On the day of the 76th anniversary of the death of Lenin, Gennady Zyuganov opposed the reburial of his body and explained to reporters that in Rus' "holy saints were buried in caves in monasteries," and therefore Lenin "was buried by our fathers and grandfathers in accordance with the Russian and Russian historical tradition." Everything was mixed in the head of the communist ...

The verdict was announced in the case of an explosion at the Kotlyakovsky cemetery in Moscow on November 10, 1996. The accused of the attack Valery Radchikov, Andrei Anokhin and Mikhail Smurov are recognized as innocent.

Gennady Zyuganov believes that if the State Duma does not develop a wide levocentric association, then we need to expect "even greater shocks and clashes." In such an association, the Communist Party leader see deputies from the unity fractions, the OVR, the group "Regions of Russia" (in total about 300 people).

Ukraine has overdue the payment of interest in the amount of $ 20 million for bonds of an external state loan, which is considered by the global financial market as a Kyiv default by papers equated with Eurobonds. Now Ukraine is seeking the inclusion of these bonds in the total restructuring package of external state debt of $ 2 billion.

Vladimir Putin spoke at the board of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and again spoke about Chechnya and terrorists.

According to the already established opinion, as a result of the events of January 18, among the losers, the right -wing, the "Union of Right Forces", as well as the acting President Putin, while the "Yabloko" (the left opposition is right) and the OVR -Primakov (left opposition to Putin) - on the contrary, won, turning from the defeat in the elections of the marginals into the leaders of truly deceived investors.

The Central Election Commission today formed the election commission of the 31st Chechen constituency for the presidential election, it included 12 people, 11 of which live in Chechnya. Then the CEC will help the commission in holding the first organizational meeting at which the chairman and secretary of the commission will be elected, after which the election commission will begin to fulfill his duties. The term of office of the commission is 4 years.

According to the headquarters of Bislan Gantamirov, his detachments as a result of fierce battles managed to recapture the third microdistrict of the Grozny . During January 18 and 19, the district passed from hand to hand, the police Gantamirov were forced to cause help from the Urus-Martan district.

The head of the German Foreign Department, Yoshka Fisher, following negotiations with Vladimir Putin, said that the German leadership does not dispute Russia's rights and obligations to make efforts to eliminate international terrorism and terrorism in Chechnya. Nevertheless, he recalled that Germany advocates a peaceful resolution of the conflict.

Viktor Gerashchenko continues to insist on the need to introduce a mandatory sale by Russian exporters of 100% of currency revenue, otherwise the country will not pay with its external obligations.

Peret 2, Russian-Ukrainian Khasavyurt Viktor Yushchenko came to Vladimir Putin to look for peace in the trade war between Russia and Ukraine. Once again, Kyiv announced the impossibility of paying debts both to the Russian budget and Gazprom. Moscow, in response, is preparing to introduce customs duties on the main articles of Ukrainian exports to Russia.

Putin discussed the situation in the lower house with Sergey Stepashin. Stepashin, like his current party comrades, supports the boycott. Informed sources of Interfax in the State Duma were not able to report anything else following the meeting, except that "Putin is configured to resolve the conflict situation."

The Central Energy Complex was registered today by two initiative groups that nominated President Vladimir Putin and Yuri Skuratov, respectively.

Today in Madrid two explosions thundered. The first occurred at about 10 a.m. Moscow time: a car exploded, parked near the military department in the southeastern part of Madrid. As a result, one person died and at least four were injured. There is no data on the victims of the second terrorist attack yet. The police connects both explosions with the activities of terrorists from the separatist Basque organization.

about the author Mikhail Vladimirovich Ershov graduated from the Faculty of International Economic Relations of the Moscow Financial Institute (currently the Financial Academy). In 1986, he graduated from full-time graduate school at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) of the USSR Academy of Sciences. In 1987 he defended his PhD thesis at IMEMO on international monetary and financial problems.