Kommersant Secretary - General Council of Europe Turbjern Yagland

Secretary-General Council of Europe Turbjern Yagland (Sp?) and Constitutional Court head Valery Zorkin at the First International Legal Forum in St. Petersburg called on President Dmitry Medvedev to restructure the vertical of Russia's judicial system in such a way that the high national courts could become an obligatory instance allowing citizens to apply to the European Court of Human Rights. Dmitry Medvedev did not exclude such changes, but warned that this will also affect the procedures of fulfilling international courts' decisions. Kommersant features the forum, its participants and its decisions. The Federal Tax Service (FNS) and the Federal Narcotics Control Service are reconstructing their rest homes for 3 billion rubles at the expense of means allocated for the Winter Olympic Gamers-2014. Kommersant reveals their construction and reconstruction plans. Fatima Yevloyeva, sister of suicide bomber Magomed Yevloyev, whose terrorist act in Airport Domodedovo together with him killed 37 people , and also their fellow countryman Umar Aushev from Ali-Yurta who were released from Lefortovo Prison, returned home to Ingushetia. The lawyers and Ingushetia's President Yunus-Bek Yevkurov are sure that their criminal prosecution has been dropped and that now they can return to a normal life. But their new criminal case separated from the terrorist one has been sent to the republic, in which they are accused of an illegal turnover of explosives. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met with Chuvashia's former President Nikolai Fyodorov, now Senator from Chuvashia , and proposed him to head the so far non-existent Institute of Social- Economic and Political Studies.
The Political Council of Right Cause scheduled the party's congress for June 25. It should elect businessman Mikhail Prokhorov the individual party leader. Its present co-leaders are willing to become ordinary party members. Prokhorov now is working over the party program that he is expected to propose to the congress. Kommersant published report about the state of the fuel market on May 9-15 shows that the first stage of petrol crisis may be considered completed: the prices in regions went down and petrol production this week went up. The draft bill imposing visa and financial sanctions against Russian bureaucrats responsible for violating human rights, including the rights for the freedom of assembly, fair court and democratic elections, has been submitted to the US Senate. How do Boris Nemtsov, co-head the Party of People's Freedom, and the State Duma view this initiative of American Senators. Alim Kabulov, chief guard of the gvt head and brother of South Ossetia's President Eduard Kokoity , was killed in a night club of Vladikavkaz. Oleg Ikayev, state guard officier, was also killed. Twelve out of the 14 bandits from the gang of skinheads of Alexei Voyevodin were found guilty of committing over 20 crimes due to ethnic hatred in the City Court of St. Petersburg. Kommersant examines some of their crimes. Prizes named after famous cardiologists Alexander Bakulev and Vladimir Burakovsky were awarded on Friday to several outstanding heart surgeons (their names are given). Photo caption.