Putin and Dorenko supported Voloshin and Berezovsky "analytical" counterattack Vladimir Putin gave yesterday his first detailed interview since the beginning of the parliamentary crisis, provoked by the collusion of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and the pro-Putin Unity in the distribution of Duma committees and the post of speaker. In fact, this was Putin’s first detailed interview in his acting position. president. The impression is depressing.

Seleznev said that agreements with the leaders of Yabloko, ATP and OVR could not be achieved, and they insisted on expanding the number of committees in the State Duma. Although Grigory Yavlinsky, for example, spoke today about completely other requirements of the "refuseniks", which they planned to discuss with Seleznev.

Today, the CIS summit is opened in Moscow with the participation of heads of state, prime ministers and foreign ministers of the Commonwealth. The main at the meeting will be issues of economic relations, in particular, the conclusion of an agreement on free trade zones. The leaders of the states that are part of the Commonwealth will also discuss the problems of combating terrorism, as well as some personnel issues.

According to Prime-Tass , Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze said today that, in his opinion, "at a summit in Moscow, the chairman of the Council of the CIS state of the CIS must be elected Vladimir Putin."

It seems that Mikhail Kasyanov and Viktor Gerashchenko applied the tactics of "evil and good investigators" in Japan. While the First Deputy Prime Minister showed all his readiness to meet the requirements of the IMF, Viktor Gerashchenko showed himself a real dissident. Answering the ITAR-TASS question about the possibility of achieving progress at a meeting in the Japanese capital on the issue of providing loans through the IMF, Gerashchenko said: "What does progress mean?

First Deputy Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov said that from the beginning of the anti-terrorist operation in Chechnya, "about 5 billion rubles were spent." According to him, the real costs "somewhat exceeded the planned budget expenses - we expected it to be 3.5 billion rubles." Western media cite somewhat different figures: it refers to the cost of about $ 150 million per month.

Tomorrow in the afternoon, the IMF mission will arrive in Moscow. The visit approximately until February 4. On January 30, Deputy Head of the Second European Department of the IMF Gerard Belanus will join the work of the mission. This time, the mission plans to consider the tax, budgetary and credit-money programs of Russia for 2000, paying special attention to the first half of the year, as well as evaluate the credit and money program for the last year.

As already reported, in the evening Yeltsin in Gorki will give a friendly dinner in honor of the heads of the CIS state, who arrived at the summit. Apparently, there, in an informal setting, it will be discussed to whom to transfer formal leadership in the CIS - the term of Russia as the chairman expired on the day that Yeltsin chose for voluntary resignation from the post of president of Russia - December 31.

Emomali Rakhmonov, having met in the Kremlin with Vladimir Putin, said that he intends to nominate his candidacy for the post of chairman of the chapters of the Commonwealth (we recall that Tajikistan should be on the charter by the next chairman of the Council of the CIS heads). This issue will be officially resolved tomorrow, when the Kremlin will first have a multilateral meeting of the heads of government, and then - heads of state.

The temporary ally of the Kremlin, Gennady Zyuganov, is trying not to forget that his party is still called "communist". On Saturday, he spoke at a meeting of the heads of the Stachkom, trade union committees and unions of workers from the twelve regions of Russia. The leader of the Communist Party, in particular, said that the average salary of "state employees" should be three thousand rubles.

Interfax reports that according to unofficial data, during a counter -terrorist operation in the North Caucasus, 1152 Russian soldiers and officers died and 3246 were injured. According to the sources of Interfax in Russian law enforcement agencies, only in October 1999, 926 military personnel of the Ministry of Defense, internal troops and employees of the internal affairs bodies and 2432 were injured during the liquidation of gangs - were injured.

According to AK&M , according to the State Statistics Committee, in December 1999, the amount of total wage arrears decreased by 7.128 billion rubles. (14%) and by the beginning of 2000 amounted to 43.741 billion rubles. From the total amount of debt caused by budgetary underfunding, 81.2% accounted for territorial budgets and only 18.8% on the federal budget.

The Moscow government will have 5 main blocks: economic, urban economy, construction, social problems and property-earthly bloc. This, according to Prime-Tass, said on Friday the Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov. The first deputy prime miners to the Moscow government until December 29, 1999 will remain in their posts. The fifth deputy prime minister, who will lead the social bloc - Lyudmila Shvetsova, who previously led the Committee on Interregional Relations, will add to them.

Today, the head of the Central Election Commission, Alexander Veshnyakov, will meet with the leaders of the largest television and radio companies. Of course, the election campaign will be discussed.

The heads of the GTK spoke at a press conference on the work and prospects of customs. The First Deputy Chairman of Meshcheryakov, in particular, said that the assignment of payments for 1999 was overfulfilled by one and a half percent, and the collection of 185 billion rubles was provided. And for the current year, the task is 327 billion rubles and will be fulfilled.