The sharpest parliamentary crisis provoked by the Kremlin on January 18, gradually comes to naught - February 9, at the next plenary meeting, if nothing extraordinary, the deputy corps in the meeting room will be presented in the full force - for the first time from the 18th. The right ones are the only political force that has quite intellectual and ideological resources and social influence (the prestigious press, whatever one may say,, with other equal ones, sympathizes with the right).

"This is the essence of the requirements of the OSCE, the European community: of course, you can fight terrorists. But only on equal terms. Like Americans in Yugoslavia, for example." - "However" on "Polit.ru"

The Novosibirsk region increases tariffs for thermal and electric energy. According to AK & M , this is due to the growth of the monetary component of Novosibirskenergo in calculations with coal miners - up to 100%, an increase in gas prices (from January 1, 2000 by 16%), an increase in the price of a furnace fuel oil (for half a year) and an increase in a railway tariff (from January 15 by 15%). Tariffs will increase by an average of 25%.

As we have already reported this week, the long -term conflict of the power engineers of Primorye with local authorities passed into a new stage. The new front of the war was insidiously discovered by the Nazzratenko administration, who established the structure of Veenergo controlled by the structure of the “Veenergo” controlled to transfer payments to her, and not directly “Dalenergo” to the manufacturer and supplier of electricity and heat energy.

As a source in the Russian special services told Interfax, the correspondent of the Freedom radio station Andrei Babitsky is accused of participating in the armed group not provided for by federal law.

In the famous Davos , an annual World Economic Forum opens, usually collecting political and business elite around the world.

The Duma approved the composition of the budget committee. 51 people entered it, that is, about every eighth deputy. The deputies of Alexander Zhukov were: Oksana Dmitrieva ("Nardep"), Ashot Egiazaryan (LDPR), Evgeny Marchenko (Communist Party), Vladislav Reznik ("Unity"), Sergey Shtogrin (Agroprom), Vitaly Shuba ("Regions of Russia"). Deputy from the OVR, ATP and Yabloko - Gennady Kulik, Vladimir Golovlev and Mikhail Zadornov, respectively, have not yet been approved.

The next meeting of the State Duma will take place today. Deputies are going to continue the approval of the deputy chairmen of committees and their members, as well as to terminate the deputy powers of Boris Gromov, who won the governor's elections in the suburbs. It was decided to consider the legislative work plan for the spring session on February 9. Recall that on this day the OVR, ATP and "Yabloko" intend to return to work in the meeting room.

Detective novels by B. Akunin ("Azazel", "Turkish Gambit", "Leviathan", "Special Assignments", "State Councilor" and others) appeared relatively recently. It cannot be said that the author immediately became super popular, but he occupied a certain niche in the detective literature market. For most, Akunin's novels are apparently simply well-written and tasteful things (which are not so many on today's shelves), while others are able to appreciate their intellectual sophistication and humor.

Berezovsky, with the acquisition of the deputy mandate, which again became an official political figure, responded to the intensification of Russian and Swiss investigators in the Aeroflot case. “Everything that happens in Switzerland in relation to political figures in Russia is a purely political matter,” he told reporters in the State Duma today.

The weighted average ruble exchange rate to the dollar, following the results of the ETS, decreased by 0.16 kopecks and amounted to 28.5513 rubles. For $ 1, with a trading volume of $ 138.334 million. According to dealers, the bank’s stability still contributes to the actions of the Bank of Russia, while most commercial banks continue to buy currency for a new jump in the dollar in early February.

The Kemerovo City Migent of the Communist Party condemned the decision of the local governor Aman Tuleyev to nominate his candidacy for the presidency and forbade members of the party to provide him with any assistance. Such a sharp retaliatory blow was inflicted on Tuleyev at the plenum of the committee. However, support groups have already gathered in Kuzbass about 100 thousand voters' signatures in support of the candidacy of Aman Tuleyev.

The President of Yakutia wants the Ministry of the East to appear in the Russian government, in which his issues would be resolved; The federal authorities have set about a comprehensive verification of law enforcement agencies of the Smolensk region, according to one version - due to the connections of local financial and criminal groups with Luzhkov; The President of Chuvashia cleans his government, retirees - settled at Luzhkov; In the Putin Center for Strategic Development, the Russian-Tatar

The meeting of President Putin's IO with UN Secretary General Cofi Annan ended. They discussed the problems related to the conflict in the Balkans, as well as the situation in Chechnya. As the deputy head of the presidential administration Sergei Prikhodko told reporters at the end of the meeting, Putin emphasized that Russia did not accept unilateral power actions against the sovereign state, and also does not accept the term "humanitarian aggression".

The Communist Party advocates the right of voters to recall its deputies in case of failure to fulfill their duties, Zyuganov said. But at the same time, in the abolition of deputy inviolability, the head of the Communists does not see the need. Smart. Zyuganov has an excellent recipe for the fight against "petty bourgeoisie": deputies can simply not be allowed to meet the State Duma (thus turning these meetings into closed partyets).