By John Helmer in Moscow A bold move by two of Russia’s largest companies to fly General Sékouba Konaté, the acting head of the Guinean state in Conakry, to a rendezvous at the Kremlin with President Dmitri Medvedev has failed after a blaze of publicity caused the general to get cold feet.

by Editor - Wednesday, June 9th, 2010
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  Benchmark – LME aluminium, cash price

by John Helmer - Thursday, April 22nd, 2010
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By John Helmer in Moscow The oldest form of Chinese wrestling (jǐao dǐ) involved the contestants literally locking horns with the objective of head-butting each other into insensibility. Half a millennium later, the Chinese emperors decided that there was more military value in training their soldiers to knock opponents off their feet.

by Editor - Monday, April 19th, 2010
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By John Helmer in Moscow and Conakry Alexey Vasiliev, a Russian professor specializing in the history of Saudi Arabia, flew to the west African republic of Guinea last week in a bid to lobby the Guinean Prime Minister, Jean-Marie Dore, on behalf of United Company Rusal, the bauxite and alumina producer in Guinea. Rusal is […]

by John Helmer - Tuesday, March 30th, 2010
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  ЖАЛОБА на постановление об отказе в возбуждении уголовного дела Translation from Russian

by John Helmer - Thursday, March 4th, 2010
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Picture-1 – see how the price of aluminium metal is rising on the US exchanges

by John Helmer - Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
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By John Helmer in Moscow Mahmoud Thiam, the US investment banker who has served for the past year as Guinea’s Minister of Mining, Energy and Hydraulics, has been reappointed to his post, according to an official government announcement from Conakry, the Guinean capital, late last night.

by John Helmer - Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
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Cutting-edge recognition machines – supplied by the Russian state corporation, Nanotechnologies, courtesy of chief executive Anatoly Chubais – report that one of the largest groups of readers of this site uses the Rusal company server to gain access and read the reports. If to these are counted Rusal’s civil litigation lawyer Bryan Cave and Rusal’s […]

by John Helmer - Sunday, January 24th, 2010
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By John Helmer in Moscow The spokesman for Alrosa, the state-owned Russian diamond miner, Andrei Polyakov, has made a statement this week to reporters that Alrosa is considering spinning off three of its diamond mining units, and selling a minority shareholding in each at an initial public offering (IPO). According to a news agency, Polyakov […]

by John Helmer - Thursday, January 21st, 2010
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by John Helmer - Friday, January 15th, 2010
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