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PayPal wants to find partners to go into Russian market, reports "Vedomosti". The company representatives came to Moscow and met with members of local market payment systems, Yandex.Money and Webmoney.

PayPal wants to strengthen its position on the Russian market by acquiring a local company or entering into agreements with existing players. Company needs “its pals” in Russia, for now is the time when rules to regulate the market are being developed. Yandex.Money General Director, Eugenia Zavalishina, suggested that PayPal might agree with the Russians on the establishment of a gateway for the currencies exchange of different payment systems (like those, that Yandex.Money and Webmoney run). This will allow to use PayPal even if you have no credit card.

Last spring, online auction eBay came out on the Russian market, and got a status of a "World Trade Center”. The Russian version, however, did not give Russian users a feature to sell products. Same happens with PayPal, people from Russia can only spend money, but they can not receive or withdraw if from the system. So now PayPal is used only to make purchases in western online stores.

MoneyNews editor-in-chief, Sergei Stetsenko, told Vedomosti that PayPal’s willingness to enter Russian market is associated with the Visa Click service emergence (services and goods payment by credit card, without entering card details at every purchase), which may cancel all intermediaries, like PayPal, in the future, for they no longer will be needed.

Renova holding (run by Viktor Vekselberg) owes several million rubles to its subcontractors. According to a business newspaper "Marker", collectors ventured into the "information attack" and placed an adverse publicity in "Yandex".

Billionaire Viktor Vekselberg is known not only as a Faberge eggs buyer, but also as a Skolkovo fund co-chairman. His capital is estimated at 10.7 billion dollars, so Renova StroyGroup seems to have no financial problems. However, Renova StroyGroup is not in a hurry to pay small debts to its contractors. According to Moscow Arbitration Court website data, its total debt is only 32 million rubles.

Now collectors are trying to unite all Renova StroyGroup creditors, and bring the problem to media attention. It was decided to place contextual advertising on Yandex, and to file a claim for bankruptcy against the company.

Searching for Renova on the Internet, you will be linked to one of the blog notes, called "Collector Development Centre", which outlines the steps being taken to recover the debt.

Russian Ministry of Defense wants to become the civil 4G-provider reported "Vedomosti". To do this, the department tries to defend 2,5-2,7 GHz frequencies for "Osnova Telecom”.

"Osnova Telecom” was established June 3, 2010, a blocking share (25%) belongs to" Voentelekom" (which is established by the Ministry of Defense). According to "Vedomosti", Defense Minister, Anatoly Serdyukov, has asked President Dmitry Medvedev to support "Osnova Telecom” in the frequency issue, in order to create a mobile broadband federal network across the country.

At the moment these frequencies belong to the Defense Ministry. The office has already had to agree with the Ministry of Communications on their release. However, State Commission for Radio Frequencies meeting, which was scheduled for June 1, was "postponed for an indefinite period, due to disagreement between the Ministry of Communications and the Defense Ministry”, said the publication.

The “Big Three” operators, as well as a Swedish company Tele 2, also claim these frequencies. Tele 2 declared their plans to develop LTE in Russia a year ago. MTS and Vimpelcom representatives hope,
that the distribution of frequencies will be transparent. Nevertheless, the Defense Ministry chances to obtain the frequencies are very high. Therefore, Megafon has already announced that they are ready to cooperate with the military department, if necessary.

Yet it looks like Russian law enforcement agencies are to become an "alternative IT-industry". A year ago "Voentelekom" probed the possibility of WiMAX networks deploying for internal use. Perhaps, someone advised the Defense Industry on LTE which can replace WiMAX.