Mass Media Overview

http://www.platts.com/ by Hector Forster

London (Platts)-22Aug2008
Russian steelmaker Severstal said Friday it had agreed to buy US coking coal producer PBS Coals in an all-cash offer for $1.3 billion, following similar US mining acquisitions by larger rival ArcelorMittal.

http://www.severstalna.com

MOSCOW, Russia - August 5, 2008: OAO Severstal, one of the world's leading metals and mining companies, today announced that it has completed its acquisition of Esmark Incorporated, a manufacturer and distributor of flat rolled and other steel products. The acquisition was completed pursuant to the merger of Severstal Wheeling Acquisition Corp., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Severstal, with and into Esmark. Esmark, as the surviving corporation in the merger, is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of Severstal and has been renamed "Severstal Wheeling Holding Company".

http://www.severstalna.com

MOSCOW, Russia - July 7, 2008: OAO Severstal ("the Company"), one of the world's leading metals and mining companies, today completed its previously announced acquisition of WCI Steel, a market leader in the production of value-added steel products based in Warren, Ohio. WCI Steel will be known as Severstal Warren, Inc.

http://english.ruvr.ru/
By Lyubov Tsarevskaya
Jul 6, 2007

The Museum of Lacework in Vologda can well be called a museum of beauty. On display are all sorts of the centuries-old handicraft – table napkins, tablecloths, cloaks, capes and collars, which continue to gladden the eye and fill people’s lives with comforting grace.

http://www.sdc-seco.ru/en/
Project Background
The current programme was launched in 1997. Since then the Swiss Cooperation Office has worked closely with the Ministry of Justice and other affiliated institutions in elaborating and implementing training programmes for social workers employed in the Russian prison system.

http://www.tui-group.com/ London/Hanover, 10 April 2008
S-Group Capital Management Limited, Cyprus ("S Group") and TUI Travel PLC ("TUI Travel") announce that they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding ("MOU") to jointly develop TUI Travel's Russian and CIS leisure tourism presence.

International Herald Tribune/ http://iht.com/ March 21, 2008
BALTIMORE: A Russian company run by one of the world's richest men announced Friday that it will buy the Sparrows Point steel mill from a rival billionaire for hundreds of millions of dollars less than once sought.

Russian Life/ July 1997/ by William C. Brumfield, Professor of Slavic Studies at Tulane University

Veliky Ustyug, located in the northeastern corner of Vologda oblast, is one of those provincial Russian towns that seem in some ways miraculously untouched by time.

Russian Life/ November 1997/ by William C. Brumfield, Professor of Slavic Studies at Tulane University

Hidden in a lightly populated expanse between Vologda and Veliky Ustyug, along the peaceful Sukhona river, is Totma, an 860-year-old architectural marvel.

St. Louis Business Journal/ Feb 3, 1997/ by Robert Archibald, president of the Missouri Historical Society

In the northern Russian city of Vologda, a building that was within recent memory a car repair shop is becoming a public museum on the diplomatic corps. Alexander Bykov, professor of history and director of this emerging history center, visited St.Louis last month to investigate a St.Louisan who had important connections with Bykov's native city of Vologda.