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First Video Added to Moscow Times Web Site
The video, a 3 1/2-minute interview with Rose Gottemoeller, director of the Carnegie Moscow Center, examines the informal summit between Presidents Vladimir Putin and George W. Bush in Sochi on April 6. The video can be found on The Moscow Times' homepage, www.themoscowtimes.com.
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Market Matters : Oil and Metals Shine as RTS Breaks 2,100 The RTS, the country's benchmark stock index, breached the 2,100 barrier for the first time this year, as oil and metal stocks pulled away from the field. Russia Investment Roadshow : Scenes From Last Year's Forum
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Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Updated at 22 April 2008 1:51 Moscow Time
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The Moscow Times » Business For Business
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More Opportunities for Russian Issuers in 2008
By Elena Khisamova The positive dynamic of Russian ECM volumes over the past several years is a clear sign that the local market has entered a new phase of its development and become a stable source of long-term capital.
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IPO Trends in Russia
By Marchello Gelashvili and Galina Shilina Despite the global credit crunch, 2007 was still a record-breaking year for IPOs, with 30 listings by CIS and Russian domiciled companies generating $34 billion. Investors continued to focus on large deals, with a median deal size of $614.2 million.
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DD for IPO
By A.S. Yermolenko The first of the abbreviations used in this headline was established in business vocabulary long ago. The procedure it denotes is popular in economic practice. The very phrase ""due diligence"" -- literally, ""due care"" or ""due attention"" -- is used to denote the overall audit of company activity, as well as separate audits of other components of business: legal, tax, financial, construction or corporate due diligence. In most cases, such an audit is conducted by the investor at the purchase of someone's business or when making a decision regarding participation in someone's business.
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Russian IPO/SPO Market -- Key Trends and Outlook
By Igor Katusha Negative trends in the international financial markets and fear of global recession caused by events in the U.S. mortgage credit market has created negative conditions for placements made in 2007. Despite complex market conditions, 2007 saw a record Russian IPOs and SPOs. The total volume of IPOs and SPOs by 28 Russian companies reached $31 billion, including 22 IPOs totaling $21 billion, twice as much as in 2006.
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IPOs in Russia: Where and How Are They Offered?
By Vladislav Kvetinsky Since 2003, the subject of IPOs has become unusually popular among business media, which have sometimes formed euphoric notions among Russian business managers and owners about this method of capital procurement, as if it is a magic wand capable making a business and its owners rich in a moment.
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Transfer-Pricing Legislation -- When Will It Be Amended?
By Henrik Hansen Transfer-pricing reform has been on the government's agenda for the past few years, and a number of bills have been presented to the public. One even made it to the State Duma. Despite this, no amendments have yet been made to the existing rules in Articles 20 and 40 of the Tax Code.
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Thin Cap -- Still an Issue?
By co-head of Russian tax practice, Partner and Evgeny Timofeev / Salans As most countries do, Russia protects its right to tax in a variety of ways. One of them is designed to fight erosion of the tax base of Russian entities by paying excessive amounts of interest to related parties.
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Tax Blackmail Through the Use of the Taxpayer's Personal Account Card
By Head of Group of Tax Dispute and Galina Akchurina / FBK-Legal All companies are registered with the tax authorities by means of special cards called taxpayer's personal account cards that keep payment records. They usually contain information about the taxpayer's settlements with the budget and the current tax due.
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Innovations in Land Law on Acquisition of Rights to State and Municipal Land
By Inga Shakhnazarova, / Associate, Salans On Oct. 30, 2007, the new Federal Law No. 212-FZ came into force amending the Federal Law on the Introduction of the Land Code of the Russian Federation, or Introduction Law, and the RF Land Code in regard of the procedure for acquiring rights to state and municipal land.
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