The bank may become a co-owner of the Olympic construction site Ex-State Duma deputy and former partner of Suleiman Kerimov in the oil business, Akhmed Bilalov, negotiates for Sberbank to enter the capital of his company OJSC Krasnaya Polyana (it is building the Gornaya Karusel resort complex in Sochi with a total cost of 28 billion rubles). The bank can acquire up to 25% of Krasnaya Polyana, with which it signed an agreement in December to open a credit line for 2.5 billion rubles.

The French court approved the purchase of 85% of the tabloid by Sergei Pugachev's foundation The commercial court of the French city of Lille allowed the Sablon International fund, owned by the senator from the Republic of Tuva and the owner of Mezhprombank Sergei Pugachev, to increase its share in the French tabloid France Soir to 85% (now the fund owns 19.9% ​​of the shares).

Chronicle The EU warned Lithuania about the impending economic downturn back in the spring of 2008. Concerns were caused by an overheating economy and double-digit inflation. The problems were aggravated by the global financial crisis, which entered an acute phase since the beginning of autumn. On October 3, the Fitch rating agency downgraded Lithuania's rating due to the danger of a recession.

Yesterday, the disciplinary committee of the Continental Hockey League (KHL) decided to disqualify the leaders of the Omsk HC Avangard following an investigation into the circumstances of the death of the team’s striker Alexei Cherepanov. On October 13 last year, during a match in Chekhov with the local Vityaz, the 19-year-old hockey player’s heart stopped, and two hours later he died.

incident The investigative department of the Investigative Committee (IC) under the prosecutor's office of the Irkutsk region opened a criminal case against the head of the regional branch of the Federal Service for Financial Markets (FSFM) in the East Siberian region, Vladislav Shchennikov, who is suspected of receiving a bribe, a representative of the investigative department, Vladimir Salovarov, said yesterday. According to him, in order to resolve the issue of securities issue, Mr.

The largest US financial corporation is forced to change its business model One of the largest financial corporations in the world, the American Citigroup, yesterday announced its division into two companies. Record losses suffered by the largest US corporation in 2007-2008 forced its management to abandon the financial supermarket model in order to improve business efficiency. Universal financial companies are becoming the next victims of the financial crisis after global investment banks.

On Thursday, in Berdsk (Novosibirsk region), a fire almost completely destroyed the Crystal sports complex, consisting of several buildings. According to the press service of the main department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations for the Novosibirsk region, the fire was reported at 18.40. Despite the fact that the fencing tournament for the prizes of multiple Olympic champion Stanislav Pozdnyakov had ended by that time, the premises were crowded.

JSC IDGC of Center and Volga Region plans to allocate 27.5% of net profit for 2008 to pay dividends. As stated in the company's statement, the company's board of directors at a meeting at the end of December 2008 approved an adjusted business plan for last year. According to the business plan, net profit at the end of 2008 will amount to 1.22 billion rubles.

The authorities will purchase housing from developers at half the market price 47 3 min. ... In 2009, the regional authorities intend to purchase square meters from developers for the resettlement of dilapidated housing at an unprecedentedly low price for the market - 25 thousand rubles. per sq. meter. In total, in 2009 the state intends to buy 46 thousand square meters. m. Developers say that the cost of housing is 27 thousand rubles.

The Russian stock market turned out to be the leader of the fall The efforts of the authorities around the world to stabilize the situation in national economies have not yet brought tangible results - investors react to the results of companies and macroeconomic data at the end of the year. As a result, stock indices of leading countries lost 4-10% over the week.

Magnit acquired a plot of land in Sochi for the construction of a large-format store The Krasnodar chain Magnit announced the purchase of AgroTorg LLC for 310 million rubles. The main asset of the LLC is a land plot in the Adler district of Sochi, on which the retailer plans to build the city's first hypermarket.

The team of the bankruptcy trustee of OJSC Gorky Metallurgical Plant plans to begin negotiations with potential investors on the purchase of the bankrupt enterprise by the end of January 2009. This was announced yesterday by GMZ bankruptcy manager Gennady Demichev, whose team began working at the enterprise on January 12.

Chinese capital launches production near Chita Hong Kong-based Universal Timber Resources Ltd. (UTR) today opens its sawmill in the Trans-Baikal Territory with a total cost of $1.9 million. This is the first project of investors from China involved in timber processing in the region. For the Chinese, the project is rather forced: Russia is raising duties on the export of round timber, which makes exports unprofitable, and duties on processed raw materials have been reset to zero.

Project The Nitol company and the Irkutsk State Technical University (ISTU) yesterday entered into a cooperation agreement, implying that the university will provide the company with scientific support in implementing a project to create a polycrystalline silicon production plant in the Irkutsk region, a Nitol representative said. “ISTU has scientific and technical potential in the field of nanotechnology.

The message about the plans of Russian businessman Alexander Lebedev, owner of the National Reserve Corporation (NRK), to acquire a 76 percent stake in the London Evening Standard newspaper (see Kommersant of January 16) caused a stormy reaction in the British media. In particular, The Guardian newspaper reports that Alexander Lebedev intends to appoint Georgie Greig, editor of the secular magazine Tatler of the Conde Nast publishing house, as editor of the Evening Standard.