Yesterday, the largest Western GKO holder Credit Suisse First Boston confirmed that it will not conduct the restructuring of the GKO-OFZ on the Ministry of Finance and will continue negotiations with the Government of the Russian Federation.

Azerbaijan President Heydar Aliyev in the United States performed an operation of aorto-hunkering bypass, the presidential press service said. Aliyev was in the States on the occasion of the celebration of the 50th anniversary of NATO. The operation led, of course, the debate.

Today we are finishing the publication of reviews of the socio-political situation in the first half of April prepared by VTsIOM. In the end - the most interesting: how does the attitude of our fellow citizens towards local and central authorities change? In this regard, special attention to Luzhkov.

Neither peace, no war

The Polit.ru correspondent interviewed the governor of the Kaliningrad region L.P. Gorbenko. It was about the activation of political life in the regions, about the construction of the BMW assembly plant, about compromises and much more. Read the material "I am a politician from the economy."

Yesterday Primakov reorganized his device. He abolished the Department for Interaction with the State Duma, as well as the Department of Regional Development and Relations with the Federation Council. And indeed, why is it to him. Now there will be just the Department for Relations with the Federal Assembly, public organizations and religious associations.

The funds allocated to Russia by the IMF will be immediately transferred to the Russian account in the fund for payments on previous debts of the country to the IMF, the AKM agency reports. According to the representative of the fund, this will be done at the request of Russia in order to avoid unnecessary expenses for transferring funds first to the accounts of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, as was usually done, and then to transfer them back to the IMF accounts.

Sergei Stepashin sent a written report to the President of the Russian Federation on the results of four -sided negotiations of the heads of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, which ended on April 29 in Borjomi.

At a press conference in the Pentagon, US Minister of Defense William Cohen warned Russia about the possible consequences of violation of the oil embargo, introduced by the EU and NATO against Yugoslavia, Interfax reports. Cohen stated that the Commander -in -Chief of NATO in Europe, General Clark, asked him to provide him with the opportunity to use force in order to prevent oil delivery.

Thatcher is drunk, and Gaddafi jokes; Elephants fight with pirates, and bees with mines are a new foreign country.

In St. Petersburg over the past few days, 92 gasoline has risen in price by 45%. According to Interfax, the retail price has already reached 5 rubles per liter. This is not due to the IMF and panic (in Moscow today AI-92 was still 3.50), but with a tough competition. The main supplier of gasoline for Kirishinefteorgsintez, which is part of Surgutneftegaz, sharply increased its export and reduced the volume of supplies to the city from 60 to 40%.

Today is the last day of submitting income declarations for 1998. Previously, the last day was April 1, but on March 31 of this year, the president signed the Law "On Amendments and Additions to the Law of the Russian Federation" On Indifference Tax from Individuals ", in which the deadline for submitting declarations was extended. As the head of the tax ministry, Georgy Boos, stated about 6 million declarations this year.

Chernomyrdin is now talking "one on one" with Milosevich. Previously, negotiations of the Russian delegation and the Yugoslav leadership in an expanded composition were held. According to Interfax, Chernomyrdin V. Sergeev, the president of Yugoslavia, spoke in detail about the situation in the country, and the special representative of the President of the Russian Federation - about his negotiations in Bonn and Rome. Negotiations will last until the evening.

Zyuganov is active than ever before the holiday. He gave another press conference in the Duma. This time he smashed Chernomyrdin. And "there is no plan for the settlement of the Yugoslav problem, and the representative of the president does not use any authority either in our country or the Balkans," and nothing will come of it. Simply, according to Zyuganov, Chernomyrdin "is specially promoted to reanimate the" Our House - Russia "movement he headed.

The “Echo of Moscow” of the repair (the head of the Department of Finance in the Government) said that bills that need to be urgently conducted through the Duma will be within the walls of the parliament only “in the early days of May”, and not today, as expected. The reason is that they have not yet seen Primakov, who is treated in the Moscow Region on the occasion of the famous radiculitis.