The Minister of Labor and Social Development, Alexander Pochinok, who previously headed the Ministry of Taxes and Duties, said that Marat Safin had to pay considerable tax to the US budget, "since it was there that he won the prize." In an interview with the Echo of Moscow radio station, the repairman said that the tennis player would have to part with about the third premium, which amounted to 800 thousand dollars.

The aircraft, at which the President of Georgia and members of the Georgian delegation returned to Tbilisi from New York from the Summit of the millennium threatened. This was confirmed today by Eduard Shevardnadze at a press conference. According to him, the malfunction was discovered at the Shannon Irish airport - in one of the portholes there was a crack. “When experts assessed the situation, they came to the conclusion that there was no particular risk,” the president said.

A detachment of warships of naval self-defense forces of Japan arrived in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. Having settled ashore, Japanese officers and sailors honored the memory of the dead submariners of the Kursk nuclear submarine with a minute of silence. The visit program is extensive. The main goal is the joint 9-hour exercises that take place in the Avachinsky Gulf.

The leadership of the England Champions "Manchester United" decided to make the leading players of the club David Beckham and Roy Kin with the shareholders of the club. Each of the players will receive a stake in 10 thousand pounds. Such a generous gift, according to the leadership, will allow the club to keep Beckham and Kin in its ranks, as well as limit the ceiling of their wages. It is possible that another shareholder will be Manchester United midfielder Paul Skowels.

According to NTV with reference to Interfax, the clash occurred today after 22.00 Moscow time in the area of ​​the triumphal arch, when the motorcade followed Kutuzovsky Prospekt of the capital. “Lada” crashed into one of the escort cars, the driver of which violated the rules of the road. According to the press secretary of President Alexei Gromov, the escort car has turned over, there are no victims. Security officers were injured. The driver of the "Lada" was not injured.

According to Mikhail Delyagin, director of the Institute of Globalization Problems, “the government presented an unbalanced budget to the State Duma.” According to his calculations, the revenues of the 2001 draft budget are underestimated by more than 100 billion rubles.

The Moscow government intends to increase the rate of income tax credited to the city budget for banks and other credit organizations, stock exchanges, brokerage houses, insurers, banks, as well as other enterprises and organizations on profits received from intermediary operations and transactions. This is stated in the draft law submitted by the Moscow government for consideration to the Moscow City Duma. The bill is expected to come into force on January 1, 2001.

On Monday, prices fell 93 cents, or 2.7%, to $32.7 per barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange electronic trading system, according to Bloomberg. The price of a barrel of Brent crude oil on the Japanese Mercantile Exchange fell 6% to $35.23 a barrel, after rising above a record high of $37 a barrel last week. This price reduction was a reaction to OPEC’s agreement to increase oil production by 800 thousand barrels per day last Sunday.

Today is no exception for the currency of united Europe. The euro/US dollar exchange rate fell to another record low today. In morning trading in London it amounted to $0.8596 per euro. Against the yen, the single European currency fell to 90.86. Since the beginning of 1999, the euro exchange rate against the dollar has already fallen by more than 26%. Experts believe that the reason for the depreciation of the euro was a joint statement by the finance ministers of 11 Eurozone countries.

Today, the collegium of the Moscow City Court will consider the request of the lawyers Edmond POUP to change his preventive measure. According to Pavel Astakhov, one of the American lawyers, documents were submitted to the court on the poor state of health of the accused, as well as the certification of the US General Consulate on readiness to guarantee or make a cash deposit if a complaint is satisfied.

The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) is not a political force, “there is actually no such movement, there is only its name,” President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov told reporters upon returning to Tashkent from New York, where he took part in the Millennium Summit. The main goal of the IMU militants, who invaded Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan from the territory of Tajikistan in early August, I. Karimov called the creation of the so-called caliphate, Interfax reports.

Today marks the 27th anniversary of the bloody coup in Chile, as a result of which a military junta led by General Pinochet came to power, and the legally elected President Salvador Allende died. On the eve of this date, a large march of protest was held in Santiago. There were not without clashes by demonstrators with the police. Despite the cold rainy weather, more than 4 thousand people entered the streets of Santiago.

Russian President Vladimir Putin held a traditional meeting with government members. The head of state spoke of the main task of the Cabinet of Ministers. According to Putin, this is the current state of the economy and the level of material well -being of the people.

Teachers of Chechen schools are exempted from payment of all utilities. Such a decision was made by the leadership of the administration of the republic. At the suggestion of the Trade Union of Education and Science, teachers will also pay for the time of forced downtime when schools did not work due to hostilities in the republic. Payments will be made at the rate of 2/3 of the salary. This was reported in the press center of the Chechnya administration. Today, 452 schools work in the republic.

The Vachovski brothers began work at once on two continuations of the film "Matrix" with a set of stuntmen and martial arts masters, the coordinator of which will again be a specialist from Hong Kong Wu Ping. According to Anthony Jones, who heads the Dublers team, Wu Ping intends to recruit stunning masters, and the most impressive side of the Matrix-2 and Matrix-3 will not be special effects, but martial arts. "Wu Ping has not yet found suitable fighters.