The Sogaz Insurance Group turned out the only applicant for making insurance contracts from 2012 up to 2016 with the state monopoly Gazprom, reports Interfax. The companies will make 12 contracts.

The Russian state company Resorts of the North Caucasus will strike for expanding its authorities. The RNC intends to suggest creating all-Russian resort operator on its base to the government.

Russian massive multiplayer online role-playing game “Allods online” has become one of the most expected new arrival in China.

The Russian state company Gazprom has acquired 50 % share in Beltransgaz for $ 2.5 billion, what makes it the sole owner of the Belarus pipeline which carries gas from Russia to the European Union.

The biggest Russian food retailer X5 Retail Group will make its chain shops, Pyaterochka, Perekrestok and Karusel, work 24 hours a day. According to Kommersant, the company strikes to fulfill its profit plan.

Russian businessman intends to invest $ 200 million into Monaco FC. The former owner of Uralkali, Dmitry Rybolovlev, is reported as a possible buyer.

Vietnam will get $ 8 billion credit money from Russia for building a nuclear power plant. The Russian state corporation Rosatom will carry out the constructing works.

The last large Russian cigarette producer Donskoy Tabak may be sold to foreign investors by March 2012, reports Russian mass media.

Tariffs for travelling in Moscow metro in 2012 won’t be increased, they will remain on the level of the current year.

LiveJournal will remove all banner adverts from the service's pages. The famous blogging platform's new Director General, Ilya Dronov, announced it within a special press-conference dedicated to the service's future.