Kommersant - the airline Rusair passenger jet Tu-134A-3 with 52 passengers on board crashed

The passenger jet Tu-134A-3 making a charter flight from Moscow to Karelia with 52 passengers on board crashed outside Petrozavodsk killing 44 people. Seven passengers and a stewardess survived by miracle. Kommersant describes the jet Tu-134 tragedy and possible reasons behind it. The annual meeting Norilsk Nickel shareholders again ended with a scandal. The newly-elected Board of Directors satisfied the conflicting main shareholders of the company --Interros (about 30 percent) and Rusal (25 percent). But the Board is headed by Interros top-manager Andrei Bugrov rather than by formally independent Rusal-nominated Director Alexander Voloshin. The Moscow Khamovnichesky District Court rejected the suit of Vasily Yakemenko, head of the Federal Agency for the Affairs of the Youth, against Kommersant special correspondent Oleg Kashin, spin doctor Alexander Morozov and the newspaper Noviye Izvestia, who commented on Yakemenko's version of a life attempt on Oleg Kashin in November of 2010. Kommersant comments on the court's decision. The European Court of Human Rights admitted that the creation police database "Storozhevoi Kontrol" violates the European Human Rights Convention. Kommersant examines this database, saying who reported to the Court about it. Moscow City Court judges for the first time in public made public their stands on issues connected the verdict by the second case of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev. Vladimir Usov and Yelena Arychkina, who considered a complaint against the verdict stated that Judge Viktor Danilkin had written it himself. Khodorkovsky's lawyer Vadim Klyuvgant. See full story in Kommersant.
Observers from the Democratic Institutions and Human Rights Bureau of OSCE may take part in the monitoring of the State Duma elections in Russia. A group of experts that will assess the situation in Russia and will determine the format of its future mission may come already in August. Central Election Commission head Vladimir Churov has proposed to the Bureau to decide when and how many observers it should send to Russia. Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin announced the creation public council attached to his ministry and held the first founding session of the new consultative body that endorsed its team and its leadership. Kommersant examines the aims and tasks new body. Rosstat has reported about a rapid growth of capital investments: in May of 2011: by May of 2010 they grew by 7.4 percent. How do analysts explain this growth? Ukraine's President Viktor Yanukovich at the PACE session in Strasbourg made a speech , in which he assured the parliament that he would make his country still more democratic, would defend mass media, would not suspend integration into EU and would cooperate with NATO. Kommersant comments on his speech. Belarussian authorities have threatened to the European Union reply measures after Brussels imposed new sanctions against Minsk. Three Belarussian companies (they are named) for the first time have been sanctioned -- Brussels is sure that they belong to businessman Vladimir Peftiyev, the main sponsor of the Lukashenko regime. Vneshekonombank (VEB) has refused to finance the Fiat project in Russia. How has VEB head Vladimir Dmitriyev explained his refusal? Gazprom, SIBUR and Sayanskkhimplast have signed an agreement on the construction of facilities in the Irkutsk region for processing gas from the Kovykta deposit. The VTB bank that owns 32.5 percent in the POLIEF producer, stated that it reduced its share down to zero. It is unclear to whom has it sold its shares?
The second day in the Le Bourget air show ended with a scandal around Aeroflot's orders. The company announced about a sharp worsening of relations the European Airbus aviation concern that up to now delivered the majority of planes to it. Kommersant reveals the essence of the scandal. The auto - dealer - the Auto Cell company - will place its advertisements in the Moscow metro. On Tuesday it obliged to annually transfer to the city almost 2.38 billion rubles. The Central Bank will exercise control over the business reputation of banking top-managers not only when they are appointed but also during their subsequent and former activity. Kommersant comments on this measure, focusing on its aim. ALROSA and Evraz Group are completing the negotiations on a joint development of Yakutian iron ore deposits of GMK Timir (belongs to the diamond-extracting company). Former staff intelligence officer Mattias Varnig is continuing his career in the Gazprom structures. Having retained the post of head of Nord Stream AG, he headed the monopoly supplier of Central Asian gas to Europe. The company with the volume of annual sales exceeding $2 billion ensures 20 percent of Gazprom export to countries rather than the former Soviet republics. Kommersant says French Alstom has SIGNED A FRAME AGREEMENT ON COOPERATION WITH RENOVA GROUP in the sphere of generating equipment. Alstom has also signed a joint stock agreement with RusHydro on the production of hydro energy equipment.