Officially

President

Appointed Alexander Tatyako as the new head of the FSB territorial department for North Ossetia.

Presidential Administration

Advisor to the President of Russia on economic issues Andrei Illarionov considers it inappropriate to spend money from the stabilization fund on investment projects. “The sharp increase in the stabilization fund has recently caused a competition of proposals on how to cut it up and spend it on various projects,” said Mr. Illarionov. “The position of government officials is surprising; on the contrary, they should be interested in maintaining macroeconomic stability and decent economic growth rates.” growth."

Departments

The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs insists on tightening control over the circulation of industrial explosives and weapons . First Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Alexander Chekalin noted that there are currently 140 enterprises operating in the country - manufacturers of weapons, ammunition and explosive materials, 1,100 storage facilities for industrial explosives, the volume of storage and use of which has increased almost 2.5 times this year alone and amounted to 1.2 million tons. According to Mr. Chekalin, the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs has already created an electronic system for recording all civilian and service weapons, which contains data on more than 5 million weapons.

Army

More graduates of civilian higher educational institutions will be recruited into the Strategic Missile Forces (Strategic Missile Forces). In particular, it is planned to fill up to 15-20% of primary officer positions with graduates of civilian universities. Today, about a thousand officers are serving in the Strategic Missile Forces, called up from the reserves for two years.

Federation Council

Members of the parliamentary commission intend to find out why the government decree on providing material assistance to victims of the terrorist attack in Beslan is not being implemented. For this purpose, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov has been invited to the next meeting of the commission, which will take place on November 4.

Regions

The situation in Chechnya became the subject of discussion at a meeting of the Russian Presidential Plenipotentiary Representative in the Southern Federal District Dmitry Kozak with the President of Chechnya Alu Alkhanov, the Prime Minister of the Republic Sergei Abramov and the First Deputy Prime Minister of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov . According to the press service of the plenipotentiary representative, “issues of socio-economic development and strengthening the law enforcement system were discussed.” Ramzan Kadyrov reported on the measures taken to ensure security.

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