Other metals magnates that are reportedly considering 2010 listings, and may be lured to Asia, include Alisher Usmanov and his company Metalloinvest, as well as coal miner Suek, controlled by Sergei Popov and Andrei Melnichenko.
When asked by the then-Mayor of Moscow Gavril Popov to inform Yeltsin during a U.S. visit that a hardline coup was in the offing, the White House decided instead to divulge this information to President Gorbachev, for whom the plotters worked.