The Commander -in -Chief of the Airborne Forces Georgy Shpak told Interfax that during yesterday the Airborne Forces units were blocked by eight settlements, including the Vedeno district center and the village of Oktyabrskoye. Currently, according to the general, negotiations are underway with the elders to conduct checks to identify militants and warehouses with weapons and ammunition. The situation in Grozny has not changed dramatically overnight.

the smell of scammers The political event of yesterday was not the election of the communist Seleznev as speaker, contrary to the opinion of four factions that do not have a Duma majority. In itself, such a development of events seemed very likely, although not the most pleasant, even the day before. Moreover, from the point of view of the government and the Kremlin, Speaker Seleznev is in many respects preferable to Speaker Primakov, and for good reason.

The ruble exchange rate in relation to the dollar at a single trading session amounted to 28.5169 rubles. For dollars, increasing by 5.41 kopecks.

The Minister of Tax and Duties, Alexander Pochinok, said that in December last year, Gazprom transferred 10.7 billion rubles, thereby fulfilling the demand of the IMF on the level of receipts of "live" money to the federal budget. The relevant data, according to AK&M , have already been provided to the fund.

The leaders of the "thrown" deputy associations Evgeny Primakov, Sergey Kiriyenko, Grigory Yavlinsky and Oleg Morozov decided to form a coordination council to develop further joint actions. In particular, today they will not take part in a meeting of the Council of the Duma, but will hold their own meeting. There is already an agreement not to make any decisions in the Duma separately from each other without prior approval.

Seleznev, who invited the opposition small factions to his office, did not wait for representatives of either the Union of Right Forces, nor the "Yabloko", or the OVR. According to the Polit.ru in the press service of Yabloko, the decision to not go to Seleznev was made in the morning at a meeting of the Coordinating Council of the Anti-Cremile-Communist Coalition, simultaneously with the decision to manage today's plenary meeting.

“Actually, nothing terrible happened. Simply, the second attempt to“ fishing ”of the Communists. All this would be boring and dreary, if not for a completely indecent cat concert arranged by lovers of Duma democracy, poorly understanding that democracy is, in fact, the victory of the majority.” The special opinion of the increasingly militarized and patriotic Mikhail Leontyev - "However" on "Polit.ru".

The federal troops, together with the detachments of Gantamirov, continue the battles for Grozny. According to Interfax, they are advancing to the city center from the Staropromyslovsky, Starosunzhensky and Hankalinsky districts with the support of aviation and artillery. Currently, fierce battles are underway in the area of ​​the area of ​​a minute and in the eastern part of Grozny. There are no reliable data on the losses on either side or the other.

Prime-Tass publishes a list of the most likely applicants for posts of the heads of committees. So, say, Anatoly Lukyanov (Communist Party) claims the post of head of the Committee on State Construction, Sergey Glazyev (Communist Party) - the Committee on Economic Policy and Entrepreneurship, the Industrial Committee is assigned to Yuri Maslyukov (guess which faction).

At the CIS summit on January 24, the President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma will meet with Boris Yeltsin. According to the press secretary of the President of Ukraine Alexander Martynenko, she will take place "not in the format of a bilateral meeting, but together with all the presidents of the CIS countries." On the other hand, issues of economic cooperation will be discussed with the acting President Vladimir Putin. “These questions were and remain priority for Ukraine,” Martynenko said.

This evening, sellers and visitors to the Moscow Detsky Mir store on Teatralny Proezd were evacuated due to reports of an explosive device planted in the building. Dog handlers who arrived at the scene discovered that the report was false.

Can prisoners change the floor at the expense of the state, the wounded to arrive in the bank on a stretcher, and the British dance and drink on Sundays? The answer is in abroad

The Ministry of Taxes and Duties "is looking for the possibility of applying the 40th article of the Tax Code", the head of the Ministry of Taxes and Enterprise Alexander Pochinok said in an interview with AK & M. This article allows "if there is too much deviation of contract prices from market prices to use a market price for tax purposes." At the same time, the repair noted that so far there is no mechanism for the implementation of this norm.

"Echo of Moscow" conveys interesting details of yesterday's vote on the candidacy of the speaker. It turns out that the former ideological anti -communist Boris Berezovsky voted for Gennady Seleznev, as well as the famous entrepreneur Roman Abramovich. Ex-Tradovites Vladimir Ryzhkov, Viktor Chernomyrdin abstained, like deputy Alexander Korzhakov. "Against" Oleg Shein and Vyacheslav Reznik voted. The remaining 285 deputies of the Common-Krevelensky majority voted, as you know, "for".

The federal aircraft in Chechnya over the past day made more than 180 sorties. Blows were struck at the supporting points of the militants in the Grozny, Argun and Vedeno gorges, as well as in the area of ​​the settlements of Itum-Kale, Mehket, and Hatuni. The federals claim that as a result, about 150 militants, five mortar calculations, two units of armored vehicles, nine trucks, four anti -aircraft units and two communication knots were destroyed.