Western shareholders came to Transcontainer The Board of Directors of OJSC Russian Railways (RZD) approved the sale of 15% of the authorized capital of its subsidiary, OJSC TransContainer, by absentee voting. The decision was dated January 21, but it was officially announced only yesterday. Until now, TransContainer, the largest container transportation operator in Russia, was 100% minus one share owned by Russian Railways.

World markets continue to fall After a temporary rise at the end of last week, yesterday the Russian stock market resumed its decline following global indices. As a result, the RTS index fell by 2.68%, to 1978.68 points, and the MICEX index - by 4.1%, to 1635.33 points. The market may be supported by tomorrow's decision by the US Federal Reserve to reduce the base rate by another 0.5 percentage points. At least that's what analysts are counting on.

Poland wants to increase transit of Russian gas Warsaw is going to offer Russia a gas pipeline route alternative to Nord Stream. In anticipation of the visit to Moscow of the new Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, scheduled for February 8, local experts, commissioned by the government, assessed the cost of an overland gas pipeline from Russia to Germany across the territories of Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia and Poland.

Businessmen will have to determine the fate of KM Invest at the next meeting The head of the holding company Interros, Vladimir Potanin, and his former partner, the head of Onexim, Mikhail Prokhorov, who have been in conflict for more than a year , trying to divide joint assets, will again have to sit down at the negotiating table.

Tymoshenko saw the international community behind the arrest of Mogilevich The arrest of reputable businessman Semyon Mogilevich , who is rumored to be associated with an intermediary scheme for gas supplies to Ukraine, gave Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko a reason to reiterate her intention to expel RosUkrEnergo from the market. “The presence of additional intermediaries is a sign of certain corrupt practices.

German Gref took the Deputy Minister of Economic Development for the Olympics to Sberbank Today the Supervisory Council of Sberbank will be held, at which the new composition of the board of directors of the credit institution will be determined. These are the first appointments since the bank was headed by former Economic Development Minister German Gref at the end of last year.

Scams at Societe Generale could be widespread Societe Generale bank trader Jerome Kerviel, who was charged yesterday with fraud , admitted to carrying out fictitious transactions on the stock market. Paris prosecutor Jean-Claude Marin told reporters about this. However, according to the trader, he did not act alone: ​​other Societe Generale employees also carried out similar operations, since the bank’s management was very tolerant of such practices.