Vladimir Putin yesterday actually abandoned his words that Russian soldiers in hot spots in Russia should receive no less than peacekeepers in Bosnia or Kosovo, that is, $ 1,000. It turned out that he meant only those who took part in the settlement of the situation in Dagestan, since there were few of them. But there are a lot of those who are fighting in Chechnya, so they will not receive a thousand.

According to Prime-TASS , the Ministry of Antimonopoly Policy is preparing a program for transferring tariffs to communications from Trekhurovneva to a two-level, and then to a single-level system. This was stated today by the head of MAP Ilya Yuzhanov. According to him, there are currently three different tariffs for using local telephone connection: for the urban population, for budget organizations and for commercial organizations. In the future, there will be only one tariff.

Today, the creation of the Russian Academy of the Internet is officially announced, as well as the project "National Intel Internet Prize". Its goals are to promote the formation and development of the Internet in Russia as a new environment for creativity and professional work, propaganda of the best works of the Russian Internet among the Russian and international audience.

Alexander Petrov, Deputy Head of the Sales Department of the Russian Fund of Federal Property, informed the AK & M agency that 0.353% of the shares of the LUKOIL NK can be put up for a cash auction in several lots. According to him, a similar form of sale may cause more interest in investors. Recall that at the last auction, investors could buy company shares at prices by 30% lower than market prices.

Details of the interview of Abramovich and the press conference of the leadership of the ATP; who actually owns Sibneft; News about the war of advertising shields in Moscow; The inhabitants of Argun are ready to expel militants from the city themselves; The State Duma overcame the veto of the Federation Council to the law on guaranteeing deposits of citizens, this and much more - the second monitor.

The head of Sibneft Roman Abramovich gave his first interview - the newspaper Vedomosti. Naturally, the interview does not report anything new about Abramovich’s positions in the Kremlin, but only sheds light on the already well -known political preferences of Abramovich.

Communications Minister Leonid Reyaman said that the Glavgossadznadzor of the Ministry of Communications made a proposal to change the procedure for registering mobile radiotelephones. According to the new rules, the owner of the mobile phone will not have to constantly carry permission to use it, and the responsibility for registration will be assigned to the seller-diler.

After the next long -term meeting by Primakov and Luzhkov with Putin, who, judging by Kozhukhov’s statements, again ended in nothing, one of the main staff of the OVR - Yastrzhembsky - accused him of attempts to bribe candidates from the OVR and other mortal sins. According to Yastrzhembsky, Konstantin Zatulin was offered $ 700 thousand for exit from the OVR list.

The dollar exchange rate at a single trading session on Wednesday increased by 21.70 kopecks compared to the result of previous morning trading and amounted to 26.7450 rubles ./ $ 1.

The command of the Russian group is ready for decisive action against militants who were entrenched in Argun. According to the military, "if the bandits do not listen to the requests of civilians and do not leave Argun, then they will be destroyed in the city." Currently, federal forces have occupied the dominant heights in the Argun area and inflict artillery strikes on the identified positions of extremists.

Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov will accept tomorrow commissar of the Council of Europe on Human Rights Alvaro Hil-Rozhnes, who travels to the North Caucasus. Until now, it is not known about the impressions of the commissar from the trip - yesterday he only said that "so far he is simply not able to" give an assessment to what he saw in Chechnya.

Vladimir Putin today met with the head of the presidential administration Alexander Voloshin and Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov. The official topic of the conversation is the upcoming signing of the Union Treaty between Russia and Belarus.

The meeting of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin with Vice Prime Minister Iraq Tarik Aziz began in the government house. Before the meeting, Aziz handed over to Putin a greeting and the best wishes for health from Saddam Hussein Boris Yeltsin.

Tomorrow at the NATO headquarters in Brussels, a two-day winter session of the North Atlantic Council will open. On the first day, the defense ministers of the Blok Member countries will gather. Officially, the session’s agenda is not a separate issue of discussing the situation in the North Caucasus, but it is already known that in the upcoming text of the final communique a separate point will include the “Mention of Chechnya”.

The State Customs Committee disseminated joyful information: in November, he transferred 19.9 billion rubles to the federal budget, which is 2% more than the government assignment. In general, for 11 months of 1999, the State Customs Committee raised 162.1 billion rubles, having completed a planned task of this period, established by the Law "On the Federal Budget", by 101%.