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Vol 49 No 14
4th July 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
23rd May 2008

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 nuclear ...

Vol 48 No 12
8th June 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
27th April 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 cabinet ha...

Vol 46 No 8
15th April 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
19th November 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 create t...

Vol 45 No 15
21st July 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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