December  23, 2009

The Okrug Governor’s press-service informs:

President of the  International  Tennis Federation   sent a Letter of Gratitude to Governor of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug Alexander Filipenko.  President  congratulated the head of the region upon success of the YUGRA CUP First Tennis Tournament of the “Challenger” series to be hosted in Khanty-Mansiysk.

“We were pleased to get   high assessment  of the tournament organizing from players and arbiters. The Tennis Center provides wonderful conditions for hosting competitions. The organizers made their best to provide a high professional level of the tournament”.

President expressed  satisfaction with holding this new tournament and expansion of the geography of holding the ATP Challenger Tour tennis international competitions.  President assured the head of the region that  would work with Ugra with great pleasure    while the preparation of the  YUGRA CUP-2010 Tournament.

December  23, 2009

The Okrug Governor’s press-service informs:

Today Governor of Ugra Alexander Filipenko will participate in the meeting of the RF State Council and Council at Russia’s President for development of information society.

The meeting will be chaired by President of the Russian Federation Dmitri Medvedev.

The meeting will be aimed at discussion of issues, connected with application of advanced information technologies in the sphere of state services providing.

The State Council of the Russian Federation is a consultative body at the head of the State to consider current problems of the country’s life.

December  23, 2009

The Okrug Governor’s press-service informs:

On December 24 three bond issues of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug-Ugra are expected to be  floated  on the stock exchange market of the Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange.

The amount of each issue is 2 billion rubles. The 6-th issue has 4 semi-annual fixed coupons and maturity of bonds is till December 22, 2011 (coupon rate for the whole maturity is 10 % per annum); the 7-th issue - 6 semi-annual fixed coupons (10,4 % per annum) with the maturity of bonds till December 20, 2012; the 8-th issue - 8 semi-annual fixed coupons and maturity of bonds is till December 19, 2013 (10,8 % per annum). The Ugra Government issues bonds to finance the investment program in 2010.

On December 18 the Credit Ratings Service of the Standard&Poor’s International Rating Agency assigned to three issues of priority debenture bonds with fixed coupon income the rating of debt securities BBB-. The Agency emphasized that ratings of bonds reflect high ratings of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug. Thus, the foreign currency  rating of the region is BBB/negative, National currency rating BBB+/negative; rating of National scale – ruAA. “These ratings stand for a very high level of well-being per capita (in 2008 the gross regional product per capita amounted to about 41 ths. USD in Ugra) and low level of debts”, - was said at the Agency. “Flexibility of expenses that are higher than on average, an opportunity to get extra revenues from   asset sale and a higher level of infrastructure development than in other regions   make a positive impact on the level of ratings as well”.