English Kommersant BP chief Robert Dudley attended a meeting Russian Geographical Society

BP chief Robert Dudley attended a meeting Russian Geographical Society headed by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. After that Dudley met with Putin for negotiations. Kommersant english comments on their results Vimpelcom Ltd ( manages operators Vimpelcom and Kievstar - joint assets of Alfa-Group and Norwegian Telenor) on Friday closed the deal to merge with Wind Telecom of Egyptian billionaire Nagib Saviris. On that day Alfa-Group announced it would sell a considerable part of privileged shares of Vimpelcom. As a result, Saviris may become an owner of a large voting share in the united company. President Dmitry Medvedev today is expected to come back from the session Council in Irkutsk. The head of state for the first time will land in Sheremetyevo, where on Friday the special flight detachment "Rossia" servicing the leaders moved from Vnukovo. If Leningradskoye Shosse is closed due to the passage of the presidential motorcade, motorists will have hard Monday. Federation Council Speaker Sergei Mironov at the Fifth Congress of A Just Russia on Saturday passed over the post of the party leader to Nikolai Levichev, head of Just Russia faction in Duma. Mironov in the party will retain wide duties and will head party lists the elections to the Duma and to the parliament of St. Petersburg. Party sources do not exclude that Federation Council Speaker Sergei Mironov was made to choose: either the party or the speaker post.
The results March 13 elections Saratov region have caused a high-profile scandal and six criminal cases of the facts connected with falsifying election documents. Kommersant english gives details, saying experts call these developments the lesson of United Russia. First Vice-Premier of Tuva Sholban-ool Irgit has given up his post due to the criminal proceedings instituted against him due to his work at the post of head of the agro-industrial complex " Uryankhai". Two anti-corruption rallies of "Nashi" and "Parnas" took place in Moscow on Saturday. Kommersant english features these protests, saying that participants in the second rally from the opposition Party of People's Freedom demanded Putin's resignation. In Kommersant English interview Viktor Ivanov, Federal Narcotics Control Service Director, comments on the anti- drug initiatives of his department. Prisoners Number 10 Krasnokamenskaya Colony in Zabaikalsky Krai, in which Mikhail Khodorkovsky stayed in 2005-2006, in the early hours of the morning on Sunday set alight the building in protest against the inhuman living conditions in colony. Rosstat registered the growth of industrial production in Russia in March of 2011 by 5.3 percent as compared with March of 2010. Despite the fact such growth rates output of industrial products have been the minimum ones over the recent 15 years, authorities and experts are now confidently expecting a continuation post-crisis restoring growth in the next several years. The Economic Development Ministry that recently increased its annual forecast of industrial production from 4.1 up to 5.4 percent has also noticed the positive signals in industry.
The Federal Migration Service (FMS) on Saturday presented a draft concept of migration policy up to 2025 that in essence is immigrant policy - i.e., practically aimed at attracting to the country of new employees from other countries both for permanent residence and for temporary employment. The revolutionary ideas concept were made public by FMS head himself Konstantin Romodanovsky. The gvt is preparing to cut budget expenses in 2012 without excessive noise. Within the framework of the struggle with inflated expenses in the gvt correcting the content of the federal purpose-oriented programs, it plans to toughen the rules of providing housing to servicemen and other siloviki. And the gvt at the same time has already cut many other planned expenses. Kommersant english examines them in detail. President Dmitry Medvedev on Sunday visited Hong Kong with the main aims of studying its financial experience for building the international financial center, of discussing the listing of Russian companies on the local exchange and also of attracting Hong Kong investors to Russia. Kommersant English features the president's visit. Polimetall this year may lower its guide by the production of gold by 10 percent. The company is changing the time of launching one of its large projects - the Amur hydro-metals combine ( AGMK) that should begin to process iron-ore from the Albazino deposit. Therefore, the first gold of GMK now should be expected not earlier than the first quarter of 2012. Five companies at once are suing the State Radiofrequencies Commission (GKRCh) demanding 1.5 billion rubles. Their co-owner - entrepreneur Yevgeny Roitman - has already won from GKRCh the 4G frequencies in the range of 1900-1920 MGts. The new suits can be connected with his claims for a new range - more promising - 2.5-2.7 GGts. The first serial Russian regional planes SSJ are transferred to contractors with a delay of three years. Tomorrow Armavia will receive its plane and in May - Aeroflot All in all, this year "Civil Planes of Sukhoi" (GSS) plans to deliver 12 planes.
The French investment corporation - Direct Group - is entering the Russian micro-financing market. It has already created a subsidiary specializing in providing loans to people who cannot hope to receive a credit in bank. Companies intending to enter the market of micro-financing may run up against tough limits of its new regulator. The draft Finance Ministry's order establishing demands for capital adequacy of micro-financial organizations may exclude 25 percent of the existing players and make several scores of claimants correct their plans. NOVATEK, Itera and Summa Capital Group have submitted their bids to Rosnedra for taking part in the competitions to sell oil and gas sectors on Yamal. The aggregate resources sectors exceed 2 trillion cubic meters, and they have been endorsed by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as a raw-material base for producing liquefied gas on Yamal. The gvt and Russian Railways on the parity basis are launching a joint venture in charge of re-building the small ring the railway into a passenger highway connected with the other types of transportation. Mayor Sergei Sobyanin and RZD head Vladimir Yakunin today will meet to discuss the project. The investment company Russian Media Ventures (RMV) that was created by the STS Channel founder Peter Gervi ( Sp? ) and former shareholders of Video International may sell its main business - the leading advertising network of plazma monitors Screen Media. Who would like to buy it? The St. Petersburg plant Bravo Premium, one of the five producers of soft -alcoholic drinks in Russia, has resumed work after a two-month interval. The number of mergers and absorptions in the world since the start of this years has dramatically increased. The companies ever more frequently finance the whole deal or part of it by cash. Kommersant english cites concrete figures to illustrate the point.