In the Duma, the response of the Deputy Head of the Ministry of Taxes and fees for the request of the deputy Ilyukhin on the verification of the legality of the acquisition by Zhirinovsky movable and real estate is extended, the press service of the State Duma said. It states that the LDPR leader has a large number of movable and immovable property, and, according to the audit, “a citizen of V. Zhirinovsky was presented to the budget, taking into account penalties, 3954 thousand rubles”.

Gennady Seleznev claims that "he would like the government of Sergei Stepashin to finalize until June 2000 and put up the powers to the new president of Russia," but "does not believe in this," Interfax reports.

Trilateral consultations on the Yugoslav settlement will be continued in Moscow on Tuesday and Wednesday. As before, Viktor Chernomyrdin, Marti Akhtisaari and Strogub Talbott will take part in them. The main goal of the meeting of these politicians will be to prepare new proposals for tripartite negotiations, which should begin in the Russian capital on May 26. It is assumed that after their completion, Chernomyrdin and Akhtisaari will fly to Belgrade.

The new president of Germany was the candidate from the Social Democratic Party, the former Prime Minister of the North Rhine-Westphalia, 68-year-old Johannes Rau. The German president, unlike Russian, does not have power, his function - to represent the country abroad. According to Echo of Moscow, the previous President Herzog made more than a hundred trips during the performance of his powers. The official transfer of powers will be held on July 1.

RAO UES, under the leadership of Anatoly Chubais, continues to create a bridgehead for entering the European market. He conducted negotiations about this during his visits to Austria, Germany, Great Britain, Poland and Ukraine. Now the turn of the Baltic states and Belarus came. The creation of a large energy union in this region will be discussed during the scheduled visit of Chubais to Vilnius.

Vladivostok will still live for a rather long time without representative power. According to RBC, the city election commission was dissolved in the city. The new composition of the mountainizburkom must form by its decision the acting Head of the city administration Yuri Kopylov.

According to Echo of Moscow, the Lukoil oil company is interested in buying a stake in the TV-6 Moscow television company, which belongs to its president Eduard Sagalaev. Having announced his upcoming departure from TV-6, Sagalaev did not rule out that he would sell him 37.5 % of the television company. Now Lukoil controls 15 % of the shares of TV-6.

The Fitch IBCA International rating agency has spread a press release, which expresses the assumption of the possible announcement of the default on restructured interest on debts to the London club.

In the capital of Great Britain, the second round of negotiations between Russia and the London Club of Londers to restructure part of the external debt of the Russian Federation - commercial debt inherited from the USSR is opening. Russia is represented by Deputy Minister of Finance Mikhail Kasyanov. The amount of debt is estimated at $ 29.3 billion, but it varies due to the fact that loans are calculated in various currencies, the courses of which are constantly changing.

Lieutenant General Mikhailov Alexander Georgievich was appointed head of the government of government information. The previous head of the UPI Igor Schegolev was dismissed "in connection with the transition to another job." Alexander Mikhailov is known as the author of a number of detective novels and film scores, vice president of the Association of Detective Roman, member of the Writers of Russia.

Radio "Echo of Moscow" reported that the First Deputy Prime Minister Nikolai Aksenenko urgently flew to Sochi to take part in the discussion of the structure and personnel composition of the government together with the head of the Kremlin administration and Prime Minister S. Stepashin. However, the press secretary of Aksenenko refused to comment on this information. Such inconsistency of the First Vice, apparently, is due to the fact that S.

The weighted average of the ruble with Tomorrow calculations at a day session in Salt increased by 12.90 kopecks. and amounted to 24.7165 rubles/dollars.

In Moscow, the meeting of Chernomyrdin began with the Indian Foreign Minister Jasavang Singh, RIA Novosti reports. The situation in the Balkans is discussed.

Tomorrow in Moscow in the CSKA sports complex will be a meeting of lenders of Inkombank. Despite the fact that in the conclusion about the financial condition of AB AB “Inkombank”, prepared by the temporary manager of the Bank V.N. Alekseev, it was concluded that the bank “has internal resources to restore solvency, which, if favorable external conditions, can be involved in deep restructuring”, Inkombank is more deadly dead than alive.

Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, director of the FSB Putin also met with India Foreign Minister Jasvant Singhu. The parties ascertained the coincidence of the positions of the two countries on the events in the Balkans. According to the SB press service, a wide range of issues was discussed at the meeting, including the problem of creating a strong international security system in Asia and interaction on these issues between Russia, India and China.