Moscow

How to contact ALROSA?

June 4, 2009

A London-based liaison officer wrote to me “I am trying to get a deal together to buy 200,000 carats of rough diamonds from Alrosa in Yakutia. Only problem is, their English speaking representatives’ websites do not work, nor do their telephone numbers. Very frustrating!!!!” Then he added the best line I had ever read “You are the only person in Yakutia I can find.” The liason officer knows how to please people and what to say…

Frankly saying, I didn’t expect receiving such an inquiry. Thought, everything is cool with the biggest Russian diamond-mining company and its abroad affiliates. So… Read more…

Received a request from a traveller of Croatia: “I am interesting about the road condition in the winter. I mean main road from Yakutsk to Moscow and Vladivostok. Are there any traffic? How about supply, trucks…? Is it possible to go from Moscow to Yakutsk by regular car or 4×4?” Read more…