Russian Team unveils Sponsors this Morning

Moscow-Today at 11 am CET, the rusian ContDiv2 Team unveiled its Sponsors. After the press anouncement, at which the teams future was announced, rumors were floating in the room that one of the new sponsors was to be Wagit Alekrepovs LuKOil Company. These rumors have been confirmed this morning, as the yet another russian oil company will be a naming sponsor for the team in its 2nd season of existence.



The second name giving sponsor comes a bit as a surprise. After the drop out of rosbank and a realignment of their budget, russian telecommunications provider ROSTELEKOM have increased their sposnsoring of the team and will be second naming partner. During this season, RosTelekom was already on board as a minor contributer to the team and it was expected that the stateowned company was to pull out of its sponsorship at the end of their one-year contract. "It was a lucrative opportunity for us, so it was a no brainer to spend the extra budget we had on the cycling team." said Aleksadr Gorachenko, Board member of RosTelekom.
The Team Management is thus proud to announce that the team will be named TEAM LUKOIL-ROSTELEKOM for the next 2 years.



Surprisingly, besides RosTelekom only Pinarello and Lada return to sponsor the team next year as they both signed multiple year contracts with the team. However, at Pinarello in Italy, the officials were pleased with the team and do not consider to bail on the russian contiinental2 Team. At Lada the Mood continues to be euphoric. "Hey, when have you ever seen a cycling team driving around in Ladas? We love the publicitywe are getting. Afterall even Katusha is using foreign car manufacturers. Its great to have at least one team staying conistent with their roots!" said a pleased Igor Komarov, the president of the russian Autowaz Company.



However, a rather big amount of new Sponsors have joined the team. As of next season, the team will travel in style with private jet hire from Aeroflot. "It is great no to be worried about transport in public jets anymore. Before we had to adjust to the normal airline routes which often confronted our budget and so we could end up in a place as much as 2 weeks to only 10 hours prior the start of a race. This new co-operation will ease not just our timing problems but will also relieve us of major costs for travel. The best deal we could get", said the teams travel manager Ruslan Krasimov.
Aditionally, the Mettalurg SteelCompany from Magnitogorsk is chipping in as a sponsor along side new Clothing Manufacturer SMS Santini. The later company was already involved in a scandal though, as a leak from the offices of Chiefdesigner L.B.Marc had published a blurry image of a posiible jersey for next season.



Lastly, the team will do a pro bono sponsorship for the Wintergames in Sochi 2014.

Finally, the management has announced two key additions to the team in the PR sector. Both, Mikhail Andropov of the Moscow Times and Vitali Jevgenowitsch Davidov of the St. Petersburg Times, are now full members of the Teams Public Relations and Media Team. They will continue publish news for the St. petersburg Times and Moscow Times but under the name of LuKOil-RosTelekom with links given to their respective Newspapers.

Mikhail Andropov
(Moscow Times)

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