The Russian government searches for various ways to decrease negative consequences of the crisis. In the previous issue of the magazine Diamonds & Gold of Russia, the editors published a mega-project «The Triangle of Light about individual gold mining in gold producing regions.

At number 98 in the list of wealthiest people, Nicky Oppenheimer and family is estimated to have a net worth of 5 billion dollars. In 2008, Oppenheimer was at No.173 and his net worth was estimated at 5.7 billion dollars.

About 4.5 thousand diamonds were withdrawn by investigators from the Northeast Directorate for Internal Affairs in Transport from an unemployed inhabitant of Yakutsk. In passenger compartment of the foreign-made car, an unwitting young man handed to an investigator two paper parcels, which respectively contained 880 and 94 natural transparent stones estimated by the «owner» at 55 thousand rubles and 200 dollars.

On March 13, ALROSA is President Sergey Vybornov explained to the listeners of the TV and radio broadcasting company Almazny Krai the situation, developed in the diamond business in the connection with the global financial crisis: «would say the following: nothing good is happening to the global diamond sector, the crisis affected it just as the others.

At the 6 th Siberian conference «Quality Management – 2009», held on March 17 in Krasnoyarsk, General Director of Kraszvetmet Igor Tikhov said: «We have covered the way from the developed socialism, communism, wild capitalism, we have passed through defaults and inflations.

The Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) announced an amendment to the RJC is definition of diamond. The Council defines a «diamond» as a mineral (natural or laboratory-grown) consisting essentially of pure carbon crystallized with a cubic structure in the isometric system.

Severalmaz obtained a certificate of compliance with the state regulatory labor protection requirements. The company was set up in 1992 for the development of the largest in Europe primary deposit of diamonds. One year ago, the millionth carat was extracted from the Lomonosov diamond deposit. It became possible due to commissioning of concentrating plant №1 of the Lomonosov ore-dressing and processing combine. Now, according to the license agreement, Severalmaz conducts mining operations on the two of five kimberlite pipes of the Lomonosov diamond deposit.