2011

The Sunday Telegraph's Business Editor Kamal Ahmed caught up with Oleg Deripaska while he was in London for the concert of the Moscow Soloists, supported by his charitable foundation Volnoe Delo. Mr Ahmed talk to Mr Deripaska about how Russia will position itself in today's changing world economic order.

The Sunday Telegraph

Oleg Deripaska's Basic Element plans to invest around 400 million rubles in agriculture development in 2012, compared to 100 million rubles in 2011,said Andrei Oleinik, the head of BasEl's agriculture division . The Kuban agriculture holding, one of BasEl's key agriculture assets, will continue construction of a farm for 60,000 pigs and a soybean processing plant, he said.

Interfax

Basic Element Group always considers the creation and continuing improvement of risk management systems as a high priority. This requires a great deal of attention both during periods of stable economic growth and during times of crisis. It is especially important for large companies, whose businesses often work long distance from each other, sometimes in different countries and subject to different economic and regulatory environment. In these cases the probability that local and regional crisis situations may have an impact on the whole business is significantly higher.

The Moscow Times