Well according to Mr Nostradamus(from my reading) there are a few folk
who really will come to prominence in this decade, one being on the
Sub Continent and the other a neighboring state playing possum, but
really quietly going about ascent.
That country is Russia and Mr V Putin.
But things take time to develope.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3227447.stm
Russia freezes Yukos shares
Mr Putin met key foreign investors in an attempt to allay their
concerns
Russian authorities have frozen 44% of the shares in national oil
giant Yukos, the company has said.
The action came days after the authorities stepped up investigations
into the firm by arresting chief executive Mikhail Khodorkovsky on
fraud and tax evasion charges.
Many Russians believe the case against Mr Khodorkovsky, thought to be
Russia's richest man, is political.
He has funded opposition groups, breaking what analysts say was a
tacit agreement to stay out of politics in return for avoiding
investigation of his financial affairs.
A fair and open court hearing will find the arrest of Mr
Khodorkovsky illegal and all accusations against him groundless
Yukos board of directors
In Thursday's action, prosecutors are thought to have taken effective
control of a stake in Yukos owned by Menatep - a financial vehicle run
by Mr Khodorkovsky and key allies, many of whom are now in prison or
facing investigation.
The freezing means partners in Menatep cannot now sell or undertake
other transactions with the shares although they do still own them and
hold dividend rights.
Yukos confirmed that the stake amounted to 44% of the company.
Stock market fall
Earlier on Thursday, Yukos announced plans for a dividend of $2bn, one
of the largest shareholder payouts in Russian corporate history.
It's a case of sell now, think later - I think the stock will fall
another 10-15%
Steven Dashevsky, analyst at Aton brokerage
Mr Khodorkovsky, who owns 36.6% of Yukos, should receive about $730m.
But the likely bonanza for shareholders did not prevent Yukos shares
dropping a further 12% on Thursday as investors fretted about the
company's future.
"It's a case of sell now, think later. I think the stock will fall
another 10-15% before people start thinking about buying it again,"
said Steven Dashevsky, oil and gas analyst at Aton brokerage.
Russia's RTS stock market index was down 8% while the rouble fell by
10 kopecks against the dollar.
Both the RTS and MICEX indexes are down more than 20% on the week.
Yukos directors issued a statement standing firmly behind Mr
Khodorkovsky.
"The board... declares its full support and belief in the management
of the company and states its certainty that a fair and open court
hearing will find the arrest of Mr Khodorkovsky illegal and all
accusations against him groundless," the statement says.
Anxious
The case against Mr Khodorkovsky has left Mr Putin facing questions
from an anxious business community about the Kremlin's management of
the economy.
Mr Putin met key Russian and foreign investors on Thursday in an
attempt to allay their fears but, according to Russian news agencies,
he also admitted there was little coherence in the government's
regulation policies.
Khodorkovsky is in line for a $730m dividend from his Yukos shares
A top spokesman on tax affairs in the Russian parliament has told the
BBC no Russian company could be squeaky clean under the country's tax
laws of the 1990s, so any business could now face prosecution.
The stamp of state control over shares in the country's biggest oil
company would be an intervention unprecedented since Soviet days.
It is likely to stoke fears that power politics is gaining the upper
hand over economic reform in the run-up to parliamentary elections in
December.
Until now, Mr Putin has been well regarded by investors as a source of
stability and guarantor of economic reform, but Yukos is seen as a
flagship moderniser among Russian corporations.
In his only public comments on the arrest, the Russian president has
insisted that the case against Yukos is a judicial matter and part of
a general fight against corruption.
Murky
Mr Khodorkovsky, through Menatep, was a leading figure among the young
business elite - the so-called "oligarchy" - which gained power and
influence through murky privatisations in the 1990s.
Investigation of those privatisations would leave few of Russia's new
millionaires untouched, analysts say.
The campaign against Yukos was ratcheted up a notch on Wednesday when
prosecutors sought to lift immunity protecting Vasily Shakhnovsky, a
major Yukos shareholder who was recently elected to Russia's upper
house of parliament.
Platon Lebedev, a Menatep partner and major Yukos shareholder, has
been under arrest since July.
In a sign of widening political repercussions from the battle, reports
on Wednesday said Alexander Voloshin, Mr Putin's chief of staff, had
resigned.
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..com.au> wrote in message
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Well according to Mr Nostradamus(from my reading) there are a few folk
who really will come to prominence in this decade, one being on the
Sub Continent and the other a neighboring state playing possum, but
really quietly going about ascent.
That country is Russia and Mr V Putin.
But things take time to develope.
Which quatrain? Or do you make up this ***** as you go along ? Worst
thing you can do is put the prophecies into the hands of a hysterical and
deluded girl.
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31 Oct 2003 04:30:32 AM |
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"DHM" <DHM@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<3Ohob.18501$zH1.318614@weber.videotron.net>...
.com.au> wrote in message
news:39cd5fe.0310301352.d803c40@posting.google.com...
Well according to Mr Nostradamus(from my reading) there are a few folk
who really will come to prominence in this decade, one being on the
Sub Continent and the other a neighboring state playing possum, but
really quietly going about ascent.
That country is Russia and Mr V Putin.
But things take time to develope.
Which quatrain? Or do you make up this ***** as you go along ? Worst
thing you can do is put the prophecies into the hands of a hysterical and
deluded girl.
Perhaps if you spent less time on your eye liner, and more time
reading the work you would not have to be told.
LB
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05 Nov 2003 04:28:45 AM |
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"Leigh_Bee" <leigh8bee@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
news:39cd5fe.0310310230.22482c42@posting.google.com...
"DHM" <DHM@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:<3Ohob.18501$zH1.318614@weber.videotron.net>...
.com.au> wrote in message
news:39cd5fe.0310301352.d803c40@posting.google.com...
Well according to Mr Nostradamus(from my reading) there are a few folk
who really will come to prominence in this decade, one being on the
Sub Continent and the other a neighboring state playing possum, but
really quietly going about ascent.
That country is Russia and Mr V Putin.
But things take time to develope.
Which quatrain? Or do you make up this ***** as you go along ? Worst
thing you can do is put the prophecies into the hands of a hysterical
and
deluded girl.
Perhaps if you spent less time on your eye liner, and more time
reading the work you would not have to be told.
LB
Bah, I crush you incoherent worms...
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| User: "Leigh_Bee" |
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05 Nov 2003 04:37:22 PM |
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"DHM" <DHM@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<zh4qb.78924$Gn2.2047133@weber.videotron.net>...
"Leigh_Bee" <leigh8bee@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
news:39cd5fe.0310310230.22482c42@posting.google.com...
"DHM" <DHM@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:<3Ohob.18501$zH1.318614@weber.videotron.net>...
.com.au> wrote in message
news:39cd5fe.0310301352.d803c40@posting.google.com...
Well according to Mr Nostradamus(from my reading) there are a few folk
who really will come to prominence in this decade, one being on the
Sub Continent and the other a neighboring state playing possum, but
really quietly going about ascent.
That country is Russia and Mr V Putin.
But things take time to develope.
Which quatrain? Or do you make up this ***** as you go along ? Worst
thing you can do is put the prophecies into the hands of a hysterical
and
deluded girl.
Perhaps if you spent less time on your eye liner, and more time
reading the work you would not have to be told.
LB
Bah, I crush you incoherent worms...
Question have you ever read Mr Nostradamus work?
For someone who claims insight we see little of that of that, more
like a graffiti effort.
What are you going crush zygote?
LB
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| User: "Wally Anglesea™" |
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05 Nov 2003 02:26:37 PM |
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On Wed, 5 Nov 2003 05:28:45 -0500, "DHM" <DHM@hotmail.com> wrote:
"Leigh_Bee" <leigh8bee@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
news:39cd5fe.0310310230.22482c42@posting.google.com...
"DHM" <DHM@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:<3Ohob.18501$zH1.318614@weber.videotron.net>...
.com.au> wrote in message
news:39cd5fe.0310301352.d803c40@posting.google.com...
Well according to Mr Nostradamus(from my reading) there are a few folk
who really will come to prominence in this decade, one being on the
Sub Continent and the other a neighboring state playing possum, but
really quietly going about ascent.
That country is Russia and Mr V Putin.
But things take time to develope.
Which quatrain? Or do you make up this ***** as you go along ? Worst
thing you can do is put the prophecies into the hands of a hysterical
and
deluded girl.
Perhaps if you spent less time on your eye liner, and more time
reading the work you would not have to be told.
LB
Bah, I crush you incoherent worms...
DimMy, you really do have an "inadequacy" complex don't you?
You know that you overcompensate by excessive aggressiveness as your
statement above, (as well as your demands to be seen as the only
absolutely right interpreter of Nostradamus, and your rather silly
claim that you "drove away Peter L" shows), which is a classic sign of
a well developed inferiority complex?
Tell me, are you bullied at school?
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"FOR I HAVE BECOME VENGEANCE AND YOU WILL FEEL THE WRATH"
"YOUR DOOM IS WRITTEN IN THE STARS...."
"THE DREADED NAME HAS BEEN REVEALED...YOUR DOOM IS NEAR..."
DM in meltdown mode, February 2003
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| User: "taluga" |
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05 Nov 2003 03:20:13 PM |
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anyone interested in the chicanery going on in russia should read this:
http://www.nypress.com/16/45/news&columns/cage.cfm
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