POLITICS
United Russia has called on Federation Council Speaker Sergei Mironov to resign as tensions between pro-Kremlin parties rise ahead of December's State Duma elections and the 2012 presidential vote
(Moscow Times, Vedomosti)
President Dmitry Medvedev promised upgrades and dignity for the armed forces as a record 20,000 soldiers and officers marched across Red Square for Victory Day on Monday
(Moscow Times)
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's promise on Friday to create a "strategic initiatives agency" for the creation of undefined social projects is an attempt to win over voters in an election year, experts say
(Vedomosti)
ECONOMY & BUSINESS
Russia's largest search engine Yandex, which is due to hold an IPO on Nasdaq in late May, has been valued at $6.4-7 billion
(Kommersant, Vedomosti)
Russian tycoon Mikhail Prokhorov is negotiating the sale of Quadra, the former TGC-4 generating company, to Inter RAO
(Vedomosti)
The Central Bank has revealed the structure of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). Some 40% of it is money earned in Russia
(Vedomosti)
SOCIETY
Riot police roughly broke up a protest over the destruction of the Khimki forest, briefly detaining two dozen activists and beating one so badly that he required hospitalization, environmentalists said
(Moscow Times, Kommersant)
As warm May weather revives memories of the smog that caused the capital to choke for weeks last summer, the Emergency Situations Ministry has offered assurances that it has control over the source of the air pollution - burning peat bogs and forests in the Moscow region
(Moscow Times)
OIL & GAS
Rosneft finds itself in a peculiar position this week after an international arbitration tribunal decided to give it the last word on a $16 billion tie-up - not with BP as it had hoped but rather with TNK-BP, a smaller rival with whom it previously said it did not want to work
(Moscow Times, Kommersant, Vedomosti)
IT
Russia's largest Internet registrar, Ru-Center, will annul sites in the Russian-language domain (.рф) if it finds that they violate trademark rights
(Vedomosti)
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