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$3 Approximate annual rental cost for the U.S. ambassador to Russia's residence. The ruble has lost 99.9% of its value since the rent was fixed in 1985
The Best Man For the Job? If ever a company needed saving, it is Yukos. The troubled Russian oil titan, hit by the jailing last year of top shareholders Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev, learned last week that the Kremlin allegedly favors the idea of France's Total taking 25...
MobilCom might have been a great company if it didn't get saved so often. Burdened by debt from its 3G venture, the firm faced insolvency after France Telecom stopped its funding. Then Gerhard Schröder, mindful of the elections and the 5,500 jobs at risk, announced a...
But you can always enjoy the art. As with the first "Dark Knight," Miller does the pictures as well as words. His style has gotten goofier in the intervening years. He mixes traditional superhero tropes like broad shoulders and rippling muscles with absurd caricature elements like giant feet and hands...
Before Russia's 1998 economic crisis, when the ruble collapsed, local oil moguls were certain of their ability to lure Western companies into developing the long-neglected fields. They know better now. "Russia has learned its lesson," says Glenn Waller, head of the Petroleum Advisory Forum, an association of Western...