By John Helmer in Moscow Gennady Timchenko, a powerful Russian businessman, was identified this week in Helsinki as behind International Petroleum Products (IPP), a small trader which won the first 100,000-tonne crude oil loading assignment at Kozmino, Russia’s new oil port on the Sea of Japan. The news, which a Timchenko spokesman in London is […]

by John Helmer - Thursday, January 14th, 2010
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By John Helmer in Moscow The Russian Trade and Inspection Agency (Rospotrebnadzor) has initiated new chlorine limits for poultry processing, commencing this month. The effect will be to cut imports well below the quota levels announced last month, especially of US-produced chicken. The new Russian chlorine limit is 0.3 to 0.5 milligrams per litre, which […]

by John Helmer - Tuesday, January 12th, 2010
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By John Helmer in Moscow The share price of Canadian-listed, Russian-owned goldminer High River Gold (HRG:CN) has shot up by 65% since December 4, and last week hit 89 Canadian cents – its highest level since August of 2008. There has been no news to speak of, but there was a meeting, a month ago, […]

by John Helmer - Monday, January 11th, 2010
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by John Helmer - Sunday, January 10th, 2010
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  We are taking our New Year break, but you’ll see – we’ll be back shortly on the run.

by John Helmer - Thursday, December 31st, 2009
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http://www.hkexnews.hk/listedco/listconews/sehk/20091231/LTN20091231035.pdf

by John Helmer - Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
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By John Helmer in Moscow Many things can make a person greater than he or she really is, except time. Time activates the bacteria that strip the flesh off the bones, until only a forensic pathologist can detect the tiny signs of individuality; and even they add up to nothing more than a catalogue of […]

by John Helmer - Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
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by John Helmer - Tuesday, December 29th, 2009
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By John Helmer in Moscow Alrosa announced last week that it has appointed Vasily Grabtsevich as a special senior executive for managing relations between the two controlling shareholders of the company, the federal government in Moscow and the Sakha republic government in Yakutsk. The federal government controls almost 51% of the closed shareholding of Alrosa; […]

by John Helmer - Monday, December 28th, 2009
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At the Reichenbach Falls, May 4, 1891 This is how the two greatest criminal minds of the 19th century came to grips, and set the course for the history of Russia in both the 20th and 21st centuries. Sherlock Holmes (right) met James Moriarty (left) in hand to hand combat, and the two of them […]

by John Helmer - Sunday, December 27th, 2009
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