The head of Russian Presidential Administration Sergey Naryshkin not to participate in inauguration of the Kyrgyzstan’s President Almazbek Atambayev

The head of Russian Presidential Administration Sergey Naryshkin not to participate in inauguration of the Kyrgyzstan’s President Almazbek Atambayev

The head of Russian Presidential Administration Sergey Naryshkin will not participate in inauguration of the Kyrgyzstan’s President Almazbek Atambayev. 24.kg news agency was told in the President’s Office.

Recall, earlier the officials announced arrival of a high-ranking Kremlin employee as a guest of solemn event for peaceful transfer of power. Subordinate officials of Emilbek Kaptagaev did not comment on a reason for Sergey Naryshkin’s refusal to come to the inauguration of Almazbek Atambayev. They suggested that it “might be related to the upcoming Russian elections of the State Duma deputies on December 4”.

However, the expert community thinks, the Kremlin responded in such a way to invitation of the Kyrgyz authorities of Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili. We remind that Russian- Georgian relations go through a cooling period that followed after the military attack of official Tbilisi on Tskhinval.

The head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov, previously announced as a guest of celebrations, has not arrived to the inauguration as well.

The Russian Federation is represented today only by the head of the Federal Customs Service of Russia, co-chair of the Kyrgyz-Russian Intergovernmental Commission Andrey Belyaninov, State Secretary of the Russian Foreign Ministry Grigory Karasin and chairman of the Russian Constitutional Court Valery Zorkin.

Recall, the Chairman of the CIS Executive Committee - Executive Secretary Sergey Lebedev and CSTO Secretary General Nikolay Bordyuzha are also among the guests arrived in Bishkek.

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Baku, Fineko/abc.az. Yesterday in Baku Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev received a delegation led by Astrakhan mayor Sergey Bozhenov.

During the meeting the mayor said that by decision of the Astrakhan City Duma the President of Azerbaijan was awarded diploma Honorary Citizen of Astrakhan and handed over diploma and medal Honorary Citizen of Astrakhan. Stressing that recently Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has also been awarded diploma Honorary Citizen of Astrakhan, Bozhenov said he was proud of the fact that Azerbaijan’s President and Prime Minister of Russia became honorary citizens of the city he governs.

In turn, President Aliyev voiced satisfaction with successful development of relationships between Azerbaijan and Russia, including ties between cities and stressed in this context the high level of cooperation between Baku and Astrakhan.

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MOSCOW, December 1 (Itar-Tass) — President Dmitry Medvedev signed a federal law, “On the Ratification of the Eurasian Economic Commission Treaty”, on Thursday.

The law was approved by the State Duma on November 22, 2011 and passed by the Federation Council on November 25, 2011, the Kremlin press service reported.
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Gref urges CU countries to reduce non-productive costs

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АSTANA, December 1 (Itar-Tass) — The Customs Union (CU) member-countries must raise the competitiveness of their economies and reduce non-productive costs so as to mitigate the consequences of a global financial downturn, Gherman Gref, Chairman of the Board of the Sberbank (savings bank) of Russia said at an economic forum here on Thursday.

"It is essential (for them) to straighten things out in their economies, inside the CU, and get prepared for a sharp reduction in costs at all enterprises," Gref pointed out.

Gref said a deterioration of the international economic situation would be relayed to the CU via two channels. The first one is the cost of raw materials. "Our economies must be readied to realize that a decline in oil prices will come about sooner or later," Gref maintains.

The second channel is a complication of the situation on the global financial markets. Such a complication would be conducive "to a reduction in the influx of foreign investments" and a rise in the price of external borrowings. "First of all, financial instability affects maybe the most potential and at the same time most risk-prone markets, to which we belong," he said.

In this connection, Gref's opinion is that in view of a global downturn "We all would have to encounter a high volatility and the need for a certain period of time to artificially maintain our competitiveness and the level of employment so as to endure maybe a long-enough period of decline in the volume of production and in the prices of the output of enterprises". His forecast is that "We shall see this kind of decline in both the construction sector and machine building soon".

"As of now, the most correct thing we may do is to reduce all our common non-productive costs," Gref emphasized.

Tskhinvali Quiet as Jioyeva Holds Talks with Kremlin Official

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After midnight Jioyeva’s supporters, who were gathered outside the government’s building in Tskhinvali, heeded her calls and dispersed. During the rally on November 30 security forces fired warning shots into the air, reportedly in an attempt to prevent protesters from breaking into the government building.

Jioyeva was meeting last night with Kremlin’s deputy chief of staff Sergey Vinakurov, who was sent to Tskhinvali by Moscow to try to settle post-election dispute in the breakaway region. Anatoly Bibilov, a presidential candidate backed by Moscow who lost the race to Jioyeva in now annulled runoff, has kept low profile since the second round of election.

Jioyeva said that “constructive dialogue” with the Kremlin official would continue later on Thursday.

According to Itar-Tass news agency, Jioyeva said that she had no intention to make any compromise and to back off from protecting her victory in the November 27 runoff even if she was allowed to run in the repeat election set for March 25, 2012. She has formally requested the Supreme Court to overturn its earlier decision annulling the runoff results. The Supreme Court confirmed receiving an appeal from Jioyeva but failed to specify when it would launch its consideration.

Rumors were circulating in Tskhinvali, that the authorities were intending to impose emergency situation, but acting chairman of the breakaway region’s Parliament, Zurab Kokoev, denied it, according to Res, a news agency run by the breakaway region’s government.