Privatization

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Hearing set for AFK Sistema’s $1.4 bln suit over Bashneft stock

The Moscow Commercial Court is set to hear on February 16 arguments in a lawsuit brought by AFK Sistema that is seeking $1.4 billion in damages from Ural-Invest over forfeiture of Bashneft stock.

12:07 02.02.2015

Suspect in Bashneft case Levon Airapetyan appeals house arrest

Businessman Levon Airapetyan, who stands charged with embezzlement and money laundering in Bashneft case, has appealed the extension of his house arrest.

16:57 18.12.2014

Prime Minister Medvedev approves partial privatization of Rosneft

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has signed a directive to withhold 19.5 percent of Rosneft shares for privatization, the government said on its website on Monday.

11:40 01.12.2014

AFK Sistema won't appeal against Bashneft stock forfeiture

AFK Sistema has announced on Thursday that it won't appeal against the court ruling ordering the company to forfeit Bashneft stock.

13:35 13.11.2014

Chubais’ alleged CIA connections exposed by anonymous source

The CIA officers operated as consultants to Anatoly Chubais, the Russian deputy prime minister who oversaw the privatization of the country’s economy in the early 1990's, President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday. Those officers have been identified as Andrei Shleifer and Jonathan Hay, privatization consultants for the Russian government at the time, an anonymous source who also worked with Chubais revealed to RIA Novosti.

17:54 25.04.2013

Prosecutors demand privatization of Moscow metro station to be invalidated

The prosecutor's office has asked Head of the Moscow Department of Land Resources Vladimir Yefimov to file a lawsuit to invalidate the illegal privatization of part of Varshavskaya metro station's hall, the Prosecutor General's Office said.

14:26 04.04.2013

Russia does not consider option of private prisons - official

Russia does not yet plan to establish private prisons, Federal Penitentiary Service Deputy Director Nikolai Kolesnik told reporters on Wednesday.

15:35 13.03.2013

Only courts to establish crimes during 1990s privatization

Former Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin thinks that the results of the privatization of the 1990s just cannot be revised and crimes can only be established in court.

11:51 20.02.2012