Kommersant: The introduction of new tax regime for the oil industry has again been postponed

Kommersant says the introduction of new tax regime for the oil industry has again been postponed: the "60/66' regime will be imposed not earlier than in June 2011, Deputy Finance Minister Sergei Shatalov stated. The gvt so far is discussing a compensation of Bashkiria's and Tataria's losses from the imposition of new regime equalizing the duties on light and dark oil products. The Finance Ministry is also continuing to discuss the new system of taxation. Moscow City Hall is creating its land operator. The State enterprise the Board of Preparations of Territories (UPT) will compile a register of land plots liable to construction and will lease them to developers through auctions. At the first stage UPT should prepare about 400 land plots, and in general over 3 thousand grounds can pass through it, the cost of which is estimated at $15 billion. The Sberbank Management Board this week plans to make a decision about the approach a market of express-crediting in the trade network. The most probable scenario of realizing the project is the launching of a joint venture with French BNP Pariba working in the trade network under the brand Cetelem. Such cooperation may be mutually profitable. Seventeen percent of Russian regions have already prepared their programs of modernizing their health services, with the help of which the Health and Social Development Ministry up to the end of 2012 intends to equalize the level of medical services in Russia quality. This was stated on Friday by Minister Tatyana Golikova. Regional authorities over eight months have been unable to determine on what it is necessary before the end of 2012 to spend 460 billion rubles allotted by the gvt on preparing the health service for full-fledged insurance principles of work.
The Prosecutor General's Office has closed high-profile criminal cases against several bigwigs (their names are given) of underground gambling business in the Moscow region. The Investigative Committee of Russia intends to appeal against the actions of the Prosecutor General's Office and hopes with time to qualify the actions of gambling business bigwigs and their patrons in the Prosecutor's Office as the organization criminal community. The party of people's freedom--For a Russia without Arbitrariness and Corruption--today will present its first project--an independent expert report " "Putin. Corruption". Kommersant said. The Levada Center after the regional elections on March 13 conducted a poll in 45 regions with 1600 Russians taking part that showed that Russians do not trust in the honesty of elections. Kommersant comments on the results of the poll. The amendments to the law concerning fishing caused mass protests over the weekend that in several regions they were the most large-scale ones over the past 20 years Fishermen may create their own political movement. Kommersant describes the street rallies and their participants' demands. Against the background of contradictory information about the situation in Fukushima-1 hysteria is growing in the world . Authorities in Europe and America in places far away from the catastrophe are monitoring for the appearance slightest traces of radiation in the air . Kommersant examines the radiation situation in difference countries. The Economic Development Ministry has made public the theses of report of Minister Elvira Nabiullina about reform of state management in 2009-2010. Kommersant examines the main report's provisions. The economic monitoring of the Economic Development Ministry in January-February of 2011 presents a preliminary estimation of Russia's foreign trade. Kommersant examines the document.
About a million of Russians' statements on a transfer of their pension accumulations from the state system to the private one has been recognized invalid. The Pension Fund does not reveal the reasons for the refusal to transfer the means. Besides Novoroscement, Lafarge Cement and HeidelbergCement have also received an offer from Elena Baturina to buy her cement assets. Yury Luzhkov's wife has estimated her plants with a capacity of 2.6 million tons of cement a year at $400 million, the sum that she has invested in their development. HeidelbergCement has already refused from the offer due to a too high price. The Federal Service for Financial Markets (FSFR) through its decision of March 24 has banned the managing Troika Dialog company to invest the means of its clients handed over to it in trustful management in the securities of the funds Troika Russia Fund Inc. and Troika Russia Fund L.P. Kommersant comments on the decision. China already in April may receive access to the rapidly growing market of wagons. The registration of documents necessary for the delivery of Chinese castings to wagon- builders is coming to an end. Gazprom and Lithuania are in vain trying to settle down their mutual claims around the deliveries of Russian gas to the country. Lithuania due to high prices is threatening to abrogate the agreement on the privatization of Lietuvos dujos, where Gazprom has 37 percent. Headhunter.ru founder Mikhail Frolkin has bought out from Mail.ru Group a share in Nigma.ru. He intends to develop the company in Vietnam, having launched on April 1 the site Itim.vn. Alexei Antipov, former co-owner of Baltimor-Holding, in summer will begin to produce ketchup "Krasnaya Polyana at the capacities of the enterprises in Krasnodar and Khabarovsk. Kommersant reveals his plans.