The Russian leadership "never considered a counter -terrorism operation in Chechnya as a struggle with Islamic terrorism,” said Igor Ivanov. He emphasized that "we are not waging a struggle with Islam or the Chechen people, we are waging it with terrorism." The Russian side understands the concern of other countries with the scale of the counter-terrorist operation, but "no one recipe for the fight against terrorism has not been developed.

RAO UES (in which the permutations are slowly undergoing, and the board of the board recently became Melamed and Urinson) this morning reacted to the publication about itself in the newspaper Vedomosti, which traveled the trip of the deputy board of Zavadnikov to London, as a “presentation” of options for restructuring the company by foreign investors. Zavadnikov made a briefing in the morning, at which he said that RAO is now only engaged in the study of the vision of Western investors.

First Deputy Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov said on the eve of Davos that in the question of Russia's entry into the WTO, "unreasonable haste is inappropriate.

"The rating of Vladimir Putin began to fall: the period of the" girlish "love of the people for the new charismatic leader, demonstrating the active style of leadership and not embarrassed in expressions, objectively ended" (Semen Novoprudsky), as well as an interview with Deputy Prime Minister Ilya Klebanov about the final structure of the defense order for the current year and about the new schemes for the stateization of the State.

The pension fund will now be able to provide installments up to one year to repay debts on insurance premiums formed before January 1, 2000. In accordance with the decree signed at the end of the last week, IO Vladimir Putin, installment plan can be provided on the basis of agreements concluded with payers of insurance premiums, subject to timely payment by the latter of current insurance premiums in full, reports Prime-Tass .

Boris Berezovsky decided to act in defense of Vladimir Putin. "Putin is trying to consolidate power, and not revive the totalitarian state, according to his opponents," the deputy said. "All the allegations that Putin leads the country to totalitarianism are absolute speculations. Putin’s actions to consolidate power are necessary," he said. "Today, all the conditions for building a liberal society have been created.

The focus of the business press is the armed shift of the leadership of the Kachkanar mining plant in the Sverdlovsk region (the only manufacturer of iron -Vanadium ore in the world). Last Friday, a group of people armed with machine guns, led by the new GOK CEO Andrei Kozitsyn, who was elected to this position on Friday at a meeting of the board of directors, took the plant. The balance of power is as follows.

Today in London a high court should make a final decision on the fate of Augusto Pinochet. Foreign Minister Chili Juan Gabriel Valdeus said the day before that the ex-dictator would be released and returned to his homeland. Meanwhile, the Boeing 707 of the Chilean Air Force landed at the Air Force base in Central England, at which Pinochet and will go home in the event of a favorable court decision.

Yesterday, in Davos, Russian participants performed in the framework of the Russia's discussion at the Crossroads: Mikhail Kasyanov, Sergey Kiriyenko, Anatoly Chubais and Konstantin Titov, who gathered, despite the Sunday, representative audience (information of Vedomosti).

Presidential President Vladimir Putin at the expanded collegium of the Ministry of Justice said that "the dictatorship of the law is the only variety of the dictatorship that we are obliged to obey." "We are suffocating from the lack of a legal framework, an adequate current situation." "This does not mean that everything needs to be thrown into a landfill, but it is impossible for the country to live with a legal framework created with another state system." Putin especially complained to the

During the negotiations today , Igor Ivanov and Madel Olbright agreed on the political calendar of Russian-American contacts at a high level. According to Igor Ivanov, the parties spoke out for the sequence and increase in Russian-American interaction and cooperation in order to strengthen the stability and predictability of the policy of both countries. In addition, special attention was paid to strengthening safety and stability and, first of all, to continue the process of disarmament.

According to RIA Novosti, Vladimir Putin was awarded the title of Honorary Doctor of the Russian Military Medical Academy. According to the press service of the Academy, "for many years Vladimir Putin personally supported and defended the oldest medical center of Russia in difficult times." Now Vladimir Putin can put before his surname besides the prime minister, acting president, colonel and professor The word "doctor".

Against the backdrop of other events, the movement of Leonid Melamed, the former director of the State Medical School of Rosenergoat, was practically unnoticed - to the post of First Deputy Board of the RAO UES of Russia. Recall that last week, the board of directors of the RAO "UES of Russia" approved his appointment to the post of deputy in charge of the financial bloc.

The weighted average ruble exchange rate against the US dollar based on the results of a single trading session on Monday amounted to 28.523 rubles ./ $ 1, decreasing by 0.1 kopecks. The volume of trading amounted to $ 187.514 million.

According to news agencies and Polit.Ru's own sources, Oleg Dobrodeev, the former editor-in-chief of broadcasting and then the general director of NTV, will soon head VGTRK. The current head of the state information holding, Mikhail Shvydkoy, will move to the chair of the Minister of Culture.