Timofey Kritskiy and Aleksej Kunshin joined Wiggle - San Pellegrino (WorldTour) for this season, in an attempt to learn from the best. Here are their results:

Efrem Krivoruchko and Nikita Zharoven joined T.CS Bank- OJSC Rosneft for this season, in an attempt to earn a spot in next year's squad. Here are their results:

Mikhail Ignatiev (and Kiril Yatsevich) joined T.CS Bank - OJSC Rosneft for this season on loan, in an attempt to earn as much points as possible without owning the riders. Here are the results of Ignatiev:

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Although the season isn't over yet, Kiryenka and his Russian colleagues are still staying fit because they're going to ride the Belarusian and Russian national championships; here's a review of our season 2012!
With 14 victories (KoM, Points, Team and Stages), 22nd in the Continental Individual Rankings (Ignatiev), 15th place in the Continental Team Rankings and 4th place in the European Continental Team Rankings (Sponsorgoal) it has been quite a successful year!

Next year T.CS Bank - OJSC Rosneft will continue under a new name: Tinkoff Bank - Rosneft OJSC! Here is a preview of the 2013 Jersey and Equipment.

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Russian National Road Championship
Vladimir Efimkin was in the early break away that made it to the finish, he finished 4th in the group sprint. Timofey Kritskiy (on loan at Wiggle - San Pellegrino) finished 2nd behind Eduard Vorganov of Jayco - Red Bull

Russian National Time Trial Championship
Mikhail Ignatiev (on loan from Wiggle - San Pellegrino) defended his TT crown, he was 41 seconds faster than Yuri Trofimov of Sony Ericsson.

Belarusian National Road Championship
Nikita Zharoven was in the early break away that made it to the finish, he finished 4th in the group sprint.

Belarusian National Time Trial Championship
Vasili Kiryenka defended his TT crown, he was 49 seconds faster than Branislav Samoilev of Pearl Adidas.

Looking at our 2012 results, one thing's for sure, Tinkoff Bank - Rosneft OJSC isn't the strong squad that a lot of people seems to think it is, especially now that Ignatiev is going back to Wiggle.

4 of our 7 2012 victories came from Ignatiev, the 5th was the team time trial of Vuelta a Burgos, the 6th was the Belarussian TT (Kiryenka) and the 7th was our only 'real homemade' stage win by Trusov during the Volta ao Algarve.

Do we have a decent squad? Yes, we often are best general team during stage races, but we don't have real winners who can seal a victory. Last year Continental Tour predictions, all thought we were promotion material (with Ignatiev), maybe this year the expectations are a little bit lower, but the T.CS Five-Year Plan remains the same: Staying true to our roots and continue building a decent squad around Kritskiy.

For 2013 we as a Professional Continental Team are going for a Grand Tour wildcard invitation. In order of preference; Tour de France, Giro d'Italia and Vuelta a Espana.

The riders now go on vacation, management continues to work during off-season, scouting free agents, looking at possible transfers, but at the end our plan is quite simple, every Russian that can ride a bike is on our shortlist.

Tinkoff Bank - Rosneft OJSC welcomes a future potential loan deal for Maxim Belkov, next to Belkov we have two other riders who are looking for a spot in a ProTour team:

Pavel Korzh, a decent sprinter, great lead-out for a top sprinter/sprint train and Petr Ignatenko, a hilly-mountain-specialist, good water supplier. Belkov and Korzh are hoping for Grand Tours and/or Monuments, while Ignatenko is more into short Stage Races.

We prefer to loan out these three riders together to a ProTour team, but separate deals are also possible.

The season goals for next year are as follows: Quite similar to last year but instead of GP of Moscow, this year Win Tour of Sochi instead of Bayern Rundfahrt Top-5 Corsica International instead of San Sebastian Classic Top-5 Giro del Trentino and Top 5 Europe Tour and Top 10 Professional Continental Tour. The Target Races will be announced later.

15 riders extended their contracts with Tinkoff Bank - Rosneft OJSC, 7 riders won't return next season; amongst them are Aleksei Markov (Age 34) and Evgeni Petrov (Age 35). We would like to thank both riders for their efforts over the last two years, our youngsters learned a lot from them, Aleksandr Kolobnev and Vasili Kiryenka will take over the mentoring program. Maybe Petrov and Markov will join Tinkoff later as Assistant Directeur Sportif and/or Trainer/Coach.

Efrem Krivoruchko and Nikita Zharoven (both Trainees in 2012) were tested last year during Tour du Limousin, GP Plouay and Urkiola Igoera; management came to the conclusion that both riders lack the ability to operate at PCT level, and thus were forced to leave aswell.