The board of directors at General Motors made a surprise decision cancelling the planned sale of Opel, the carmaker's European arm, to Magna, a car-parts supplier, and Sberbank, a big Russian bank.

通用汽车董事局意外取消向汽车部件供应商麦格纳国际以及俄罗斯银行Sberbank销售欧洲子公司欧宝的计划。

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If this can be linked to Turkmenistan, and if Mr Berdymuhammedov can resist Russian arm-twisting, then his country could become a big beneficiary of Russia's strained relations with Ukraine and of the uncertainty bedevilling Afghanistan and the Middle East.

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MFK, the investment-banking arm of a diversified Russian financial and industrial group whose flagship is Uneximbank, Russia's biggest private bank.

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Last December, in a transaction surreal even by Russian standards, Yuganskneftegaz, Yukos's main production arm, was forcibly sold in another rigged auction, to a front company registered at a provincial grocery shop.

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