Moscow airport set for privatisation

One of Moscow's main international airports is set to be privatised
next year as part of a new government drive to sell shares in state
firms, Russian financial daily Vedomosti reported on Monday. The
state-owned airport, opened in 1959 and then extended for the 1980
Olympics, is included in a draft plan for privatisations in 2010 ,
an airport official close to the board of directors and government
sources said. The transport ministry supports the idea of selling
Sheremetyevo, Svetlana Kryshtanovskaya, an aide to the chairman of
Sheremetyevo's board of directors and Transport Minister Igor
Levitin, told Vedomosti. A Sheremetyevo representative declined to
comment to Vedomosti. Government officials announced a new
privatisation drive last month. First Deputy Prime Minister Igor
Shuvalov said in a television interview that "now is the time that
we can return" to privatisation."