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Gold Rises on Strong Euro
6 Jule 2010
The Wall Street Journal
Spot gold is trading slightly higher early Tuesday, tracking a stronger euro, but analysts predict there may be further consolidation ahead as investors pare their stale longs.

RusAl, Guinea Strike Deal
15 June 2010
The Moscow Times
United Company RusAl said Tuesday that it had agreed on a “strategic partnership” with Guinea and will maintain bauxite and alumina output, a year after the country ordered the company to return some assets.

Prokhorov’s RBC Purchase
7 May 2010
The Moscow Times
Billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov will complete the purchase of a 51 percent stake in RBC Information Systems by June

Gold May Breach $1,300/Oz In Last Stage Of Bull Rally
14 April 2010
The Wall Street Journal
Gold prices may rise above $1,300 a troy ounce in the next two years as it nears the end of its multi-year bull market.

RenCap to focus on Africa
22 February 2010
Financial Times
Renaissance Capital, the Russian investment bank that nearly collapsed during the financial crisis, is launching an operation in Johannesburg as it looks to leverage a pan-African franchise to build one of the world’s leading emerging markets banks.

Billionaire Prokhorov Wins Putin Backing for ‘High-Tech’ Car
20 January 2010
Bloomberg
Mikhail Prokhorov, Russia’s richest man, won backing from Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to develop a new “high-tech,” low-cost car for city use.

Rusal’s Hong Kong IPO Said to Be Fully Subscribed
19 January 2010
Bloomberg

United Co. Rusal, seeking to raise as much as HK$20.1 billion ($2.6 billion) selling shares in Hong Kong, won pledges from investors equal to all the stock it’s offering, said two people familiar with the matter.

Rusal Sets IPO Range, Valuation Exceeds Alcoa, Vedomosti Says
28 December 2009
Bloomberg

United Co. Rusal, Oleg Deripaska’s aluminum maker, will seek to sell shares at a price that values the company at between $16 billion to $22 billion, Vedomosti said, citing unidentifed people familiar with the matter.

Billionaire Eyes Heating Reform
12 October 2009
The Moscow Times
The government should set long-term prices for heat producers and use money earmarked for new power stations to modernize the country’s inefficient grid system.

From Solar Energy to LEDs: Yale Scientists Tackle Energy Problems in Five New Energy Research Frontier Centers
25 September 2009
HealthNewsDigest.com
Yale University chemists and engineers will be part of five new federally-funded Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs) that are seeking novel ways to tackle the growing energy crisis. Funding for the centers begins this month.

Renaissance boss moves into 'post-crisis' mode
25 August 2009
Wealth Bulletin
The co-founder of Renaissance Capital has attempted to draw a line under a dramatic year for the Russian investment bank in which it was forced to seek an emergency $500m (€349m) investment and lay off hundreds of staff as the country’s markets were battered over the past year.

From Gulags to key Russian gold mining area
14 August 2009
Mineweb
Only South Africa holds more gold than Russia, but Moscow's fragmented industry has struggled to access vast reserves in its inhospitable Far East.

Xstrata Offer May Spur Scramble for Last Mining ‘Chess Pieces’
29 June 2009
Bloomberg
The Xstrata merger is the largest proposed transaction since BHP Billiton Ltd., the industry’s biggest company, abandoned its hostile bid for Rio Tinto Group in November 2008. Analysts and investors say Brazil’s Vale SA, the biggest iron ore producer, and state-owned Aluminum Corp. of China may also consider acquisitions.

The print media: Plunge in advertising decimates newspapers
14 April 2009
The Financial Times
As newspapers around the US and Europe, hard hit by the internet, put the finishing touches to their own obituaries, a different fate has struck those in Russia.

Mining Giant May Be Hard Sell In Recession
25 February 2009
The Moscow Times
Russia's metals elite, with debts in the billions of dollars, will have trouble convincing the state to join them in forming a national mining champion when the government has to plug holes in a budget deficit.

Russia's metals
22 January 2009
Financial Times
The creation of a partly state-owned Russian metals and mining "champion" edges towards reality . President Dmitry Medvedev summoned oligarchs last week to discuss solutions to Russia's metals crisis.

Gold prices post modest advance
22 December 2008
AP
Gold prices advanced moderately Monday as investors went in search of safety after more signs of weakening global demand for all kinds of products.

Stake on nanotech could help Russia overcome crisis - deputy PM
6 December 2008
RIA Novosti
Russia's stake on nanotechnologies will help faster overcome the consequences of the global financial crisis and bring production to a new level, a Russian deputy premier said.

Moscow Real Estate Overvalued
27 October 2008
Kommersant
Many expect the Moscow real estate market to shift in favor of the buyer, and prices on apartments to fall, due to the financial crisis. A number of real estate agencies report rising supply on the market since the beginning of the month. Experts say that is the result of a selloff of investment properties.

Russia Has Enough Uranium for 60yr
26 September 2008
Kommersant
Russia’s nuclear industry has enough uranium reserves for 60 years ahead, even with taking into account the new nuclear plants that haven’t been constructed yet, said a top-ranked source with Russia’s state corporation Rosatom.

Looking For Energy, Google Goes To Hell
19 August 2008
Forbes.com
Google announced it would try to help spur companies to reach underground to produce clean electricity.

Looking ahead to tiny technology
15 August 2008
BBC News
Marc Cieslak travels to Zurich in Switzerland to discover some of the ambitions scientists have for the world's tiniest technology.

Russia & U.S. unite over nanotechnology
19 Jule 2008
Russia Today
Russia and the U.S. have agreed to their first joint steps in nanotech co-operation. Some experts say nanotechnology is set to become one of the most important industries of the century.

Hydrogen economy sustainable in 15 years
17 Jule 2008
Science News
With substantial investments, hydrogen could become a competitive fuel within 15 years, but the fastest way to reduce carbon emissions from vehicles will be to pursue a wider “portfolio” of new technologies, a panel of experts asserts.

Tiny science tests Russia's hi-tech ambitions
14 June 2008
Agence France Presse
In the world's largest country, tiny objects measured in billionths of a metre are the future of the economy. Scientists across Russia are setting their minds to new inventions to net some of the billions of state dollars being poured into the field of nanotechnology.

Fuel cells: way of the future
14 May 2008
Leader-Post
While many think the fuel cell is a modern invention, the first one was actually built in 1839. Sir William Grove recognized that running electricity through water split it into its two constituent parts: hydrogen and oxygen.

A wind of change blows through alternative energy
28 April 2008
CityWire
Growing concerns over climate change and global warming, and prices of gas and oil hurting economies globally, alternative energy sources are becoming increasingly more economically valuable.

Opinion: Reinventing Energy
25 April 2008
The Moscow Times
For developing countries to continue to enjoy rapid economic growth and for rich countries to avoid a slump, it will be necessary to develop new energy technologies.

Tussle for control in prospect at Norilsk Nickel
21 February 2008
Financial Times
A tussle for control of Norilsk Nickel could be in prospect after Alisher Usmanov proposed a merger with his metals group to create a metals and mining giant that analysts valued at $70b billion.

Markets in a Holding Pattern
21 February 2008
Moscow News
The future of the stock market situation in Russia will largely depend on changes in the fuel and energy markets.

Address to Members of the Expert Advisory Council on Nanotechnologies
24 January 2008

President of the ONEXIM Group, Mikhail Prokhorov, welcomes members to the first meeting of the Group's Expert Council on Nanotechnologies. You are all gathered here to lay the foundation for the wide-ranging effort to tap the immense potential which has been accumulated by researchers, scientists and scholars in Russia and abroad and which holds the best promise for future success.

Investing in Nanotechnology
23 January 2008
NanoWerk
ONEXIM Group proposes to build a nanotechnology research and technology center in Moscow.

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's carbon nanotube manufacturing technology wins Nano 50 Award
14 November 2007
Physorg
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. announced that its method for manufacturing high-quality carbon nanotubes (CNT) has been named a winner in the third annual Nanotech Briefs Nano 50 awards in the Technology category.