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  • Vol 49 No 14
  • 04/07/2008

The Russians are coming

Looking for big projects and with plenty of cash, three Russian companies are ready to invest in Zambia's mines

  • Vol 49 No 11
  • 23/05/2008

Nuclear nexus

South African officials visiting Russia on 22-23 May were in damage-control mode. In March, Eskom let it be known that the Russian nuclear reactor builder Atomstroyexport (ASE), would be excluded from competitive tenders for Africa's largest ever nucl...

  • Vol 48 No 12
  • 08/06/2007

RUSSIAN ROULETTE

The shooting dead of a Nigerian driver and kidnapping of six Russians from their compound in Ikot Abasi, Akwa Ibom, looks like an escalation in a complex feud over the aluminium plant where they worked for Russian Aluminium.

  • Vol 48 No 9
  • 27/04/2007

Going nuclear Russian-style

Russia hopes to buy uranium from Africa and sell it generators, as nuclear power comes back into fashion. It has made offers to Angola (AC Vol 48 No 8) - and to Namibia, whose Mines and Energy Permanent Secretary, Joseph Lita, revealed that the cabine...

  • Vol 46 No 8
  • 15/04/2005

Moscow marriages

Russian businessman and director of prestigious British banking consultancy Fleming Family & Partners (FF&P) Mark Garber is developing a reputation as a key marriage broker between Moscow-based oligarchs and South African mining houses.

  • Vol 45 No 23
  • 19/11/2004

Russian roulette

A touted take-over of Gold Fields by Harmony Gold, both major South African companies, looks as though it may be about to fall flat on its face. Harmony is currently tabling a hostile US$7.5 billion bid for Gold Fields which, if successful, would creat...

  • Vol 45 No 15
  • 21/07/2004

The wrong planes

With a deft sense of timing, Russia's MiG aircraft company has announced that is about to complete the supply of 12 MiG-29 Fulcrum fighters to Sudan.

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