Alfa Group Buys Into Opin

Moscow Times 17 Apr 2012 Alfa Group became a minority owner of the Opin development company controlled by Mikhail Prokhorov’s Onexim Group when Alfa Capital Holdings acquired the 10.74 percent stake of NKB Investments, an affiliate of UralSib, Vedomosti...

FAS approves Rosneft purchase of 51% of Itera

FinancePlus by Charles Borden 12 April 2012 RIA Novosti reports that Russia’s Federal Anti-monopoly Service (FAS) has approved a petition by Russian oil company Rosneft to buy 51% of Itera. In February, Rosneft and Itera inked a strategic cooperation agreement...

Avito.ru revenues up 8-fold – but valuation target still far

East-West Digital News 11 April 2012 The 2011 valuation of Avito.ru, Russia’s leading classifieds site by brand awareness and number of users, amounted to $158.73 million, according the annual report issued by minority shareholder Vostok Nafta earlier this month....

Biglion buys major Belorussian daily deal site

East-West Digital News 11 April 2012 Just two months after it began serving Kazakhstan, Biglion, the leading Russian daily deal site, has acquired Bongo.by, a Belorussian analog. The transaction was announced yesterday by Biglion’s Development Director Oleg Savtsov in...