There is no special relationship between President Boris Yeltsin and the first deputy prime minister Nikolai Aksenenko. This was announced in an interview with the weekly "Interfax Time" by the press secretary of the head of state Dmitry Yakushkin. The impression of the "backstage relations" of Yeltsin and Aksenenko is trying to form a press. But in fact, Aksenenko is "not an ordinary minister, but the first deputy prime minister with relevant powers.

RBC, again referring to the France Presse agency, reports the words of the official representative of the French contingent from the air base in Macedonia, who claims that today there are no meetings of the Yugoslav military with the Yugoslav military with the NATO, thus refuting the current statement of Shea.

Stepashin today will sign a document on the distribution of powers between deputies of the government, says First Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Khristenko. "Technically, everything has already been completed, so I think that the document will be signed by Prime Minister today." Khristenko refused to comment on the document, saying that the prime minister himself will do this.

The first deputy prime minister in macroeconomics Viktor Khristenko gave today an extensive interview on the air of the Echo of Moscow, where he touched on all the pressing topics of the last days. First of all, it was about tax bills.

The meeting of the eight in Bonn has already begun. “Echo of Moscow” quotes NATO press secretary in Brussels Jamya Shea, who stated in Brussels that negotiations between the NATO and Yugoslav military will resume in the coming hours.

Sergei Stepashin will hold several important meetings today. At 10 a.m. his conversation with Yegor Kravenov will begin, and at 13:00 the prime minister will meet with the leaders of the State Duma factions. Stepashin, in particular, is going to explain to the deputies what consequences the failure of the package of economic bills can lead to the provision of the provision of the IMF loan.

The BBC reports that the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry Igor Ivanov has already flew to Bonn, where a meeting of foreign ministers of the Bolshaya Eight countries will be held in the government residence of Petersberg. The purpose of the meeting is to develop the agreed text of the UN Security Council resolution to resolve the conflict in Kosovo.

After communicating with the leaders of the factions, Stepashin told reporters that he intended to make a speech to the deputies on Wednesday - on the day when deputies should proceed with the consideration of tax bills. "We have many points of contact, we work out interesting schemes to soften the effect of these laws in the social sphere," Stepashin said.

Kiriyenko against Luzhkov; Zyuganov against Chernomyrdin - parties and movements. "The Government of Stepashin against the Government" is a review of the press; Financial and regional news, details of the most important weekend events are in the first monitor.

Prime Minister Stepashin met with the leaders of the Duma fractions. In his speech, he announced the need to introduce a “hard moratorium” by the end of the year to increase energy prices and railway tariffs, as well as that “those companies that make prices for oil products will be reduced by access to export”, in connection with which the Minister of Internal Affairs Rushailo was entrusted with “holding a reconciliation throughout the country” and finding out who and where he makes prices.

George Soros, who came to Moscow, spreading in an interview with Interfax about the realities of the Russian economy and politics, said that he himself did not have a clear picture of what was happening, but he heard from experts that "the economic situation in Russia began to stabilize," but "the political situation is still unstable." According to Soros, now we should not expect an influx of foreign investment in Russia, until the investment climate will change, for which the government, for

According to Echo of Moscow, George Soros reduces the costs of supporting Russian education. According to the financier, it is supposed to reduce the number of individual grants that are allocated to Russian teachers, with the exception of those who wear the title of Honor of the Soros professor or teacher. Explaining this decision, George Soros said that the Russian government refused to allocate part of the funds to support the program.

"President Tanya", "Russian budget will become family" - the press about Yeltsin's entourage plans; "Product-money-Room", "Slomed car of Aksenenko"-about the government; Whom the Russians want to see in the State Duma and what the president rejected the laws on payments to pensioners and compensation for deposits - read the second monitor - a press review and details of the events of the day.

Prime Minister Stepashin today approved the new composition of the college of state -owned deputy at the ORT. Now it will be headed by the head of the presidential administration, Alexander Voloshin.

After the recent congress of the “right -handed”, it became more or less clear which political forces will participate in the elections to the State Duma, and on behalf of which public classes they will perform. A detailed analysis of the alignment of political forces is presented in the article by Yu.