Showing posts with label Russian. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Russian. Show all posts

Saturday, June 23, 2012

Willis Your Clean Up Crew When You Leave

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If you happen by Kálvin tér one day, chances are you will find a wide open space for walking or skateboarding. Suddenly, without warning, the next day when you are there, you find a giant Russian monument, which let's face it,  it can be disconcerting. What is even more brain bending is when you see the litter on the ground is in Russian. Three steps later, you come across a little stand that looks like it should be selling sno-cones, but all of the signs of the side are in Cyrillic lettering, so there are still no clues. 

I had an idea what this was all about, but for the unsuspecting, it was really funny to see the looks on their faces as they stared at these invaders through the chain link fence. Yes, boys and girls or should I say fellow comrades, Bruce Willis is in town filming Die Hard 5.

If you want to see where they have been shooting around the city, click here. If I had know Bruce was going to be here, I would have sent him a copy of my book. :   )
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Friday, January 30, 2009

Russian Bank, Aeroflot to take over Malév following collapse of parent company: Realdeal.hu

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Russian Bank, Aeroflot to take over Malév following collapse of parent company: Realdeal.hu: "January 26, 2009, 8:54 CET Russian Bank, Aeroflot to take over Malév following collapse of parent company By MTI Russia's state-owned Vnesheconombank will take over Hungarian national airline Malev and operate the airline in partnership with Russia's Aeroflot, Hungary's Finance Minister Janos Veres announced at a press conference held jointly with Russia's First Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov on Saturday. Veres said that the Russian owner had agreed to keep Malev a national airline as well as its rights in European Union air traffic. Malev is owned by AirBridge, a company in which two Hungarians own the majority stake and Russian tycoon Boris Abramovich holds 49 percent. The Russian Vnesheconombank had guaranteed the financing of Malev's operation since its privatisation in 2007. Zubkov said the ownership change occurred due to the previous Russian owner's 'not very assertive management style' as well as the effects of the financial crisis. He added that Malev had a 'promising future'."

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Sunday, September 28, 2008

Malev in Trouble

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Budapest Airport worried about Malev Airline downsizing

Wednesday, 24 September 2008
Budapest, September 24 (MTI) - Budapest Airport, the company that runs the city's Ferihegy International Airport, is worried about the downsizing of Hungarian Airlines Malev, as it generates the lion's share of traffic at the facility, wrote Wednesday's nationwide daily Nepszabadsag. Malev is owned by a company called AirBridge, which is part of a Russian consortium called Air Union. Financier Boris Abramovich, who has a 49 percent stake in AirBridge, has lost his majority hold in Air Union, which is being bailed out of a financial hole by a Russian government-owned corporation called Rostechnology. Rostechnology plans to expand the union, now including five airlines, by adding another five. No one is quite sure how Malev fits into the picture, but one-third of the company's 300 pilots received layoff notices on Monday, wrote Nepszabadsag. The pilots' union, Hunalpa, has charged management with dilettantism, claiming that multiple mistakes have been made, including termination of several long-haul flights. Hunalpa officials say that the company needs a well-capitalised investor, and tell of an unnamed Middle Eastern airline that is interested in Malev. Moscow analysts, however, say that Malev will not change hands. The contract with AirBridge prohibits a resale without the permission of the Hungarian government, but that is not the case for stocks in the company. Analyst Oleg Panteleyev of Aviaport acknowledged that a review of Abramovich activity was a theoretical possibility. Should the Abramovich brothers be found responsible for the Air Union's financial hole and required to pay compensation, AirBridge might become part of a compensatory package, said Panteleyev, adding, however, that he saw little practical chance of this, wrote Nepszabadsag.

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