Credit to be sold to newspapers

Among the mass media and banks that are members of the Association of Commercial Banks, information was anonymously circulated about BaltONEKSIMBank's intenet to grant 1 billion rubles in credit to four of the city's papers (St. Petersburg Vedomosti, Nevs

<BR>Among the mass media and banks that are members of the Association of Commercial Banks, information was anonymously circulated about BaltONEKSIMBank's intenet to grant 1 billion rubles in credit to four of the city's papers (St. Petersburg Vedomosti, Nevskoe Vremya, Vecherny Petersburg, and Chas Pik. The anonymous source tied together the supposed credit with the information war that is being carried out in Moscow against ONEKSIMBank: according to the source, the credit is being issued so that a similar situation does not develop in Petersburg. The leader of the press office at ONEKSIMBank, Valentine Shapka did not confirm or deny this fact. Neither was there any confirmations from the leadership of any of the newspapers or by any of the city banks that are used by the publications. Galina Lebedeva, the first vice general director of the Bank of Russia (20% of the stocks of the company "the newspaper Saint Petersburg Vedomosti") more or less indicated that "if detailed credit will be granted, then the founder will find nothing wrong with it". A similar opinion is held by the heads of the Bank of St. Petersburg (one of the owners of the newspaper Vecherny Petersburg).