Money, fuel oil, two computers

President Vladimir Putin seems to begin to reap the bitter fruits of excess of personal power in economic matters. Over the past three weeks, the Kremlin owner actually wiped the Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov from a number of important operational levers. So, GDP intercepted by the head of government drive belts that control tariff formation in natural monopolies and the costs of the monopolies themselves. Guided by an intuitive fear that once a year and the stick shoots, Putin and his inner circle did everything to break the alliance of the main players of the White House with the tops of Gazprom, RAO UES and the railway department. Suddenly, this friendship, as the presidential and parliamentary elections, will find the forms of an unspoken political union?

Then the GDP sent Kasyanov to Washington: let him do difficult and ungrateful work for the president - will prepare the May visit of George Bush to Moscow. The premiere’s plane had not yet managed to cross the Atlantic, as to Putin, feeling a change in the political conjuncture, representatives of the fiscal block of government departments fell with requests. Also requested under the high hand of the Kremlin.

It turned out that the Deputy Prime Minister and the head of the Ministry of Finance Alexei Kudrin (with the light hand of the head of the Kremlin administration Alexander Voloshin, who received the hardware nickname "Brother of the President") does not at all enjoy the unconditional authority in this area. According to the faces of the faces, on February 1, the chairman of the financial monitoring committee (KFM) under the Ministry of Finance Viktor Zubkov handed over to Putin along with the concept of state financial control also a personal letter containing Kudrin’s strict criticism for not allowing him, Zubkov, to acquire a device free from the creatures of the head of the Ministry of Finance. They say that in this regard, the head of the KFM, a native of the community of "St. Petersburg Chekists", enjoys the support of the influential deputy head of the administration Viktor Ivanov.

Moreover, I did not have time to start work widely advertised, as it turned out that the head of this committee also has serious external competitors - the tax police department and the counting chamber. Gereli's grief, director of the Federal Tax Police Service, Mikhail Fradkov, achieved on January 31 the highest audience. He resolutely warned Putin against duplicating the functions of the KFM and the FSNP in the field and proposed to expand the powers of his own department. Fradkov believes that the KFM should focus on analytical and methodological work, and carry out the law "on the opposition of legalization (laundering) of income received by criminal means" should be exclusively by tax police. In addition, Fradkov resolutely did not like that the KFM bypassing the FSNP managed to conclude an exclusive agreement with the Central Bank, which obliges bankers to supply Zubkov’s department with information about suspicious financial transactions of citizens and legal entities. According to the faces of the faces, the FSNP director asked Putin to discover the CFM databases by tax policeman.

No less serious problems in the KFM with Sergey Stepashin. The head of the Accounts Chamber also wants to take the organization of state financial control in his own hands and also sees Zubkovsky KFM as a harmless methodological-analytical, not tied to the "land" of the office. Mr. Stepashin lobbles on this subject the creation of his own territorial structures, duplicate unreliable, in his opinion, control and audit units of the Ministry of Finance. And also asks Putin's audience.

Meanwhile, as it became known to the Pranam.ru, the expansive Minister of Energy Igor Yusufov through the head of Kudrin and his own curator - Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Khristenko - turned to the head of state with an appeal to expand the export of Russian oil products due to the overstowns of the Russian market. For this, Yusufov proposed to sharply reduce or even eliminate duties on these types of fuel. The day before, the Ministry of Finance resolutely blocked the initiative of the head of the Ministry of Energy, authorizing only a decrease in duties on the export of fuel oil. However, as you can see, the minister, who is close to the heart, receiving the concerns of the LUKOIL and Sibneft NK, does not fold weapons.

Against this background, the struggle for the redistribution of influence in the national market IT unfolds. The government has just approved the federal target program "Electronic Russia (2002-2010)." The subject of rivalry is participation in the development of funds allocated by the government to develop the IT business in the framework of this program. It is primarily about the projects of systemic integration of the largest federal departments, including the GTK, the FSNP and the units of the Main Directorate of the Federal Treasury of the Ministry of Finance. In 2002, it is planned to spend 12.6 billion rubles of budget funds on the implementation of the program. In general, the Russian Informatization Program “from above” costs $ 2.6 billion. Its main operators became the Ministry of Economic Development and the Ministry of Communications and Informatization.

Acute competition in IT business for the development of budgetary funds pushes to conflict and the heads of both departments - Herman Gref and Leonid Reiman. The first headed the Interdepartmental Commission for the coordination of the activities of customers and executors of the Electronic Russia program, the second became his deputy. From this position, Reiman is more difficult to influence the composition of the commission, which should be formed within two months. In addition, as they say, Rayaman does not like Gref's lobbying alliance with one of the most active players in the Hi -Tech market - the head of the IBS group of companies Anatoly Karachinsky. At one time, Karachinsky claimed the post of Minister of Communications, which deserved the personal hostility of Mr. Reiman.

The top manager and co-owner of IBS attribute a key role in organizing a large PR event in the field of Hi-Tech-the so-called IT technology ball, which will be held on February 28 in the Great Hall of the Metropol Hotel. The final top 100 companies of the Russian IT industry should be presented there. Typically, in the preliminary version of this multi-criteria rating prepared by the organizers of the event, Anatoly Karachinsky is considered the third, and Leonid Reyaman, who is believed to have completely designed interests in the IT business, appears only in 39th place. As far as one can understand, surrounded by Reiman "Aggressive IBS PR" is perceived only as the claim of Gref and Karachinsky standing behind him to the first roles in the distribution of funds of the Electronic Russia federal program.

If these ministers also go with their grievances to Putin, then the head of state will remain very few steps to combine the presidential and premier chairs.

Electronic government (dossier faces)