2007. In the people who wanted to purchase VTB shares, there was no mother, buy me back! In mid-March, the State Bank of VTB began the process of returning (Buy-Back) of shares with participants in the people's IPO, held in 2007. In early February, Vladimir Putin announced the need for such an operation. As a result, about 105 thousand shareholders can part with their securities. Why do they need it, who and how much will pay for Buy-Back?

After the "present." As a result of permutations in the government, which will inevitably follow the presidential election, Igor Sechin, who oversees the fuel and energy complex, may well lose their deputy prime minister. What will change in the oil and gas industry with its departure - the New Times sorted out A couple of years ago, Igor Sechin was considered on the sidelines of the Russian White House almost the most influential member of the government, having direct access to Vladimir Putin.

Having returned from Russia, from where I was “asked” within a three-day period - for meetings with opposition representatives on the eve of the elections that were not sanctioned by migration officials (or someone else?), I again plunged into the presidential campaign - already in my homeland. French President Nicolas Sarkozy has announced that he is running for a second term.

On February 20, in Brussels, EU finance ministers are to decide the fate of a €130 billion bailout package for Greece. The first attempt of this kind, made on February 15, failed: Athens did not convince Brussels of its readiness to comply with the conditions for providing assistance after the April parliamentary elections. The conditions are, first of all, raising taxes, reducing budget expenditures, the number of employees and salaries in the public sector.

The limits of the falsehood. The presidential elections will be held in one or two rounds - it largely depends on the real ranking of candidates, but on how much it will be finished by the main one and taken away from everyone else.

"Echo of Moscow" published the latest ratings of presidential candidates. The time of the survey is the beginning of February. According to VTsIOM, if elections were held at that time, Putin would have won 55% of the vote. According to the Levada Center - 43% ... Yuri Alexandrovich Levada, whose glorious name this sociological service is named, in the middle of the 2000s came on the air of my program on Radio Liberty.

Instead of Boris Nemtsov, activist of the Prochrevskaya youth attacked a random person Maxim Perevalov - the first on the left of ours, Maxim Perevalov became famous after the opposition policy of Boris Nemtsov at the Domodedovo airport was attacked on February 5. According to the leader of the “solidarity”, the activist tried to provoke him to unlawful actions and Nemtsov was forced to select a mobile phone from him, which was then transferred to the police.