Interviews & Opinions

MOSCOW, Feb 22 (PRIME) -- Russian wireless broadband Internet access service provider Prestige-Internet, known by the Enforta brand name, expects its revenue to grow more than 20% to 2.5 billion rubles in 2012, CEO Viktor Ratnikov told PRIME in an interview Wednesday.

MOSCOW, Feb 20 (PRIME) -- Russia’s Economic Development Ministry and the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) are at odds over an amended bill on state purchases envisaging the introduction of a federal contract system, Deputy Economic Development Minister Mikhail Oseyevsky said Monday in an interview with PRIME.

MOSCOW, Feb 10 (PRIME) -- The Segezha Pulp and Paper Mill in the constituent republic of Karelia is expected to resume operations by the end of February, Andrei Kostin, CEO of Russia’s VTB Bank, said in an interview with PRIME Friday.

MOSCOW, Feb 9 (PRIME) -- Russian metals giant Norilsk Nickel plans to spend about 6.5 billion rubles on capital construction and upgrade of equipment at Kola Mining and Metallurgical Company, or KGMK, in 2012, Yury Filippov, Norilsk Nickel’s acting first deputy CEO, told PRIME in an interview.

MOSCOW, Feb 7 (PRIME) -- Russian wireline operator ER-Telecom plans to invest more than 6 billion rubles in 2012, slightly up from 2011, the operator’s CEO Andrei Semerikov said in an interview with PRIME on Tuesday.

MOSCOW, Feb 3 (PRIME) -- Russian food and farming company Rusagro Group plans to build a pork processing plant worth about 3 billion rubles in the Tambov Region, the company’s CEO Maxim Basov said in an interview with PRIME on Friday.

MOSCOW, Jan 25 (PRIME) -- Insufficient investment in geological exploration of gold deposits resulting from the liquidation of the national fund for replenishing Russia’s mineral resource base in 2002 is one of the key barriers for the development of gold mining in Russia.

MOSCOW, Dec 12 (PRIME) -- The Moscow city government headed by former Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov never sought to acquire control over the Bank of Moscow, the bank’s former president Andrei Borodin said in an interview with PRIME on Monday.