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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
July 25, 2005
Jason Bush |
What's Holding Back A Flood Of Russian Oil If Russia is pumping so much crude, why does oil cost $60 a barrel? One reason is that Russia's oil boom has been followed by a dramatic crunch. |
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 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? |
BusinessWeek
November 24, 2003
Jason Bush |
Commentary: Can Putin Contain The Fallout? Despite the Yukos crackdown, Russian President Vladimir Putin is struggling to keep economic reform on track. |
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
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
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 8, 2003
Jason Bush |
Russia: Why Business Is Rushing Into Politics Although Russian tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky landed in jail on charges of tax evasion, many observers suspect Putin really wanted to curb the billionaire's growing political influence. Khodorkovsky, after all, was financing the Kremlin's opposition. More businessmen are vying to become Duma deputies than ever. |
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
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. |
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
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. |
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. |
BusinessWeek
May 16, 2005
Jason Bush |
Russia: The Curse Of $50 A Barrel Why steep oil prices could prove catastrophic for the country's economy. |
| 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. |
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
June 20, 2005
Jason Bush |
The Curse Of $50 A Barrel Why steep oil prices may prove catastrophic for Russia's economy. |
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
December 15, 2003
Jason Bush |
The Billionaire Who May Bag Yukos As its merger with Sibneft falters, all eyes are on Roman Abramovich. |
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
February 28, 2005
J. Bush & W. Zellner |
Russia: So Much For The Oil Giants' Next Frontier For global oil companies desperate to replace their dwindling reserves, Russia is increasingly tipped as the next frontier. |
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? |
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? |
BusinessWeek
September 27, 2004
Jason Bush |
Putin's Russia: Is the Economy Next? There's no doubt the Russian President is trying to centralize all political power inside the Kremlin. Experts fear that he also may clamp down on free-market reforms. |
BusinessWeek
May 31, 2004
Kranz & Bush |
Putin's Game Westerners think the Russian President is turning back the clock to its Soviet past. The reality is much more complicated. |
BusinessWeek
October 3, 2005
Jason Bush |
Russia: Spreading The Oil Wealth Putin is vastly boosting social spending. Will that sidetrack economic reform? |
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 |
BusinessWeek
December 6, 2004
Jason Bush |
From Black Hole To Blue Chip Russia boasts investment-grade ratings six years after a $40 billion debt default |
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. |
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. |
BusinessWeek
November 21, 2005
Jason Bush |
A Renegade Looks Beyond Siberia Former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky is up for parole in Siberia in 2007, but his release is unlikely with Putin in power. |
BusinessWeek
December 18, 2006
Jason Bush |
Russia: How Long Can The Fun Last? In Russia, consumers are flush and foreign investment is up. Then there's the government interference - and corruption. |
BusinessWeek
October 27, 2003
Stanley Reed |
Commentary: The Other Saudi Arabia? Russia is fast reemerging as the oil power to challenge OPEC. |
BusinessWeek
March 21, 2005
Jason Bush |
Cracks In The Kremlin A messy battle over the control of oil assets is the latest sign that Putin's administration is in disarray. |
BusinessWeek
August 4, 2003
Paul Starobin |
Russia Five years after the great ruble crash, the economy is booming. But how much is Russia really changing? |
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. |
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
August 2, 2004 |
A New Blow To Investors In Russia Russian oil company Yukos is about to be financially destroyed |
BusinessWeek
February 28, 2005
Jason Bush |
Deciphering Putin Autocrat? Democrat? The truth is more complex |
BusinessWeek
October 27, 2003
Stanley Reed |
The Oil Lord With a bold deal in Russia, BP's John Browne is once again changing the industry. |
BusinessWeek
June 16, 2011
Arkhipov & Meyer |
Khodorkovsky's Jailhouse Interview The imprisoned oligarch says that 10 percent GDP growth for Russia is impossible unless oil sells at $200 a barrel. |
BusinessWeek
October 2, 2006
Reed & Bush |
A Gusher For Big Oil Is Drying Up It's a new world for oil companies. Western giants used to have easy pickings in Russia. Now Moscow is taking a harder line. |
BusinessWeek
December 13, 2004 |
The Unraveling of Putin's Power The massing of thousands of Ukrainians to protest the rigged election of Putin-backed candidate Viktor Yanukovych as their next leader has dealt a telling blow in Moscow. |
The Motley Fool
July 1, 2005
Rich Smith |
Russia's Taxing Quarter It looks like 29% of revenues go directly to the state treasury before pre-tax profits are even calculated. While that may not make Lukoil or its investors very happy, it makes Russian oil analysts' jobs a whole lot easier. |
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
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. |
BusinessWeek
November 22, 2004
Jason Bush |
Oil: What's Russia Really Sitting On? As more Russian oil becomes recoverable, reserve estimates are skyrocketing. Recently revised estimates pushed its total proven oil reserves to 69.1 billion barrels, up from 45 billion bbl. in 2001. And that may just scratch the surface of its real potential. |
BusinessWeek
April 30, 2007
Jason Bush |
The Kremlin's Big Squeeze A BP venture is the latest target as Moscow muscles in on producers. |
BusinessWeek
October 25, 2004
Jason Bush |
The Great Russian Deal Bazaar Never mind Yukos. As equities soar, bankers flock to Moscow. |
