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...collaboration, but there is a connection between the two: Mathmos’s founder Edward Craven Walker named his company after the bubble liquid force that Jane Fonda’s action heroine must defeat in Barbarella, Roger Vadim...
...“The reason I’m such an old first-time novelist — I’m 50 — is that I wasn’t ready to do this before....
...I also go to his place in New York when I’m there. My favourite app is WeatherPro, because I’m constantly looking at the forecast....
...He waved off Vadim’s comments. “Have you given them some reason to think I’m a ghost? Spreading rumours of my demise?” “Don’t even joke,” Vadim said....
...I’m at tony.barber@ft.com. Russia and the world Let’s look first at the impact of Russian propaganda around the world....
...In my case it was my ‘story’; the fact that I’m not the conventional prince that everybody expected,” he says, an expressive hand sweeps the length of his still match-fit body....
...I’m at tony.barber@ft.com. First, the results of the poll in last week’s newsletter....
...Marianela Núñez as Princess Aurora and Vadim Muntagirov as Prince Florimund are simply sublime....
...“[Kazakhs] have given us free food, housed us, I’m in shock,” said Alexei Sibirskiy, a well-known Russian environmental blogger, as he stood in thigh-high waders by the stream, holding muddy rags and a discarded...
...If I’m going on a beach holiday, I don’t want to see an elevator or a lobby; I want to feel like I’m going to a friend’s house, so I love that you can step out of your bungalow right to the pool and then...
...Under the group of Otkritie’s previous owners, the bank was better known for its daring M&A deals and risky hedge fund-like transactions than taking deposits or issuing loans....
...Willkie Farr & Gallagher has recruited Vadim Mahmoudov as a partner in its tax department. He was previously an M&A tax principal and US debt restructuring tax leader at PwC....
...Vadim Muntagirov has been dancing the hapless hero since 2014 and is dream casting for a role originally tailored to Anthony Dowell’s creamy classicism....
...“If it comes to no deal . . . it’s not anything that I’m frightened of, I’m not worried about, I think we will be ready for it, we will get through it, and we will come out stronger and even more resilient...
...Its parent company, Otkritie Holding, has been active on the M&A market of late....
...“I’m not demanding Poroshenko’s ouster — yet,” he said....
...You owe me and you have something I’m prepared to take as collateral on your debt,” Mr Shvetsov said....
...Otkritie has remained active on the M&A market during the crisis....
...The M came off first, then the P. Soon the T, R and U were gone too....
...Russia's Otkritie: Don't call it a comeback Five years ago, hardly anyone in Russia’s financial sector knew who Vadim Belyaev was, writes the FT's Max Seddon from Moscow....
...I’m always ready to do it,” he says, “but there’s nothing special.”...
...Yet the space occupied has increased by 100,000 sq m in Kiev since the start of the war in 2014, reaching 1.4m sq m....
...“I am convinced that this [choice] is intended to offend Russia,” Vadim Dengin, a Russian MP, told state news agency Ria Novosti in February....
...Vadim Zlotnikov, chief investment strategist at AllianceBernstein, which manages $474bn in assets, is among those prescribing to this reasoning to explain the dealmaking euphoria....
...Vadim Zlotnikov, chief market strategist at AllianceBernstein, says: “I’m always concerned about environments like this, as there are not a lot of opportunities for value.”...
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