Chill Out

Moscow office moves to cut jobs at TNK-BP

Oligarchs appear to tighten grip on joint venture with announcement that one in five jobs, many managerial, will go

$58bn spent supporting rouble

Devaluation haunts ordinary Russians who recall the meltdown in 1998 when the rouble lost two-thirds of its value overnight

Russian banker jailed over 'clean-up' murder

Alexei Frenkel jailed for the murder of Andrei Kozlov in revenge for the loss of his bank in an anti-corruption campaign

Russia backs rouble by sale of $7bn

The central bank sells $7bn of reserves to prop up currency as Moscow stock market is hit by further bout of capital flight

Russia bails out its debt-ridden billionaires

A series of billionaire bailouts to rescue some of the Kremlin's favoured oligarchs from debts to foreign banks has begun

Russian fears grow of state control

Russia's reserves have fallen $36 billion to $484 billion in less than a week as the Kremlin pumps money into the stock market

Moscow agrees bailout for struggling oligarchs

Oleg Deripaska to receive $4.5bn from an initial $10bn refinancing package for struggling tycoons backed by the Kremlin

London plunges after Asian rout

FTSE 100 drops sharply after panic selling sent Asian markets to five-year lows and the yen hit a 13-year high against the dollar

Russia's rich forced to sell assets to repay loans

Russian billionaires have found that tough market conditions mean the value of their collateral no longer covers their debt

Russia prepared to survive financial crisis

Vladimir Putin says Russia can withstand external shocks using $530bn foreign currency reserves as it helps out banks

Russia taps sovereign fund to save markets

Moscow is to instigate moves to try to shore up distressed stock markets with an injection of 175bn roubles (£3.9bn)