Everyone will be checked

President Dmitry Medvedev instructed the Prosecutor General's Office and the control department of his administration to check state corporations. There are eight state corporations in Russia: the Deposit Insurance Agency (DIA), Vnesheconombank (VEB), the Fund for Assistance to the Development of Housing and Communal Services, Olympstroy, Rusnano, Rosatom, Russian Technologies, as well as Avtodor, formed, as it recalls, Kommersant”, after Medvedev announced that state corporations should ultimately turn into joint-stock companies. It has been noted more than once that each state corporation has its own specific features. It is not surprising that they are planned to be transformed in different ways: for example, the authors of the presidential council initiative plan to transform Rosatom and Olimpstroy into government bodies. VEB, DIA, Russian Technologies and Rusnano - into business companies with 100% participation, and the Fund for Assistance to the Development of Housing and Communal Services - into the fund itself. As Kommersant reports, state corporations are not afraid of inspections and, in general, doubt the feasibility of the reforms. Thus, Rosatom believes that the idea of ​​returning to the times when the corporation was a ministry is yesterday, and the form of a state agency is not convenient for consolidating the reporting of nuclear industry enterprises. In the state corporation, according to Rosatom, decisions are made and implemented faster than in other structures. The newspaper's sources in several state corporations, without conspiring, stated that the initiator of increased attention to them is the Ministry of Finance, which, due to the budget deficit, wants to take control of as many funds as possible. A source in the government apparatus confirmed that they look at the inspection of state corporations “from the point of view of the budget process”: they say, the president wants to understand how much state corporations really need the funds that they requested for 2010. A source close to the presidential administration told the newspaper that different decisions will most likely be made regarding different state corporations. At the same time, he noted that inspections are in no way connected with budget savings.