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Oil & gas industry, banking, telecom, and investments in the privatization of Russia [10] 7: 161 Alisher Usmanov: Russia: 71 11.5 –US$6.9B: Steel, telecom, and investments in the privatization of Russia [11] 8: 173 Gennady Timchenko: Russia Finland Armenia: 72 11.3 –US$10.7B: Oil & gas industry and investments in the privatization of Russia ...
Russian destroyer Marshal Shaposhnikov A Royal Australian Air Force AP-3C Orion responded to the MV Moscow University distress signal on the 5 May, and was able to locate the tanker, dead in the water, with three small skiffs alongside - indicating a Somali pirate hijacking.
When Vladimir Putin came to power in 2000, the outside world viewed those Russians known as “oligarchs” as men who whose vast wealth, ruthlessly amassed, made them almost shadow rulers. The ...
The sanctioning of so-called oligarchs — wealthy Russians with strong political connections — comes as the U.S. and the West attempt to impose "maximum pain" on Russia to penalize it for its ...
Hunting in Russia has an old tradition in terms of indigenous people, while the original features of state and princely economy were farming and cattle-breeding. There was hunting for food as well as sport. The word "hunting" ("охота", okhota) first appeared in the common Russian language at the end of the 15th century. [1]
The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency has released a slickly produced Russian-language video to try to persuade Russian intelligence employees to switch sides and work as double agents for Washington.
Russia: A leader of a gang of river pirates, along the Don River region, of Russia and later, led an expedition, in the Russian conquest of Siberia, in the reign of Tsar Ivan the Terrible. Kristoffer Trondson: c. 1500–1565: c. 1535–1542: Norway: A Norwegian nobleman-turned pirate and privateer. Operated in the North Sea and the Baltic Sea ...
But the 48-year-old entrepreneur, a long-time critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, said he has just unexpectedly had one of his Swiss bank accounts frozen. Sanctioned or not, Russians ...