Aslan Maskhadov instructed the representative of Chechnya in Russia to force the preparation of his meeting with Boris Yeltsin. It is reported by ITAR - TASS with reference to its sources. The exact date and place of the meeting are not yet called. Meanwhile, Maskhadov, according to some reports, is ready to come to Moscow on Tuesday.

The Central Bank of the Russian Federation does not exclude the possibility of establishing more stringent control over the implementation of foreign exchange operations. This was announced today by the chairman of the Bank of Russia Viktor Gerashchenko. He noted, “that in the current conditions of the existing currency legislation, there are too many hooligans on the roads,” the AKM agency reports.

Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Vladimir Platonov gave a press conference at which he noted that since Skuratov’s last speech in the upper house, arguments in favor of his dismissal have increased, for example, a criminal case has been opened, but today there are still not enough reasons why the Prosecutor General should leave resign. Platonov emphasized that the decision of the Federation Council will depend on Yu.

Sources surrounded by Berezovsky told Interfax that immediately upon arrival in Moscow, he was placed in the Central Design Bureau. There he is located now, he is being examined.

According to Interfax with reference to the oil information agency, the price of Russian oil Urals (CIF ports of the Mediterranean) on Friday amounted to $ 14.34 per barrel, which is $ 0.53 higher than the price of Spot (one -time transactions) of Thursday. This is the maximum price level over the past 15 months, experts say. We have just reported on world prices and the reasons for their growth

In Moscow, a meeting of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Alexy II with the US Ambassador to Russia James Collins was held. The conversation took place on the initiative of the American ambassador. During the conversation, the trip II’s trip to Belgrade and related guarantees of flight planned for tomorrow was discussed tomorrow.

On Saturday, Gaidar performed at the International Conference "Financial Crisis: Causes and Conditions". He said that the floating ruble exchange rate to the dollar should be introduced very carefully due to the money history of Russia and low trust in the ruble. At the same time, he hopes that there will no longer be a fixed course and a soft budget policy.

Referring to the "many Romanian media", RBC reports that Romania will not give Russia permission to fly aircraft with humanitarian aid for residents of Yugoslavia, said the Minister of Defense of Romania, Viktor Babiyud. On the same day, the Prime Minister of Romania held telephone conversations with US President Bill Clinton and assured him to the full support of NATO military operations in Yugoslavia.

During the secret negotiations, Japan offered Russia to hold a demarcation line on the Kurilla, according to which the sovereignty of Japan over four disputed islands would be recognized, while recognizing the legal Russian administration, but this proposal was rejected. Interfax quotes the material about this, published today in Asahi Simbun according to the information of well -informed sources.

In the new mass hunger strike, Sverdlovskmetrostroy participates 192 people, of which five women. According to RIA Novosti, the federal government forced them to go to the extreme measure this time, which promised to transfer 29 million rubles for salaries to the Sverdlovskmetrostroy accounts until mid -April. So far, the first tranche of 10 million came from Moscow.

In the afternoon, representatives of the North Atlantic Alliance said that due to absent weather, aviation raids on Yugoslavia have been canceled.

The bombing of Yugoslavia continues. But they are discussing mainly not tonight, but the consequences of the destruction of the chemical plant in Panchevo. The director of the plant said that the poisonous cloud is moving towards Romania and Bulgaria, i.e. threatens the ecology of the Black Sea (TASS message with reference to an interview with The Times). Solana gave an interview to BBC (brief report), in which he did not rule out the possibility of a land surgery.

In relation to Russian-speaking families in Chechnya, this Genocide is “deployed”, RIA Novosti said in the press bureaus of the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, referring to the data of the temporary group of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation in the North Caucasus.

The Butyrsky inter -municipal court of Moscow decided to liquidate the registration of the regional branch of the RNE. This was announced by the correspondent of "Echo of Moscow" directly from the courtroom. The exit meeting since April 15 was in the village of Severny near Moscow.

At the meeting in the Kremlin, they decided that today in the afternoon Yeltsin and Clinton should talk on the phone. The Americans insist on the conversation, as the deputy head of the administration of President Prikhodko said.