The reason is the write-off of $1.9 billion due to the depreciation of OGK-3 shares and the suspension of the LionOre project to build the Tati Nickel plant (which was supposed to operate using Activox technology). The write-off for OGK-3 amounted to $754 million. The losses for LionOre were greater. Only after the deal did Norilsk Nickel "conduct a detailed review of the components of the [Activox] project," the report says.

29.78% This is the stake of Interros holding president Vladimir Potanin in Norilsk Nickel, the company's report says. UC Rusal's stake is 25% of the shares (as of May 26). Interfax 1000 dollars per ton Uralkali's exclusive trader, BKK, has signed a contract with Brazil to supply potassium chloride at $1,000 per ton (previously $600–610 per ton), BKK representative Vladimir Tafrov reported. More than 100,000 tons of the product will be supplied under the new contract. Vedomosti

Goldman Sachs Goldman Sachs lowered the target price of VTB GDRs from $7.77 to $7.28, while maintaining a “hold” recommendation. Last week, VTB reported that its financial results for the first quarter of 2008 under IFRS would be significantly lower than the figures for a year ago. According to preliminary estimates, losses on the securities portfolio could exceed $400 million. In connection with this, Goldman Sachs analysts revised their VTB valuation model.

Yesterday, at the laying of the first stone of the PSA Peugeot Citroen and Mitsubishi Motors plant, the partners announced a new investment amount: instead of 350 million euros, they will spend 470 million euros.

Yesterday, the government of St. Petersburg allocated a site in the Kurortny district to Golf Dunes LLC for exploration work. The company plans to build a modern golf club, Vice Governor Alexander Vakhmistrov announced at a government meeting. Golf Dunes was founded by the Dunes sanatorium, said the sanatorium's head physician, Sergei Spitsyn.

The Master Prize is a long-lived award because it is unpretentious: its monetary value is very modest, there is no award ceremony. There are awards with a symbolic prize (the Goncourt Prize - 10 euros), but they are prestigious. You can't say the same about the Master. A group of art historians and writing critics choose the best artist of the year, ticking off boxes on a list. Without pathos, big bucks, an international jury and a PR campaign.

In his article “The Infantilism of Intellectuals” (Vedomosti, 7.06.2008, p. A4), Valery Fadeyev speaks of the naivety of those who are not yet (or no longer) capable of embracing the ideals of Russian statehood.

In addition to high oil prices, which many are no longer believing in, a positive factor in the summer could be a possible increase in Russia's sovereign rating by Moody's to A in June-July, says Renaissance Capital strategist Ovanes Oganesyan. The main beneficiaries of this will be companies with state participation - Gazprom , Rosneft , VTB , he says. The favorites of Alfa Bank analysts are Gazprom, Surgutneftegaz and VTB.

SPONDA Investment company. Specializes in commercial real estate transactions. Under management – ​​1.4 million sq. m (valuation as of March 31, 2008 – 2.7 billion euros). Revenue for 2007 – $282 million, net profit – $199 million. Capitalization as of June 10 – $1.06 billion. Finnish Sponda continues to buy up Russian real estate. As Vedomosti has learned, the investment company may become the owner of the Ducat Palace II business center (19,500 sq.

Rostov Region Minister of Agriculture Vyacheslav Vasilenko, who held this position for eight years, has left his post. Vasilenko will become the director of the Don Zonal Research Institute of Agriculture, the regional administration said in a statement yesterday. Since 1978, the institute has been headed by Vitaly Ermoolenko.

V.Baranov Today, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will hold a meeting to discuss disagreements regarding the state's property contribution to the authorized capital of Rostekhnologii. This was reported by sources in one of the relevant departments and in the government. Currently, the draft decree proposes to transfer shares of 458 companies to Rostekhnologii, including 191 100% shares. Of the 458 companies, 118 are not related to the military-industrial complex.

In 2007, Sberbank sold mutual fund shares worth 3.7 billion rubles through agent points in branches. The number of these points increased from 324 to 378 over the year, according to Sberbank materials. Sberbank is selling mutual funds of three management companies, its website says: OFG Invest, Pioglobal Asset Management, and Solid Invest. But the presence of such a powerful agent did not help the companies.

The bill (Vedomosti has a copy) is called: “On compensation by the state for damage caused by the violation of the right to a trial within a reasonable time, as well as the right to the execution within a reasonable time of a judicial act that has entered into legal force.” A financial and economic justification is being prepared, says Supreme Court Chairman Vyacheslav Lebedev, and then the draft will be submitted to the Duma, possibly on behalf of the president.

Representatives of MTS and Megafon previously told Vedomosti that they had been negotiating with Apple about selling the iPhone, but they had failed to reach an agreement. As a source at one of the operators explained, Apple had offered unfavorable terms: the operator must not only buy the iPhone from Apple, but also give it 10% of the price of each handset sold, and then deduct 10% of the subscriber's payments every month.

Eighteen years ago, on June 12, 1990, the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR adopted a declaration on the state sovereignty of Russia. The country continues to debate among politicians and publicists about how to evaluate the declaration and the events of the 1990s that followed it – as a difficult transition to a national state or as the “greatest geopolitical catastrophe”.