The deputy chairman of the budget committee Vladimir Tarachev said that the agreed amendment of the president and the government on a proportional reduction in the costs of financing public administration will go to the Duma today. At tomorrow, the budget committee will consider this amendment and prepare it for the Friday meeting of the State Duma, at which a return to the third budget reading is expected.

As a result of searches in Sibneft and Atolla, materials were found in Moscow indicating the organization of illegal listening. This was announced by the head of the department for the investigation of especially important cases of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Vladimir Kazakov. Investigative actions will continue today. “For us, the main thing now is to study all the materials seized. I can say: what we searched, found, the results are good,” said V. Kazakov.

Tomorrow at Polit.ru - an interview with the Deputy Director of the Institute of Economics of the transition period A. Ulyukaev: comments on the article by P. Aven, about the structure of the Right Business coalition, the place of the Far Eastern Railway in it, the political landscape of the elections, Luzhkov, etc., Russian politicians in vain think that this is the competition of elite groups.

The expanded final collegium began the general prosecutors, which is held without Skuratov. Speaking at the board of the acting The first deputy Yuri Chaika said that by the rating of corruption of officials and politicians, Russia today is in the ten most dysfunctional countries of the world, "after us only Venezuela, Camerun, Pakistan and Nigeria." Large -scale corruption has become one of the most destructive forces in the state.

Interfax reports that ex-minister of justice Kovalev is accused of assigning and embezzlement of funds

Contrary to the desperate objections of a representative of the president in the Duma, the deputies rarely unanimous consent of all factions overcame the presidential veto to index pensions of the former pilots (against - 1, abstained - 1). Kotenkov objected that the pension would increase at the expense of other categories of citizens and nothing prevents the pilots from creating their professional fund, but the Duma approved the law in the former edition.

At today's college of the Ministry of Taxes and fees, data were given according to which, due to the fault of Moscow commercial banks through which taxpayers passed, on January 1, taxes worth 2 billion 269 million rubles and 119 thousand dollars were underway.

Aeroflot commercial director Alexander Krasnecker and director of the Department for Sales and Transportation Leonid Itskov have been subject to their posts from the second of February and until the results of the audit. As a result of the audits in 1998, the company discovered shortcomings in commercial activities, in connection with which the leadership of Aeroflot instructed the internal audit service by March 15 to conduct an internal audit.

The Moscow police are ready to withstand any manifestations of political extremism, said Nikolai Kulikov, head of the Moscow Military District, said today, February 3, on February 3. At the same time, he admitted that law enforcement agencies lost their task on January 31, when an unauthorized procession of RNE activists took place in the Northern District of Moscow. According to Nikolai Kulikov, specific employees who showed negligence are to blame for this.

About $ 9 billion was illegally taken out of Russia last year, ”Yuri Chaika, the acting prosecutor general, said today. He is expressed for taking effective measures to repatriate domestic capital. In particular, he offers a foreign exchange amnesty, or the exemption of criminal liability of those who voluntarily gives the state illegally exported capital.

The State Duma dismissed Vl. Rozhkova from the post of first vice-speaker in connection with the election of his head of the NDR faction. The State Duma, however, did not approve the chairman of the State Duma committee on local government Andrei Polyakov in this position.

As it became known to the RIA-News agency from the “competent sources” in the Foreign Ministry of Uzbekistan, the heads of the local leaders do not see the meaning of Uzbekistan’s participation in the collective security agreement of the CIS countries. The validity of the contract expires in April, then the issue of its renewal is being decided.

On January 26, the “Independent Gazeta” wrote that “not wanting to recognize the complete failure of his visit to the headquarters of the IMF in Washington, he claims that not everything is lost and Russia has a good chance to get a lot of money from the Fund as part of the old lending program.” “We dare to say,” the authors of the article emphasized, “that the IMF mission that has arrived in Moscow does not conduct any conversations about loans and, moreover, is not authorized to do this,” and

Informed sources of "Interfax" in power structures are called possible successors to Yu.Skuratov.

The amount of which Valentin Kovalev was accused of theft. The employees of the Investigative Committee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation were presented to the former Minister of Justice of the Russian Federation, Valentin Kovalev, an accusation of theft of $ 50 thousand arrested today. Since, as previously reported, the prosecution was brought in the absence of a lawyer, Anatoly Kucheren appealed about this with a complaint to the Prosecutor General’s Office.