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Luzhkov visits Venezuela to develop cooperation in housing construction.
CARACAS, May 6 (Itar-Tass) -- The purpose of Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov's visit to Venezuela that began on Wednesday is to develop bilateral cooperation in the field of housing construction, primarily for low-income people.
This is a new area of economic cooperation pursued under bilateral
agreements made during Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's visit to
Venezuela on April 2 and his talks with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
"We have come here at the invitation of President Hugo Chavez, and I
was instructed by Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin to study the situation and
look for measures related to the possibilities of Moscow and Russian
construction firms in order to help build housing for those who have all
reasons to leave their shack and move into decent flats," Luzhkov told
Itar-Tass and TV-Tsents television company after flying over Caracas in a
helicopter.
The delegation accompanying the Moscow mayor includes "specialists
working in the field of city planning", those who "deal with construction"
and "ensure water supply because this is a big problem for
heavily-populated poor districts of Caracas", Luzhkov said.
The delegation will meet with Public Works and Housing Minister
Diosdado Cabello and senior officials in his ministry, and have meetings
at the mayor's office and the municipal administration.
"A meeting with President Hugo Chavez will draw a line under our first
visit," Luzhkov said. "We will try not to waste time because we have to
return to Moscow by the [VE Day] holiday. We will try to work hard and
substantively here during the next two or two and a half days."
.Gazprom confirms Naftogaz Ukrainy pays in full for gas supplied in
April.
MOSCOW, May 6 (Itar-Tass) -- Russia's Gazprom confirmed on Wednesday
that Naftogaz Ukrainy had paid in full for the gas supplied in April.
According to unofficial information, Ukraine bought 1.8 billion cubic
metres of gas with approximately a 425 million U.S. dollar discount.
Ukraine will save up to 250 million U.S. dollars in April thanks to
Russia's gas export discount, Prime Minister Nikolai Azarov told a
government meeting.
"The Russian government signed a decree to abolish the gas export
duty. Thus, beginning from April it will cost Ukraine 100 U.S. dollars
less per each 1,000 cubic metres," he said.
"Already in April we will pay approximately by 2 billion hryvnia less
than Ukraine would otherwise have paid under the previous enslaving
contracts," he said.
He stressed that the funds remaining in Ukraine's economy should be
injected into the introduction of energy saving technologies.
Under the agreements, the price of gas for Ukraine will lowered by 30
percent, but no more than by 100 U.S. dollars per 1,000 cubic metres. The
discount would apply to the 30 billion cubic metres to be piped in 2010,
and to the annual 40 billion cubic metres to be supplied over years to
come.
The addendum also cancelled contract provisions on mutual penalties,
which, as a matter of fact, had never been applied.
Ukraine plans to import 36.5 billion cubic metres of gas from Russia
in 2010.
Vice Premier Sergei Tigipko said the optimal price of Russia's natural
gas for Ukraine would be 230-240 U.S. dollars per 1,000 cubic metres, and
added that a draft budget for 2010 included the previous gas price of 334
U.S. dollars per 1,000 cubic meters.
According to Ukrainian Prime Minister Nikolai Azarov, the lowering of
prices on imported natural gas for Ukraine will allow the country to save
about 4 billion U.S. dollars annually.
.Unscheduled business inspections to be approved by prosecutors.
MOSCOW, May 6 (Itar-Tass) -- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has
signed the Federal Law "On Amendments to Article 10 of the Federal Law 'On
the Protection of the Right of Legal Entities and Individual Entrepreneurs
When Carrying out Governmental Audit /Supervision/ and Municipal Audit'"
which was adopted by the State Duma on April 9, 2010 and approved by the
Federation Council on April 14, the Kremlin press service reported.
The law aims to improve the system of governmental audit /supervision/
and municipal audit, as well as to consistently reduce administrative
barriers in the field of entrepreneurship.
The law requires unscheduled field inspections by governmental audit
/supervisory/ and municipal audit bodies to be approved by prosecutors
with regard to all businesses without exception. An unscheduled field
inspection of legal entities or individual entrepreneurs may be carried
out on the grounds provided for in Clause 2 a, b, Article 10 (2) by
governmental audit /supervisory/ and municipal audit bodies after
obtaining an approval of the prosecutor's office at the place where such
legal entities or individual entrepreneurs operate.
Currently, such an approval is required only for unscheduled
inspections of legal entities and individual entrepreneurs falling into
the category of small and medium-sized business, which puts big companies
at a disadvantage.
The new version of the law will apply to all business entities without
exception.
-0-zak/
This is a new area of economic cooperation pursued under bilateral
agreements made during Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's visit to
Venezuela on April 2 and his talks with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
"We have come here at the invitation of President Hugo Chavez, and I
was instructed by Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin to study the situation and
look for measures related to the possibilities of Moscow and Russian
construction firms in order to help build housing for those who have all
reasons to leave their shack and move into decent flats," Luzhkov told
Itar-Tass and TV-Tsents television company after flying over Caracas in a
helicopter.
The delegation accompanying the Moscow mayor includes "specialists
working in the field of city planning", those who "deal with construction"
and "ensure water supply because this is a big problem for
heavily-populated poor districts of Caracas", Luzhkov said.
The delegation will meet with Public Works and Housing Minister
Diosdado Cabello and senior officials in his ministry, and have meetings
at the mayor's office and the municipal administration.
"A meeting with President Hugo Chavez will draw a line under our first
visit," Luzhkov said. "We will try not to waste time because we have to
return to Moscow by the [VE Day] holiday. We will try to work hard and
substantively here during the next two or two and a half days."
.Gazprom confirms Naftogaz Ukrainy pays in full for gas supplied in
April.
MOSCOW, May 6 (Itar-Tass) -- Russia's Gazprom confirmed on Wednesday
that Naftogaz Ukrainy had paid in full for the gas supplied in April.
According to unofficial information, Ukraine bought 1.8 billion cubic
metres of gas with approximately a 425 million U.S. dollar discount.
Ukraine will save up to 250 million U.S. dollars in April thanks to
Russia's gas export discount, Prime Minister Nikolai Azarov told a
government meeting.
"The Russian government signed a decree to abolish the gas export
duty. Thus, beginning from April it will cost Ukraine 100 U.S. dollars
less per each 1,000 cubic metres," he said.
"Already in April we will pay approximately by 2 billion hryvnia less
than Ukraine would otherwise have paid under the previous enslaving
contracts," he said.
He stressed that the funds remaining in Ukraine's economy should be
injected into the introduction of energy saving technologies.
Under the agreements, the price of gas for Ukraine will lowered by 30
percent, but no more than by 100 U.S. dollars per 1,000 cubic metres. The
discount would apply to the 30 billion cubic metres to be piped in 2010,
and to the annual 40 billion cubic metres to be supplied over years to
come.
The addendum also cancelled contract provisions on mutual penalties,
which, as a matter of fact, had never been applied.
Ukraine plans to import 36.5 billion cubic metres of gas from Russia
in 2010.
Vice Premier Sergei Tigipko said the optimal price of Russia's natural
gas for Ukraine would be 230-240 U.S. dollars per 1,000 cubic metres, and
added that a draft budget for 2010 included the previous gas price of 334
U.S. dollars per 1,000 cubic meters.
According to Ukrainian Prime Minister Nikolai Azarov, the lowering of
prices on imported natural gas for Ukraine will allow the country to save
about 4 billion U.S. dollars annually.
.Unscheduled business inspections to be approved by prosecutors.
MOSCOW, May 6 (Itar-Tass) -- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has
signed the Federal Law "On Amendments to Article 10 of the Federal Law 'On
the Protection of the Right of Legal Entities and Individual Entrepreneurs
When Carrying out Governmental Audit /Supervision/ and Municipal Audit'"
which was adopted by the State Duma on April 9, 2010 and approved by the
Federation Council on April 14, the Kremlin press service reported.
The law aims to improve the system of governmental audit /supervision/
and municipal audit, as well as to consistently reduce administrative
barriers in the field of entrepreneurship.
The law requires unscheduled field inspections by governmental audit
/supervisory/ and municipal audit bodies to be approved by prosecutors
with regard to all businesses without exception. An unscheduled field
inspection of legal entities or individual entrepreneurs may be carried
out on the grounds provided for in Clause 2 a, b, Article 10 (2) by
governmental audit /supervisory/ and municipal audit bodies after
obtaining an approval of the prosecutor's office at the place where such
legal entities or individual entrepreneurs operate.
Currently, such an approval is required only for unscheduled
inspections of legal entities and individual entrepreneurs falling into
the category of small and medium-sized business, which puts big companies
at a disadvantage.
The new version of the law will apply to all business entities without
exception.
-0-zak/
