According to AK&M, the government intends to resolve the federal budget accounts payable in the amount of 72.7 billion rubles. (That is, in fact, to make it off). At the same time, the total budget debt is 96.6 billion rubles, of which authorized debt is 43.3 billion rubles, unauthorized - 53.3 billion rubles. Recall that a week ago the government intended to resolve only 28.5 billion rubles. At the same time, Viktor Khristenko acted as an active opponent of the offset, Nikolai Aksenenko.

Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov said that agitation in Moscow and Vice-mayor Valery Shantsev is very modest, and he acts within the framework of the law, which he personally carefully monitors. Thus, he does not agree with the accusations put forward to his address, in particular, from Pavel Borodin, which Mosgorisbirk will consider tomorrow.

The moratorium on the publication of the results of sociological surveys concerns only election layouts, and does not apply to war in Chechnya. On December 10-12, VTsIOM conducted another survey in relation to the war in Chechnya (representative sample, 1600 respondents, statistical error within 4%).

The price of Russian oil "Urals" with delivery to the ports of the Mediterranean yesterday amounted to $ 26.40 per barrel, which is $ 0.76 higher than the price of the price of one -time transactions of the environment.

The Chairman of the CEC, Alexander Veshnyakov, in an interview with Vedomosti, said that in the last election campaign he most did not like the information wars and the negligence of candidates in providing data on his income. He once again confirmed that the CEC deliberately chose a tough line from the very beginning - "according to the law, it was possible to check all the candidates, but you can selectively.

The Prosecutor General’s Office completed the audit of the Moscow prosecutor's office. Deputy Prosecutor General Alexander Rozanov said that the results of the audit will be analyzed at the board of the Prosecutor General’s Office, which may take place until the end of this year.

Today in St. Petersburg, unknown people set fire to the headquarters of the Union of Right Forces. Almost the entire circulation of the newspaper Petersburger burned out for distribution on the last day of agitation. The editorial article of the newspaper was devoted to the sharp critic of Governor Yakovlev. According to the St. Petersburg Headquarters of the ATP, the fire is still ongoing.

Today, foreign foreign ministers of the Great Eight countries (with the exception of Russia) called on Russia to immediately cease fire in Chechnya. Such a requirement was nominated after a meeting of the heads of foreign policy departments of the Eight countries, which took place in Berlin.

Today, the American “Ex-Im Bank” will consider the issue of providing credit guarantees of the Tyumen Oil Company in the amount of about $ 500 million. Recall that the battles at the congress level unfolded around this decision, since TNC led away from under the nasal of BP AMOCO Business Business, and about the statements of many experts, illegally. However, the bank, in spite of everything, did not revise its previous recommendations on the approval of the loan.

Obeying the law and without agitating anyone, Polit.ru will go out, however, by the usual order on Saturday, as well as to monitor the voting progress on Sunday from 12.30 (to fulfill civil debt employees) until 21.00. At 21.00, the special issue "Polit.ru" - "Night after the election" will start to leave, which will not leave you without information about the preliminary course of the vote until morning.

The federal troops took control of the Caucasus camp near the village of Sergeni-Yurt , reports Echo of Moscow. This camp is considered one of the centers for the training of terrorists, and the field commander Khattab led them.

Yesterday’s penultimate day of the election struggle and agitation (tomorrow the political space should, in theory, turn into a quiet backwater) was marked by a funny incident in the relationship of the OVR and “unity”. Blok Luzhkova-Primakov sent a letter to the Central Election Commission with a proposal to create a commission for the control over the elections, which would compare the data "at the entrance" and "at the exit".

The Ministry of Defense and Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia lost 533 people killed during the anti -terrorist operation in Dagestan and Chechnya. The losses of the armed forces amounted to 404 people, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs - 129 people.

Neither peace, no war

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said that today Russian troops blocked the road connecting Chechnya with Georgia near the village of Shatili. According to Putin, there were no losses on the Russian side, only one helicopter was slightly damaged. The prime minister believes that this event “could change the entire picture of the anti-terrorist operation.” Until the last moment, the militant group held this strategically important road. Now it is destroyed and scattered.