15 September 1997 V ladimir Potanin has rocked Russia’s boat. In late July, the 37-year-old chief of one of Russia’s largest financial-industrial empires ignited an unprecedented war of words within Russia’s major media outlets when his Oneksimbank (in alliance with Germany’s Deutsche Bank AG and George Soros’s Quantum Fund) won a 25 percent stake in Svyaz-invest, the Russian telecommunica-tions monopoly, […]

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