yesterday in Kiev in the head office of the monopoly operator of the Ukrainian oil transportation system of JSC Ukrtransnafta an attempt to force a change of company management. Designated NAK Naftogaz Ukraine. about. Chairman of the Board Alexander Lazorko using paramilitary protection took the head office. However, chairman of Ukrtransnafta Igor Kiriushin refused to recognize his authority and, armed with a court decision to abolish the appointment of the new Acting, barricaded in a building company.

Experts note that the conflict is the struggle of the Inside for control of the oil system.

Party took the defense

Yesterday at 7.30 am the head office of Ukrtransnafta, located in Kiev on Artema street, 60, was attacked: 22 young men dressed in camouflage uniforms, ignoring the protests of three guards, entered the building and began to change locks on the premises. Around 8.00 in the office came former Deputy Chairman of the Board of Ukrtransnafta Alexander Lazorko, who had brought the decision on the appointment of набсовета it. about. Chairman of the Board. Taking power support, he was in office. According to the chairman of Ukrtransnafta Igor Kiriushin, Lazorko had access to a server company and control of financial transactions.

OAO Ukrtransnafta - the operator of the Ukrainian oil transportation system. Operates a system of trunk oil pipelines Druzhba and Pridneprovsky trunk pipelines, and oil pipeline Odessa-Brody. 2008 Ukrtransnafta finished with a net profit of $ 19.7 million UAH. 100% of the shares in the company manages NAK Naftogaz of Ukraine.

morning was also an attempt to capture the power of another building company - dispatching center, located at street Kutuzova, 18 /7. It arrived a bus belonging to Chernigovnaftogazu structural unit Ukrnafta (42% belongs to the group Privat and the rest - the State).

It was about thirty soldiers in camouflage uniforms. However, the protection of Ukrtransnafta managed barricaded entrances to the building and to prevent its capture. Around 11.45, after the journalists tried to photograph the inside of fighters, the bus drove away. Later the building was taken under the protection of the special Ministry of Internal Affairs Berkut.

Igor Kiriushin yesterday spent the whole day at the dispatch center. He told reporters that the decision набсовета, referred to by Alexander Lazorko, abolished the court, and so resignation as chairman of the board he did not intend.

NAK Naftogaz of Ukraine and the Ministry of Fuel and Energy yesterday publicly endorsed any of the parties. I. on. Chairman of the Board of Naftogaz Igor Didenko has promised to create a special commission to investigate the incident. A Fuel and Energy Minister Yuriy Prodan said that the government deal in what's happening and take appropriate action.

Kiriushin stated that it intends to continue to lead the company, being in control centers. Similar statements were made and Lazorko. Most likely, one of the parties will re-assault, and the next day or two the situation is resolved by force, - noted Press Secretary, Ukrtransnafta Alexander Dikusar. Yesterday at 19.00 repeated attempts to capture is not made.
Changing priorities

cause of yesterday's conflict was the opposition leaders of the company on strategic issues. Recall Alexander Lazorko was appointed Deputy Chairman of the Board of Ukrtransnafta in January this year. Previously, he served as chairman of the board of OAO Galichina (75% of shares belongs to the group Privat ). Click to continue »

rebound up to succeed

In Wednesday trading on the Russian market is marked by the growth against the backdrop of increased oil prices. In addition, market participants actively covered short positions, which led to the growth of most fallen in recent days the securities. Thus, the ordinary shares of Sberbank grew by 15%, prefy - almost 20%. It also noted the relatively strong growth in paper and oil and gas sectors of metallurgy. At the end of the trading index of the MICEX soared by 7.3%, RTS index - by 2.8%.

Trades in the United States opened with the raising of quotations on the full range of securities against the backdrop of positive makrostatistiki: orders for durable goods rose much stronger than anticipated by experts. Nevertheless, the enthusiasm of the players on the American site exhausted after the meeting of the Fed. The main disappointment was the statement that the Fed will not expand a program to repurchase the bonds. At the end of the trading Dow Jones index fell by 0.2%, S P500 - grew by 0.6%, NASDAQ up 1.5%.

External background at the opening of the Russian market neutral. Japanese Nikkei rising 2.8%. Chinese Shanghai Composite is growing at 0.3%. Oil brand Brent traded around the mark of $ 68.6. Futures on the U.S. S P500 grow by 1%.

After a rapid correction, and no less strong rebound top players in the Russian market today, it will be necessary to determine the future direction of movement. In favor of the bulls today plays an increase in U.S. futures indices, growth in Asia and strong oil. On the side of the Bears' only strengthen the dollar and the currencies of the world. Rather, today we see the opening of the vicinity of the closure yesterday. During the trading session, the market will pay attention to statistics on the number of applications for unemployment and the final value of the U.S. GDP in quarter 1. In the future, the remaining two trading sessions this week, we believe the most likely to consolidate slightly above current levels and reducing volatility.

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The Russian stock market is not ready now to the correction: a conclusion on the results of auctions on Tuesday and Wednesday. This test is very important to determine what will happen with the market further, and points out that hardly we can soon see the 900 items on the index again.

In the trading session Wednesday lifting the RTS and MICEX index was 2.83% and 7.37% respectively. To argue that this result would be replicated today

- not: just ignore the rollback of quotations of oil below $ 70 a barrel is likely to fail, but all the same, we believe that this time will prevail over the positive trend.

Among the factors that ensured the failure of the last correction you need to first of all, the American statistics: the growth of purchases of goods for long-term use in May to 1.8% while the expected reduction of 0.8%, could not revive hopes to restore the consumption in the United States. These expectations were a bit blurred comments of the Fed, which has warned that the pace of economic growth for some time will be very slow. Nevertheless, the overall tone of statements by the Central Bank, issued on the basis of a two-day meeting was a positive trend due to a finding recovery in financial markets and the denial of the threat of deflation. Result trades on the stock exchanges in the U.S. has been mixed: Dow Jones index dropped 0,28%, SP increased by 0,65%. However, futures indicators show that today the role of support to prevail, and growth resumes.

Asian markets today vospryali spirit, and rapidly compensate for the loss Tuesday. Japanese Nikkei index rising to 2,17%, KOSPI - on 2,15%, Hang Seng - on 2,17%. Strengthening U.S. dollar and a corresponding weakening of the national currencies had a catalytic effect, which is fairly evenly reflected in these countries in all sectors of the economy. It may be noted that the technology sector raised a little more confident, which may be related to the orientation of sectoral shares in positive reporting Oracle, released on Wednesday.

At the commodity markets is also growing. The fastest rise in the price

metals: nickel broke box $ 15500 per tonne, rising to the LSE at 6.1%, copper and zinc follow it with a minimum separation: 5,2 and 6,06% respectively. The growth of oil during the trading environment has also been impressive, but the growth stocks of gasoline in the United States (at 3.9 million barrels) triggered selling, and as a result of a mixture of quotes for WTI climbed all day

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The Russian stock market began a significant collapse week. The decline was observed across the spectrum of liquid shares traded. As leaders of shares of Sberbank, VTB, Lukoil, Rosneft. The second line is also predominantly observed a significant negative trend. MICEX Index punches this time, 1000 points mark, which is alarming in terms of technical analysis of the signal. Oil prices fall significantly after the evening on Friday, today continued to decline and reached a level of 67 dollars per barrel. From the perspective of technical analysis of the quotations of oil stayed below the channel bottom, which was formed in May-June and is now the nearest support is at 65 dollars per barrel.

U.S. stock market decline has opened more than 1%. Trades take place in Europe with significant negative trends. Perhaps, in the course of bidding, after all, have had their influence in revised downward momentum of world economic forecasts from the World Bank. In doing so, among the developed countries more than others in a downward revised forecast for the euro area. Previous estimates of the World Bank assumed the euro area GDP in 2009 to 2.7%, the current valuation implies a fall on 4.5%. Year will be particularly severe for the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. Bookmark revise forecasts as the World Bank has been China. Projected GDP growth for 2009 was revised from 6.5% to 7.2%. On the other main countries with developed and developing economies prevailing downward projection in the direction of more negative dynamics of the GDP. Note that the projections from the World Bank is now more gloomy than the current forecast of the IMF, involving reduction of the global economy in 2009 to 1,3%, against the World Bank to the dip at 2.9%.

This week will be very rich in important macroeconomic data, mainly on the U.S. economy, which will begin from Tuesday. The focus will be on the real estate market statistics (the dynamics of sales in the secondary and primary market of housing), data on orders for durable goods, data on consumer income /spending. Also important will the U.S. Fed meeting on Wednesday, which is expected to be announced on enhancing the policy of quantitative incentive to purchase government bonds.

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