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By John Helmer in Moscow The war over Norilsk Nickel’s shares to trigger owners’ battle on Friday. “Let the man who seeks revenge,” the old Chinese proverb warns, “remember to dig two graves.” For months now, Russia’s most valuable mining asset, Norilsk Nickel, has been the object of a bitter personal war between the two […]

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By John Helmer in Moscow Putin’s endorsement of Medvedev, and vice versa, leaves mining policy issues up in the air. President Vladimir Putin did his best to make the selection of Dmitry Medvedev, 42, his former chief of staff and St. Petersburg lawyer, as natural an endorsement as he could of the capabilities of a […]