Officially

President

He spoke in favor of developing relations with Venezuela in the field of military-technical cooperation. Vladimir Putin emphasized that “last year the trade turnover” between Russia and Venezuela more than doubled. According to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, his country intends to purchase a large batch of Russian helicopters and small arms next year.

Departments

ByDecember 9, the Ministry of Economic Development will submit to the government a medium-term program for the socio-economic development of Russia until 2007 . Along with the medium-term program, the government will submit long-term economic development forecasts for the period up to 2015.

Tax authorities will be able to begin initiating bankruptcy procedures for organizations in the near future. At the beginning of the summer of this year, the tax authorities were authorized to file applications to the court to declare debtors bankrupt, but were not able to initiate appropriate lawsuits. According to the procedure, in the application submitted to the court, tax authorities are required to indicate the self-regulatory organization of insolvency practitioners. But the Ministry of Economic Development ordered the order of the Ministry of Economic Development on the procedure for selecting such an organization only recently.

State Duma

The State Duma's relevant committee for federal affairs and regional policy recommended that deputies adopt in the second reading a draft law on changing the procedure for electing heads of Russian regions. In accordance with the project amending the laws "On the general principles of organization of legislative/representative and executive bodies of state power of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation" and "On the basic guarantees of electoral rights and the right to participate in a referendum of citizens of the Russian Federation", the heads of executive power of the regions will be vested with legislative powers bodies of state power of the subjects on the proposal of the president.

Regions

The elections of the governor of the Kurgan region and deputies of the regional Duma, which took place on Sunday, were recognized as valid. To recognize the elections as valid, a turnout of at least 25% of voters included in the lists is required.

In North Ossetia, September 3 will now be celebrated annually as the Day of Remembrance for those killed in the terrorist siege of the First Beslan School, which killed more than 300 people . This is stated in the decree of the President of North Ossetia, Alexander Dzasokhov.

Based on materials from news agencies and our own information