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...A.N. Wilson wrote in 1987 for the Daily Mail that to go on holiday now with Kim Philby was like going on holiday with Goebbels when we were at war with Germany....
...In 1997, Blavatnik and Vekselberg teamed up with another Ukrainian-born businessman, Mikhail Fridman, co-founder of one of Russia’s most important and influential conglomerates, Alfa Group, who would himself...
...When I was living life number n, I was not thinking about life number n+1,” he says. “I was just trying to live a full life when I was living it.”...
...How much firepower does S&N have? We hear anywhere in the range of $3bn-$5bn....
...B&N’s former owners, Mikail Shishkhanov and his uncle Mikhail Gutseriev, have pledged privileged shares in oil producer Russneft and construction group Inteko to settle “a significant part” of the debts...
...The central bank told the Financial Times on Wednesday that Mikhail Gutseriev, the oligarch whose Safmar Group owns B&N Bank, had asked it to rescue it through a new fund....
...Russia’s central bank said on Wednesday that it provided struggling lender B&N Bank with emergency liquidity at owner Mikhail Gutseriev’s request....
...The central bank said on Wednesday that Mikhail Gutseriev, the oligarch whose Safmar Group owns B&N, had asked for a rescue through a new fund....
...Mikhail Gutseriev, who co-owned B&N with his nephew until the central bank took it over, built much of his fortune with the help of loans from Sberbank, the largest state bank — which separately helped him...
...Mr Zadornov says he wants to take Otkritie public within three years after merging it with B&N, another failed top-10 lender....
...It has said Mikhail Zadornov will take over early next year after the central bank relinquishes control....
...Indeed, Mikhail Shishkhanov, B&N’s majority shareholder, has said his bank’s role in the rehabilitation scheme meant the regulator sent officials to meetings and had online access so it could “see everything...
...Mikhail Ulyanov, director of the Russian foreign ministry’s department for non-proliferation and arms control, “unequivocally” rejected Pyongyang’s conduct, but emphasised: “in the absence of truly reliable...
...Mr Gutseriev’s father, Mikhail, has longstanding ties with Sberbank....
...His B&N bank bought up several troubled retailers on cheap state financing to become one of Russia’s largest last year; he made $700m hedging falling oil prices and raised $500m in an IPO of 20 per cent...
...In the filmed finale on the largest screen, an audience in the Park Avenue drill hall gazes raptly at something, presumably hypnotised by H {N)Y P N(Y} OSIS....
...The New Russia, by Mikhail Gorbachev, Polity, RRP$35 / RRP£25 (July) The former Soviet leader delivers his verdict on the Putin years....
...Mikhail Fridman, one of Russia’s richest oligarchs and chairman of Alfa Group, has so far walked largely successfully along a tightrope....
...The foundatio n would assume full control of Dea’s North Sea business if sanctions were imposed on Luxembourg-based L1 or its owner....
...Mikhail Fridman’s Alfa bank has also expressed an interest in taking part in Uralsib’s rehabilitation. Uralsib declined to comment....
...The story of Putin and Blair was told to me by Mikhail Piotrovsky, director of the Hermitage, who had his own special museum moment last week with the announcement that his institution had received, on loan...
...Comparisons could be made with the Lake District – inspiration and epitome of Romanticism, archetype of Nature-with-a-capital-N....
...Ain’t nutt’n iambic bout dis....
...“Before, if I was looking through an interiors magazine, I would immediately know what was done by a Russian designer,” says Nana Shakhbazyan of N-plus-N designs in Moscow....
...That suggestion, made in a private session with Mikhail Gorbachev, took Mr Reagan’s aides completely by surprise....
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