"Media! asked: Does anyone happen to know if by russian law they must go with the highest bidder? "
Hello!!! Romania and Russia are two different countries. They don't even have the same language. Romanian is a romance language(like Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese) while Russian is Slave(Cyrillic alphabet).
As for the decision, I believe the company now belongs to the Romanian Government, so they will decide to whom the plant goes.
Anyway, Romanian workers are known to be very qualified, so I hope GM can get some foothold there.
