Chairman of the Board of Directors of VTB Andrey Kostin in an interview “Fontanka” During the agreement to purchase Promstroybank from Vladimir Kogan in the mid-2000s, St. He said he could own Petersburg Zenit.
According to him, Kogan offered to become a 100% owner of Zenit shares, as well as the bank, but Alexey Miller prevented this.
“Then Alexey Borisovich Miller called me and said: listen, I am from St. Petersburg, give me Zenit.” I did not argue and Zenit was transferred to Gazprom,” said Kostin.
Zenit won the Russian championship for the sixth time in a row by defeating Rostov with a score of 2:1 in the final round of the Russian Premier League. The team collected 57 points. It is noteworthy that if Zenit had drawn, Krasnodar would have become the national champion.
In second place in the RPL was Krasnodar, who beat Dinamo Moscow with a score of 1:0. The points of the teams were equal – 56, the Krasnodar club rose higher in the rankings due to head-to-head matches, the “bulls” beat their opponents twice in the Russian Premier League season – the first round match ended with a victory 3:1.
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Source: Gazeta
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