Russia 110601 Basic Political Developments

National Economic Trends

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  Russian Manufacturing Growth Slows to ‘Near Stagnation’ in May
  
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  Minimum monthly wage in Russia goes up.
  
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  Russia expects 40-percent surge in grain output in 2011
  
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  CBR expects $30-35bn capital outflow for 2011
  
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  Corporate loans up 3.9%, retail loans grew 5.5% in 4M11
  

Business, Energy or Environmental regulations or discussions

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  Gazprom, Polymetal, Rosneft, VimpelCom: Russian Equity Preview
  
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  Regulator wants Russian IPOs to stay at home
  
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  Russian Railways plans stg Eurobond top-up by end-Aug
  
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  Russian Railways to offer Eurobond
  
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  Sberbank mulls buying back own shares from market
  
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  Central Bank to sell 7.6% in Sberbank in September
  
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  Vimpelcom reports higher net profit in Q1
  
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  Rostelecom BoD greenlights purchase of 40% in Bashinformsvyaz
  
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  Rostelecom BoD greenlights purchase of 40% in Bashinformsvyaz
  
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  Mail Group cancels contract with Yandex.Money
  
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  NLMK receives license to explore and mine coal at Zhernovsky Gluboky field
  
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  GM to double output at St Petersburg plant by 2012
  
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  Russia’s Supply of iPad 2 Sells Out in Two Days
  
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  Visa and MasterCard will be shown mercy - No restrictions will be applied to the operations of the international payment systems in Russia 
  
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  Month Ahead: June 11 - Strategy and preview of selected corporate and industry events
  
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  Odfjell got $50 million from Sevmash
  

Activity in the Oil and Gas sector (including regulatory)

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  Russia FinMin sas no gas tax hike for independents
  
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  Shell and Rosneft in talks about Arctic deal
  
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  Lukoil - Gaidamaka indicates growth to be "robust" from 2014
  
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  Lukoil may buy ConocoPhillips' share in Kashagan, speculates RBC
  
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  Six petrol trucks involved in eliminating oilspill on Sakhalin
  

Gazprom

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  Akimov, Mau Named State Representatives On Gazprom Board
  
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  Gazprom to agree on price conditions with China by 10 June - pricing terms still uncertain
  
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  Shtokman shareholders want more Russian participation
  

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Basic Political Developments

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Itar-Tass news outlook for Wednesday, June 1.

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MEDVEDEV’S VISIT TO ITALY

ROME – Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will go to Italy on a two-day working visit to take part in the festivities devoted to the 150th anniversary of Italy’s unification. During his visit he will hold talks with his Italian counterpart Giorgio Napolitano and Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.

PRIME MINISTER – HEALTHCARE

MOCOW – Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will take part in a ceremony marking the completion of the construction of the federal scientific and clinical centre for child haematology, oncology and immunology. He will meet with Russian and foreign specialists in this sector.

CANADA-RUSSIA

OTTAWA – Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov will visit Canada to take part in a meeting of the Canada-Russian Business Council.

SITUATION IN ARAB COUNTRIES

CAIRO – Libya’s capital and its outskirts were again bombarded by the NATO forces late on Tuesday. According to the Libyan news agency, the air strikes were targeted at infrastructure facilities.

MOSCOW – South African President Jacob Zuma had a telephone conversation with his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev about his mission to Libya and his meeting with Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.

JAPAN-SITUATION

TOKYO – Japan’s government will spend up to 20 trillion yens (245 billion dollars) to dismantle the reactors of Japan’s damaged Fukushima-1 nuclear power plant and to pay compensations for people evacuated from the adjacent area within a radius of 20 kilometres.

TOKYO – Japan’s Prime Minister Naoto Kan confirmed that his country has no plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions over the accident at Fukushima-1 nuclear power plant.

TOKYO – A new earthquake measuring 5 points on the Richter scale rocked north-eastern region of Honshu. There is no tsunami threat.

STATE DUMA

MOSCOW – At its plenary session the State Duma will consider in the first reading a draft law on improving state administration in anti-corruption activities submitted by the president and in the second final reading a draft law toughening responsibility for paedophilia. The head of the federal service for environmental, technological and nuclear supervision, Nikolai Kutyin, was invited to the session.

TALKS BETWEEN CHIEFS OF RUSSIAN AND SERBIAN ARMY GENERAL STAFFS

MOSCOW – The chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, General Nikolai Makarov, will meet with his Serbian counterpart Miloje Miletic to discuss military and technical cooperation. He heads the Serbian military delegation to Russia.

REGIONAL COMMONWEALTH IN THE FIELD OF COMMUNICATIONS

YEREVAN – Russian Communications Minister Igor Shchegolev will chair the meeting of the council of the heads of communication administrations of the Regional Commonwealth in the field of Communications that will focus on satellite communication development and cooperation in telecommunications.

LEVITIN’S VISIT TO SVERDLOVSK REGION

YEKATERINBURG – Russian Transport Minister Igor Levitin will unveil a centre for training Olympic ping-pong teams in the village of Baltym, the Sverdlovsk region.

STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP 1520 FORUM

SOCHI – The international rail business forum “1520 Strategic Partnership” opens in Russia’s Black Sea resort. The Russian delegation will be led by the president of the Russian Railways Company (RZD), Vladimir Yakunin.

FORUM OF RUSSIAN AND POLISH REGIONS

MOSCOW – The third forum of Russian and Polish regions devoted to cooperation in innovations will be co-chaired by the first deputy speaker of the Federation Council, Alexander Torshin, and Polish Senate Marshal Bogdan Borusewicz.

COLLECTIVE SECURITY TREATY ORGANIZATION – MEETING

MINSK – Security Council secretaries of the CSTO member-states will discuss cooperation in counteracting modern challenges and threats.

PORTUGAL-RUSSIA

LISBON – Portugal’s capital is hosting the eighth congress of the European Organisation of Supreme Audit Institutions (EUROSAI). The head of the Russian delegation, chief auditor Sergei Stepashin will give an interview to Itar-Tass on the forum’s results.

THE UNITED NATIONS – CONFERENCE

GENEVA – The 100th International Labour Conference will address the need for a new era of social justice in the wake of recent economic and jobs crises.

THE UNITED NATIONS – SPACE

VIENNA – The 54th session of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) opens in the Austrian capital to mark the 50th anniversary of the committee.

US-SPACE

NEW YORK – Space Shuttle Endeavour will land at Cape Canaveral, Florida, after a 16-day mission to the International Space Station. It is expected to land at 02:35 pm ET.

BRITAIN-CYBERCRIME

LONDON – The British capital will host the second Cybercrime Security Forum.

INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN’S DAY

MOSCOW – A wonderland for children will be opened near the president’s residence in Gorky.

MOSCOW – Participants in the international festival Moscow Meets Friends will devote their performance at Moscow International House of Music to the International Children’s Day.

SPORTS

ZURICH – The International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) will elect its new president during the 61st FIFA Congress. The incumbent FIFA President Sepp Blatter, 75, is the only candidate for the post.

PARIS – Russia’s Maria Sharapova will play against Andrea Petkovic of Germany at Roland Garros quarterfinals.

CULTURE

NEW YORK – The annual festival of Russian culture “Our Heritage” opens in New York.

AT ITAR-TASS

MOSCOW – A news conference devoted to the international museum festival Intermuseum 2011 will take place at the Itar-Tass news agency (2, Tverskoy Boulevard, 2nd floor) at 12:00.

Taking part in the conference will be Deputy Culture Minister Andrei Busygin, Special Presidential Envoy for International Cultural Cooperation Mikhail Shvydkoi, President of the Russian Committee of the International Council of Museums, Director of the Tolstoi Museum-Estate Yasnaya Polyana Vladimir Tolstoi, Director of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts Irina Antonova, Director of the Tretyakov Picture Gallery Irina Lebedeva, Executive Director of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art Vasily Tsereteli, Art Director of Art MOSKVA, curator of exhibition projects of modern art at the Venice Biennale of modern art, Christina Steinbrecher and curator of the project, member of the organizing committee, Director-General of the Ecoculture society Galina Zaitseva.

MOSCOW – A news conference devoted to the results of participation of Russia’s winemaking companies in The London International Wine Fair 2011 in London.
Jun 6: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to hold meeting with Equatorial Guinea’s President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo

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Jun 7: Committee on Russian–Ukrainian economic cooperation to hold meeting

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Jun 9–10: Russia–European Union Summit to take place in Nizhny Novgorod

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