from a different perspective

- 4 hour time difference between Sydney and Chelyabinsk

- Prelimary hearing today (25 April 2012)

- Going beofre Judge N.A Bulavintseva

- Among local lawyers Judge Bulavintseva enjoys a solid reputation, and there are no known controversies associated with her prior cases)

- The source also acknowledges that in the Chelyabinsk jurisdiction “MMK is a large company, so it has an impact on the judicial system.” At the level of the governor and the regional government, he added, “not directly on the judges”

- Never before in Russia has there been a case quite like this, in which a company of national significance has been barred from making an offshore acquisition in the metals and mining sector by a Russian court

- If Rashnikov had assured the Kremlin this was a relatively low-cost portfolio investment, the facts are now evidently different

- Read this http://johnhelmer.net/?p=7187#more-7187 and then also go to his home page and read more on Victor

- Some old info http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/25/flinders-mmk-idUSL5E7MP0ZT20111125

Like it says in the title the above info is for people who don't have their rose coloured glasses on and can comprehend different views