Just made hopefully my last trip through the security gates here in the October Palace - the card scanner guys are just sitting down now. Flanked by his successor, the German Thomas Mirow, Jean Lemierre said his goodbyes at a press conference this afternoon Here's a play-by-play on how it went.

Campaigners attending the EBRD's annual meeting are joining with other groups from around the world [1] in calling for the EBRD and other public lenders to stop providing soft loans for Arcelor Mittal, the global steel giant that has benefited from more than USD 600 million in taxpayer-backed loans in the last ten years.

With yet another coded expression of continuing US unease at funding Russian investment projects via the EBRD, this year's EBRD annual meeting in Kiev is underway.