Kommersant: Russia has formulated at last a full package

Russia has formulated at last a full package of proposals concerning energy aid to Japan. The executive measures, however, have included only the growth of liquefied natural gas deliveries and probably of oil and coal. Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin on Tuesday met with Japanese Ambassador to Russia Masaharu Kono, to whom Sechin handed over Russia's comprehensive proposals on cooperation in energy. Kommersant examines these proposals. The recent terrorist act in Domodedovo may change the system of security organization in transport.The Transportation Ministry is unwilling to be responsible for the anti-terror measures and wants airports, ports, terminals and carriers to be responsible for them. The measures proposed by the ministry will only increase both the direct security expenses of participants in this sphere and their risks due to victims' possible claims. A criminal case was instigated against ex-President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma, who is suspected of an involvement in the killing of journalist Georgy Gongadze. Kommersant details the case. Authorities and a group of activists headed by Helsinki Group leader Lyudmila Alexeyeva on Tuesday discussed holding a rally on March 31 in defense of freedom of assembly. City Hall allowed a rally on Pushkin Square but banned a march as far as Triumfalnaya Square. The presidential Human rights council is drafting for Dmitry Medvedev a development program of civil society. The Council promised him to present the first proposals by the theme "Freedom and Justice" this summer at the visiting session in the Caucasus. What did Council head Mikhail Fedotov tell about the program and about the upcoming public expertise of Mikhail Khodorkovsky's case?
Two mayors in regional capital cities this week are quitting their posts. In Khanty-Mansiisk ex-Mayor Andrei Bukarinov will claim the post of city manager that will be instituted soon. In Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky the city-manager will appear by the beginning of summer. Supreme Council of United Russia head Boris Gryzlov on Tuesday stated that the leaders of party branches who in the March 13 elections received a considerably worse results than expected will be dismissed. And Mayor Sergei Sobyanin who headed the branch of United Russia began to introduce corrections to the city budget in accordance of city program. Duma today is expected to endorse its statement in connection with the situation in Libya. The brief examines a draft that has been submitted by the S. D. International Affairs Committee. About 50 percent of crimes committed last year have remained unsolved, Dmitry Medvedev stated in his speech at the enlarged session of Interior Ministry on Tuesday. Kommersant outlines its content, focusing on several priority tasks set by the president. The Investigative Committee of Russia (SKR) on Tuesday reported about the beginning of conducting a pre-investigative check-up connected with the loss satellites GLONASS-M in December of 2010. SKR believes that Roskosmos bureaucrats could abuse their duties. Kommersant details the case. Eleven parents of wanted rebels from the Baksansk district of Kabardino-Balkaria through mass media have applied to their sons with a request to lay down their arms and voluntarily arrive at premises local law-enforcement bodies.
Former deputy City Council of Gus-Khrustalny Andrei Kashin has been arrested within the framework of local criminal groups investigation activity. Kommersant examines their crimes. The approach of sowing campaign gradually begins to affect the grain prices : over the past week even buckwheat in short supply went down in price (its price of a ton decreased by over 2 000 rubles). Kommersant cites other figures to illustrate the point. The main manager of budget means for the first time has officially opposed the law concerning state procurements: the Presidium of Sciences Academy Siberian Department on the eve of discussion in the gvt concept of Federal Contract System. "The oil boom" may cost the OESR countries additional 0.5 percent of inflation by 2012. The short-term influence of oil upsurge of inflation on Russia will be stronger than on OESR countries, investment banks assert. Kommersant comments on results of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's negotiations in Slovenia, focusing on the signed documents. The military operation in Libya against the regime of Muammar Gaddafi has run up against the first serious difficulties. The operation has caused an ever growing counteraction and serious differences inside the coalition. Kommersant examines them in detail. The Central Bank has announced the creation of the department of financial stability that has been headed by Vladimir Chistyukhin, Deputy Director of the Central Bank's Department of Banking Regulation and Surveillance. The National Banking Council (NBS) has allowed the privatization of the shares of Sberbank. NBS, a collegial body of the Central Bank, has allowed the Central Bank to sell its 7.58 percent of shares of Sberbank. Brief.
The International Union of Protection of Intellectual Property recommends the Russian gvt to create a special unit in the "K Board of the Interior Ministry for cracking down on Internet -piracy. Kommersant comments on these recommendations. Sberbank is the first among Russian banks to have published its accounting report for 2010 to MSFO. The record net profit -- 181.6 billion rubles-- was contributed to the bank by the reduced spending on reserves. The quality of Sberbank's credit portfolio really improved, but in the fourth quarter of 2010 the bank wrote off part of problem debts and increased the share of restructured credits. One of Russia's large broker companies -- BKS-- intends to create an investment bank. Its plan is to diversify its business and to change completely its corporate structure. The founders of Don-Stroi, Maxim Blazhko and Dmitry Zelenov have managed to preserve control over the developer of the commercial realty-- the company DS Development ( its portfolio has over 800 thousand square meters). Its main creditor--Sberbank-- has agreed to restructure a $700 million debt for five years and is willing to give another $100 million to complete the construction of the trade center "Oruzhheiny". Kommersant examines the Moscow outdoor advertising market in 2010 when it amounted to 16.56 billon rubles. German Metro Group before the end of this year will make a decision on the usefulness of the sale of the Real network, head of Directors Board stated on Tuesday. Metro can either sell the whole network or attract a partner for its s development. Cellular operators are willing to develop in Russia quite a new technology of Internet-television--OTT (over the Top). Unlike IPTV it allows the operators to deliver services not only to their Internet-users but also to the users of other networks.