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 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 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.

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.

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.

The UN Moscow representative office denied the information that appeared in the Western media that the United Nations were going to send their mission to Chechnya. Recall that in today's “International Herald Tribune” an interview with Kofi Annan was published, in which he expressed the intention to achieve the creation of such a mission.

Putin in Primorye , answering the questions of journalists regarding the fact that a significant part of Russian capital goes into offshore zones, admitted that "the state does not pay enough attention to the taxation of producers of goods and services" and this is "one of the problems of our economic policy." The prime minister promised that "the government will act in this direction in order to do the work of companies in Russia more attractive."

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.

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Representative of the RAO UES Andrei Trapeznikov qualified yesterday’s capture by military electrical substations in Altai as a “lawlessness”.

The Ministry of Finance expects that within two weeks the government will nevertheless consider the possibility of paying taxes at the expense of the “investment” issues of OFZ, the report by the director of the Department of State internal debt of the Ministry of Finance of Bella Zlatykis, posted on the website of the magazine “Securities Market” opened yesterday.

Today, the Ministry of Finance explained how he intends to attract 45 billion rubles in 2000 in 2000, provided for by the budget draft. 15-20 billion rubles. From this amount, as stated, according to the Prime-Tass , the director of the Department of Internal State debt Bella Zlatkis, it is planned to be attracted with the help of OFZ papers (mainly 6-month, but there will be 3 months); Papers will be indexed in accordance with the cost of the consumer basket and inflation.

The State Duma Budget Committee examined the bill "On Cash Cash settlements in the Russian Federation", which provided for permission for legal entities to have only one bank account (now this number of accounts is not limited). The Budget Committee recommended that the lower house not adopt this law.

The only requirement of terrorists who continue to hold hostages in the building of the Armenian parliament, according to the leader of the gang Nari Unanyan, is the provision of a direct television, Interfax reports. Terrorists released the freedom of the deputy, one of the leaders of the People’s Party of Armenia Amayak Oganesyan.