Catherine Merridale. pushkinhouse.org...
...On Sunday, Russia’s finance minister Anton Siluanov said that further funds would be held until a new cabinet was in charge and the political situation in Kiev had become clear....
...Catherine Ashton, the EU’s foreign policy chief, condemned the violence in a statement and urged Ukraine’s leadership to “address the root causes of the crisis”, adding: “Political leaders must now assume...
...The news came as the rouble weakened 0.2 per cent against the dollar to a six-week low, which Anton Siluanov, the Russian finance minister, and the central bank described as “normal fluctuation”....
...Playing the harsh, dragooning purist, the leader and first violin of the New York “Fugue Quartet”, Ivanir all but says: “Me Anton Red Shoes Walbrook. You my victim-collaborators.”...
...“This is an example of a successful synergy where we are able to combine expertise, pricing, liquidity and risk management systems,” says Anton Karamzin, deputy chairman of Sberbank’s board of directors....
...Finance minister Anton Siluanov told the Financial Times in the summer that the government was working on a series of measures to postpone other programmes, such as a major new defence upgrade, in order...
...Mr Deripaska had claimed in preliminary hearings that this 2001 agreement was a proposal drafted for Anton Malevsky, the reputed head of the Izmailovsky crime group who died in a parachute accident in 2001...
...That payment was made, he claims, because Mr Cherney, together with Mr Anton Malevsky, was engaged in a ‘protection’ racket in relation to what was Mr Deripaska’s business.”...
...This echoes the views of Rupert Anton, a cousin and one of the few family members who disagrees with Alexander Anton....
...In his first interview with a foreign newspaper since his appointment as finance minister last year, Anton Siluanov said the government had agreed to create a reserve mechanism worth Rbs500bn ($15.4bn) for...
...A well-dressed man named Anton, in a baseball cap displaying the logo of French ski resort Courchevel, and his wife, Anna, dressed in a fine mink coat, said they were successful entrepreneurs....
...Attempting to steady investors unnerved by his sudden dismissal, Mr Putin quickly announced that Anton Siluanov, a respected career finance ministry official, would replace Mr Kudrin as acting finance chief...
...“Russia’s return to the eurobond market could fuel the appetites of officials,” said Anton Strouchenevsky, economist at Troika Dialog investment bank in Moscow....
...“Anton was always speaking good words about Oleg Deripaska,” he says. “They had very businesslike relations.”...
...Russia’s one-time richest man has faced questions over past connections to Michael Cherney and Anton Malevsky....
...He claims that he drafted the second part of the agreement as an outline proposal for Anton Malevsky, not Mr Cherney....
...One senior western banker said the prospect of exposure in the court case of details of Mr Deripaska’s past relationships with Mr Cherney and Anton Malevsky, the one time head of the Izmailovsky crime group...
...“Even as the rest of the world is seeing more green shoots, the structure of the Russian economy is such that 2010 and throughout the rest of the year is still going to be difficult,” Anton Karamzin, the...
...But Anton Surikov, a Russian security expert and former military intelligence officer, advances the theory that smugglers, with the backing of elements in Russia’s security services, may have loaded ammunition...
...“The situation is starting to look like 1998 when, in anticipation of devaluation, the credit market is frozen and there is an enormous contraction of the economy,” says Anton Strouchenevsky, an economist...
...Instead, Mr Deripaska claimed, he had been forced into relations with Mr Cherney and Anton Malevsky, the head of the Izmailovsky organised crime group, who he said had joined forces to provide “protection...
...Sales in big-ticket items such as cars, however, could slow as Russia’s consumer loan banks start to cut back lending as a result of the global credit crisis, says Anton Abugov, first vice-president of Sistema...
...All are public relations exercises: most blatantly Vigilius Eriksen’s stately, unrelenting “Catherine the Great”, depicted – just after she had had her husband murdered and assumed the Russian throne – in...
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