Izvestija - helicopter-building companies have begun to discuss the possibility

Russian helicopter-building companies have begun to discuss the possibility of placing the domestic helicopters Ka-31 and Ka-52 on the ships of Mistral type. This was reported by the Vertolyoty Rossii holding read in Izvestija. Deputy Prime Minister Vyacheslav Volodin, head of headquarters the All-Russia People's Front (ONF), at the meeting with ONF trustees on June 14 stated that the work to collect proposals would last till Aug. 20. Then the whole collected information will be systematized for drafting the People's Program, with which United Russia (and together with it ONF representatives ) go to the elections. All ideas will be sent to the Institute for Social, Economic and Political Studies headed by Nikolai Fyodorov. Izvestija says the petrol shortage in Russia will last till 2015. The Energy Ministry accuses oil companies of this shortage and is hurriedly seeking methods to cope with the problem. Bureaucrats have two variants: to allow to sell low-quality fuel in Russia or to raise the excises. Entrepreneur Shalva Chigirinsky, head of the Russian Land developing company, in the tax service opinion, has personally underpaid about 16 million rubles to the state. Tax officials are trying to recover the debts through court. The Economic Development Ministry and the Central Bank are completing work to select investment consultants for selling state property in the next three years. The Central Bank on Tuesday officially revealed its plans with regard to Sberbank. Seventeen banks primordially offered their services to place 7.6 percent of shares of Sberbank, from which the Central Bank has selected five banks. Gazeta Izvestija names all the selected banks included in the privatization program for 2011-2013. Viktor Dvurechenskikh, head the Controlling -Audit Chamber of Moscow, on Wednesday stated that his structure had found shortcomings worth 220.4 billion rubles in the use the budget means in 2010. For comparison, the expenditure part of city budget-2010 amounted to about 1 trillion rubles. The most part of claims refers to the Moscow construction complex.
In an Izvestija interview Program Director Moscow Film Festival Kirill Razlogov talks about the competition films in the program and about festival participants. The festival will open on June 23. Customs control on the internal borders of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan will be suspended since July 1, 2011. Moscow and Minsk have equalized the import duties, which was impossible to do with Astana, the Federal Customs Service stated. What have experts warned against in this situation? Venezuela has received from Russia the first batch of 35 tanks T-72 B1. All in all. it should receive 92 tanks T-72. The new hardware was provided to Caracas within the framework of $4 billion credit issued by Moscow in 2009. The Federal Anti-Monopoly Service ( FAS) inspect payment systems working in Russia. The measure was initiated by State Duma deputies, who are displeased at very expensive services and at the opacity of settlements. Seventy-seven applications for commanding posts in the Agency for Strategic Initiatives (ASI) were submitted to the gvt a week after the beginning acceptance of applications on May 25. Izvestija looks at the ASI official site. The Supplement is devoted to Taxes and Law. The new Federal Law concerning the licensing of individual types of activity will take effect in November. Izvestia newspaper examines the main provisions of the document. Dagestan is considered to become soon a full-fledged "hot seat" delivering terrorists to all parts of Russia. But many people in the republic itself are sure that rebels in reality do not pursue the aims they themselves declare. Izvestija features a Dagestani village and its local residents. Flight tickets on internal routes prices in Russia may go down by almost 20 percent. Authorities agree to cancel VAT imposed on these transportations. This was stated by the transportation Ministry. Mikhail Fedotov, presidential Human Rights Council head, has proposed to toughen punishment to those, who hamper journalists' activity, especially when it is connected with violence. Izvestija describes the discussion of this issue, focusing on different official proposals. President Dmitry Medvedev today will begin his many-day visit to China, during which he take part in the summit of the BRIC states, will deliver a speech at the Asian Forum and will be the first Russian leader to visit Hong-Kong. The latter is interesting to Russia from the point of view of high technologies. Airport Domodedovo should not examine all passengers - there is no gvt decree on this. Such a conclusion was made on Tuesday by the Arbitration Court the Moscow region.
The Nizhny Novgorod region gvt has drafted a new bill concerning food security. Izvestija examines its aims. The parliament of Armenia has ratified the protocol on extending the period of staying the Russian military base in Gyumri up to 2046. This protocol was signed by Dmitry Medvedev in August of 2010 during his visit to that republic. Students' housing - campuses - may appear soon in Moscow, Mayor Sergei Sobyanin stated at the current International Forum "Career". Izvestija comments on his speech there. Teenagers' crime in Moscow in 2010 fell by 23 percent, Vladimir Kolokoltsev, head of the Moscow police, stated on Tuesday when he visited the Center for Temporary Stay of Juvenile Criminals. At the same time, experts note that juvenile bandits have become more cruel. The Moscow gvt has made a decision to allow small businesses to privatize the premises they lease with an area of up to 300 square meters. This is three times as much as the present standard. The Supplement is devoted to Moscow, focusing on its metro with its new security devices and with its new stations. Gvt head Vladimir Putin has tested a yo-mobile, the first hybrid car in Russia. It has not been certified yet, but it can be ordered already this month. Izvestija experts have assessed the prospects of this new auto and compared it with the similar previous projects. President Dmitry Medvedev at the session of the Security Council on Friday that was devoted to the aircraft industry set an ambitious task - Russia should take 10-15 percent of the world market of civil planes in 2020-2025. In an Izvestija interview Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev says how to achieve all this. In Izvestija interview Vladimir Asmolov, First Deputy Director-General of Rosenergoatom and Deputy Director of the Kurchatovsky Institute Research Center, talks about the present situation in the Japanese Fukushina-1 power plant. The expert community studying and collecting rare and ancient books has held the first international conference in the Pashkov House in Moscow. Izvestija describes the conference, its participants and the main report presented by Rospechat head Mikhail Seslavinsky. War veteran Vasily Kononov, over whom Latvian authorities conducted court of law, died in Riga at the age of 88 after a long and grave illness. The defense of the honest name of Vasily Makarovich will be continued in Strasbourg , as he himself wanted. In Izvestija interview his lawyer features the fate of this man. Petrol prices will inevitably grow, which will happen in spite of the wish oil companies and even gvt. The anti-monopoly agencies that struggled for price lowering now will be able to make them grow. The School of Young Journalist managed by the Cherity Fund of Alina Kabayeva has hosted several seminars that were attended by 100 people from different regions of Russia, and also from Ukraine and Kazakhstan. Izvestija describes the seminars. The Russia-Belarus union has been existing for 14 years already, but there is neither the unified state nor the single currency so far. Political observers Vitaly Dymarsky and Vladimir Ryzhkov in the news program of the Ekho Moskvy Radio Station shared their viewpoints.
President Dmitry Medvedev through his decree dismissed Colonel-General FSB Deputy Director Vyacheslav Ushakov. The decision was made by the warrant of FSB Director Alexander Bortnikov. The Interior Ministry presented today a new version of its internet-site - www.mvd.ru - that now has services making people's contacts with the law-enforcement bodies easy. Izvestija describes the new site. President Dmitry Medvedev in his residence Gorki on the eve of the Defender of the Fatherland Day met with officers and their wives to listen to their stories about how the military live. What did the president hear today from them? Moscow City Hall at a session with a presence of Mayor Sergei Sobyanin discussed variants of a reconstruction of Varshavskoye Shosse. Moscow chief architect Alexander Kuzmin outlined his proposal. The cited map shows its way. The first and the only USSR President, Mikhail Gorbachev, on March 2 will turn 80. At the news conference he focused on his political assessments. Full article today. The economic crisis for putting into effect the Russian energy strategy has created many difficulties. Specialists, experts and politicians add to these difficulties problems that, in their opinion, will emerge in connection with the beginning of realizing another stage of forming the European energy market, called the "third legal energy package for the internal market of the European Union". How real are these problems? What should be done to eliminate them? The answers to these questions are contained in Izvestija story by State Duma Deputy Speaker Valery Yazev, Russian Gas Community head.