Moskovskiye Novosti - The approaching elections make Russians less tolerant

The approaching elections make peoples ever less tolerant toward bureaucrats' promises. Thus, young parents in all large cities of the country over the weekend staged several hunger strikes and acts of protest. Moskovskiye novosti describes such acts and their demands. The parliament of Georgia on May 20 officially acknowledged the genocide Circassians in the Russian empire. Moskovskiye Novosti comments on the decision Georgian parliament. Businessman Mikhail Prokhorov will officially head the Right Cause party on June 25, which will be officially announced at the congress of this party. Prokhorov will most probably change the name of party. Moskovskiye Novosti reveals his plans. The Moscow ombudsman reported that the number of holes Muscovites over the recent four years has grown by almost 2.5 times. Tatyana Kochetova, spokeswoman in the administration Moscow ombudsman, comments on the situation. Nikolai Petrov an expert in the Scientific Council Moscow Carnegie Center, reveals the essence of the so-called extremely managed democracy.
Moskovskie Novosti says Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin and Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin are again unable to come to an agreement on how to change the tax burden on the oil and gas industry. Sechin and the Energy Ministry have criticized practically all proposals Finance Ministry, through which the ministry intended to increase the budget revenues in the next three years. Gazprom head Alexei Miller and Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko on Wednesday will bring to Brussels the presentation of the gas - transportation project South Stream. The chosen moment is very successful since the realization of the Nabucco project in early May was postponed to an indefinite time, see story in Moskovskiye novosti. Neither high oil prices nor the president's initiatives to improve the investment climate were able to stop the outflow of capital abroad. On Friday First Deputy Head Central Bank Gennady Melikyan announced that the net outflow of capital in April amounted to $7.8 billion.