The government approved the draft law "On Amendments and Additions to the Law" On Banking Activities "; Shoigu will check the readiness of Siberia and the Far East for winter; at the meeting of the Duma, the issue of non-recognition of the" People’s Deputy "has been raised; Kiriyenko believes that there are possibilities for increasing investments in Russia, but no one will do this in the next 9-10 months; in St. Petersburg, prices for motor Details - in the third monitor .

The federal troops continued to advance from the west to Grozny along the Sunzhensky ridge and are now 12 km from the city, NTV reports. The federal forces blocked the village of Samashki, are preparing for the Servovodsk “cleansing” operation, approached one of the supporting points of the Bamutu militants, which is subjected to intensive shelling.

The Bank of Russia believes that it is advisable to create a single issuing center of Russia and Belarus on the basis of the Central Bank of Russia, since this option is the least costly. This was stated by the director of the Department of International Financial and Economic Relations of the Central Bank Pavel Smirnov.

A high-ranking source in the presidential administration refuted the version of the Nonpage Pact, allegedly prisoner by the administration with the Communists, in order to weaken the position of Primakov-Luzhkov’s position. The source commented on Polit.ru this version in the spirit that the whole history of the administration with the Communists does not have mutual trust and any agreements.

Marshal Sergeyev returned from the inspection trip to the combined group of troops, waging a war in Chechnya. At the end of the trip in Mozdok, he awarded a large group of generals and officers with orders and medals. Journalists were also awarded: NOCTROM - VGTRK correspondent Alexander Scholkov, Medal - NTV correspondent Arkady Mamontov. Having returned to Moscow, the Minister of Defense at a press conference said: "We came to never leave. No one should have doubts about this.

The Russian noble assembly decided to keep up with the entire progressive public and opposed any negotiations with Chechnya, supporting the president and prime minister and condemning Western diplomats, the monitor writes. “No one reminds them (M. Olbright, H. Solan, E. Blara and the like), as their world community ruthlessly brought down all its power into a small sovereign state in the center of Europe,” the nobles recalled all their power.

The Central Bank intends to place five issues of its bonds in the second half of November through open subscription, today Lyudmila Khrapchenko, chief economist in the open market, said. According to her, the volume of each issue will most likely amount to 2 billion rubles, the volume of all five issues - 10 billion rubles, the yield of three -month arrival will not exceed 25%, the remaining papers - there will be no more existing refinancing rate (55%).

Transneft, which has no president, otherwise there were two of them, made a strong-willed decision to finance the construction of the Baku-Novorossiysk oil pipeline only from its own funds.

Shoigu offers to deprive the citizenship of those citizens who are not for polling stations three times in a row; Skuratov was summoned to the Prosecutor General to give an explanation in connection with charges against the president and his family; A message about an agreement concluded by the Presidential Administration with the Communist Party against the OVR is pure rumors; "Fatherland" intends to establish a literary prize for the best work about Russia; Details are in the fourth monitor .

The MPS responded to the charge from RAO UES, expressed yesterday. They wanted to make railroad workers with switchmen, guilty of the fact that in the Sverdlovsk region there is a massive disconnection of electricity. The MPS statement states that the Kazakhstan coal incision of North, owned by the UES, repeatedly refused coal supplies to the Russian regions due to the debt of the EEC to railway workers and non-consumption of diesel fuel.

According to Interfax, the head of the Baikonur cosmodrome Leonid Baranov excludes the possibility of radioactive infection of the Proton launch vehicle falling. According to him, there were no radioactive sources on the rocket. However, he did not exclude the likelihood of infection with a toxic rocket with heptyl, emphasizing that this would be found out only after appropriate studies at the fall in the fall.

"So, these people in costume are not right. This is a deception, a setup. There are no such right ones in nature. The right ones cannot be cosmopolitans, pacifists and defeats. Nowhere, there are never and will never be such right. - "However" on "Polit.ru".

“Gudermes will be taken by federal troops in the very coming days,” the commander of the eastern group of the federal forces, Lieutenant Troshev General Troshev, said at a press conference in Makhachkala. According to him, the city is blocked on three sides.

According to Prime-Tass , the report of the Higher School of Economics and the Expert Institute presented today says that over the years of reforms, the outflow of capital abroad amounted to $ 130-140 billion. According to the director of the expert institution Yevgeny Yasin, in 1997-1998. The outflow of capital was about $ 10-15 billion per year, and the same amount of foreign investments in the Russian economy were the same.

Vladimir Putin, who was in Primorye, told reporters that within "three to four days, a maximum of a week", it was necessary to conclude an agreement between RAO EECs and the administration of the Primorsky Territory.