The main result of the ending meeting of the Coordinating Council of the three small factions is the actual refusal of the “opposition” from the requirement to revise the package agreement both on the issue of the speaker and in the issue of the distribution of committees.

"The Government of Spain is quite clearly aware of the need to combat terrorism, which is a" cancer tumor "for many countries, and supports Russia, for which terrorism has become a very serious problem," ITAR -TASS Spanish Ambassador to the Russian Federation Jose Luis Krypo. Obviously, the position of Spain is explained by the fact that the country has been at the war with the Basque terrorists for many years, and this struggle has recently aggravated once again.

The IMF mission today arrives in Moscow. At the negotiations, the budget parameters will be discussed. In addition, representatives of the IMF plan to clarify the indicators of the economic program laid down this year, taking into account the analysis of the implementation of the program in the past. By the way, Russia still did not conduct all the structural measures necessary to obtain a detained tranche of the IMF loan with a volume of $ 640 million.

Viktor Khristenko today assured journalists that the budget expenditures of the 2000 would not be made. He said that "On February 3, the government will be consideration of the issue of budget 2000, following which the resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers will be prepared.

Vladimir Ryzhkov, head of the NDR faction and the first vice speaker of the last Duma, in a brief interview with Polit.ru said he feels “strangely” in the “unity” faction, which he entered the current Duma. Ryzhkov emphasized that he voted against a package agreed by the Communists with "unity", as he opens against the "gross breaking of traditions" of the Duma that took place.

"All Ichkerry propaganda products, powerfully voiced by the press, turned out to be a lie. On the executions of civilians in Alkhan-Yurt, about the execution of our column in the region of a moment and hundreds of corpses, about the capture of Gudermes and the attack on Shamanov’s headquarters, about the captivity of Malofeev. All these provocations have specific authors and specific performers. Relapses of free journalism Incorporative .

The governor of the Novgorod region Mikhail Prusak was elected deputy chairman of PACE. Prusak was elected to this post last year, now he is the chairman of the Committee on International Affairs of the Federation Council. At the same time, on Thursday, the issue of preserving Russia's membership in PACE will be resolved.

The PACE political commission report on Russia regarding the results of the trip of the European Council Commission to Moscow and the North Caucasus was presented by Mikhail Prusak. "The main conclusion of the report is this: they expect that before the next session the PACE, which will take place in April this year, events will occur that will allow them to say that the situation in Chechnya is improving from the point of view of protecting human rights.

Alexander Veshnyakov met with the heads of print media and news agencies. After the meeting, he told reporters that, according to his assumption, up to 45 people would try to become presidential candidates. However, not all of them will be registered - 4 years ago before the past presidential elections 91 initiative group nominated 77 candidates, and only 12 were registered. At the moment, 18 initiative groups were registered.

Deputy Minister of Finance Mikhail Motorin entered a direct polemic with his colleague Sergei Shatalov . In particular, he opposed a reduction in the minimum income tax rate of up to 10%, saying that "it will be losses for the budget, and not a real reduction in tax load on taxpayers." Motorin is also against reducing the maximum rate.

NATO Secretary General George Robertson said yesterday in Warsaw that the North Atlantic Alliance, of course, understands the motives of the Russian military operation in Chechnya, but does not agree with the methods of its conduct. Recall that this is his first visit to Poland as the Secretary General of NATO.

One of the leaders of Yabloko, Sergei Ivanenko, told Ekhu Moscow that his party is "calm" to reports on the achievement of an agreement between the fractions of the ATP and "unity", since "nothing fateful in the Duma is happening." Tomorrow, "Yabloko" most likely will not appear in the hall, however, when the deputies begin to engage in legislative work, it will participate in it.

Now a meeting of the Coordinating Council of the three small factions is being held, at which, as Yavlinsky told reporters, the requirements of the Duma majority should be finalized in final form. Yavlinsky himself confirmed that OVR, ATP and Yabloko intend to insist on revising the package agreement. Meanwhile, the leader of the ATP Kiriyenko, after the morning meeting of the faction, was expressed a little differently.

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Interfax transmits official data on the losses of federal forces in Chechnya and Dagestan. So, representatives of the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Internal Affairs claim that 1173 have died since August last year, 3487 military personnel from the combined group have been injured. 53 went missing. Regarding the losses of the opposing side, the first deputy chief of the General Staff Valery Manilov said that since August the federals have destroyed more than 10 thousand militants.