Reuters Moscow Bureau transfers Gerashchenko’s forecast regarding the dollar. "As usual, the summer months in Russia are quite calm. We expect that we can hold the oscillations of the ruble within 24-25 rubles per dollar," Gerashchenko said, nevertheless noting that in exceptional cases, the ruble exchange rate could withdraw from these limits.

Mikhail Kasyanov will take part in a meeting of finance ministers G-7, which will be held in Frankfurt-on-Main. In addition to the prospects for Russia to receive loans from the IMF and the World Bank, various ways to assist countries with Yugoslavia will be discussed. The third topic of the day will be an increase in the efficiency of the IMF to prevent and mitigate financial crises.

The price of Russian oil Urals (CIF ports of the Mediterranean) on Thursday amounted to $ 14.60 per barrel, which is $ 0.48 below the price of Spot (one -time transactions) of the environment.

Igor Ivanov, according to RIA Novosti, said after negotiations with the Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Vice-Chancellor Wolfgang Schussel that Russian troops have not yet been introduced in Kosovo, but preparations are underway for their participation in the operation of international forces in the region. He did not confirm at the same time that at present Russian soldiers are in Belgrade.

US President Clinton in direct television circulation proclaimed victory in the conflict with Yugoslavia. He again stated that the United States would not provide assistance in restoring Serbia until Slobodan Milosevich is in power in this country. Clinton also welcomed the fact that, despite the use of force against Yugoslavia, the United States managed to maintain partnerships with Russia.

Quiet, soft Stepashin, little that the general - and suddenly grew up. Brought. Remember the cat Leopold, whom the mice got? Lawhouse got drunk. And the reporters of Kommersant could work with greater benefit in the newspaper "Soviet Russia"- "However".

Alexander Zhukov claims that a package of economic bills will be adopted until June 25. Of those 11 documents that the budget committee passed, only 1 was not approved in the first reading. On the other hand, Zhukov does not exclude that if these laws are not accepted, the government may raise the issue of trust. Alexander Zhukov claims that a package of economic bills will be adopted until June 25.

In St. Petersburg at about 19:40 at the metro station "Sennaya Square", a concrete visor with an area of ​​about 50 square meters collapsed. meters. The number of those killed at this hour reached six people, Interfax reports. At the scene, 5 people immediately died - three women and two men. Another 14 were injured of varying severity and were hospitalized. In four clinics in St. Petersburg there are eight victims. According to doctors, their life is out of danger.

Alexander Voloshin in an interview with the newspaper "Vekh" said: "The successor to Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin will certainly will be called by his Russian voters." Speaking about Stepashin, Voloshin noted that the president and his administration intend to do everything so that Sergey Stepashin "managed to fulfill the arch -wording task of restoring order in the country as best as possible." At the same time, the head of the administration for some reason believes that Stepashin as the prime

Today, parliamentarians adopted in the first reading a law allowing the Central Bank to issue their own bonds. The Duma version of the document was taken as a basis, which involves the legislative restriction of the size of the emission. Recall that according to the original version made by the government, this right remained for the Bank of Russia, and he also registered securities.

First Deputy Minister of Finance Oleg Vyugin claims that the bill allowing the Central Bank to issue its own bonds will be considered in the second reading as early as the 20th of June. At the same time, some specific details were announced. Thus, the volume of the proposed issue could be from 8 to 20 billion rubles, the return on shares will be 10-15%, and it is expected to pay 1-2 billion rubles monthly.

President Yeltsin, meeting in the Kremlin with the Minister of Foreign Affairs Igor Ivanov, said that "Russia's relations with NATO countries are still frozen, and then we will watch." Of course, the cessation of the bombing is a positive fact, but “we have done our job,” and now it was the turn of NATO to make concessions. This, in particular, was discussed during the conversation between Yeltsin with Clinton, held yesterday late in the evening on the initiative of the American side.

The Russian military does not intend to beg for the American side to provide Russia with the corresponding sector in Kosovo. "We will declare our sector and coordinate this issue with the Yugoslav side." This was stated before the second round of negotiations between Russian and American military experts, the head of the Main Directorate of International Military Cooperation of the Ministry of Defense Leonid Ivashov, Echo Moscow reports.

At the Russian-American negotiations on Kosovo settlement in Moscow, there was no "final breakthrough", said Strogub Talbott.

Clinton, President Clinton, began his appeal to the nation yesterday with the fact that "the American people achieved victory in the name of security in the world, in the name of democratic values ​​and in the name of stronger America," and ended with an expression of Russia's gratitude for its participation in the resolution of the crisis. He said literally the following: "We have maintained extremely important partnerships with Russia.