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The Motley Fool
November 17, 2005
Bill Mann |
International Superstar Stocks: A Cautionary Tale International investors beware -- some countries place corporate power grabs over shareholder rights.   |
The Motley Fool
July 9, 2004
Bill Mann |
YUKOS' Slippery Situation The world's fourth-largest oil company teeters on the brink of bankruptcy. Is it all for governmental revenge? |
The Motley Fool
July 28, 2004
Bill Mann |
YUKOS: From Dismal to Worse The Russian government claims it doesn't want to take down YUKOS, but that's what it's doing. |
BusinessWeek
July 19, 2004 |
Yukos: The Moment Of Reckoning Tax and loan bills for Russia's second-largest oil company are now past due. How will Putin choose to wield his ax? |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
Yukos and the Wild, Wild East: Can Putin Win the Showdown? Wharton faculty and others offer different interpretations of the reasons for Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky's jailing and the potential fallout for Russian businesses and foreign investors. |
The Motley Fool
December 16, 2004
Rich Smith |
Coming to America (to Die) Russia's oil giant Yukos declares bankruptcy here, not there. |
BusinessWeek
July 12, 2004 |
Stepping Up The Pressure On Yukos A Moscow court ruled on June 29 that oil company Yukos must pay $3.4 billion in back taxes and fines. |
The Motley Fool
March 3, 2005
Bill Mann |
Russian Taxes: The Python Squeezes After YUKOS came a slew of tax bills at other Russian companies. Investors ponder: Will equilibrium come soon? |
BusinessWeek
May 30, 2005
Jason Bush |
The Coming Out Of Corporate Russia In Russia, the IPOs are finally flowing, and foreigners are lapping them up. |
BusinessWeek
September 22, 2003
Jason Bush in Moscow |
Russia's Stock Market Is Full of Gas With prices up and fear of Kremlin meddling in business fading, investors are pouring into Russian stocks. Will it last? |
BusinessWeek
December 20, 2004
Jason Bush |
The Bigger Gazprom Grows, the Further Russia Backslides Yugansk, the main production subsidiary of the troubled Russian oil company Yukos, looks almost certain to be acquired by Gazprom, Russia's giant state-dominated gas concern. If the deal goes through, serious market reform is endangered. |
BusinessWeek
September 13, 2004
Jason Bush |
Getting Past Yukos At a time when oil prices are spiking and new fields are scarce, the global oil companies are looking hungrily at Russia despite the Putin vs. Yukos debacle. |
BusinessWeek
November 10, 2003
Jason Bush in Moscow |
Russia: A Big Chill For Business? Putin's move against Khodorkovsky probably won't extend to others. |
BusinessWeek
October 11, 2004
Jason Bush |
The Yank Caught in Yukos' Nightmare The job of rescuing the Russian oil giant has fallen to an American who arrived in Moscow just over a year ago. Now, CEO Steven Theede has a thankless job: Trying to hold the company together. |
The Motley Fool
December 17, 2004
Rich Smith |
YUKOS' Hollow Victory The Russian company wins a legal skirmish. The trick will be to figure out how to legally require a sovereign nation like Russia to agree to international arbitration of an internal (albeit possibly illegal) tax claim against one of its own domestic companies. |
The Motley Fool
July 12, 2004
Rich Smith |
Russian Market in Gulag Investors have been punishing such fine companies as telecoms Mobile Telesystems, VimpelCom, and dairy king Wimm-Bill-Dann for the sins of the oil barons who run Russia's oil and gas sector. |
BusinessWeek
August 16, 2004
Jason Bush |
The Kinks In Russia's Oil Pipeline If Yukos is dismembered, the surviving private companies are bound to think twice before investing. Global oil markets -- and Russia -- would suffer as a result. |
BusinessWeek
May 31, 2004
Kranz & Bush |
When Powers Collide: Putin vs. Khodorkovsky Many in Moscow say the real reason for the Kremlin's attack was the tycoon's campaign last summer to stymie all efforts to raise taxes on the oil industry, which was raking in billions of extra profits as the price of crude rose. |
BusinessWeek
August 2, 2004 |
A New Blow To Investors In Russia Russian oil company Yukos is about to be financially destroyed |
BusinessWeek
October 20, 2003
Jason Bush |
Murky Dealings In Russia's Oil Patch Why is the Kremlin going after giant Yukos just when it may be on the verge of a megadeal with Exxon? |
The Motley Fool
February 10, 2005
Rich Smith |
Russia's Sistema Ain't YUKOS The parent company of the largest Russian cellular provider has a lot going for it as it goes public. So, is it a buy? |
BusinessWeek
March 7, 2005
Jason Bush |
In Russia, The Taxman Cometh -- Again And Again More companies in Russia are getting slammed by back-tax bills. As long as Putin cares more about political control than about Russia's investment climate, businesses will continue to wonder if they could be the next Yukos. |
The Motley Fool
November 22, 2004
Rich Smith |
Death and Taxes in Russia Fateful words. Over the past month, Russia's tax police have been very busy, "discovering" huge arrears in taxes owed for fiscal years 2002 and 2003. Total tax demands on YUKOS now stand at roughly $25 billion. |
BusinessWeek
November 17, 2003 |
Ups And Downs For Russia's Yukos Investors in Russian oil giant Yukos were cheered on Nov. 3, when imprisoned Chief Executive Mikhail Khodorkovsky resigned and news leaked that Simon Kukes, a well-known Russian-American oil man, would take his place. But Yukos' troubles aren't over. |
The Motley Fool
November 29, 2004
Rich Smith |
YUKOS' American Brain Drain The company is in the midst of a full-scale exodus of top officers, including both of YUKOS' American-citizen managers -- the chief financial officer and the chief executive -- despite neither one being under any official indictment. |
The Motley Fool
September 13, 2004
Rich Smith |
Russian Bear Gains Weight Despite a spate of bad news, Russia's economy continues to grow. By buying into some gold-standard U.S. companies, an investor can partake of Russia's growth while considerably limiting the risk of suffering a "YUKOS." |
BusinessWeek
June 14, 2004 |
Yukos' Troubles Hit Russia's Market Russia's stock market has nosedived amid growing fears that Yukos, Russia's largest oil company by market capitalization, is on the brink of bankruptcy. |
The Motley Fool
January 3, 2006
Rich Smith |
Gazprom's Gas Trap Investors beware -- No sooner had Russia emancipated Gazprom's shares than its regulators began seeking to rein the shares back in. |
Geotimes
April 2004
Naomi Lubick |
Russian Oil Rumbles With the recent arrest of a Russian oil "oligarch" and the disruption of a merger between two of the country's largest oil companies, the seeming shift in the Russian government's attitude toward its oil companies may herald future change in how the western oil industry does business there. |
BusinessWeek
July 21, 2003
Jason Bush |
Sizzling Growth Could Singe Russia's Economy Russia's economy has never looked healthier. Growth is spiking upward, inflation is falling, Russia's external trade and government finances are both in surplus, foreign debt is low, and foreign exchange reserves are mushrooming. It almost seems too good to be true. Perhaps it is. |
BusinessWeek
December 15, 2003
Jason Bush |
The Billionaire Who May Bag Yukos As its merger with Sibneft falters, all eyes are on Roman Abramovich. |
The Motley Fool
December 8, 2004
W.D. Crotty |
Vimpel Is No VIP in Russia Russia is trying to collect back taxes from the wireless telecommunications company. |
The Motley Fool
December 31, 2004
Rich Smith |
VimpelCom Calls in the Cavalry Investors in the Russian telecom should be reassured by the nine-fold reduction in their company's tax assessment. It's strong evidence that their company, at least, does have some friends in the Kremlin. |
BusinessWeek
May 2, 2005
Jason Bush |
Mixed Messages From The Kremlin As Putin tries to win back foreign investment, nationalist forces seem to be pushing it away. But foreign investors also know that with Russia, patience can pay off. |
BusinessWeek
December 8, 2003 |
Russian Politics: "No News Is Good News" So says Grigor Yavlinsky, head of the opposition Yabloko Party, about the potential outcome of December's election |
The Motley Fool
May 12, 2009
Ivan Martchev |
Russia Will Always Be Cheap Russia remains a country with a lot of potential unlikely to be completely realized, because of the nature of its political environment. |
The Motley Fool
December 20, 2004
Rich Smith |
YUKOS Cored The Russian oil giant is stripped of a key production asset. It was a heretofore unknown company called BaikalFinansGroup that placed the winning (and only) $9.3 billion bid for Yuganskneftegaz. |
BusinessWeek
March 8, 2004
Jason Bush |
Putin May Be Clearing A Path Toward Change Before Vladimir V. Putin's widely anticipated landslide reelection victory on Mar. 14, he dismissed his entire government on Feb. 24. |
BusinessWeek
October 25, 2004
Jason Bush |
The Great Russian Deal Bazaar Never mind Yukos. As equities soar, bankers flock to Moscow. |
InternetNews
April 15, 2005
Colin C. Haley |
Moscow Mimics Mumbai Russian software firms look to siphon outsourcing business from India by playing up their education system. |
InternetNews
May 31, 2005
Colin C. Haley |
Motorola Gear Expands Russian Carrier's Coverage Motorola's network equipment division has won an $80 million order from Mobile TeleSystems, the latest deal between the mobile equipment maker and Russia's largest wireless provider. |
The Motley Fool
December 23, 2004
Rich Smith |
Russian Shell Game Someone's playing "hide the oil company." Investors in Russia this week can be forgiven for thinking they're playing against the house in a rigged game of chance. Because they are. And it is. |
BusinessWeek
August 4, 2003
Paul Starobin |
Out to Get the Richest Russian? Pro-American energy magnate Mikhail Khodorkovsky of oil giant Yukos is under a fierce legal attack. Why? He offers some answers here. |
Finance & Development
June 1, 2000
Raj Desai & Itzhak Goldberg |
Stakeholders, Governance, and the Russian Enterprise Dilemma Over the past decade, Russia's efforts to achieve economic growth and restructure its economy have been seriously hampered by a dearth of investment and the proliferation of barter and arrears. Given current conditions, how might Russian economic reform efforts best be supported? |
The Motley Fool
June 5, 2007
Zoe Van Schyndel |
Russian Bear or Bull? Russia is an emerging economy which, a decade ago, was nearly bankrupt. A lot has changed since then, but whether the opportunities in the Russian market are outweighed by the risks is a tough decision at this point. |
BusinessWeek
April 23, 2007
Jason Bush |
Business In Russia Just Got Riskier Former Yukos auditor PwC could face criminal charges in a politically tinged case. |
BusinessWeek
April 10, 2006
Jason Bush |
Rosneft: A Deal Both Tempting And Troubling Russian oil giant Rosneft has vast reserves, but its controversial past has investors wary. |
BusinessWeek
October 11, 2004 |
Buying A Piece Of Russia ConocoPhillips bought a 7.59% stake in Russia's biggest oil company, and may up its stake to 20% within two or three years. |
The Motley Fool
August 18, 2008
David Lee Smith |
Is Russia Becoming an Investment Gulag? With all that's occurring in Russia these days, how long will it be before Western investment in that nation grinds to a halt? |
The Motley Fool
October 18, 2004
Rich Smith |
Russia Names Its Price YUKOS provides a real-life example of expropriation by taxation. |
