Kommersant the large - scale federal project of universal electronic card

The large-scale federal project of universal electronic card has acquired a competitor. Rostelecom together with large banks , including VTB 24, Bank of Moscow, Gazprombank and bank Rossia plans to open a remote access to state services. Why is Rostelecom's cooperation with banks beneficial read in Kommersant. A foreign top-manager will for the first time appear in the leadership of Aeroflot. Alitalia's Vice-President Jordjo Kallegari (Sp?) in charge of strategic development, has been proposed to develop strategy in Aeroflot. Some experts do not approver Aeroflot's choice,reminding Alitalia itself has avoided bankruptcy by miracle. Others approve this decision noting that now the Italian company is on the rise. The political situation in Georgia is very tense.The opposition in Tbilisi and Batumi over the weekend conducted the most massive protests over the recent two years that turned into clashes with police. Parliamentary Speaker Nino Burdjanadze at the head of several thousands of her supporters over central television announced the beginning of revolution. The opposition that has united many popular politicians has threatened to topple down the regime of Saakashvili on Wednesday. True, the president is in no hurry to return home from his trip to Hungary. The leadership of United Russia leader Vladimir Putin's public reception rooms will coordinate the work of the All-Russia People's Front (ONF). Besides that, the election headquarters has been practically transferred from the party to ONF that soon will have its office and management. Kommersant shows what all this has been done for.
VTsIOM sociologists in their latest opinion poll have found that Russians have lost interest in bureaucrats' income and property declarations. Kommersant says why. The leaders of Moscow branches LDPR, the KPRF, Yabloko and A Just Russia today will demand to replace Valentin Gorbunov, head of Moscow City Election Commission. Kommersant examines the reason, saying that in the opinion of experts to do it is hardly possible. A draft of amendments to the Civil Code, as its authors have expected, should be soon submitted to the State Duma by Dmitry Medvedev. His speech at the First St. Petersburg International Legal Forum was perceived by many as a support draft's authors, who refuse to copy in Russia the norms of the British law suiting the large business. The Institute of Social-Economic and Political Studies will be headed at Putin's initiative by Nikolai Fyodorov, Senator from Chuvashia and ex-head of this republic. The Institute will be in charge the election program of United Russia and All-Russia People's Front. The Central Election Commission not long before the State Duma elections will receive from the budget 1.05 billion rubles for an accelerated technical election system re-armament. On May 17 Putin signed a directive on allocating 12.6 billion rubles in three tranches up to 2015. What has caused such a technical re-armament of the election system answer in Kommersant. Personnel reshuffles may take place in A Just Russia party in connection with recalling s party leader Sergei Mironov from the Federation Council. Kommersant predicts some of them. The Moscow City Court has created a special commission in charge of observing the demands for state employees' official behaviour. Judge Alexei Knyazev has headed the Commission.
Two Dagestani policemen were killed in Khasavyurt over the weekend. The brief looks at how it happened. The Moscow Orthodox public on Bolotnaya Ploshchad on Saturday conducted a rally demanding to ban the gay-parade for ever. They called it a "march of psychological perverts". Kommersant describes gays' reply measure. Rosstat has made public its report about the state of the internal consumer and investment demand in April of 2011. Polled analysts interpret the report figures in a different way. Some see in them the reflection of high oil prices and others-- the reduction of the norm of accumulations and the growth of state investments. The only thing absent in the cited figures is a steady trend on the restoration of the economy. The State Duma on Friday passed ( in the first reading) the draft bill concerning the creation in Vneshekonombank of the agency for insuring the commercial and political risks of Russian exporters. The document was not unanimously supported by deputies. The International Council on Accounting Standards on May 12-13 endorsed four new standards within the framework of MSFO. Kommersant names all these standards, focusing on their essence. Rosstat has presented a report about the social and economic situation of Russia in April of 2011. The report shows that the situation with the population's real incomes is worsening. Kommersant gives concrete figures to illustrate the point. Rostelecom that now has consolidated the main state communications assets has prepared the strategy of development up to 2015. It supposes an increase in the proceeds by 1.5 times-- up to 431 billion rubles, which can demand investments worth 362 billion rubles. The operator intends to secure its leadership almost on all markets, except mobile vocal communications.
Micro-financing business demonstrating the growth rates is becoming attractive to serious portfolio investors. It has become known that the share in the Home Money company specializing in providing loans to people at home has been bought by Konstantin Nikolayev, co-owner and director-general of Group N-Trans, who is in top-100 most solvent Russian businessmen by Forbes magazine. The structure of the demand for gold has markedly changed lately - the exchange funds actively sold it, having decided to fix the profit, but these sales have been compensated with interest by private investors ( mainly Chinese and Indian ) having bought almost 370 tons of gold in the first quarter of this year. Inter RAO UES in Israel plans to build a complex processing slate and a heating power plant with a capacity of 150 MWt. The project cost is estimated at the level of $230 million. The company has already found a financial partner for it but does not elaborate on it. LUKoil's subsidiary LUKoil-Ekoenergo and the Italian ERG Renew company have signed an agreement on launching a joint venture LUKErg Renew, the Russian oil company reported. The shareholders' meeting of the Australian uranium - extracting Mantra Resources on Friday supported the absorption of the company by Russian Atomredmetzoloto (ARMZ, is part of Rosatom ). The buy-out of 100 percent of shares of the company was supported by 99.96 percent of shareholders. The pool of investors headed by National Media Group of Yury Kovalchuk on May 20signed a deal on buying from Alfa-Group 25.17 percent of the STS Media holding managed by the tele-networks of STS, Domashny and DTV. Itera has become a holding co-owner. The two leading tour operators in Europe -- TUI Travel and Thomas Cook in early May presented results of their work in the first six months 2010/2011 fiscal year when they lost much money due to the revolutions in Northern Africa and the Middle East. See full in Kommersant. The Supplement Trendkino is devoted to the 22nd Film Festival Kinotavr.