Izvestiia: The Organizing Committee "Sochi-2014" has determined

The Organizing Committee "Sochi-2014" has determined who and how will be able to sell commodities with Olympic symbols. The official sales will begin only in the fall, and everything on sale now is illegal. Izvestiia examines how legal and illegal Olympic business works. President Dmitry Medvedev on May 18 will hold a large news conference, the first one during his presidency. By Izvestiia's information, the news conference will take place in Skolkovo. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin at the First Global Ministerial Conference on Healthy Lifestyle on Thursday promised that in the next three years almost half a trillion rubles would be allocated on the development the national project "Health". The story in Izvestiia comments on Putin's speech at the conference. The national debt agency of Sweden has allowed businessman Vladimir Antonov to join the shareholders the Spyker company that owns the Saab auto producer. This happened on the following day after the visit of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to this country.
Russia has preserved stability in the conditions of the crisis, but the state of insurance sector causes questions. Such conclusions have been made by the International Monetary Fund in its report, excerpts from which were read out at the gvt presidium on Thursday by Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin. VTB paid out bonuses to top-managers for 2010 worth 3.8 billion rubles, which is by 18.75 percent more than in 2009, VTB reported in its accounting report. Russians on their bank accounts today keep 10 trillion rubles, the Central Bank reported. Ben Bernanke, head of the Federal Reserve System of the USA, on Thursday gave the first news conference in its 97-year history. He told Americans how the administration was saving the national economy.
Izvestia news story features how the Moscow Gorky Park of Culture and Rest is changing its looks under the guidance of its Director Sergei Kapkov. In an Izvestiia interview he talks about the new park concept and about its reconstruction project. In Izvestiia interview Oleg Ostapenko, the Space Troops Commander, says whether a compromise with Europeans is possible in the sphere of creating the unified anti-aircraft defense system and what we shall do such a compromise is absent. The Russian army in 2015 receive a new battle tank "Armada" that will replace the present tank T-90. This was stated by Lieutenant-General Yury Kovalenko. He told in detail about the advantages of the new tank.