Kommersant the gvt intends to again extend the state program of utilizing old autos

The gvt intends to again extend the state program of utilizing old autos--another 5 billion ruble will be added soon to the already spent 25 billion to support it. Thus, the program will work up to the end of 2011 rather than up to May, as was supposed before. AvtoVAZ has acted as the main lobbyist extension, the sales of which strongly depend on the program. There are first concrete results in the case return of assets withdrawn from Mezhprombank (MPB) of Sergei Pugachyov. The Deposits Insurance Agency (ASB) acting as the competition manager to bank-bankrupt has managed to block the sale of shares Yeniseiskaya Industrial Company were illegally withdrawn from the bond by the 30-billion credit of MPB. Kommersant says what do experts think of these measures? Former GIBDD inspector Major Nikolai Khovansky in the Gagarinsky District Court sued musical critic Artemy Troitsky and demanded from him 500 000 rubles for an insult. The Prosecutor General's Office made public results of its check-up leaders of prosecutor's offices in the region, who were involved in the high profile scandal connected with guarding illegal gambling clubs organized by businessman Ivan Nazarov. Six regional prosecutors were made disciplinarily responsible, but no one of them were dismissed .
Commentary is made regarding results of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's negotiations with the Serbian leaders in Belgrade. A Just Russia got indignant at the initiative of Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, the leader of branch of United Russia, who proposed to introduce amendments to the budget for implementing the city program of A Just Russia. The Arbitration Court rejected a 200 000 ruble suit of ex-Mayor Yury Luzhkov's wife Yelena Baturina against the NTV television company in its program on Sept. 12, 2010 gave not authentic information about her Inteko company. President Dmitry Medvedev in Mytishchi presided over a session to discuss a serious issue connected with ensuring industry with engineers. The president commissioned directors of machine-building enterprises to make higher schools train specialists they need and through a good salary and housing hold back young engineers. Central Election Commission head Vladimir Churov will retain his post of CEC head-- such is the opinion Kommersant's sources, but the intrigue around the future status of ex-head of Karachayevo-Cherkessia Boris Ebzeyev remains intact. The president has delegated him to CEC.
OAO Maxi-Group founder Nikolai Maksimov has been suspected of swindling, and a new criminal case was instigated against him. Investigators believe that in 2007 he brought 2.1 billion ruble losses to OAO Novolipetsk Metals Combine having embezzled the loans handed over to the group. Local law-enforcers in Nazran on Wednesday detained and forcefully brought to the city Interior Department Ingush opposition leader Magomed Khazbiyev. He is suspected of organizing an unsanctioned rally that caused riots. Mayor Sergei Sobyanin on Wednesday stated that during a month he would allot to the Church 60 land plots in Moscow for building Orthodox churches. The patriarchate admits that this is the largest allotment of land for building churches over the past 100 years. Rosleskhoz was recognized as responsible for large-scale forest fires in 2010, starting May 1 launches a new system of protecting forests from fires. Russian high-level officials for the first time on Wednesday stated that the radioactive cloud from the region of the accidental Japanese Fukushima-1 power plant may reach Russia. And Rosgidromet reported the cloud already today may reach the South Kurils. Its information did not cause panic, but United Russia has interfered in the situation, saying it itself will measure the radiation background in the Far East. The gvt commission headed by First Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov in charge of the agro-industrial complex ordered to add several new provisions to the new state agricultural program-2020. Kommersant says it will consider it again in December of 2011.
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) has become a partner and official suppler of services of the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Kommersant reported. Sberbank has launched the first stage of preparations for issuing depositary receipts, Sberbank head German Gref reported. The Finance Ministry has almost fully placed seven-year issuance of OFZ worth 25 billion rubles. This was the second attempt to place the issuance. Severstal is building new plants. The company together with South African Iron Mineral Beneficiation Services (IMBS 33 percent belongs to the Russian company) in April begins to build a plant of hot- briquetting (?) iron in Falaborua (South Africa). Russian leading housing builders, whose sales during the crisis fell by ten times have found how to load the idling capacities. According to estimates, in 2009-2010 they built about 2.6 million square meters having earned almost 90 billion rubles ($3.2 billion ). Before the appearance of new iPad Russian sellers simultaneously reduced the prices of the first version of iPad by 9-15 percent depending on the model.This is a consequence of the new pricing policy of Apple in Russia. Aeroflot has sold the airline Nordavia to GMK Norilsk Nickel for only $7 million. The general cost of the carrier was estimated at $207 million, of which $200 million was the obligations of Nordavia.
Deputies intend to intensify the legislation concerning the demands for advertising foreign financial mediators and their services. Today several foreign players in Russia are doing operations without having licenses for financial activity: being uncontrolled by the Russian regulator these companies are pyramids and conductors of cash means to offshore zones. According to international accounting, Tinkoff Crediting Systems has halved its net profit-- down to $9.1 million from $18.2. Kommersant says. The gvt presidium today will discuss amendments to the law concerning transportation security were drafted by the Transportation Ministry after the terrorist act in Domodedovo. Srbijjagas and Gazprom for the first time have revealed the data concerning the Serbian plot of the gas pipeline South Stream. Thus, Serbia' revenues from pumping gas along its territory are estimated at 80 - 100 million euros every year in delivering about 36 billion cubic meters. Ukrainian authorities through court are trying to take away from Russian Transnefteprodukt part of the oil product line passing through the country territory. The company views these actions as illegal. Sergei Abramov, Railway Terminals Directorate chief, reported that a movie-theater may open in the Kazansky Railway Terminal. The network of creative agencies Young Rubicam has been officially recognized as a winner tender of Vimpelcom for working out a creative for the Bee-Line brand, the cellular operator reported. The story in Kommersant. The first public Internet-shop may appear in Russia. Yutinet.ru, a leading online-retailer, plans to push into the exchange. Yutinet.ru as a result planned IPO for the first part of his year in the innovative sector and growing companies of MICEX intends to sell up to 15 percent of shares with the cost of the whole company of $100 - $ §120 million.