The RTS index today grew by 2.32% and amounted to 150.71 points. Trading volume - $ 9 565 420. This is a record index of the current year. Analysts associate the growth of shares with record growth in Western markets.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said today at the expanded college of the Ministry of Railways that macroeconomic stabilization in Russia has now been achieved. According to him, the tariff containing policy, carried out in recent years in railway transport, had influenced the entire economy, gave an respite of industry, as a result of which industrial growth on average in the country in 1999 amounted to 7.5%to 8%, and in some areas - up to 25%.

Today, Evgeny Nazzratenko at a meeting of the Duma of Primorye, the Governor took the oath. Naturally, there was not a scandal - a meeting of the regional Duma, scheduled for 9 a.m., was postponed for an hour due to the lack of a quorum.

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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, on behalf of Boris Yeltsin, today in the Kremlin presents awards to the laureates of the Presidential Prize in the field of education. Speaking before the awardees, Putin said that Russia’s main wealth is the “intellectual potential of the nation,” emphasizing at the same time that all achievements like the “German or Japanese miracle” are achievements of the intellectual potential of the people.

Both Gromov and Seleznev promise that there will be no "large personnel purges" in the Moscow region; Skuratov explains the decision of the Presidium of the Moscow City Court with the lack of a “normal permanent leadership” in the court; According to the Shapovalian, the budget 2000 is absolutely real; The turnover of Russia with the CIS countries in 11 months decreased by 26.3%, and with distant abroad - by 14.3%; Ustinov called on ordinary bandits to lay down weapons; "People's Deputy" will

Vladimir Putin went to St. Petersburg. There he already managed to make a statement. According to him, by May 2000, the government will fully complete the repayment of debts to the enterprises of the military -industrial complex, and repayment will be carried out in 2 stages: first to enterprises that themselves have arrears of payments to the federal budget, and then to other enterprises of the military -industrial complex. Also, during a visit to St.

The prosecutor’s office after the Ministry of Defense denied reports that the military shot more than 40 civilians in the village of Alkhan-Yurt, ITAR-TASS reports. The brigade working in the village of the Main Military Prosecutor's Office did not establish the facts of "disassembling the drunken military personnel."

The results of the elections to the parliament, the radical change in the face of the Duma has now become the main topic for political analysis.

Yuri Luzhkov, who tried to visit Severodvinsk today, where he was supposed to take part in the anniversary of Sevmash, which produces atomic submarines, is returning to Moscow, since his plane could not land in Arkhangelsk due to strong lateral wind. As a result, having circled an hour over the city, the plane was forced to take the capital.

Putin arranged a holiday for the railway workers, and Ilyukhin left the shot of the shot. Although the railway workers were not waiting at all like that, but Ilyukhin, perhaps, organized the attempt himself. Read this and much more tomorrow at Kommersant .

"Remember how Luzhkov and Primakov decided to earn on the bones of an unpopular president? Spit twice, wipe his feet three times, tours of foreign ones with the aim of publicly spathing. And the rating in the sneakers left. And then the reaction is some kind of strange: why are they the surprise of some kind of chicatils that received a rebuff from the victim." - "However" on "Polit.ru" .

The rescue operation in the Philippines has been completed, where, as already reported by Polit.ru, a large passenger steam was shipped yesterday. The results of the operation are called the "Christmas miracle" - 753 people were saved, about 10 died (there were much more passengers on the ferry than officially declared).

Gennady Zyuganov contributed to the discussion of the upcoming speaker of the State Duma who captured the political elite. Regarding Sergei Stepashin Zyuganov, he said that the chamber is imposed on a candidate that will not pass. Whoever imposes, and whom the Communists themselves would like to see the speaker, Zyuganov did not say, only expressing the hope that as a result of consultations a competent, good, sober and capable person would be found.

The press service of the Polit.ru Ministry of Defense reported that General Shamanov is still the commander of the Western group in the North Caucasus, and there is no talk of removing him from office. Malik Saydullaev’s reports on the detention on the death of civilians in the village of Alkhan-Yurt 3 officers and 15 contractors in the press service could not comment due to the lack of any information.