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By John Helmer in Moscow Russian miners’ union confident of gaining strike demands as Rusal postpones legal action. Striking bauxite miners at the Rusal-owned Severuralsk mine, in central Russia, have called off their occupation of one of the mine shafts, on signs that Rusal is ready to make wage, welfare, and other labour contract concessions. […]

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By John Helmer in Moscow Polyus shareholders give Potanin big win over rival plan to transfer assets. In Harold Pinter’s play, The Birthday Party, a group of seedy characters in a rundown boarding house, at a miserable English seaside town, arrange a birthday celebration for one of their number. But he denies it’s his birthday, […]