Kommersant: Once more professional intelligence officer may appear in Rosneft

Once more professional intelligence officer may appear in Rosneft Vladimir Putin's old acquaintance Mattias Varnig, who worked in the intelligence service of the GDR. Now he heads the construction project the Nord Stream gas pipeline and is a member of Overseeing Council of VTB and Board of Directors Rossia bank. The Credit Suisse and Troika Dialog consortium has presented a Maria project including new recommendations concerning the further development of Airport Sheremetyevo taking into consideration its merger with Airport Vnukovo. Kommersant examines the project. Moscow authorities intend starting July 1,2011 to raise the price of auto technical inspection , which seemingly will not make auto owners indignant. Kommersant says why. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in Stockholm frankly made it clear that he was well aware of how the problem elections-2012 would be resolved. He or Dmitry Medvedev will announce their decision when they consider it necessary. Kommersant comments on results of Putin's negotiations with the leadership of Sweden. Dmitry Medvedev conducted an emergency session with the members of the federal gvt that was devoted to an anti-fire crackdown. The president was displeased with the situation after he listened to several reports delivered by bureaucrats in charge of the fire problems. Kommersant examines the president's remarks and recommendations.
Gardening caused a conflict between United Russia (UR) and A Just Russia. What made United Russia indignant was A Just Russia leader Sergei Mironov's participation in conference of the Gardeners Union of Russia. In the opinion of UR, the conference was aimed splitting the gardening movement. Eduard Limonov, the leader of the unregistered party Another Russia has stated his intention to announce his candidacy for the presidential elections-2012. Kommersant examines several income and property declarations of several regional governors, saying that Ingushetia's president is much poorer than its prime minister. Prosecutor - General Yury Chaika in the Federation Council reported to Senators about how his department was cracking down on law violation, corruption, poor - quality investigation, terrorism and extremism. He also told about the presence of friction with the Investigative Committee. The Moscow City Court on May 17 will consider the defense's appeals concerning the verdict on the second criminal case of ex-head of Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky and former head of MFO Menatep Platon Lebedev, Anna Usachova, Press Secretary of the Moscow City Court, reported. Greenpeace on Wednesday spread its statement that assures that the Olympiade-2014 may not correspond to the status of "green". Greenpeace believes that the project of OAO "Yevraziisky" connected with the construction of a plant burning the silt sediment in the Adler district of Sochi " directly contradicts the principle of zero waste stated by the Organizing Committee Sochi-2014. Power authorities at the four sessions - in Kremlin, gvt White House, FAS and Energy Ministry - on Wednesday discussed the problem of unexpected fuel shortage in several districts of the country. No decisions were made, Kommersant reported. The intermediate decisions should be announced today by Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin. Meanwhile, it is late to resolve the problem: the market refuses to observe Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's ban to raise prices.
The Federal Tax Service at an enlarged session on Wednesday discussed the results of its activity in the first quarter of this year. The gvt starting Jan. 1, 2012 plans to impose big fines (their sizes are given) for the absence of the navigation system GLONASS in commercial special transportation means. The court trial over Andrei Sannikov, the former candidate to the presidency of Belarus, began in Minsk on Wednesday. He is accused of organizing riots in Minsk in December last year. He may be sentenced to 15 years in prison. The scattered Ukrainian opposition got united to mark, in its opinion, the sad date -- the anniversary ratification of Kharkov agreements with Moscow that extended the stay in Crimea Black Sea Fleet up to 2042 in exchange for the gas discount to Kiev . Dislike for the Russian Fleet and for Viktor Yanukovich , who has allowed it to stay for long in Ukraine ,has united such irreconcilable opponents as ex-President Viktor Yushchenko and ex-Prime Minister Julia Tymoshenko. First Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov presided over a session of gvt commission in charge of regulating the alcohol market . The session considered amendments to the related 171-FZ bill. Kommersant looks at the main ones and a proposal from United Russia. MTS may pay out its shareholders 30.05 billion rubles in dividends for 2010. The KamAZ Board of Directors has endorsed the company' s new business-plan for 2011 and revised the strategy of development up to 2020. Sberbank reported about results of corporate crediting in the first quarter of this year.
Airport Domodedovo is preparing to place shares by closed subscription. The airport's road show for a limited circle of funds that will have the right to buy out shares worth $1 billion, i.e., about 20-25 percent took place last week. The final decision on placing shares should be made after the May Day holidays. The Melodia firm that in Soviet times was the only sound-recording company in the USSR worked ineffectively in 1992-2009, the Audit Chamber reported. Rosimushchestvo on Wednesday chose a new director-general for Melodia -- Andrei Krichevsky, who will prepare it for privatization. United Rostelecom has signed an agreement on a purchase of 39.87 percent of shares of Bashkiria's large telecommunication operator --Bashinformsvyaz--for 3.64 billion rubles. Kommersant examines the first deal of Rostelecom. The Central Bank intends not only to intensify control over banking risks but also to extend several indulgences for loss-making banks. The Central Bank up to the end of this year will not take into consideration the level of banks' profitability in assessing their economic position. Group VTB in 2010 earned 54.8 billion rubles, which corresponds the group's forecasts. Its acquirement of Transcreditbank and Bank of Moscow did not manage to influence its profit. Sberbank plans by mid-May to sign documents on acquiring the investment company Troika Dialog, deputy head of Sberbank's Management Board Andrei Donskikh reported.
The bank Vozrozhdeniye net profit in first quarter of 2011 grew by 44 percent as compared with the similar period of 2010. TNK-BP is renewing the team of its management board. Four top-managers ( their names and posts are given) before the end of May will lose their posts. Uralkaly has endorsed the main principles of top-managers motivation program. It is counted for three years since the moment of company's merger with Silvinit. French group Vinci is again willing to build parkings in Moscow and announced its plans to build 20 parkings as a minimum with general cost of about $300 million. Kommersant reveals the company's plans. The Mail.ru Group founders and the Tiger Global Fund have sold 6.65 percent of shares of the company worth $450 million without awaiting the end of the action the agreement on limiting the sale of securities. Not a single world leading pharmaceutical company is in a hurry to produce their medicines in Russia. The Supplements is devoted to the Venture Industry and its place on the market.