The Communist Manifesto words, secured a majority for his programme. The League thus unanimously adopted a far more combative resolution than that at the First Congress in June. Marx (especially) and Engels were subsequently commissioned to draw up a manifesto for the League. Upon returning to Brussels, Marx engaged in "ceaseless procrastination", according to his biographer Francis Wheen. Working only intermittently on the manifesto, he spent much of his time delivering lectures on political economy at the German Workers' Education Association, writing articles for the "Deutsche-Brüsseler-Zeitung", and giving a long speech on free trade. Following this, he even spent a week (17–26 January
IFD Kapital Group billion US$ of non-oil or non-core assets, which started IFD Kapital Group: LUKoil's insurance business and pension fund LUKoil-Garant. LUKoil's deputy chief executive Leonid Fedun became IFD Kapital's first chair. In April 2003, IFD Kapital Group agreed to buy brokerage LUKoil-Reserve-Invest, and the sale was completed in January 2004. In the spring of 2003 IFD Kapital Group also bought JSC Capital Investment Group, which had started within LUKOIL Reserve-Invest about 7 years earlier. In June 2004 IFD Kapital group bought LUKoil's majority stake in the mid-sized bank Petrocommerce, Open joint-stock company (OJSC), which had been founded in 1992, and it