Tomorrow Nikolai Aksenenko will fly to Khanty-Mansiysk for half a time in the morning, Prime-Tass reports. In Khanty-Mansiysk, as part of the preparation of the government meeting about the oil and gas complex, he will hold a meeting. Nikolai Aksenenko (separately from the meeting) will also meet with the leadership of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug.

The first deputy minister of the Russian Federation for taxes and fees, Alexander Smirnov, commenting on an increase in export duties, said that this could soon lead to a situation of "transferring money from a tax pocket to customs", since companies will pay duties, but they may have problems with "living" money intended for tax payment. He also said that the MNS intends to strengthen work with medium and small oil companies.

The head of the Moscow Social Protection Committee, Igor Svirnikov, said that the families of the dead on the Kashirskoye Shosse will receive 10 thousand rubles from Moscow, plus for the funeral - 5 thousand each. 10 thousand rubles will receive the victims who are now in hospitals.

According to the data at 15:00, 121 bodies were extracted from the ruins on the Kashirsky highway, RBC was told in the press service of the Ministry of Emergencies.

Speaking in the Duma, Vladimir Putin especially highlighted "the need to protect the population from bandits by identifying, suppressing and leaving the court." The second task is "finding and warning of foci of training terrorists, depriving their financial sources of recharge." And also, in the retelling of Interfax, the Prime Minister proposes to stabilize the socio-economic and political situation in the North Caucasus.

Tomorrow in London the second round of negotiations between the delegation of the Ministry of Finance, headed by Minister Kasyanov, on the restructuring of Soviet debt to private investors, begins. As the source close to negotiations told the London Bureau today, the market participants expect that Russia will ask for about 30% of the debt in exchange for the converting of Prin and Ian bonds in longer papers.

The First Deputy Prime Minister Nikolai Aksenenko signed the Decree of the Government N1036 "On approval of the rate of export customs duties for oil and damp oil products, damp from the territory of the Russian Federation beyond the borders of the Customs Union agreements." The size of the fee will be 7.5 euros per ton. The government decree comes into force 7 days after its official publication.

Neither peace, no war

Putin appealed to the deputies with a speech, some of the theses of which we have already reported . His other proposals are reduced to the following - to introduce quarantine around the perimeter of the Chechen border, introduce a special economic regime in relations with Chechnya, conduct an analysis and revision of the Khasavyurt agreements, and restore the subordination of the regional authorities of law enforcement agencies by federal.

Contrary to the previous messages, the scandal around the Benex company continues to flare up. Referring to "USA Today", RBC reports that British and Russian investigators collected enough evidence to blame 780 Russian officials of plundering the IMF money, and referring to "The Washington Post", tells about the difficulties that investigators who understand the fraud of the Benex managers and his relatives.

The official Grozny said that he was ready to help Moscow in the investigation of terrorist attacks. According to the statement quoted by RBC, an operational-investigation group was created in Chechnya, which is ready to fly to Moscow and join the investigation, especially among the Chechen diaspora in Moscow.

According to Echo of Moscow, today the American ambassador will return to Belarus. Recall that in June 98, in protest against eviction from the diplomatic complex of Droza, the Ambassador Daniel Sendhard left the republic, seeing this violation of the Vienna Convention. As stated in the statement of the US State Department, Minsk gave guarantees that this convention would be strictly observed and promises to compensate for the damage.

The President of Tresoneft Dmitry Savelyev does not understand why he is resigned. Yesterday, the college of state creditors decided to remove Savelyev from office and the appointment by the president of the state-owned company Semyon Weinstock (previously headed by the West Siberian branch of Lukoil). At the same time, Savelyev, as Interfax-Anni said, "did not make it clear" why they are being removed.

What the State Duma plans to do today, we have already reported, and tomorrow, according to Interfax, parliamentarians plan to consider the bills "On state regulation of Russian capital", "state regulation of the structural reform of the defense industrial complex", "On the state monopoly for the production and reduction of sugar" and others.

According to AK&M, citing the "responsible workers" of the governments of Moscow and St. Petersburg, the leadership of these constituent entities of the Federation denies the possibility of default on their external debts. Despite the fact that payments will greatly hit the budgets of two capitals, their restructuring is not supposed. Probably, this can be perceived as a response to reports about the possibility of bankruptcy of Moscow .