Tag Archives: Vladimir Putin

The Winter Olympics, just opened in Sochi, Russia, promises to be a laugh – unless a suicide bomber gets through, of course. Chief cause of merriment will be the efforts of pro-gay supporters (who include Google and the UK’s Channel ...

The Independent newspaper, which also publishes a separate Sunday edition, the cut-price 20p i and the London Evening Standard, is cutting a further 27 jobs as it tries to narrow trading losses of £16.6m. The company is owned by the ...

Russia under president Vladimir Putin may be a dangerous place for Pussy Riot band members but big companies from across the spectrum are crossing their fingers and legs and heading for what’s rapidly becoming Europe’s biggest market. BP, whose boss ...

As one of many changes under new CEO Rakesh Kapoor (pictured) who’s also shifting control of the more mature European and North American businesses to a new HQ in Amsterdam, cutting back on traditional advertising in favour of digital and ...

We all knew Alexander Lebedev, owner of the London Evening Standard, the Independent and its cut-down stablemate i used to be a KGB spy at the embassy in London but he told us he was just the economic attache who ...

Some more details have emerged about Italian media magnate and prime minister (mustn’t forget that) Silvio Berlusconi and his antics in the so-called bunga bunga scandal. Milan prosecutors want to charge him with paying for sex with nightclub dancer Karima ...

Nobody really seemed to want Saab when then owner General Motors dumped the brand two years ago. To be honest its prospects didn’t look any rosier when it was eventually bought by Dutch speciality cars maker Spyker. After all, if ...

Yes it’s hardly a household name but Wimm-Bill-Dann controls 30 per cent of the Russian fruit juice and dairy products market, is listed on the New York Stock Exchange and operates in ten countries. And PepsiCo has decided to shell ...

Being a newspaper magnate is never a quiet life as Alexander Lebedev, owner of the Independent and the Evening Standard, knows only too well from his ownership of liberal Moscow title Novaya Gazeta. Four journalists on the paper have been ...