Komersantru - FSB has proposed to ban access for the Russian users Skype

The FSB has proposed to ban access for the Russian users to the Skype Internet-telephonia and also to the e-mail services Gmail and Hotmail. The FSB insists that they are threatening to national security: the special services are unable to efficiently get access to the information of their users, and, therefore , these services are particularly popular among criminals. The FSB's stand on this issue has not been officially supported so far, Komersantru say. An ending has seemingly come lingering shareholders' conflict of Bank of Moscow. Its head and its large minority Andrei Borodin reported about the sale of 20.3 percent bank's shares. But the Nordic Yards company rather than VTB already owning 46.48 percent of its shares has become the buyer package. VTB announced that the owners of over 70 percent of Bank of Moscow at the next shareholders' meeting would elect VTB protégé Mikhail Kuzovlev its president. Andrei Borodon will evidently lose this post. Komersantru features the ceremony of giving awards Prize "Innovatsia" in the Moscow Garazh Center for Contemporary Culture on April 7, focusing on the winner art-group 'Voina" and saying why its victory is surprising. New powerful quakes were registered in north-east of Japan on Thursday evening , having left millions of families without electricity and gas and raising the issue of a possible repetition Fukuthima-1 scenario in other power plants. Presidential adviser Yevgeny Yuryev on Friday stated the state should support only those NKOs are doing good rather than harm or those doing nothing. This statement was made at the president's meeting with representatives of "beneficial" NKOs receive grants from the state on social projects.
The Sports and Tourism Ministry in its site on Friday posted recommendations were prepared by the Interior Ministry and the FSB directly tell about the "subversive activity of foreign NKO". Full story in Komersantru. Komersantru say Rosstat's new information for 2010 taking into consideration the preliminary data by the results of the latest census population has shown despite record lowering poverty level , the number of people living on 5600 rubles a month and less did not reduce as compared with 2009 and amounted to 18.5 million people. At the same time, experts in the Higher School of Economics in their report "The Level and Way of Life Population in 1989-2009" note the share poor population returned to the pre-crisis level and the level of life over the past 20 years grew by 1.5 times. Doku Umarov, the ringleader armed underground in the North Caucasus, on Thursday contacted by telephone with the North Caucasus editorial office of the Liberty radio station and in person rejected information about his death. The State Duma passed ( in the second reading) the amendments to the Code on Administrative Offences that for the first time establish dependence size fine on the place of violating the road traffic safety rules. The largest fines - up to 3000 rubles - starting 2012 will be paid by residents and guests of Moscow and St. Petersburg. The conflict for the right to own the small Moscow restaurant "Mechta" that led to a mass fight with the use of arms on April 7 caused a scandal in the Interior Ministry. Among the detainees were former and active officers elite special-assignment unit internal troops who were specially recruited by one of the sides of the conflict for a forceful seizure restaurant.