The authorities are looking for mechanisms for the development of Siberia and the Far East. The idea of ​​the Ministry of Economic Development to create a state corporation with a wide range of powers has not yet met with support from other departments and businesses operating in the region. Everyone fears that the next monster of state capitalism will become a source of corruption and a mechanism for seizing assets from private structures.

IDGC Holding OJSC and the Federal Grid Company of the Unified Energy System (FGC UES) are expected to merge into a single national grid company, Acting Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Igor Sechin said on May 14, as reported by RIA Novosti .

The board of directors of OJSC Ural-Siberian Main Oil Pipelines named after D.A. Chernyaev (Uralsibnefteprovod, a subsidiary of OJSC AK Transneft) appointed an annual meeting of shareholders for June 8 and recommended not to pay dividends for 2011, the company reported The meeting of shareholders will be held according to the standard agenda. The closing date of the register is May 4.

Italy placed four issues of government bonds for a total of 5.25 billion euros, which corresponds to the upper limit of the target range. In particular, for the first time in 7 months, securities with a maturity of over 10 years were placed, Bloomberg reports. The yield on the largest tranche - three-year bonds worth 3.5 billion euros - amounted to 3.89% per annum, little changed from the April result of 3.91%.

Angela Merkel's party showed the worst result in regional elections in North Rhine-Westphalia. She received only 26% of the votes. Kommersant FM correspondent in Berlin Oleg Zinkovsky discussed the situation with host Andrei Norkin. — How serious is this failure for Angela Merkel and for the party? — This is probably a serious setback, if only because North Rhine-Westphalia is not just some region of Germany, but the most densely populated - 18 million people live there.

In Zhukovsky, the camp of defenders of the Tsagovsky forest was demolished By decision of the city administration, hired workers destroyed the tent camp of activists who oppose deforestation for the construction of a new road. Police officers cordoned off the area and detained several defenders of the Tsagovsky forest. Natalya Znamenskaya, editor-in-chief of the Zhukovskie Vesti newspaper, told the details to presenter Anna Kazakova. –– Tell us how it all started.

Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Security and Anti-Corruption Alexander Khinshtein sent a request to Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Yuri Chaika to prosecute social network users who, during the so-called “March of Millions” in the capital, called for reprisals against police officers, Rosbalt reported on May 14.

NEW ARRIVALS The Peterhof State Museum-Reserve has expressed its readiness to take over the water supply system of its own fountains, which officially does not belong to anyone. The Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation announced for the first time that the unique pumpless water supply system, which was built almost 300 years ago, was left without owners and is gradually being destroyed. According to her information, the St.

260 1 min. ... May 17 The Dictator, a comedy by Larry Charles and Sacha Baron Cohen, is being released in Russia . Writer, producer and leading actor Sacha Baron Cohen. Małgorzata Szumowska's drama "Revelations" is being released in Russia . Starring Juliette Binoche. May 18 The exhibition World Press Photo 2012 will open in the Vetoshny gallery . May 19 "Night at the Museum" will take place in Moscow . About 170 sites are taking part in the project this year.

Basketball players of Moscow CSKA lost to the Greek Olympiacos in the final match of the Euroleague. The decisive match of the Final Four, which took place in Istanbul, ended with a score of 62:61 in favor of Olympiacos. Serbian defender Milos Teodosic brought 15 points to CSKA. The most productive player of the match was Kostas Papanikolaou (18 points). Olympiacos has not become the strongest club in Europe since 1997. CSKA won the Euroleague in 2006 and 2008.

The recorders of the Russian Sukhoi SuperJet-100 plane, which crashed on May 9 near Mount Salak in West Java, will be delivered to Jakarta on May 14, RIA Novosti reports, citing Indonesian media. “The main obstacles in lifting the black boxes are difficult terrain and bad weather. However, combined teams of rescuers, military and police are already on the spot,” said Madya Daryatmo, head of the Indonesian National Search and Rescue Authority.

Georgy Kunadze Deputy Head of the Russian Foreign Ministry in 1991-1994 The new Russian president decided not to go to either the NATO meeting or the G8 summit in the United States. Probably made the right decision. What should he do there, what should he talk about? The fight against global terrorism does not occupy us much: we have enough of our own terrorists. Our interest in global financial problems is highly specialized and purely consumer: whether they will collapse the price of oil.

Canada was formed as a confederation of four provinces in 1867. Over time, it developed into a multinational democratic state consisting of ten provinces and three territories. The country ranks second in area in the world (after the Russian Federation). Canada is a federal state with a population of 34 million people. The form of government is a combination of constitutional monarchy and representative democracy. Canada has two official languages: English and French.

Former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko is satisfied with the medical care she receives at the Ukzzaliznytsia central clinical hospital in Kharkov, said Thomas Melia, Deputy Head of the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor of the US State Department, after a meeting with the ex-Prime Minister at the hospital. “Yulia Tymoshenko said that she is satisfied with the medical care she is currently receiving. The treatment is led by German doctor Lutz Harms.

The next festival "Cherry Forest" opened in Moscow Yesterday, “Landing of Vacationers” took place in Gorky Park - it was under this slogan that stars like Oleg Tabakov and Oleg Menshikov and officials like Sergei Kapkov and Sergei Sobyanin planted trees as part of the Cherry Forest open arts festival.