Kommersant - The Moscow City Court considered the appeal by former Yukos head Mikhail Khodorkovsky

The Moscow City Court on Tuesday considered the appeal by former Yukos head Mikhail Khodorkovsky and former MENATEP head Platon Lebedev and by their defense. They hoped President Dmitry Medvedev's says that Mikhail Khodorkovsky's release is in no way dangerous affect the The Moscow City Court's decision. But The Moscow City Court corrected its verdict having cut their prison term by one year. As a result, they will be released in 2016. Miklhail Prokhorov's banking project was presented in 2008 and that in 2009 attracted a group of authoritative businessmen who became its shareholders is stagnating now. The MFK bank is curtailing its business: its financial results do not any longer satisfy its shareholders. Kommersant says. IPO of Yandex passed on the upper border corridor - $25 per ADR (corresponds to one share). The whole company is estimated at $8 billion, and the volume placement amounted to $1,3 billion. Kommersant story describes the ADR trading on NASDAQ on Tuesday. The primaries to determine the candidate United Russia for the State Duma elections take place on Aug. 1 -Sept. 10. Their participants will be representatives from public organizations have been included into the All-Russia People's Front (ONF). Dmitry Peskov, Press Secretary of gvt head Vladimir Putin, reported the office and headquarters of ONF occupy the building of Moscow City Hall on Novy Arbat.
Sergei Mironov today will bid farewell with the Federation Council that he headed for ten years. His replacement has not been found so far. The Federation Council does not exclude that the acting Speaker Alexander Torshin work in this capacity up to the December regional elections as a minimum. Meanwhile, the deputy name, who will hand over his mandate to Mironov, was announced on Tuesday. The results of recent opinion poll conducted by VTsIOM show that 50 percent of respondents practically know nothing about the Federation Council ex-chairman. Kommersant comments on the results. The State Duma Information Policy Committee has drafted amendments for the second amendments law concerning the mass media. The Committee on Tuesday posted them on its site. The brief in Kommersant looks at some of them. Rosobrnadzor does not trust in high results of the State Unified Examination (EGE) that was passed in several regions ahead of schedule. As a result, these results will be revised. The Australian analytical organization - the Institute for Economics and Peace - has compiled Global Peace Index - the annual rating citizens peaceful and quiet life in 153 countries. The most peaceful country is Iceland, and Russia ranks 147th among these countries. Russia due to a great number of terrorist acts, the growth of organized crime and the serious military budget has been recognized as an aggressive country. Rospatent through the presidential decree before the end of this year will be renamed into the Federal Intellectual Property Service and receive the right to defend the intellectual property both in the civil and military spheres. Rospatent will be also in charge of registering the results of work by state order into patents.
The Health and Social Development Ministry Tatyana Golikova on Tuesday presented the long-awaited and long discussed mechanism of a recruitment of migrants from the CIS countries. It was a govermet commission. Kommersant examines the main document provisions. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin at the gvt session opened a formal process of forming the main federal budget characteristics draft for 2012 and for the planned period of 2013 and 2014. The gvt at the very beginning of this process plans to prepare the main parameters of the budget up to June 10, 2011. The Finance Ministry has prepared non-standard proposals on reducing the potential budget expenditure has emerged from the election promises gvt and the Kremlin. Full story in Kommersant. A large Russian delegation headed by Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko is arriving in Brussels today to discuss with European Commission officials the future of gas relations between Russia and the European Union. In his story written specially for newspaper Kommersant Gjunter Ettinger (Sp?), EU Energy Commissar, outlines his vision of the strategic aims of European energy policy. In Kommersant interview Abkhazian Prime Minister Sergei Shamba reveals the essence with the sanatorium "Sukhum", explaining what complicates Russia-Abkhazia relations. Yevrokhim has increased its consolidated net profit in the first quarter of 20121 by 2.5 times-- up to 11.3 billion rubles, which is stated in the company's accounting report. The Razgulyai holding would like to attract 3 billion -6 billion rubles for development during SPO in 2012-2013, the company's head Rustem Mirgalimov reports. The conflict connected with Surgutneftegaz's participation in the capital of Hungarian MOL is over. The Hungarian authorities are buying out a package Russian company that over the two years had been unable to get access to its asset.
OAO RusHydro, the sale of 7.9 percent of shares of which the state plans before 2013 is already seeking buyers for its securities .The company is in talks with Chinese Yangtze Power and China State Grid, Italian Enel, Spanish Iberdrola and French Electricite de France. This was stated by a source close to RusHydro. The official sales of iPAD2 in Russia begin already this Friday, May 27. The cost of the tablet varies between 18.99 thousand and 30.99 thousand. The start of the sales was reported by several sources familiar with the situation on the market. OAO Universal Electronic Card (UEK), the future operator of the project under this name, acquire new shareholders. UEK capital includes the Sitronix company and Troika Dialog. The Boards of Directors of Uralsib has recommended the shareholders' annual general meeting to endorse dividends at the size of 0.002393 rubles per share, the bank's news release says. The state in the Board of Directors of Gazprom this year receive seven places out of eleven. Gazprombank head Andrei Akimov is nominated to the Board that will be elected at the extraordinary shareholders' meeting scheduled for June 30. OAO Polyus Zoloto of Mikhail Prokhorov and Suleiman Kerimov have trusted production to a foreigner - James Newvenhays (Sp? ), former top-manager of Canadian SNG-Lavalin. The new manager will be in charge of management and coordination production process of all business-units of Polyus, being directly controlled by Mikhail Prokhorov. Full article in Kommersant.