Naberezhnye Chelny’s Kama Automobile Plant (Kamaz) is the Leviathan of Russian machine-build-ing. Their automobiles are perennial winners in the Dakar Rally, and this year

was no different: the Kamaz-Master team took first, second, third, and fourth place in the truck division of this year’s race.

by MARAT FAIZULLIN

«On the Guarantees of Equality of Political Parties Represented in the Council of the Republic of Tatarstan in Regional TV and Radio Cover-age,» a new law passed by the RT Council, went into effect on 1 January 2011. We sat down with Vice-Chairman of the Tatarstan State Council RIMMA RATNIKOVA to discuss what new opportunities this law gives political parties and how it affects freedom of speech in Tatarstan.

Interview byRUSTEM YUNUSOV

— Can you comment on the recently passed media law, «On the Guarantees of Equal-ity of Political Parties Repre-sented in the Council of the Republic of Tatarstan in Re-gional TV and Radio Cover-age?»

— Journalists refer to this law as the equal access law to the

media for political parties. I would like to note that such a law has already existed in Russia for a year now. The Republic’s law, which became effective this year, concerns coverage of the two parties represented in the State Council on the television and ra-dio channel TNV. The first ques-tion that arises here is why we need such a law. Indeed, we still remember the nineties of last century, when there was no such law, but in reality all parties had access to the media. All the newspapers and TV channels covered the Yabloko party, the right-wing forces, and the Com-munists. I was the editor of the newspaper Molodezh Tatarsta-na (Youth of Tatarstan), and our doors were open to everyone. Anyone who had a position or point of view could come and inform us about their party’s ideas and activities. (Of course, there were really a lot more ideas than activities.)

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IN ThIS ISSuE

FOuR DIE IN FIRE IN LEPREKON Pubpage 2

FORMER PRESIDENTIAL SPOKESMANFREED FROM PRISON IN TATARSTAN

page 2

SKINhEADS IN KAzANpage 4

IN WhAT TERMS FOREIGNERS TO REGISTERThE PLACE OF RESIDENCE IN TATARSTAN?page 6

RuSSIA WINS bANDy WORLD ChAMPIONShIPpage 7

KAMAz-MASTER TAKES FIRST FOuR PLACES IN DAKAR RALLypage 7

DINAMO-KAzAN FIRST IN WORLD bANDy RANKINGSpage 7

AND SO I WATCh yOu FROM AFARpage 8

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INVESTMENT ATTRACTIVENESSAND PRObLEMS OF KAMAz

Indeed, the Dakar Ral-ly was a breeze, when com-pared with the economic challenges that the com-pany had to maneuver around last fiscal year. Kamaz faced several chal-lenges in 2010, most no-tably rising metal and en-ergy prices and unfavorable changes in currency mar-kets.

Russia’s GDP grew three per cent in 2010, slightly more than in the United States. Stock prices rose uncontrollably espe-cially in the last quarter (See Figure 1).

It is not necessary to delve into technical or fun-

damental analysis to under-stand what caused this growth. The strong correla-tion between oil prices and stock prices leaves no doubt as to the catalyst of these changes (Figure 2).

The question then aris-es: how did this economic growth affect Russia’s cur-rency? (Figure 3) There are no surprises here either. The sales of foreign exchange earnings has reduced due to falling oil prices. The low-er projected profits of blue chips shareholders prompt-ed many investors to move their investments into cash, in an attempt to hold onto their hard earned money.

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� February 4, 2011 No. 1(10) The Kazan Herald

Four people died in a fire in Leprekon Pub ear-ly Sunday morning, 30 January.

by RUSTEM YUNUSOVand Tatar-inform

Rescue workers re-ceived word of the fire at 4:47 am. By the time fire-fighters responded, the

fire had covered roughly 50 square meters. The fire was extinguished at 5:47 am.

The fire was reportedly started by a cigarette butt that fell on a sofa near the VIP room, where a large group of people were par-tying. There were more than 70 patrons and staff in the

pub at the time, according to witnesses.

Pub owner Vildan Gari-fullin announced that he will help authorities in their ongoing investigation. «I will actively cooperate with the investigation,» assured Mr. Garifullin. «I can un-equivocally say that all the rules of fire safety have

been met in our institution. All the fire alarm systems were in order. Everything was in order.»

Leprekon is a well-known Irish-themed pub on Chernyshevskogo Street, right near the Kazan Kremlin.

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PASSENGER TRAFFIC FROM KAzAN TO EGyPT CONTINuES TO DECREASE

Russian nationals who were in Egypt on holidays or business trips return to Tatarstan.

The passenger traffic from Kazan to Egypt has been decreasing. Nationals who were in Egypt on holidays or business trips return to Tatarstan, the international airport Kazan’s press service has told Tatar-inform.

On January 31, airborne vehicles delivered 58 pas-sengers from the Kazan’s airport to Egypt. A total of 230 people came back from the country by air. Respec-tively, on February 1 the figures were 26 and 187.

The UTair carrier has today announced cancella-tion of the February flights to Egypt. In March the com-pany is going to act depending on the situation. If the political situation in Egypt improves by the time, UTair could resume flights.

A total of four companies perform charter flights from Kazan to Egypt, but no one else, except UTair, has so far planned to suspend flights to the country.

FARID MuKhAMETShIN MEETS WITh CONSuL GENERAL OF IRAN

Chairman of Tatarstan State Council F. Mukhamet-shin met with Consul General of Iran Reza Bagban Kon-dori.

Chairman of Tatarstan State Council Farid Mukhamet-shin held a meeting with Consul General of Iran in Ka-zan Reza Bagban Kondori who is finishing his mission in Tatarstan.

At the meeting the State Council chairman expressed appreciation to Mr Kondori for the considerable contri-bution to rapprochement of Iran and Tatarstan and de-velopment of the relations between the two republics. Consulate General of Iran in Kazan opened in 2007.

Reza Bagban Kondori thanked Farid Mukhamet-shin for supporting Iran’s Kazan Consulate General activities aimed at establishing contacts in culture ed-ucation and other fields. «We consider our mission in Tatarstan to be accomplished practically 100 percent,» the Iranian diplomat said.

At present, the Iranian side supports the Russian — Iranian society branch at Kazan Federal University, Cen-ters of Iranian Studies at the Tatar State University of the Humanities and Pedagogy and Marjani Institute of His-tory, film-makers from Iran take part in the international festival «Golden Minbar,» Iranian students study at Ka-zan universities. Consul General of Oran believes that active collaboration in the humanities will contribute to and expand economic contacts of the two republics.

Mr Kondori attaches importance to the forthcom-ing visit of the Tatarstan parliament delegation to Iran, RT State Council press-service informs.

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A former presidential spokesman in Tatarstan who was jailed for libel-ing his former boss has been released on parole, RFE/RL’s Tatar-bashkir Service reports.

By Azatliq.org

Opposition journalist Irek Murtazin, who served as press spokesman to former Tatarstan Presi-dent Mintimer Shaimiyev, was released late on Jan-uary 31.

Murtazin, 46, was sen-tenced in November 2009 to 21 months in prison on charges of libeling Shaimi-yev and «instigating hatred and hostility» toward a so-cial group.

Murtazin wrote on his blog in September 2008 that Shaimiyev may have died while on an extended vacation in Turkey because

he was gone for so long and there were no reports of his whereabouts in the local media.

Instigated hatredShaimiyev accused

Murtazin of violating pri-vacy laws by including de-tails of his private life in his book «Shaimiyev: The Last President Of Ta-t a r s t a n . » S h a i m i y e v claimed certain passages in the book, which was published in 2006, «insti-gated hatred.»

Murtazin told RFE/RL the decision by the Men-deleyev regional court to free him came as a sur-prise.

«As I was falling asleep on the freezing floor of the solitary cell, with a light bulb burning, next to a stinking toilet, with mice running around, I wondered how many more nights like this

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awaited me. And then, all of a sudden, [I was re-leased],» he said.

Murtazin said his re-lease became possible thanks to the efforts of his lawyer, Yury Zak. Zak, last month, also managed to secure the early release of Aygul Makhmutova, a Rus-sian journalist jailed three years ago on charges of fraud and extortion

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Murtazin pled not guilty and said he hoped the Rus-sian Supreme Court would acquit him. The conditions of his parole include report-ing to the authorities twice a month.

Murtazin told RFE/RL he plans to finish a book that he started writing in prison and resume his so-cial and political activi-ties.

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Politics

�February 4, 2011 No. 1(10)The Kazan HeraldPolitics

The situation is different today. Leaders of the oppo-sition parties have already informed the President of Russia of the barriers that exist to media coverage. The law was adopted first at the federal level, but similar laws have begun to be adopted by regional legislators. Ta-tarstan is one of the first re-gions to do so.

The next question is why the law only applies to TNV. The reason is that the law only concerns media that have government financing. There is also the GTRK («Rossiya» channel) public broadcaster, but this com-pany is already under the shadow of a similar federal law. Of course, this doesn’t mean that media not gov-erned by this law should not cover the activities of op-positional political parties.

— It is no secret that United Russia has a lot more activity than other political parties. Does the new law require TNV to refrain from covering all of its activities, to ensure parity in the volume of coverage?

— This is a very impor-tant question. We (United Russia—Rimma Ratnikova is a member of United Rus-sia — author) have a lot more activity than other par-ties. The Tatarstan branch of United Russia has 130,000 members, 45 lo-cal offices, and more than 1200 grass-roots organiza-tions. But if the law says that we must act on equal terms on this channel, we can’t deny it. There are oth-er media in which we can make public our activities.

Isn’t it odd that the ini-tiator and developer of the new law was United Russia, the ruling party? This move-ment towards pluralism seems contrary to the in-terests of the party.

We have to make a dis-tinction between the inter-ests of United Russian and the interests of Tatarstan. We know what the domi-nance of one party results in—we have seen this result in Soviet Union period, which we do not want to re-

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turn to. United Russia spearheaded the passage of this law because it un-derstands that a multi-par-ty system operates more efficiently. Of course, the law is contrary to the inter-ests of the party, but the country’s interests are more important.

It is rather clear that one party has a strong network throughout the country and that there are other smaller parties with less influence. What will equal coverage in the media look like, given this situation? Of course, the law will infringe on the major party and support weaker parties. But if we will not support political parties that have a small number of voters, we sim-ply condemn them.

By the way, journalists are now going to have a new headache. They can no lon-ger just cover the events of one party, but now have to reach out to opposition par-ties and find newsworthy activity and information.

— Are the opposition parties satisfied with the adopted law?

— The law was devel-oped with the participation of two parties represented in the State Council, and the maximum number of requests of both sides was taken into account. But the opponents, of course, still have complaints. For ex-ample, they would prefer if the media were only sup-portive of them and their activity. I cannot agree with them. United Russia also has no barrier-free access to the media. We don’t ask

for ‘pouring oil’ and never work on the principles of coercion with journalists. If a party is doing something wrong, including the ruling party, journalists are obliged to discuss it. The law is in fact called ‘on guaranties of coverage’: it mentions nothing of creating a posi-tive image. The parties themselves are responsible for building a good public image. Journalists must act on the principle of creative autonomy and decide which evens are newsworthy and which are not. I would also like to note that journalists are free to work with the provided material, follow-ing, of course, not only the principles of creative inde-pendence, but also jour-nalistic ethics.

Another point of con-tention was ensuring that the media provided prime-time coverage for all par-ties. We must understand that the law is not a dictate and that it is impossible to prescribe everything in it. If one party’s event took place early in the morning, it must be covered in daily news: why should the jour-nalists wait until the eve-ning? These details fall un-der the jurisdiction of the Central Electoral Commis-sion (CEC) or under the rules of TNV.

Some commentators have said that this law will be very difficult to imple-ment. They say that even the CEC of Russia has trou-ble with it.

Yes, it is difficult to imple-ment. The media is now re-

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quired to record all of their coverage to show that they are complying with the law. The amount of coverage that United Russia and the Com-munist Party receives is fixed to the second. Tatarstan’s Ministry of Information and Communication also has round-the-clock recording of TV and radio broadcast of TNV. The Ministry has purchased expensive equip-ment and trained people specifically for the imple-mentation of this law. Now you understand why they say that democracy is ex-pensive! On the fourteenth of every month, the Central Election Commission (CEC established a special work-ing group on a volunteer basis for this purpose) anal-yses the data for the previ-ous month. If there are dis-crepancies in the monitor-ing, CEC rechecks them. If there is any bias in favor of either party, it takes action to remedy it within the next month. Is this process time-consuming? Yes, it is. But the law must be observed.

— Will this law even-tually affect Tatmedia?

— If you’re referring to the different media, whose father company is Tatme-dia, the answer is no. The law clearly states in its name which media it concerns—only TNV TV and radio chan-nels. If all parties will be ac-tive, I think, no other law is no longer needed. Active, strong political parties will obtain access to the media themselves.

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WIKILEAKS AMONG NOMINEES FOR NObEL PEACE PRIzE

By Wojciech MoskwaAnti-secrecy website WikiLeaks has been nomi-

nated for the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, the Norwegian politician behind the proposal said on Wednesday, a day after the deadline for nominations expired.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee accepts nomi-nations for what many consider as the world’s top ac-colade until February 1, although the five panel mem-bers have until the end of the month to make their own proposals.

Norwegian parliamentarian Snorre Valen said WikiLeaks was «one of the most important contribu-tors to freedom of speech and transparency» in the 21st century.

«By disclosing information about corruption, hu-man rights abuses and war crimes, WikiLeaks is a natural contender for the Nobel Peace Prize,» Valen said.

Members of all national parliaments, professors of law or political science and previous winners are among those allowed to make nominations. The com-mittee declined to comment on the WikiLeaks pro-posal or any other nominations.

Washington is furious at WikiLeaks and its found-er Julian Assange for releasing tens of thousands of secret documents and diplomatic cables which it says have harmed U.S. interests abroad, including peace efforts.

Assange, An Australian, faces extradition to Swe-den from Britain for questioning in a sex case which he and his supporters say is a smear campaign de-signed to close down WikiLeaks, a non-profit organi-sation funded by the public and rights groups.

Awarding WikiLeaks the prize would be likely to provoke criticism of the Nobel Committee, which has courted controversy with its two most recent choices, jailed Chinese pro-democracy activist Liu Xiaobo and U.S. President Barack Obama a few months after his election.

NObEL DEFINITION STRETChEDThe prize was endowed by Alfred Nobel, the Swed-

ish inventor of dynamite, who said in his will it was to be awarded to whoever «shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses.»

In past decades the committee, appointed by the Norwegian parliament, has stretched Nobel’s defini-tion to include human rights, climate activism and even micro-financing, which have been a source of criti-cism from Nobel traditionalists.

Nobel watchers say a prize for WikiLeaks would highlight the growing role of specialist Internet sites and broad access social media in bringing about world change.

Sites such as Twitter and YouTube have played im-portant roles in mobilising people in countries with a tight grip on official media, such as Egypt where mass anti-government protests have been taking place.

Kristian Berg Harpviken of the PRIO peace think tank in Oslo agreed that innovative use of «new tools for bringing about peace» could be a major theme in this year’s Nobel, but he said he expected the prize to go to a woman after a series of male recipients.

His strongest tip was the Russian human rights group Memorial and its leader, Svetlana Gannushki-na.

The nomination deadline may make it difficult for Middle East nominees should mass protests there produce peace.

Egypt’s Mohamed ElBaradei won the prize in 2005 as head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, the U.N. nuclear watchdog. Although theoretically possible, no individual has won the peace prize twice. The Red Cross has won three times.

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� February 4, 2011 No. 1(10) The Kazan HeraldSociety

Discussion with Ka-zan skinheads about the Manege Square unrest, the «Russian Run» in Ka-zan, and Russia’s fu-ture.

by ROBERT MAY

The recent events at Moscow’s Manege Square prompted me to write this article. In light of several political shocks in Russia over the past year, most notably «Strategy 31″ and the «Day of Memory of Egor Sviridov» on the eleventh of each month, I have been brooding over the question: What kind of country is this, suffering from the Martin Eden syndrome?

This article addresses only one pseudo-trend of 2010, the awakened skin-head movement. All of us have heard about such a subculture, but I had never personally met of these guys in heavy boots. Most of us are only familiar with a generic, negative carica-ture provided by media and popular culture.

This is the main reason why skins hate journalists. My first attempts to es-tablish contact with Ka-zan’s skinheads were un-successful. Friends joked that I might finally meet them someday, but that it would be the last meeting of my life.

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Kazan nationalists. But anti-fascists, for example, identify themselves as Skinheads. Our members of the ultra-right forces are just normal, everyday guys.

Our associates in Mos-cow and St. Petersburg can do more because they have more members. We live in Kazan, the Russian capital of Islamic culture. Most people associate Skin-heads with the Nazis, but never heard about the right forces, and if they did, they think that they also support Hitler.

We also face a problem with a different subculture, if I may so call it: Gopniks (youth street gangs — au-thor). Gopniks prefer to drink beer and smoke, in-stead of worrying about the health of their nation, about their future progeny. They seem to have forgotten that their greatest ancestors once survived without these current poisons (alcohol, cigarettes, drugs).

There are also the Nats-Bols (National Bolsheviks). We have a few NatsBol’s in Kazan. They are not orga-nized at all. Kazan NatsBols are teenagers who only support this ideology.»

C a n t h e M a n e g e Square be repeated in Kazan?

«Such an even is impos-sible in Kazan. The only or-ganized youth in Kazan is the Antifa. A repeat of Ma-nege Square would only happen here if more than ten Moscow fans were killed in Kazan—and even then it would be unlikely.

Is fascism the future of Russia? Perhaps. I would say it is the Fascism of our Government. Dictatorship. Because any imposition of any idea is fascism. I don’t think that Ikhlov was refer-ring to people with the right attitudes on the streets of Moscow.

The unrest at Manege Square is not a continua-tion of the «Strategy 31.» The actions at Manege Square were conceived of a long time beforehand.

But the Nashi move-ment (youth movement—author) has received a bad reputation among nation-alists and played a certain role in discrediting our movement there.»

The «Russian run»While this article was be-

ing prepared, there was a landmark in Kazan public life—an open clash of anti-fascists and right-wing fans. On 16 January 2011, Rubin ultra fans (according to some sources, just a group of young men who call them-selves «Russian sober») de-cided to organize a mass sprint from the Peterbur-skaya street to Tandem Mall. Some of the participants carried banners with slogans like «Russian—for a healthy lifestyle» and «Russian! Stop drinking!» At the intersection of the Dekabristov and Chis-topolskaya streets runners were confronted by an even larger group of anti-fascists. A clash occurred. According to some, fans ran to a near-by entrances and shops to escape.

yakush on the «Rus-sian run»:

«Russian Run was cre-ated by an Rubin FC fan acting independently. Therefore only students or children whose age ex-ceeds 18 years (and then only in small quantities) gathered there. Anti-fas-cists have a lot of pages with unreal names on Vkon-takte, and apparently they went to the Meeting, where they found out who will be there and the place of ar-rival of the runners.

During the Run, there was no nationalist slogans.

And the «anti-fascists,» as always, decided to beat up the kids, referring to the fact that peaceful students with the flag of the Russian Federation are «Nazis.» They acted despicably, at-tacking when fans were al-ready out of breath by the end of the cross.»

Kazan anti-fascists officially commented on actions on 16 January in the group in Vkontakte:

«We are the anti-fascist action and respect the ideas for activities promot-ing healthy lifestyles among football fans and residents of our city. But we want to note the clearly nationalist background of the today’s event. Tatarstan a is mul-tinational Republic, where two major cultures and na-tionalities–Russian and Tatar–live side by side. De-spite this, the event was

used by nationalists who took part in it, and also gave it a political color, us-ing political and national-istic slogans. We could not allow the event to be held uncontested and will nev-er let it happen again. We encourage non-political football fans to distance themselves from the na-tionalist elements and slo-gans among football fans. We would like to avoid at-tempts of pushing you into a political and nationalist action, as was done by na-tionalists on 11 December 2010 at Manege Square in Moscow.»

This event shows that any all-Russian agitations are perceived in Kazan to be reactionary. We can’t judge if this is good or not. None of the official media covered this event. The only to build immunity to a virus is to interact with it.

I didn’t both to explain to my friends that skin-heads, nationalists, or Na-zis, are only a small part of this subculture. At the same time, however, I didn’t want to see the imprint of Dr. Martens boots on my face.

Most skinheads are apolitical. Early skinheads emerged from mods in the late 1960s in England and had nothing at all to do with politics. Not Germany, not Italy, but 1960s England. Skinheads were a product of the mod subculture, which developed under the strong influence of Jamai-can culture. As for Germa-ny, if Hitler was a skinhead, he certainly kept this fact very carefully concealed.

The skinheads subcul-ture itself is rather segment-ed. Wikipedia identifies sev-eral subtrends: Traditional Skinheads, Hardcore Skin-heads, SHARP, RASH and NS-Skinheads. Only one of these groups is political in nature.

Even so, recent events in Moscow and St. Peters-burg have shown that Rus-sian skins are, in fact, con-cerned with politics. We saw so-called Nazis and anti-fascists among them. Both have a fixed standard defi-nition–ultra-nationalists or ultra-simple. Is it a serious force in Russia today? Ac-cording to Yevgeny Ikhlov, the future of Russia is fas-cism.

Finally, I made contact with a skinhead. A Right-fan under the pseudonym of Yakush agreed to shed some light on the skinhead subculture in Kazan:

«The Skinhead subcul-ture is not prevalent among

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The Central Bank periodically in-tervenes in this game, as the nominal regulator of the exchange rate system. In reality, we all un-derstand that its role is not even secondary, since oil prices de-pend on the behavior of the chief treasurer of the world–the United States Federal Reserve. If Mr. Bernanke runs the printing press, a process called «supporting the economy,» then this support does not goes further than the stock exchanges.

Investors who gambled on blue chips in 2010 have therefore benefited from sizable profits. The only thing that clouds this picture is the relative unpredict-ability and inconsistency of the Russian Government’s policy.

Kamaz performed sluggishly against this backdrop of rising stock prices (Figure 4).

Kamaz commanded a 55% market share of heavy trucks at the end of the first quarter of 2010. This dominance did not translate into a rapid growth of sales, large-ly due to Russia’s monetary and industrial policy. Should the ruble exchange rate rise, Kamaz might see Scania, its main competitor, threaten to seize a portion of its market share.

Kamaz, like most of the large domestic enterprises, was cre-ated in Soviet times, in the 1970s. Much of the equipment was brought from Germany, and was used for over 40 years. Today this equipment is entirely obsolete.

Kamaz (as well as in AvtoVAZ, another Russian automaker) has a significant social burden to car-ry. As the main employer of the town, Kamaz has to comply not only with performance indicators, but also feels an obligation to pro-vide employment opportunities to the city’s residents. AvtoVAZ, the flagship of Russia’s automo-bile industry, was for years sup-ported by government subsidies, protection from competition by high import duties, and sales in-centive programs to low-budget cars (Figure 5). Kamaz, in con-trast, has so far been able to ful-fill its social obligations by itself.

Kamaz recently introduced a new «Quality Control Systems,» and management is confident that this will cause a sharp reduction in the number of complaints against the plant. Such statements are odd against the backdrop of

INVESTMENT ATTRACTIVENESS AND PRObLEMS OF KAMAz

the deplorable physical condition of the equipment and the lack of plans for a radical modernization of main lines, information that is all included in the auditor’s report for third quarter 2010. A new three-month production planning plan was also announced. But polls suggest suppliers of automotive components expect the problem to continue, at least for another decade. Progress on the imple-mentation of a new SAP System is similarly not encouraging: just a little more than a half of SAP implementations at Russian en-terprises have been successful.

In short, investors should be cautious of being wooed by the high-profile victories at the Dakar Rally. The state of production and finances of the company, not its races, ultimately determine its worthiness for investment.

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� February 4, 2011 No. 1(10) The Kazan HeraldSociety

Conflict of interest, poor quality of regula-tions are causes of am-biguities and contradic-tions in the Legislation.

by LOLLA KIRILLOVA

Legislators, who uses the definition established mechanisms for solving var-ious situations, often arise in a deadlock after making changes to the legislation. I would like to illustrate this assertion by the example of short stories, marked the beginning of a somewhat different approach to the regulation of foreigners in our country. Also I would notice that the new ap-proach was replaced by the former in late 2009. It is ob-vious that the instability of the legal regulation is not conducive to investment at-tractiveness of our state.

I have seen the case of the 2007 which completed its path of appeal in the Su-preme Court of the Repub-lic of Tatarstan. The com-plaint of the foreign citizen has been granted.

The Foreign citizen has arrived to Kazan on Sept. 4, 2007 to study at the Uni-versity on the appropriate visa. The University logi-cally should protect law-abiding alien to administra-tive proceedings.

The same day he ap-peared in High School with all the paperwork. The Uni-versity, due to lack of staff, sent his officer to register the students arrived a little later, 09/11/2007

Members of the relevant department of the Univer-sity after three days report-ed that Foreign citizen must appear at the Office of the Federal Migration Service of Tatarstan to pay the fine.

An alien went to the Mi-gration Service and saw a large part of the same «of-fenders», meekly waiting for the minutes. With regard to our hero a decision on bring-ing to administrative respon-sibility for st.18.8 Code of Administrative Offences was drawn, which established fines for individuals from 2000 to 5000 rubles.

They said he was vio-lating the requirements of 09/04/2007 the Federal Law of 25 July 2002 N 115-FZ «On the Legal Status of Foreign Citizens in the Rus-sian Federation», expressed in non-compliance with the deadline of announcing the arrival at the place of resi-dence.

In fact, Article 20 of the Federal Law of 25 July 2002 N 115-FZ «On the Legal Status of Foreign Citizens in the Russian Federation»

has previously been estab-lished that:

A Foreign Citizen who enters into the Russian Fed-eration, must register with-in three working days from the date of arrival in the Russian Federation in the manner provided by this Federal Law and other fed-eral laws.

However, the wording of the Act of 6 January 2007 did not contain that provi-

sion. Chapter III Registra-tion of Foreign Citizens in the Russian Federation and Chapter IV Registration of foreign citizens, temporar-ily staying and living in the Russian Federation have lost their force from Janu-ary 15, 2007.

Why did the migration service felt that it was the offense? Should or should not a foreign citizen be anywhere registration-centered, and at what time he should do it?

On 07/18/2006, the Federal Law № 109-FZ «On Migration Registration of Foreign Citizens and State-

less Persons in the Russian Federation» was acted. As well as Government Decree on January 15, 2007 N 9 it has established a proce-dure formulation of foreign nationals to register for the place of residence and their removal from the register.

Article 20 of the Act reads:

1. A foreign citizen in case of finding a place is required to be registered at

the place of residence in the manner and on terms that are established in ac-cordance with this Federal Law or International Treaty of the Russian Federation.

2. Registered at the place of stay shall be:

2) temporarily residing or temporarily staying in the Russian Federation a for-eign citizen after three working days from the date of arrival at the place of residence.

Our Foreign citizen has been seeking for protection of his rights in Court against the decision of an admin-istrative offense. The stum-

bling block in the dispute became a phrase from the law «after 3 working days from the date of arrival at the residence.» According to the Migration Service, it means the following: if a foreigner arrives in Kazan 0 9 / 0 4 / 2 0 0 7 , u p t o 09/07/2007 he personally or the receiving party should put it on record. Kazan State University, as host side, in compliance with the terms

set forth in paragraphs 1 and 2 of Part 2 and Part 3 of Article 20, also did not violate the terms specified in this Law, as notified just after three days (Wednes-day, Thursday and Friday) Monday September 11, 2007.

Exquisite replica was expressed by my colleague — a Lawyer in the hall of the Supreme Court of the Re-public: «The literal interpre-tation of this phrase means that a foreigner should come after three days of his stay, i.e. after 09/07/2007, but a systemic interpreta-tion of the rule suggests that

the 09/07 in 2007 it should already contain this ac-count. That is, the notice must be given within three working days. We should not just use this law.» The representative of the Migra-tion Service gives no answer on what is meant by a sys-tem of interpretation.

Let us turn to the posi-tion articulated in the De-cision of the Constitution-al Court on 15 July 1999 N 11-P:

«Common law test of definiteness, clarity, unam-biguous legal rules derived from the constitutional prin-ciple of equality before the law (Article 19, Part 1 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation), because this equality can be achieved only under the condition of uniform understanding and interpretation of rules by all law enforcers. The un-certainty of the content of legal norms, in contrast, allows for unlimited discre-tion in the enforcement process and inevitably leads to tyranny, and there-fore — to a breach of the principles of equality and the rule of law. «

Nevertheless, in my opinion, the interpretation of the rule is not generated by any uncertainty, because the term «after» is used in Russian legislation often enough. I can give count-less examples that the phrase «after» in no way be interpreted as the phrase «within».

a) Point 1 of Article 10 of the Federal Law on No-vember 3, 2006 N 175-FZ:

This Federal Law shall enter into force sixty days after its official publication, with the exception of Arti-cles 7 and 8 hereof.

b) P. 3. Article 225 of the Civil Code: After one year from the day of ownerless immovable registered body with the authority to manage municipal property, may ap-ply to the court for recogniz-ing the right of municipal ownership of this thing.

RF Government Decree of 10 November 2009 N 913 «On Amending Reso-lution of the Government of the Russian Federation» on January 15, 2007 N 9, paragraph 20 has been changed. Uncertainty re-garding the date has been fixed as follows:

Notice of arrival at the residence of a foreign citi-zen, temporarily residing or temporarily staying in the Russian Federation, served in the territorial agency of the Federal Migration Ser-vice within 3 working days

from the date of his arrival at the place of residence.

Federal Law of 19 July 2009 N 199-FZ of Part 3 of Article 20 was also amend-ed and now reads as fol-lows:

Notification of the ar-rival of a foreign citizen in the place of residence must be presented in the body of migration registration host a party or in the cases provided for in paragraphs 3, 3.1 and 4 of Article 22 of this Federal Law, the data directly by a foreign citi-zen:

1) not later than seven working days from the date of his arrival at the place of stay, if the foreign citizen permanently residing in the Russian Federation;

2) not later than three working days from the date of his arrival at the place of stay, if the foreign citizen temporarily residing or tem-porarily staying in the Rus-sian Federation;

3) within one working day following the day of his arrival at the place of stay, in the cases contemplated in subparagraphs «a» — «e» of paragraph 1 and sub-paragraphs «a» — «b» para-graph 2 of Part 2 of this Ar-ticle.

It would seem that all misunderstandings re-moved, everything is clear. As before, prior to 2006 must now be put on the mi-gration registration no later than the above dates.

But let us ask ourselves the question:

If you enter the territory of the Schengen States or the United States or any other available to the Rus-sians for the country’s tour-ism, have you ever go to the Migration Service or the post office to send any mes-sage to the authorized bod-ies that you’ve gotten the same to the place of your destination?

The explanatory note to the draft Federal Law «On migration registration of foreign citizens and state-less persons in the Russian Federation in 2006, it was noted that:

«Fit the bill generally ac-cepted international legal standards reflected in fix-ing it notifying the nature of migration control.

Whether the absence of preclusive term, and the phrase-after may be inter-preted in this way, the orig-inal version of this law evi-dence of attempts to bring Russian legislation closer to international democrat-ic standards? If yes, why are all back to square one?

IN WhAT TERMS FOREIGNERS TO REGISTERThE PLACE OF RESIDENCE IN TATARSTAN?

�February 4, 2011 No. 1(10)The Kazan HeraldSports

Russia won the bandy World Championship af-ter routing Finland, 6-1, in the final match on Sun-day, 30 January.

by DAMIR VALIULLIN

The Russian team de-feated defending World Champions Sweden, Nor-

way, and Kazakhstan en route to the champion-ship.

Russia had lost to Fin-land in a qualifying round

RuSSIA WINS bANDy WORLD ChAMPIONShIP

Vladimir Chagin and the other drivers of the Naberezhnye Chelny Kamaz-Master team swept the truck division of the Dakar Rally on 15 January.

by DANIIL MATVEYEV

Kamaz-Master racers won first, second, third, and fourth place. The Kazakhi Kamaz team also placed in the top 10, taking eighth place.

The Kamaz-Master team’s victory, the tenth to

date in the prestigious Da-kar Rally, was nearly de-railed before the race even begin. Poor weather con-ditions made it difficult for the Naberezhnye Chelny team, called the Blue Ar-mada, to get to Buenos Ai-res on time.

Vladimir Chagin and his crew (navigator Sergei Sa-vostin and Mechanic Ildar Shaysultanov) won seven of the 13 race stages on their way to first place. This victory is Chagin’s seventh in the Dakar rally. To date,

he has won 63 of the stag-es in the Dakar rally, con-firmation of his nickname as the race’s Tsar.

T h e N a b e re z h n y e Chelny team’s four trucks lead for most of the race. Kamaz-Master’s Firdaus Kabirov and his crew (nav-igator Aydar Belyaev, me-chanic Andrey Mokeev) won the final stage of the race, beating out Chagin and his team by a minute and change.

This year’s Dakar Rally consisted of 13 stages on

an 826 km route that stretched across Argentina and Chile. The race includ-ed participants from over fifty-one different countries competing in various divi-sions. Spain’s Marc Coma won the motorcycle divi-sion, his third career Dakar victory. Argentina’s Alejan-dro Patronelli of Yamaha won the quadbike division, and Qatar’s Nasser Al-At-tiyah of Volkswagen won the automobile division.

Photograph courtesy of Kamaz-Master

KAMAz-MASTER TAKES FIRST FOuR PLACES IN DAKAR RALLy

Dinamo-Kazan has recently received the dis-tinction of being the high-est-ranked bandy club in the world, the first time in its history that the team has headed the list.

By DAMIR VALIULLIN

D i n a m o - K a z a n achieved this result after a recent string of wins in the domestic league gave the team a total of 9094 points, propelling it past formerly top-ranked rival Dinamo-Moscow, who are now in

third place, with 9049 points. The Swedish club Sandviken is currently ranked second, with 9082 points.

The timing of this Ta-tarstan Bandy milestone is an appropriate prelude to the Bandy World Champi-onship, which will be held in Kazan starting on 23 Jan-uary. Four Dinamo-Kazan players — Maxim Cherm-nykh, Yuri Pogrebnoi, Sha-burov Sergei, and Igor Lar-ionov — were invited to the final gathering of the Rus-

sian team before the World Championship.

Bandy national teams from over the world, includ-ing Canada, Denmark, Fin-land, Holland, Kazakhstan, Sweden, and the United States, will participate in the championship.

Bandy, or so-called Russian hockey, is a win-ter team sport. It is played on ice and appears to the uninitiated to be an odd marriage of hockey and football. Each team con-sists of 11 players — ten

DINAMO-KAzAN FIRST IN WORLD bANDy RANKINGS

earlier this year, leading many to believe that the fi-nal match would be a close, long battle. Russia won eas-ily, however. «I have not seen such a defense like the Russians had today in at least 15 years,» remarked Finland Head Coach Tom-my Osterberg. «Russia was the best team in the tour-nament. We lost only one match during this champi-onship, to the winners.»

Russia Head Coach Sergey Firsov agreed that his team was in command of the final match. «We had the advantage throughout the match,» he explained, «we just had to wait and score.»

The Bandy World Cham-pionship was held in Kazan during the last week of Jan-uary. Teams from 11 differ-ent countries participated:

Belarus, Canada, Finland, Holland, Hungary, Kazakh-stan, Latvia, Norway, Rus-sia, Sweden, and the Unit-ed States.

The weakest showings in the tournament came from Norway and the Unit-

ed States. Third place went to Sweden. Kazakhstan, the hosts of next year’s World Championship, took fourth place.

The final match was broadcasted by Finland’s YLE channel.

field players plus one goal-keeper.

The game originated in Russia. Although most popular in Russia and Scandinavian countries, it also has substantial follow-ings in many countries in Europe, North America, and Asia.

Bandy is officially rec-ognized by the Internation-al Olympic Committee as a winter sport, but is has nev-er been included in the of-ficial programme of Winter Olympics. It was introduced

as an exhibition sport in the 1952 Winter Olympic Games in Oslo, the capacity in which it will be played dur-

ing the 2014 Winter Olym-pics in Sochi.

Photos courtesy of Din-amo-Kazan

� February 4, 2011 No. 1(10) The Kazan Herald

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The Irish post-rock band with such a strange name visited Kazan dur-ing their Russian Tour. Tony Wright, the member of the band, told The Ka-zan herald about Lenin’s Manifesto, Russian Med-icine and WikiLeaks.

Interview byROBERT MAY

— How do you like Ka-zan and the Kazan band’s especially?

— Two bands that per-formed today were so good (IOCH and Yaineya — au-thor). They blew my mind! That’s the thing to notice in Russia all the rock bands had very high standards. And I would especially no-tice standards of post-rock bands. All the bands we played with in here were absolutely phenomenal. You guys have really rich music and you have to be proud of it.

— Which band you like best today?

— I probably would say the second band — Yaineya — is going to be my new favorite band so far. They were awesome!

— What city of Russia you like the best?

— It’s tough to say. Ob-viously, in St.Petersburg and Moscow we hadn’t had much time to explore. In Moscow we went to Red Square, which was unbe-lievable. And we had an op-portunity to look to your city from the window, and we were l ike «Oh, my…!» (amazedly). We are gonna get a chance for little run tomorrow. We will take Johnny to the Hospital. And we want to see that huge Mosque that you have in here, which so beautiful.

Have ever heard about any other cities except Saint-Petersburg and Mos-cow before you came in here?

Volgograd and Kazan.— Did you really know

about the Kazan?

AND SO I WATCh yOu FROM AFAR

CONCERTS AND PARTIES February 5, 2011, 20.00 bob Marley birthday Party Mayakovsky. yellow jacket.Place: Kazan, Mayakovsky Str., 24 A

February 18, 2011, 20.00SuNSAy (ex. Pjtnica) Mayakovsky. yellow Jacket. Place: Mayakovsky Str., 24 A

March 04, 2011, 19.00Pilot band Mayakovsky. yellow jacket. Place: Mayakovsky Str. 24 A

ExhIbITIONSExhibition of boris yeltsin — the beginning of the new Russia Place: Manege Gallery. Kazan Kremlin.

Exhibition MAK-2011 Place: Kazan Fair. Orenburg tract st., 8

The exhibition «Eternal Egypt» Place: National Museum of Tatarstan. Kremlin st., 2

— Yes, I did. The main reason because of football (FC Rubin Kazan). And I knew that Volgograd used to be Stalingrad, and Saint Petersburg was Leningrad — I knew this from History. I was always respect to Russia.

— Have you ever heard about any of Russian bands before you came to Russia?

— Not really, unfortu-nately, no. It’s really strange, because from the West and really know too much about Russia. But I was always very keen to learn things, I always read a History and things like that.

I blame Western media, because we don’t hear any-thing over there, because it’s controlled by bad guys (there was obscene speech instead of last words — au-thor).

— What kind of music you used to play before you get And So I Watch You From Afar?

— We were always be-ing a punk-rock bands, just Lloyd, energetic, distorting, and jumping-around kind of music. Me and Johnny used to be in band together, and Ronny and Chris were in an-other band together.

We came from little tiny towns. We all leave in Bel-fast, but we came from tiny towns you could never hear about. So for us to be here in Russia where people know and like music just blows our mind. We are so happy to be here!

— Do you have any side projects?

— Yes, we do. Ronny and Chris have kind like side project — which is very loud and very heavy, you know

(laughs). They are called Noisier. They are going to be awesome.

It’s hard to believe, but I play a lot of acoustic stuff and just sing, ne and my guitar, whatever. And me and Johnny have a side band — it’s going to be best Band ever!

— Do you belong to any kind of subculture, like Vegan or Straight Edge?

— No, I don’t! I smoke too many cigarettes, I drink too much beer…

— May be to other subcultures?

— Johnny and Rudy are kind like skateboarders. I gave it up when I was 15 because I was terrified by breaking my legs. But then I get to BMXing which is not less dangerous.

But the subculture as a part of us is our music.

— Are there any coun-tries you would never like to visit?

— No, there are not. We talked with guys, and would really want to go Palestine and Israel. Friends of us from America just finished their tour of Afghanistan. And we would love to go there as well.

I would say there is no-where where we would say «No, we are not going there». We used to grow up in pretty dangerous country ourselves — in Northern Ireland. And we appreciated all the bands that were com-ing to Belfast, because so many bands avoided it for years. But that is the envi-ronment we grew up in. And thankfully it’s not like that anymore.

Countries are danger-ous, because small per-

centage of bad guys (there was obscene speech in-stead of last words), and I believe that the majority of people are good people.

— Were there any big significant moments in history of your band?

— Yeah, sure. Yesterday Johnny break his leg. And also Johnny had broken his shoulder before we went to America. I had hit by car in Belfast. I woke up in a hos-pital and just ran away (laughs).

— Do you familiar with any of Russian classics, especially in Litera-ture?

— I used to read Chek-hov when I was young, but I can tell you nothing about him. And I have red Lenin’s Manifesto …

— Lenin’s Manifesto? What for…

— …because I find it in-teresting and because in Ireland as a Western coun-try we don’t get much Rus-sian things. And only things I had were Chekhov and Lenin’s Manifesto.

— What kind of Litera-ture you like?

— I read a lot of biogra-phies and some poetry. I shouldn’t show you this (laughs), but I’ve bought it in the Airport because I had nothing to read, so I bought Steven Gerard from Liver-pool (football player).

I’d like to read things which are factual, and I don’t like fiction. I’d like to read about things that had been happened or re-ality.

There is really good writ-er in England called Charlie Brooker, now he writes for The Guardian. I used to grow up on his books, and

that’s where my sense of humor came from.

And The Guardian is very good newspaper, be-cause it is very liberal, and sometimes very left.

— It is both — Left and Right, right?

— Yes, it’s in far Left or far Right, not in the center. It reports both sides, so that you can form your own opinion.

And there is also good newspaper called Indepen-dent. And you know about WikiLeaks and Julian As-sange, right? So they have cables all over the world, and if anything happens with Julian they will publish them all. And they will keep releasing it. Do you know any Russian newspaper as a partner of WikiLeaks?

— Yeah, it’s the Rus-sian Reporter.

— Oh, yeah. There is Russian Reporter in here,

The New York Times in America and also The Guardian in UK.

— How do you see the end of your career, if you do?

— I see i t… being dead.

— How do you like Russian medicine?

— I don’t know. When Johnny went to the Hospi-tal I was sleeping in a car l ike a t rue I r ish-man (laughs). We had to be sure that we can continue. And as for now we are still on, because none of us wants to go home. We damn like it in here.

Hopefully we will be back before the end of the year. I think we talks about September at the moment, but I can’t definitely say. But we will definitely be back!

Photo courtesy by OLGA KORSHINA