Russia 110217 Basic Political Developments
Russian police raid real estate tycoon's office
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Russian police raid real estate tycoon's officehttp://www.fox59.com/news/nationworld/sns-rt-international-us-rustre71g1wx-20110217,0,5802806.story Reuters 3:52 a.m. EST, February 17, 2011 MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian police armed with machine guns on Thursday raided the Moscow offices of Inteko, a real estate firm owned by the wife of Moscow's former mayor, one of Russia's richest developers, the Interfax new agency reported. "All workers at Inteko were gathered in one room and locked inside," an unnamed worker at the company said. "They're not explaining to us what is happening." Yelena Baturina, wife of former Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov, who was fired late last year after a public confrontation with President Dmitry Medvedev, has seen her wealth nearly halve to $1.1 billion, according to Finans magazine. The search was linked to a probe into suspicions of embezzlement of 13 billion roubles ($443.7 million), said Irina Dudukina, a spokeswoman for the investigative committee of the Interior Ministry. February 17, 2011 11:49
MOSCOW. Feb 17 (Interfax) - Yelena Baturina, head of the Inteko company and wife of ex-Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, thinks that the current search in the Inteko office is unfounded. "I am absolutely positive that this search has nothing to do with us or the Bank of Moscow. This is nothing but an order to press us," she told Interfax by phone. It was reported earlier that a search was under way at the Moscow office of the Inteko construction company belonging to Yelena Baturina, the wife of former Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov. "All Inteko employers have been told to gather in one room and locked up. We are not allowed to use mobile phones or photo or video devices to shoot the developments, and nobody has explained what is going on", a source with the company told Interfax. The people wearing OMON uniforms have blocked all entrances to and exits from the office. "About five people, who seem to lead the operation, are working at the company's accounting department, where they are probably seizing documents," he said. Interior Ministry spokesperson Irina Dudukina said that the Russian Interior Ministry's Investigative Committee conducted search in relation to the embezzlement of 13 billion rubles from Bank of Moscow. te dp
Auditing Chamber exposes major financial violations in Moscow http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=15963506 17.02.2011, 11.45 MOSCOW, February 17 (Itar-Tass) -- The Auditing Chamber of Russia has exposed financial violations in Moscow in 2010 to the sum of 217 billion roubles, as well as facts of the misuse of money to the sum of over eight billion dollars, Sergei Stepashin, President of the Auditing Chamber, said on Thursday at an expanded meeting of the collegium of the Investigation Committee, which summed up the results of the work in 2010. For the sake of comparison, he said that the amount of financial violations in the country in general was 483 billion roubles, and the amount of the misuse of financial resources was two billion roubles.
The Moscow Prosecutor's office has suspended the activities of the public nationalist organization Movement Against Illegal Immigration (Rus. DPNI). The Prosecutor’s Office found its activities extremist. February 16, the Moscow City Prosecutor's Office served the chairman of the National Council DPNI Vladimir Ermolaev with its decision on admission of DPNI an extremist organization. The decision was signed by the Prosecutor of Moscow, Yuri Semin, on February 11. "The Moscow Prosecutor's Office has decided to suspend the activities of the interregional public organization Movement Against Illegal Immigration until the Moscow City Court reviews the application to ban the activities of this association”, runs the decision. Besides, the decision was sent to the Moscow City Court. The Prosecutor's Office requests the court to declare DPNI an extremist organization. DPNI intends to appeal the decision to suspend its activities in court. 17 February 2011, 10:15 Sobyanin says he needs time to win 'relaxed' Moscow's trusthttp://themoscownews.com/local/20110217/188424798.html?referfrommn by Andy Potts at 17/02/2011 11:11 Moscow is more relaxed than other European capitals, according to mayor Sergei Sobyanin. But he admitted that while he liked the city, he had a long way to go to persuade its inhabitants to put their faith in his leadership. “I do not think there is a lot of trust in me,” he said in an extended interview broadcast on Ekho Moskvy. “But there is an advance and the hope is that Moscow will change for the better. I, along with Muscovites, hope for this. “To be credible, so show some real progress, takes a couple of years.”
The riots on Manezhnaya Ploshchad last December have been the single biggest event in the city since Sobyanin took charge, and he admitted that there were problems with extremism and immigration. But he argued that this was a social problem more than a political one, saying that most of the rioters were “disorderly teenagers” manipulated by radical groups, Newsmsk.ru reported. “The level of extremism is much higher than it was three or five years ago,” he said. “This matter must be dealt with seriously, especially in schools and in the home.” However he warned that there was a serious problem with illegal immigration in Moscow, which he believes the city shares with the rest of Europe. “There is no single European country which can effectively solve this problem,” he said. “I couldn’t work out where I was when I went to the French capital and saw people with ‘non-Parisian’ skin colour.” The solution for Moscow’s immigration worries should be bridging the wage gap between illegally imported cheap labour and their Russian equivalents. “The strongest motivation for using migrants is the huge difference in salaries between Muscovites and the newcomers,” he said, adding that increasing penalties for employing illegal migrants would be an effective measure.
The mayor rejected claims that he was free from public scrutiny in the city’s media, while promising to reopen Triumfalnaya Ploshchad as soon as possible and allow opposition groups to rally there. “We have an opinion that there is no freedom of speech in Russia or in Moscow, but I do not agree with this,” he said. “I could use the example of your radio station [Ekho Moskvy] to say that you pick up existing problems in the city. “This also applies in the other media. Putting a ‘squeeze’ on this information is highly unlikely.” However, free elections for mayors and regional governors are also highly unlikely with the recently appointed city boss dismissing claims for elections as “a fetish”. He added that it was not an effective mechanism if a governor could be re-elected indefinitely. And underlining his aversion to running for election he insisted that he would not be running for president, despite agreeing to head the Moscow branch of United Russia. He was also unwilling to decide at this stage whether he should feature on the party’s list for the upcoming parliamentary elections.
Since taking office in October Sobyanin has kept a fairly low media profile, particularly compared with his predecessor Yury Luzhkov who regularly gave in depth interviews to TV-Centr, the city-owned broadcaster. And his actions, most notably initiating a cull of kiosks, replacing huge swathes of top management and running into criticism over city snow drifts, have not won him a great deal of affection from residents. Wednesday’s two-hour slot on radio station Ekho Moskvy represented a rare chance to hear what the mayor wants to see in the city in the future. And that includes more restrictions on building in the historic centre of the city, but no immediate plans to move the Peter the Great statue or persevere with the “inefficient” fourth ring road. He also rejected proposals for a congestion charging zone following London’s model and restated his pledge to upgrade the metro to solve the city’s transport problems. Sobyanin admits Moscow has few mosqueshttp://www.interfax-religion.com/?act=news&div=8207 Moscow, February 17, Interfax - Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin has said he could not say when a new mosque could be built in the capital. "Mosque construction will be carried according to the relevant procedure, with urban development plans and design documentation. Apart from that, there will have to be public hearings," Sobyanin said in an interview with the Ekho Moskvy radio station. There are few mosques in the city, he said. "Religious buildings are a very complicated issue. We are trying to pay more attention to it. Of course, we must take into account residents' opinion, however, I agree: mosques are scarce," Sobyanin added. Asked when another mosque will be built in Moscow, Sobyanin said: "I cannot say for sure." 17 February 2011, 10:06 Moscow does not need gay pride parades – Sobyaninhttp://www.interfax-religion.com/?act=news&div=8206 Moscow, February 17, Interfax - Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin has said that he doesn't support the idea of gay pride parades and similar events being held in the capital. "I have my own attitude towards this issue. I believe Moscow does not need this," he said in an interview with the Ekho Moskvy radio station on Wednesday.
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