Situation in Russia presented by mass media

“D.Medvedev became the leader of cleanup of corruption in Russia. On Tuesday in the evening he signed the Decree “About the measures against corruption” and resolved to create RF presidential council on the anticorruption actions that he himself has headed. “We need to do something. We’ve had enough of waiting. Corruption has become a system problem and this system problem must be provided with a system solution”, - said the head of the state earlier on Tuesday at the specially convoked meeting devoted to the problems of corruption counteraction” (“Newsru.com”).

“D.Medvedev became the leader of cleanup of corruption in Russia. On Tuesday in the evening he signed the Decree “About the measures against corruption” and resolved to create RF presidential council on the anticorruption actions that he himself has headed. “We need to do something. We’ve had enough of waiting. Corruption has become a system problem and this system problem must be provided with a system solution”, - said the head of the state earlier on Tuesday at the specially convoked meeting devoted to the problems of corruption counteraction” (“Newsru.com”).

“What is to become of this –we don’t know yet, said Y.Chaika, attorney-general, who also participated in the meeting. He also added that criminal measures will be also provided. And it is also possible that among such measures recently revived deprivation of property may be used” (“Gazeta.Ru”).

“State decided to simplify and make the system of gas sector management more transparent. By its orders government consolidated state blocks of shares on the balance of “Rosneftegas” public corporation. The changes won’t affect gas consumers, but the management of financial gas flows from a well to a gas-stove will finally improve” (“Izvestiya”).

“From the beginning of the year AI-92 increased in price by 9,45%, AI-95 – by 7,7%... the reader who regularly tanks up his car can himself calculate how much petrol has increased in price in his own petrol tank. And become terrified” (“Izvestiya”).

“Not only much of the means of Stabfunf of Russia, but also of gold and foreign currency reserves of our country risk to burn all of a sudden because of the financial crisis in the USA. To such a conclusion leads statistics, according to which RF Central Bank invested in the shares of American companies more than 100 billion of dollars! In bonds of US mortgage companies - Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) и Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) 2, 48 trillion of rubles (100, 8 billion of dollars) was invested by Central Bank of Russia. During the past year Central Bank increased these investments two-and-a-half-fold and at the beginning of the year on these bonds falls 21% of state’s “moneybox” (by January, 1 the reserves made up 476,4 billion of dollars) and 37% from all amount of finance invested in the bonds of foreign issuing banks. It means that almost quarter of the gold and foreign currency reserves of the big state is invested in the shares of two American companies” (KM.Ru”).