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...industry, especially steel or autos. In the Urals town of Magnitogorsk, a gigantic steelworks has placed 3,000 workers on forced leave. In Novolipetsk, to the east of Lyudinovo, thousands more have been furloughed since Nov. 14, when the steel factory idled two of its blast furnaces. Alexei Mordashov, one of Russia's best known oligarchs, has shelved an $8 billion investment program at his Severstal metals company that was scheduled for 2009-2011. The government now estimates that companies will lay off about 200,000 workers over December and January, but that's probably an understatement. Yevgeny Gontmakher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia's Big Chill | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

...Because a formal takeover document needed to be acceptable to regulators in five different countries, it took four months to put the paperwork together. That allowed Arcelor time to rally shareholders in its defense. But then Dollé made an egregious error: he arranged for a Russian oligarch, Alexei Mordashov, to take a 30%-plus stake in Arcelor. "The day we received that news, we felt it was over for us," Mittal recalls. "The whole team was disappointed and somber." But when they looked at the Russian deal more closely, Mittal and his advisers realized that Arcelor was essentially giving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Man Of Mettle | 12/16/2006 | See Source »

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