• 13 Oct 2009 at 11:22 AM

Hermitage’s Russian Adventures

By Greg Michaels

With some forecasts placing crude oil back in the triple digits next year, investors betting on commodity dependent Russia look set to cash in over the medium term. That is unless you’re Hermitage Capital Management and after setting up shop in Moscow in 1996 to focus on the Russian equity market, you’ve allegedly been victimized by some of the alternative methods Russian authorities utilize to the degree where nothing short of a public plea for justice will do. In which case you put together a 10 minute YouTube clip worthy of a Bourne sequel. Like this one.

Comments (15)

  1. 1
    Posted by guest | October 13, 2009 at 11:28 AM

    Pashle ve fse nahui Americantse
    -Russian quant

  2. 2
    Posted by guest | October 13, 2009 at 11:31 AM

    Hey, YimYam and ClickClack, get your gook asses off my lawn.

  3. 3
    Posted by guest | October 13, 2009 at 11:36 AM

    Greg, you suck.
    here endeth the lesson.

  4. 4
    Posted by Clint Eastward | October 13, 2009 at 11:37 AM

    Can we start a dead pool? I have Bill Browder!

  5. 5
    Posted by guest | October 13, 2009 at 11:43 AM

    @1 FTW!

  6. 6
    Posted by guest | October 13, 2009 at 11:48 AM

    USA 4, USSR 3

  7. 7
    Posted by guest | October 13, 2009 at 11:49 AM

    translation por favor. Google translate doesn’t work on it.

  8. 8
    Posted by guest | October 13, 2009 at 12:00 PM

    In a badly misspelled Russian transcription, #1 tried to say “Americans, go fuck yourselves”. Is someone posing as Misha Malyshev?

  9. 9
    Posted by guest | October 13, 2009 at 12:05 PM

    Another incomprehensible post by the Blanus known as Greg

  10. 10
    Posted by guest | October 13, 2009 at 12:11 PM

    @8, then wouldn’t that be:
    ‘Идет секс себя, американско’?
    /no idea whether babelfish got that right

  11. 11
    Posted by guest | October 13, 2009 at 12:16 PM

    USA 4 CCCP 3

  12. 12
    Posted by guest | October 13, 2009 at 12:16 PM

    @10 babelfish got that one wrong

  13. 13
    Posted by IA | October 13, 2009 at 2:10 PM

    What was up with the production values in that video? It looked like an over-stylized episode of Unsolved Mysteries or something.

  14. 14
    Posted by guest | October 13, 2009 at 3:23 PM

    I did have not Russian letters available on my blackberry, and #5 and #8 are correct. #10 you are completely incorrect and thus I am to assume you are Greg or related somehow to Greg.
    -#1

  15. 15
    Posted by guest | October 13, 2009 at 5:33 PM

    russians got style…

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