Mar 13, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News
Moscow Times 12 March 2013 The Economic Development Ministry has proposed selling at least a 50 percent government stake in telecommunications firm Rostelecom after its merger with Svyazinvest is completed, a news report said Tuesday. The proposal was stated in a...
Mar 13, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News
Reuters) – Russia’s most popular search engine Yandex NV said on Tuesday its existing shareholders, including co-founder and CEO Arkady Volozh, will sell about 7.4 percent of the company’s shares worth roughly $600 million. Yandex said a total of...
Mar 13, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News
Moscow Times 12 March 2012 Spartak Moscow’s billionaire owner, Leonid Fedun, plans to float the soccer team’s shares on the stock market to recoup some of the huge sums of money he has plowed into the Russian Premier League side. “My dream is to make...
Mar 13, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News
JOHANNESBURG/MOSCOW, March 12 (Reuters) – South African media and e-commerce firm Naspers Ltd bought an 18.6 percent stake in Russian internet rival Avito Holdings with an agreed merger of their local classified businesses and $50 million in cash. Naspers...
Mar 6, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News
March 1 Ria Novosti Shareholders of Siberian Agrarian Holding (SAHO) have agreed to sell 100% of the company’s shares to “Biznis Otsenkiya”, a company controlled by Leonid Mayevskiy. As a result, IFC “Metropol”, which began working with...
Feb 27, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News
Moscow Times The domestic commercial property market received a massive cash injection with the sale of one of Moscow’s largest shopping centers, Metropolis, to Morgan Stanley’s real estate investment unit for a record $1.2 billion. Morgan Stanley Real...
