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A spokesman for Lord Mandelson said 'The idea that one individual can influence EU decision-making is laughable' enlarge Lord Mandelson was under pressure yesterday when it emerged that his close friendship with one of Russia's richest men the oligarch Oleg Deripaska has prompted accusations of a conflict of interest.

Page 1 of 2 Rusal's crossroads - Russia, Libya or China By John Helmer MOSCOW - Confucius says, why buy a treasure from a man if you can wait for him to lose it? The turmoil now affecting Oleg Deripaska's United Company Rusal, a world leader in bauxite, alumina and aluminum and which must now wait until the end of this week for a decision on a ...

Kudrin speaking during a Vedomosti financial forum Wednesday in Moscow. Vneshekonombank will buy a 3 percent stake in United Company RusAl's upcoming IPO and plans to remain a shareholder in the company for at least three years, Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin, who sits on the state bank's supervisory board, said Wednesday.

Deripaska held on to a single share of Strabag, with the option to buy back the full 28.5 million shares on Dec.

Russian Billionaire Oleg Deripaska , whose United Co. Rusal is seeking to restructure more than $14 billion of debt, is in talks with potential investors in his construction, airport and financial-services businesses.

The deadline for RusAl to agree with more than 70 banks on restructuring $16.8 billion of debt is Nov.

Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska, who controls UC Rusal, the world's largest aluminium company, said a Hong Kong director would be appointed to the board of Rusal ahead of its initial public offering in the city, which is expected next month.

The world's largest aluminum maker plans to sell a 10 percent stake to help repay more than $14 billion of debt, and it is focusing on courting Chinese state-owned companies.

Russia's government would consider any offer from Renault to increase its 25 percent stake in carmaker AvtoVAZ, Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov said on Tuesday.

Goldman Sachs has dropped out of its role as adviser to United Company Rusal, and has been replaced by Bank of America Merrill Lynch to help them navigate the IPO waters.

Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska has told the BBC he is considering breaking his connection with Britain.

Wall Street firms are in a quandary about getting involved with a planned public offering of Russian aluminum producer UC RUSAL because its founder has been barred from getting a U.S. visa on account of allegations that he is connected to organized crime, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday.

NOT long after Oleg Deripaska was named Russia's richest man for 2008, his company's Australian chairman wrote to the Department of Climate Change in Canberra with a dire warning: the oligarch's considerable investment in Australia was being threatened by the plan being advanced by the Rudd Government to tackle global warming.

German Opel employees demonstrate outside the company's headquarters in Ruesselsheim.

Forget the slick Hollywood version, the one that oozes high-speed car chases, technobrilliance, secretive, state-of-the-art corporations out for world domination.

Good for Oleg Deripaska, the Russian aluminium magnate who became embroiled in the notorious George Osborne-Nat Rothschild-Peter Mandelson fundraising social snafu while on holiday in Corfu in 2008.

Deputy chief executive Andrei Yelinson said most of BasEl's units began generating profits in July thanks to cost reductions and job cuts and that he hoped to restructure the group's multibillion-dollar debt by the end of 2009.

ERIC REGULY ROME - Published on Saturday, Oct. 31, 2009 12:00AM EDT Last updated on Saturday, Oct.

Close See a sample reprint in PDF format. Order a reprint of this article now EUROPE NEWS OCTOBER 30, 2009 By EVAN PEREZ and GREGORY L. WHITE One of Russia's most powerful tycoons -- barred entry to the U.S. for years due to U.S. government concerns about possible ties to organized crime -- visited the country twice this year under secret ...

Russian tycoon Oleg Deripaska visited the United States twice this year, his spokesman said on Friday, but declined to say if he solved a visa row with the United States which had long irked top Russian officials.