Russia Today: 25 March, 2010 in Russian Newspapers

Russia Today: 25 March, 2010 in Russian Newspapers

Vedomosti: A team of oligarchs

The state intends to entrust big business control over investments into the sports industry. Things will start off with soccer. Vedomosti learned that a board of trustees, headed by the billionaire Roman Abramovich, will be created for the Russian Football Union. Abramovich will be assisted by Gazprom Chief Executive, Aleksey Miller and Russian Railways President Vladimir Yakunin.

Vedomosti learned about the forthcoming establishment of the board of trustees, participants of which will be some of the leading businessmen, for the Russian Football Union (RFU) from the presidential administration and RFU sources, as well as one football consultant. The latter says that a decision could be made as early as this April. The board of trustees will include big business representatives: Abramovich, Miller, Yakunin, and the co-owner of Kuzbassrazrezugol, Andrey Bokarev, he added. One of their acquaintances confirmed this list. No one is saying as to who else could possibly join the team of Abramovich, Miller, Yakunin and Bokarev.

Kommersant: Joseph Stalin will not be invited to the Victory Day celebrations

The organizing committee for the celebrations issued the instruction to regional authorities.

Representatives of the organizing committee for the 65th anniversary of Victory Day celebrations, which is headed by Russia’s Presidential Administrator Vladimir Kozhin, said that no photographs, video recordings, or posters displaying images of Joseph Stalin shall appear on Russia’s city streets on May 9. The organizing committee made it clear that this message should be construed as a recommendation to the authorities of cities, and especially Moscow, where there are plans to display Stalin’s portraits along with other festive paraphernalia.

Rossiskaya Gazeta: A sold-out auditorium demands an encore

Anna Netrebko performed in Moscow in a new imag.

Ticket sales to the star’s performance were unimaginable, despite their high cost.

The international opera star, Anna Netrebko, presented herself in a new role at the Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory.

Almost two years since her last performance on this stage, she finally appeared before the Moscow audience, and not only in a different, “grown up” image, but with a radically new repertoire -- a program of Rimsky-Korsakov and Tchaikovsky songs, accompanied by pianist Elena Bashkirova.

Reuters: PRESS DIGEST - Russia - March 25

MOSCOW, March 25 (Reuters) - The following are some of the leading stories in Russia's newspapers on Thursday. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.

KOMMERSANT

www.kommersant.ru

- Russian utility RusHyrdo (HYDR.MM) wants to attract a foreign partner as a strategic investor in 2012-13 and take part in international projects, the paper says.

- Pepsico Inc (PEP.N) in March will launch its own brand of kvass, a traditional mildly alcoholic beverage made from black rye or rye bread, the paper reports.

VEDOMOSTI

www.vedomosti.ru

- The Russian government plans to let major businessmen control investment in sports. Oil and metals tycoon Roman Abramovich together with Gazprom's (GAZP.MM) CEO Alexei Miller and railroad monopoly chief Vladimir Yakunin are also likely to be chosen.

- German carmaker Daimler AG (DAIGn.DE) has spent more than 5 million euros on bribes to Russian officials, the paper writes.

- Russia will have no federal budget deficit in 2011, the daily reports citing a World Bank report.

GAZETA

- Russia will only amnesty 150-200 prisoners by the 65th anniversary of victory in World War Two on May 9, instead of the 45,000 previously planned, the paper says.

NEZAVISIMAYA GAZETA

www.ng.ru

- Russian oil company Lukoil (LKOH.MM) on Wednesday officially confirmed its withdrawal from Iran's Anaran oil project, the paper says.

KOMSOMOLSKAYA PRAVDA

www.kp.ru

- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev plans to cut the number of time zones in Russia from 11 to nine, the daily writes.

Editorial: Utilizing Utilities

Vedomosti

Since the new year, utility services across the country have increased in price by 15 percent, 25 percent, and sometimes even doubled, despite the fact that tariffs for gas, electricity and heat have been rising normally. What has happened to drive the utilities providers to such extremes?

Medvedev Calls Time on Summer Time

By Anastasia Kornya

Dmitry Medvedev has suggested thinking about merging the time zones of regions of the Urals and Siberia. A bill on adjusting time zones is already being prepared. Officials are also thinking about stopping making the transition from summer to winter time.

Callers Not Given a Sporting Chance

By Sergei Smirnov

Mobile phone operators are suspected of collaborating in telephone fraud.

Itar-Tass: Boarding school teacher to face trial for beating up pupils

http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=14953050

25.03.2010, 10.39

ULAN UDE, March 25 (Itar-Tass) -- Deputy head of the Urulga boarding school in Russia’s Baikal territory will face trial for beating up two pupils who breached discipline, a source in the Baikal territory prosecutor’s office told Itar-Tass on Thursday.

According to investigators, having found the boys breaching the school’ s discipline, the teacher, Dmitry Vitkauskas, beat them up, striking one of the boys over the head with an empty one-litre glass bottle. Vitkauskas admitted his quit and will face charges on office abuse and neglect of his teacher’s responsibilities.

On March 4, the territorial prosecutor’s office said it had instituted criminal proceedings against another teacher of the Urulga boarding school. Olga Kurkina, also suspected in beating pupils, was accused of improper fulfilment of teacher’s obligations and child abuse.

Prosecutors blame the Urulga boarding school administration for neglect of its obligations.

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