.Russia's dietary bread market is underdeveloped - view.

NALCHIK, October 10 (Itar-Tass) -- Russia has a huge potential of
developing the market of dietary bread, while at present this kind of food
takes only about two percent of all the bread baked, which is by ten times
less than developed countries produce, President of Russia's Guild of
Bakers and Confectioners Yuri Katsnelson said.
"Dietary bread may be very helpful in prevention of many disorders,"
he said.
Bakers should exchange experience and technologies in order to produce
new kinds of bread and to develop small and medium businesses in that
socially important sphere, he added.
"It is vitally important to raise the prestige of bakers and to
attract the youth, because innovations are impossible to implement without
young specialists," Katsnelson said.
Nalchik has invited about 200 representatives from different parts of
Russia. They are both bakers, confectioners and retailers, and producers
of baking and trade equipment. They will take part in the first
competition of professionals in the sphere.
Nalchik is a city in the Caucasus region of southern Russia and the
capital of the Kabardino-Balkar Republic. The city is situated in the
foothills of the Caucasus Mountains. It covers an area of 131 square
kilometres (50.6 sq mi).


.Social payment to Muscovites to remain, though revised - Kudrin.

MOSCOW, October 10 (Itar-Tass) -- Moscow should keep its social
payments, but revise them, Russia's Deputy Prime Minister and Finance
Minister Alexei Kudrin said on the Rossiya TV channel on Saturday.
He was asked how the social payments may be financed.
"It may be possible to sell shares /of the city's commercial
structures/, there are also two banks, which the Moscow government keeps,
as well as aviation companies", he said. "Russia's other territories do
not possess such commercial structures any longer."
Kudrin also mentioned construction companies. Municipal authorities
should provide services "but not fund those structures with the money from
taxpayers."
"The government will reduce its shares in banks, aviation companies,
in Aeroflot, in energy, oil and communications companies," he said. "We
take money from rich regions and relocate it."
Any region must provide free education and medical care, he said.
"That is why the federal government performs the so-called budget
federalism," he added. "Moscow's opportunities may be compared to those on
the federal level."


.Russia incomes require 10-15 years to reach developed countries.

MOSCOW, October 10 (Itar-Tass) -- Russia will need about 10-15 years
to become a developed country.
"We are gradually approaching the high income countries, but still not
enough," Russia's Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minsiter Alexei Kudrin
said on the Rossiya TV channel. "Over the past decade we even had money to
make a reserve."


.Instability still remains in the world economy - Kudrin.

WASHINGTON, October 10 (Itar-Tass) -- Instability still remains in the
world economy, Russia's Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Alexei
Kudrin said following a session of the International Monetary Fund /IMF/
and the World Bank in Washington on Sunday.
He told reporters that the meeting participants discussed policies of
the governments as risks in the economies were growing.
"Mostly it means the necessity of keeping the stimuli and studying the
rate aspects," he said.
"The situation with China was not discussed, but it was made clear
that there are countries, which do not follow flexible policies of rates,
thus keeping certain disproportion in the world economy," he said.
Kudrin remembered that in October of 2009 various countries forecast
pessimistic development of the economy in 2010.
"In the beginning of the year, all the forecasts were changed for very
optimistic ones, while after the second quarter, they were returned back,"
he said. This proves that every quarter may change the situation and that
big uncertainty still remains.
The participants in the meeting agreed that the development of the
world economy is not very successful as yet and that the growth is
insufficient, and that overcoming the crisis will be very slow in
short-term, Kudrin said. "There are factors that may provoke low trust to
markets and low demand, which would not allow quick overcoming of the
crisis, and which would again aggravate those problems."
He supported the idea to expand financial watch of the situation in
financial markets. Presently there are direct criteria to evaluate a
company's position in the market. However, as a rule the task of the
regulators is to see the company's balance sheets, not to evaluate risks
in the financial system itself.
"The latest crisis has shown risk zones may emerge in financial
markets, and they may affect corporate balances," he said. "They are
certain system risks, which are not regulated."
"For example, bad debts in a regular situation over an economic growth
are not a problem, while over a decline period they cause a chain of
bankruptcies, and that is why it is necessary to study such system risks
which may cause worse balances and eventually break the regulations,"
Kudrin said. "In other words, today a regulator is satisfied, but market
specialists may see, where such problems may appear."

.Three tens day to feature elections, marriages.

MOSCOW, October 10 (Itar-Tass) -- The day of three tens - 10.10.10 -
will feature an enormous number of elections and marriages in Russia.
There will be 7,800 elections in Russia's 77 regions, where about 30
million voters will be able to participate. Couples tend to choose dates
with repeating combinations of figures for their marriage ceremonies. The
tradition has become popular lately.
Both the voters and the newlywed have a lot in common. They should be
of legal age. They are concerned about the choice they are making.
A survey conducted by the Superjob.ru recruiting portal shows that
about 63 percent respondents are sceptical about numerology: 38 percent do
not believe it, and 25 percent consider this coincidence absurd. Men
sounded more irritated /31 percent/ than women /20 percent/.
Four percent said they believe the magic of repeated figures, 21
percent believe 'there is something special in it.' Women are romantically
saying that it is necessary "to believe in everything positive and
interesting," while men say pragmatically that it is good to have
important events like marriage on a date like that, because it is easier
to remember them.
Only twelve percent could not give any answer, probably, because it
had never occurred to them to think about this phenomenon.
The survey was conducted on September 26-27 in Russia's all federal
territories, and exactly 1,800 respondents of legal age took part in it.

-0-kar