YUKOS shareholders are confident that they served the claim on Alexei Kudrin American minority shareholders of Yukos continue to harass Russian officials visiting the States. At the end of last week, Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin became a victim of the shareholders of the disgraced company. Representatives of minority shareholders say they have served Mr. Kudrin with a claim for compensation for damage caused to them by the collapse of Yukos.

LUKOIL refused to build a refinery in the Kaliningrad region LUKOIL, which was asked by the new Kaliningrad governor Georgy Boos to lead a consortium to build an oil refinery in the region, refused to participate in the project. As the vice-president of the company, Leonid Fedun, said last Friday, the holding asked for tax benefits, but they “most likely will not be available - both for economic and non-economic reasons.” As a result, Mr.

Europe is looking for an alternative to Russian gas Chairman of the Board of Gazprom Alexey Miller made his first working visit to Germany after the Russian-Ukrainian gas shock.

On the first day of trading, shares of the gas monopolist took up 46% of the RTS turnover On Friday, trading in Gazprom shares began on the classic RTS market. And on the very first day, their turnover amounted to $62.2 million, or 46% of the total turnover of the classical market, which on that day reached $135.4 million.

AIG saves its reputation The world's largest insurance corporation American International Group Inc. (AIG) has decided to settle out of court a high-profile corporate accounting scandal. As it became known last Friday, she is ready to pay a billion dollars as a fine so as not to spoil her reputation. A year ago, US Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and the New York Insurance Department filed a lawsuit against AIG and its former head Maurice Greenberg.

The government's arrival at the car plant fuels investor interest The stock market suddenly believed in AvtoVAZ shares and began buying them. Last Friday, the MICEX Stock Exchange even suspended trading in these securities for an hour due to a price increase of more than 10%. In general, during the day, ordinary shares of AvtoVAZ rose in price by 12.82% - the last transaction was made at a price of 1.32 thousand rubles. per share.

Kyiv wants to fix gas prices until 2010 Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko revealed to voters last Friday his plan to ensure the country's energy security. According to him, in five years he will transfer Ukrainians to complete self-sufficiency in energy. “The existing energy dependence is a rather serious prelude to political dependence. This is not a reproach to anyone, this is not someone’s fault, this is, first of all, our fault,” Mr. Yushchenko said floridly.

Dmitry Tulin left the Bank of Russia The Central Bank has one less deputy chairman - Dmitry Tulin is leaving the Bank of Russia on February 1. Mr. Tulin explains his decision by personal circumstances, as well as by the fact that the tasks assigned to him a year and a half ago were successfully completed. In a statement released on Friday, the Central Bank said: “Mr.

A new regional aircraft has appeared on the Russian market Polet Airlines from Voronezh announced last Friday the acquisition of six Swedish Saab-2000 turboprop aircraft. These machines, which have not previously been used in Russia, are designed to perform the tasks that are currently performed in domestic aviation by the outdated An-24 aircraft.

Federal Grid Company updated transformers at a key Moscow substation The Federal Grid Company (FSK) announced last Friday the modernization of the Moscow Ochakovo substation. During the holidays (when the load on the networks was light), a new transformer with a capacity of 167 MW with a voltage of 500/220 kV, produced at the Moscow Elektrozavod with imported components from Trench UK (England), was introduced, and other equipment was updated.