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Basic Political Developments

·  Itar-Tass news outlook for Monday, June 6.

o  PRESIDENT - - AFRICA

o  MOSCOW - - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and African Union President and Equatorial Guinea’s leader Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, who will arrive on an official visit in Russia on Monday, will have negotiations here on Monday to focus on a tense situation in North Africa and bilateral cooperation, particularly military-technical and energy cooperation, the Russian presidential press service reported on Sunday.

o  PRIME MINISTER - - GAS PIPELINE

o  MOSCOW - - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will make a working visit to Sochi to take part in the ceremony of launching a new gas pipeline and meet with builders working at Olympic facilities. The gas pipeline “Druzhba” – Lazarevskoye - Sochi” was built according to the program of building Olympic facilities and developing the city of Sochi as a mountain-skiing resort.

o  ATOM - - FORUM

o  MOSCOW - - A third Moscow international forum Atomexport-2011 will open here on Monday. The forum, which will bring together the chiefs of the nuclear power agencies from almost all member-countries of the world nuclear club, is entitled “Development of Nuclear Power: Pause or Continuation.” The forum will last three days at the Manezh Central Exhibition Hall in the Russian capital.

o  ISS - - CREW

o  BAIKONUR - - The crew of the second digital space ship – Soyuz TMA-02M, which will start to the ISS on Wednesday, will include Russian cosmonaut Sergei Volkov, astronaut of the Japanese Space Agency Satoshi Furukawa and NASA astronaut Michael Fossum. This decision was adopted by the state commission in Baikonur.

o  JAPAN - - SITUATION

o  TOKYO - - A small amount of plutonium from the crippled reactor of the Fukushima-1 was for the first time found outside the territory of the station.

o  SITUATION IN LIBYA

o  CAIRO / EL KUWAIT - - NATO aircraft continue bombing the Libyan capital. Since March 31, when the command of the Libyan operation was transferred NATO, its aircraft made 9,778 combat sorties, during 3,694 of them, strikes were delivered on land targets.

o  EUROPARLIAMENT - - SESSION

o  STRASBOURG - - Key aspects of cooperation of the European Union with Russia will be in the focus of attention of a regular session of the European Parliament.

o  RUSSIAN - - INDIA

o  MOSCOW - - Secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolai Patrushev, who will head a Russian interdepartmental committee, will fly to India on Monday to have several negotiations and consultations with several top political and military officials in the country.

o  UKRAINE - - EXERCISE

o  ODESSA - - A Ukrainian-US naval exercise with the invitation of representatives of other countries of “Sea Breeze 2011” are beginning. Representatives of 17 countries’ fleets will take part in the exercise.

o  IAEA - - COUNCIL

o  VIENNA - - Issues connected with nuclear activities of Iran and Syria, as well as the accident at the Fukushima-1 NPP will be considered at the opening session of the IAEA Council of Managers.

o  THE HAGUE - - The trial of leader of the Serbian Radical Party Voislav Sheshel accused of disrespect of the court is resuming at The Hague Tribunal.

o  CULTURE

o  YALTA (the Crimea) - - A 5th international festival “The Great Russian Word” will open here, when the world will celebrate the 212th birthday anniversary of a great Russian poet Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin.

o  YEREVAN - - Armenia will mark Russian Language Day, which the United Nations Organization celebrates on Monday. The U.N. House in Yerevan will dedicate a festive event to the language of the great Russian poet Pushkin, whose the 212th birthday anniversary will be also celebrated on Monday.

o  TBILISI - - The international poetry festival “Dreams about Georgia,” in which 80 Russian-speaking poets and writers from 32 countries of the world, including Russia, will take part, is opening in here.

·  Russian President’s envoy goes to Benghazi

o  Russian envoy to meet Libyan rebels - Mikhail Margelov, Mr Medvedev's envoy for Africa, told the RIA Novosti news agency he would meet Mustafa Abdul Jalil, the chairman of the National Transitional Council that controls eastern Libya around Benghazi. He is also to meet the rebels' military affairs chief Omar el-Hariri and the prime minister of the National Transitional Council Mahmoud Jibril, he said.

o  Kremlin mediator to fly to Libya on Monday: report AFP - A high-ranking Russian source familiar with the situation told AFP on Thursday that Margelov would also travel to Tripoli.
Russia Profile Weekly Experts Panel: Medvedev’s Libyan Imbroglio

·  Jerusalem should be divided into two parts - Sergey Lavrov

·  Janukovych, Medvedev to meet in Donetsk in autumn – Lavrov

·  Lavrov: Russia, Ukraine not going to start 'political games' with Black Sea Fleet

·  Kazan meeting to achieve breakthrough in Karabakh conflict-Turkish FM

·  Russian Security Council head to discuss cooperation with India

o  Russia Security Council secretary to discuss cooperation in India.

·  Vietnam says Russian-bought submarines for self-defence

·  Russia toughens sanitary control over cargo on Russian-Ukrainian border over cholera outbreak - Onishchenko (Part 2) - The Russian sanitary services on Monday toughened control on the Russian-Ukrainian border over an outbreak of cholera in Mariupol, Ukraine.

·  Poland's Minister to Meet Russian Counterpart Over Imports Ban - "On Monday I will discuss the matter with Yelena Skrynnik, Russia's Agriculture Minister," Sawicki said.
Russian church goes up in the Emirates - The first Russian church has been constructed in the United Arab Emirates to become the one and the only Orthodox shrine on the Arabian Peninsula.

·  EU has not removed Russia's concerns about E. coli infection - Chief Sanitation Doctor

o  Russia and EU clash on trade ahead of summit – by ANDREW RETTMAN

o  Ban on Vegetable Imports Threatens to Derail EU Summit - By Nikolaus von Twickel

·  NATO, Russia hold air exercises - The Russian and NATO air force will hold their first joint exercises against air terrorism, Vigilant Skies 2011. The maneuvers will be mostly carried out over the Polish territory, as well as in the Turkish air space to practice the elements of interaction with the NATO aircraft.

·  RUSSIAN SUB SUNK AT CARTAGENA - A huge NATO exercise is taking place of the coast of Cartagena, featuring some 2,000 service staff on board 18 vessels, with ships, submarines and aircraft all coming together in a joint NATO and non-NATO exercise.

·  President: Cyprus and Russia relations at their best standing ever

·  S-300 unit put on duty in Central Military District

·  Medvedev toughens punishment for fire safety violations

·  Putin welcomes independent activists to Popular Front

·  Moscow int’l nuclear forum to assess world nuclear situation. - “Several countries, including Russia, are close to a deadline to decommission most nuclear reactors of the first generation, and the tragic events at the Fukushima-1 nuclear power plant speed up this process,” the chief of the Russian state-run nuclear corporation Rosatom Sergei Kiriyenko said. “The Moscow international nuclear forum should discuss and set the guidelines for the development of the world nuclear industry and should determine new technologies that will ensure security of nuclear power plants,” the Rosatom chief said.

·  Banking made kosher: Russia enters world of Islamic finance - Hoping to attract Arab capital, Russia will take its first step into the world of Islamic finance in June by issuing sukuk, Islamic bonds which comply with Muslim religious rules.

·  State commission approves 28/29th mission to ISS.

·  Railway to major plants, coal pit to be built in Khakassia.

·  Altai territory creating timber processing cluster.

·  Radical Islamists should better move to Mideast rather than live in Russia - presidential envoy to N. Caucasus

o  Banditry, property redistribution takes place in N Caucasus-envoy.

·  RF Supr Court to consider Yamadayev murder case sentence legality.

·  Insurgents hit Russian federal police in more Caucasus attacks - Insurgents opposing Russian control of the restive Caucasus region killed a policeman and injured two more in a series of attacks aimed at law enforcement officials, according to Monday news reports.

·  Police officer killed in Chechen blast

·  Phone terrorist sentenced to 2 years in tight security prison.

·  Influx of tourists to N Caucasus will grow - Khloponin.

·  Over 50 wildfires fixed in Russian Irkutsk region.

o  Some 417,200 hectares of lands burnt down in RF's Far East in 2011.

o  All forest fires put out in Kamchatka.

·  Senior Russian military officers to lose posts over military depots incidents

o  Damage caused by Udmurt ammo depot blasts assessed at RUB 1 bln.

o  EMERCOM task forces involved in ammo firefighting back to bases.

o  Servicemen, outsourcing companies to restore ammo blast-hit houses.

·  Viktor Baturin gets 3 year suspended sentence for realty fraud.

o  Former Moscow mayor's brother-in-law gets suspended sentence for fraud

·  Reuters PRESS DIGEST - Russia - June 6

·  RIA Russian Press at a Glance, Monday, June 6, 2011

·  Patrick Leahy: If U.S. were to breach New START with offensive weapons, Russia has right to quit it - U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy, chairman of the State and Foreign Operations subcommittee in the U.S. Senate‘s Appropriations Committee, who visited Russia this week has given an interview to Interfax in which he speaks about U.S.-Russian bilateral relations, in particular the New START treaty and cooperation on Afghanistan, as well as the Middle East situation, the elimination of Osama Bin Laden and support to civil societies in Russia and Georgia.

·  Russia’s students look to the west - By Stephen Hoare

·  Russia social networking site speaks for dead soldiers - By Katia Moskvitch Science and technology reporter, BBC News

·  First LDS stake in Russia organized - Elder Russell M. Nelson of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' Quorum of the Twelve Apostles organized the Moscow Russia Stake in a meeting attended by more than 1,100 in the Moscow's Amber Plaza auditorium.

·  Moscow works less and sleeps more - A pilot study into how people use their time – or have it used for them – found that the capital works less and sleeps more than the national average.

National Economic Trends

·  Grain prices surge as exports set to resume - The price of wheat has surged more than 10% in southern Russia as grain exporters are stepping up purchases before the ban is lifted on Russia's grain exports, RBC Daily reported today, citing industry experts.

·  Kremlin suggests raising profit tax to pre-crisis 24%

·  Social tax discussion continues

·  Ruble Needs 3% Inflation to Globalize

·  Russian Inflation Rate Was Probably Unchanged in May on Food

·  INTERVIEW: Russia's privatisation chief discusses the 3-year programme

·  bne:Chart: Russia's crash and recovery in motion

·  CBR's Ulyukaev gives interview to Vedomosti - rates and reserve requirements for the summer holidays

Business, Energy or Environmental regulations or discussions

·  Mechel, TMK, Nomos Bank, Wimm-Bill-Dann: Russia Equity Preview

·  Energy Ministry against ban on MRSK stake reduction, privatizations

·  Russia's Global Ports eyes $100 mln from London IPO

o  Global Ports eyes $750m London IPO

·  Nomos Bank Advances Most in Two Weeks as Profit Jumps 20%

o  Nomos Bank posts net profit of 3.2 bln rubles in Q1

·  Russian Railways ups traffic in 5M

·  Volkswagen Seeks to Double Russian Car Production, DPA-AFX Says

·  Petersburg’s Nissan plant resumes production after 5-day lull.

·  Nissan and Renault plan $2bn investment drive

·  Sibur progresses with construction of US$2 bln petrochemical complex in Sib...(6-6-2011)

·  Acron Q1 net profit jumps 120% to 3.8 bln rbls

·  UPDATE 1-Russia's TMK net profit beats estimates in Q1

·  Lagardere Finalises Sale Of Magazine Buinesses In Russia, Ukraine

·  PRIME-TASS business news agency changes name, carries out rebranding

·  Russia’s Anisimov Plans to Sell Up to $4.7 Billion of Property, RBC Says

·  Investors flee Russia despite oil revenue boom - By Dmitry Zaks (AFP)

·  FACTBOX-Russian companies seeking IPOs

Activity in the Oil and Gas sector (including regulatory)

·  Jugba-Sochi gas pipeline launched - The pipeline will be 177 km long, with 159.5 km running under the sea.

Gazprom

·  Equipment for Badra oil field arrives

·  Russia’s Gazprom puts eye on Germany energy market

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PRESIDENT - - AFRICA

MOSCOW - - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and African Union President and Equatorial Guinea’s leader Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, who will arrive on an official visit in Russia on Monday, will have negotiations here on Monday to focus on a tense situation in North Africa and bilateral cooperation, particularly military-technical and energy cooperation, the Russian presidential press service reported on Sunday.

PRIME MINISTER - - GAS PIPELINE

MOSCOW - - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will make a working visit to Sochi to take part in the ceremony of launching a new gas pipeline and meet with builders working at Olympic facilities. The gas pipeline “Druzhba” – Lazarevskoye - Sochi” was built according to the program of building Olympic facilities and developing the city of Sochi as a mountain-skiing resort.

ATOM - - FORUM

MOSCOW - - A third Moscow international forum Atomexport-2011 will open here on Monday. The forum, which will bring together the chiefs of the nuclear power agencies from almost all member-countries of the world nuclear club, is entitled “Development of Nuclear Power: Pause or Continuation.” The forum will last three days at the Manezh Central Exhibition Hall in the Russian capital.

ISS - - CREW

BAIKONUR - - The crew of the second digital space ship – Soyuz TMA-02M, which will start to the ISS on Wednesday, will include Russian cosmonaut Sergei Volkov, astronaut of the Japanese Space Agency Satoshi Furukawa and NASA astronaut Michael Fossum. This decision was adopted by the state commission in Baikonur.

JAPAN - - SITUATION