Article: Investors race to buy up shares in anticipation of dividend payouts.

Article: RUSSIA: RUSSIAN GOVT TO EXPAND ITS ROLE IN JOINT ...
IPR Strategic Business Information Database;  May 20, 2002 ;     645 words ... ... expand its role in joint stock companies that have ... He added that the joint stock companies should include ... the 9,000 Russian joint stock companies, and the ... 207.8 million) in dividend payments. -(EMEconomy.com ...

Article: Gut Reaction: Surgutneftegas -- Keeping In With The ...
NEFTE Compass;  September 7, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... generally accepted accounting principle (GAAP) results available to the public. The company is notoriously stingy with dividend payments. But for the Kremlin, Surgut is a cash cow that can be easily tapped for the upcoming presidential elections in 2008 ...

Article: Dividend Payments Surge Despite Fall in Earnings in ...
YON - Yonhap News Agency of Korea;  July 15, 2004 ;     472 words ... ... July 15 (Yonhap) -- Dividend payments by South Korea's listed ... before. However, their dividend payments increased 11.2 percent ... period, with the ratio of dividend payments to profits rising to 21 ...

Article: S. KOREAN DIVIDEND PAYMENTS SURGE DESPITE LOWER ...
AsiaPulse News;  July 15, 2004 ;     694 words ... ... SEOUL, July 15 Asia Pulse - Dividend payments by South Korea's listed ... before. However, their dividend payments increased 11.2 per cent ... period, with the ratio of dividend payments to profits rising to 21 ...

Article: VTB supervisory board to mull 2007 dividend ...
Russia & CIS Business and Financial Newswire;  April 21, 2008 ;     577 words ... ... VTB supervisory board to mull 2007 dividend payments on April 28 MOSCOW. April 21 (Interfax ... Bank (RTS: VTBR) will consider dividend payments for 2007 at a meeting on April 27 ... supervisory board's recommendations for dividend payments at their annual general meeting on ...

Article: Russia's Dalsvyaz ups 2007 dividend payments 15%.
Russia & CIS Business and Financial Newswire;  June 11, 2008 ;     610 words ... ... Russia's Dalsvyaz ups 2007 dividend payments 15% MOSCOW. June 11 ... RTS: ESPK) increased dividend payments for 2007 by 15.1%, a ... preferred shares. Thus, dividend payments for common shares will amount ...

Article: Rosneft mulls significant hike in dividend payments ...
Russia & CIS Business and Financial Newswire;  April 9, 2008 ;     661 words ... ... Rosneft mulls significant hike in dividend payments (Part 2) MOSCOW. April 9 (Interfax ... possibility of a significant hike in dividend payments, Rosneft Vice President Peter O ... provide any specific figures for dividend payments until the board of directors meets ...