Yeltsin issued a decree on the celebration of the Day of Russian Science; Aksenenko went to Komi, and the committee immediately paid a salary; The government in full force gathered in the Duma to defend the MVF laws; The press about the battle of Luzhkov and Kiriyenko, artificial respiration for the "imperial" and "Premieres with presidential ambitions" is the first monitor.

Today, in Cologne, at a meeting of foreign ministers of the Eight countries, Igor Ivanov submitted a written proposal of Moscow about the “controversial” points of the UN Security Council Resolution of the UN Security Council, because of which negotiations were interrupted yesterday.

Chernomyrdin gave a press conference at which he stated that if the NATO command will be over international peacekeeping forces in Kosovo, then "it will be without us." Viktor Stepanovich said that in the near future, negotiations between the military from Russia, NATO states and neutral countries will begin in Moscow. It is necessary to decide on the structure of the command of peacekeeping forces, to determine their number and functions, as well as the location.

Tomorrow a group of NATO military experts comes to Moscow to decide how Russian troops will participate in a peacekeeping operation in the Balkans. The Minister of Defense Igor Sergeyev today said that the Russian contingent could be up to 10 thousand people, and he will not obey the military command of NATO.

Valentina Matvienko coordinates the issues of social policy, labor relations, social insurance, systems of social guarantees, benefits and payments, social protection of poor populations, pension provisions. Matvienko conducts issues of general and vocational education, healthcare, culture, state youth policy, physical culture and tourism, the Russian tripartite commission to resolve social and labor relations.

As it became known to Interfax, Sergey Stepashin approved the list of government measures to execute agreements with the IMF.

As the Echo of Moscow conveyed, today Sergey Stepashin, in turn, will hold a meeting with power ministers. The problem of financing the army will be discussed. According to the head of the Ministry of Defense Sergeyev, the president instructed the prime minister to satisfy the defense requirements as much as possible in connection with a change in the international military-political situation.

Today, the president signed a decree on education at his administration of the political planning department. Alexander Voloshin must approve his structure and staffing for 10 days. The work of the new department should be supervised by the deputy head of the administration, Jakhan Pollyeva.

Today, after a meeting of the Commission of the Federation Council on Corruption, Yuri Skuratov said he would hardly return to the post of general prosecutor, since "too much group of people is not interested in this," "people who are not the latter in our state." To the question of whether, in his opinion, the change of government to the mood of the senators will affect, Skuratov replied that "it will affect little, although Stepashin’s position on this issue is well known." At the same time,

Kiriyenko took his first active pre-election step Tomorrow the Moscow Duma will consider the issue of postponing the mayoral elections to December, and, there is no doubt, these elections will be postponed. Thus, the war that former Prime Minister Kiriyenko declared to Moscow Mayor Luzhkov is finally formalized, saying that if the elections are postponed, he will put forward his candidacy, and he has a number of questions for the Moscow management system and for Moscow Mayor Luzhkov personally.

Chairman of the Duma Committee on Geopolitics Alexei Mitrofanov told reporters that tomorrow’s State Duma agenda includes the issue of removing Viktor Chernomyrdin from his duties as special representative for Yugoslavia.

Gennady Seleznev considers Voloshin’s statement that Sergey Stepashin may be symptomatic that Yeltsin’s successor can be in 2000. “Well, that means that soon Stepashin will not be as a chairman of the government,” the speaker said today to reporters. He recalled that when similar statements were expressed and the names of possible “successors” of the president were called, then, after three or four months, Boris Nikolaevich removed.

Exactly at 10:00 the meeting of Boris Yeltsin and Sergey Stepashin began. This was announced by RIA Novosti Dmitry Yakushkin. "Current affairs" are discussed, which "has accumulated a lot." Yakushkin confirmed that after the premiere the president will accept the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Vladimir Rushailo.

In a telephone conversation, Boris Yeltsin called on Bill Clinton to take emergency measures to immediately stop NATO strikes in Yugoslavia. Also, the Russian president, as the Kremlin’s press service told Interfax, “expressed satisfaction with the Active participation of the Russian side by the coordination of the draft resolution of the UN Security Council for Kosovo.” According to the deputy.

The press cannot decide who nevertheless runs Russia - Boris Abramovich or Roman Abramovich, who buys Kommersant - Chubais or Berezovsky, who will be president - Stepashin, Aksenenko or ... Yeltsin. Zhirinovsky and Voloshin treat Luzhkov benevolently, and Chubais is confident in the victory of the "right -handed" - an interview.