Feb 26, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News
Feb 25 (Reuters) – Russia’s Acron , one of Europe’s top 10 mineral fertiliser producers, may sell up to 20 percent of existing or new shares to investors as soon as market conditions allow, its main owner Viatcheslav Kantor said. “We are ready...
Feb 25, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News
MOSCOW/LONDON, Feb 22 (Reuters) – Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov has sold his stake in London-listed gold miner Polyus Gold to two Russian buyers for $3.6 billion after approval from British regulators. The sale marks the end of an era for Prokhorov, an...
Feb 1, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News
Since the beginning of 2013, the Microsoft Seed Fund has provided a total of $110,000 in grants to two startups from Russia’s regions. A $50,000 grant went to RealSpeaker, a startup from Kazan, Tatarstan, which offers a new approach to speech recognition. The company...
Jan 29, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News
Rambler-Afisha, an Internet group owned by Russian tycoon Vladimir Potanin’s ProfMedia holding, is seeking to attract an investor in Begun, a context advertising company which it fully acquired just months ago. In an >exchange with the Russian business daily...
Jan 24, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News
East-West Digital News 23 Jan 2013 Qiwi, a leading operator of cash payment terminals and electronic wallets operating in Russia and internationally, intends to invest in startups whose solutions could help the group develop its own offers. ‘Qiwi Venture’ will stand...
Jan 3, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, Deals
Acquire Russia’s leading bread retailer with its strong, difficult to replicate distribution platform Founded in 1998, the Company operates a network of more than 350 bakery ovens that are located in stores in many of the major Russian retail chains including Auchan,...
