As business at home is coming under uncomfortably close Kremlin surveillance, many Russian oligarchs have moved away and expanded their activities into eastern European countries - one of them being EU member Romania.
Experts claim that the Romanian metal market is dominated by a quartet of Russian and Ukrainian companies. First comes the Ukrainian, Sergey Taruta, a man close to the new, pro-Russian, Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovich. Mr Taruta bought the steel plant Fortpres CUG i...
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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.