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By his order, he assigned the duties of Secretary of the State Council of the Russian Federation to Presidential Aide Alexander Abramov.
Appointed a number of heads of presidential departments. Dmitry Zhuikov was appointed head of the presidential department for ensuring the constitutional rights of citizens, Vladimir Osipov was appointed head of the presidential department for personnel issues and state awards, Mikhail Mironov was appointed head of the presidential department for working with citizens' appeals, and Yuri Shustitsky was appointed head of the presidential information and documentation support department. .
Signed the federal law “On the ratification of the Protocol on the approval of the Regulations on the procedure for organizing and conducting joint anti-terrorist measures in the territories of the CIS member states.” One of the clauses of the provision stipulates that the CIS member states, in accordance with their national legislation, determine the competent authorities responsible for carrying out joint anti-terrorist measures, which is reported to the depositary simultaneously with notification of the completion of internal state procedures necessary for the entry into force of the protocol that approved specified position.
Prime Minister
Released Alexander Povolotsky from the post of Deputy Minister of Natural Resources due to his transfer to another job. Mikhail Fradkov also dismissed Nikolai Borisov from the post of Deputy Chairman of the Federal Energy Commission of the Russian Federation at his request.
Government
Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov said that the formation of the stabilization fund should be completed in 2005, when it could reach 500 billion rubles. Until this moment, funds from the fund will not be withdrawn for other purposes.
Departments
The Ministry of Finance has submitted to the government a package of bills on tax reform, said Yuri Zubarev, head of the department for relations with state and public organizations of the Ministry of Finance. The package includes seven bills to reduce the unified social tax, change the taxation of the oil industry, change the income tax, increase excise taxes in 2005, as well as change the tax regime with Belarus. It is planned to reduce the base UST rate from 35.6 to 26%, as well as introduce a three-level tax scale instead of a four-level one. In the area of taxation of the oil industry, it is proposed to introduce a four-stage scale of export duties instead of a three-stage one.
On Friday, Minister of Agriculture Alexei Gordeev introduced the head of the Federal Fisheries Agency Stanislav Ilyasov. Speaking to agency employees, the minister noted that the priorities of the fisheries department are the development and adoption this year of a law on state regulation of fisheries activities and the completion of the introduction of a new system for managing aquatic biological resources.
State Duma
Adopted in the first reading amendments to the law “On the subsistence minimum in the Russian Federation.” The amendments eliminate the provision providing for the establishment in the budget for the next financial year of the relationship between the minimum wage (minimum wage), the minimum old-age pension and the cost of living. In accordance with the amendments, “the minimum wage is gradually increasing to the subsistence level.” Based on materials from news agencies and our own information
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