Vladimir Putin fascinated the next, after Wolfenson , Russell -Johnston and many other Western diplomats who have recently met with him - this time the Minister of Foreign Affairs of France Uber Vedrin. Putin made the impression of a person who is determined in the settlement of the conflict in Chechnya, "he" acutely and specifically perceives the situation in the world and in his country.

In the speeches of the head of the Ministry of Heads, a peculiar and already marked "Polit.ru" bifurcation of personality is clearly traced. According to the press service of the Ministry of Head Anergo, at a meeting of the Ministry on Wednesday, the Ministry of Topenergo criticized RAO UES for the company's plans to reorganize the country's unified energy system inconsistent with the regions and the government.

The statement of the Chechen field commander of Usa -Rodzhaev is very similar to the stand. He directly substitutes Babitsky in accordance with the prosecution that he was brought. I do not believe these very Brothers Chechen. They always lied. Babitsky believes, but I do not believe. There are generally a lot of strange in this story. This all may well be a setup.

The Black Sea Fleet reconnaissance ship, as it turned out, will be sent to the Mediterranean Sea in connection with the "building" of the NATO naval group in the Persian Gulf.

Neither peace, no war

On Tuesday, the Party "primary" excluded from the ranks of the Communist Party the head of the Fokinsky district of the Bryansk region Valery Denisov; Andrei Kogtev will be the new plenipotentiary of the president in the Samara region. These and other news in the press review of the Interregional Information Agency "All Russia" .

Having talked at today's briefing about the unpleasant , I spoke about the even more unpleasant repair. 25 regions of Russia did not fulfill the tax collection assignment in January (recall that the first deputy Minister of Finance Kudrin recently spoke about antidias against this disease in an interview with this disease ). However, there are gaps: several regions exceeded the task of one and a half and even twice. The collection of "live" money is overfulfilled by more than 28%.

RAO UES made an official statement about everything that is going on around the company in recent days. The company categorically disagree with the negative assessment of the company’s activities, allegedly based on the speeches of the participants of the meeting on February 2, the meeting in the Ministry of Heads.

Today, a conversation between the IO of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister of France Suber Wiberna was held.

Valery Manilov said that, it turns out, the “active phase of the third stage of the counter -terrorism operation” is coming to the end. There are only about one thousand militants who do not have a single management, nor security, nor communication. In the south of Chechnya in the mountainous areas there are 6-7 thousand militants who are locked in the Argun, Staro-Sharai and Vedeno gorges. Attempts by bandits to break to the south are stopped with large losses for them.

Boris Berezovsky found out why the Swiss authorities refused him an entry visa, and told reporters about this: there are “certain forces in Moscow” behind this decision. "The actions of the Swiss official organs are at least doubtful. If you call a spade a spade a spade, then an absolute clue is happening.

The Foreign Ministry requires the immediate liberation of the Russian tanker, but the Americans want to find out everything to the end; Freedom correspondent Andrei Babitsky disappeared on the way to Gudermes: according to official figures, he, on the initiative of the "field commanders" and with the consent of Babitsky himself, was exchanged for two Russian troops who were captured; The Duma crisis negatively affected the reputation of both Putin and the Duma: the first is suspected depending

The scandal with a forensic psychiatric examination of the journalist "MK" Alexander Khinshtein continues to gain momentum. Today, the deputy chief of the Investigative Committee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Sergei Novoselov, said that if Khinshtein voluntarily does not appear for examination, he will be put on the federal wanted list.

Vladimir Putin, opening the next meeting of the Security Council, again repeated that Russia "is obliged to think about high -tech industries if he does not want to remain a raw material country." For example, Russia "can really achieve success" in the field of aircraft construction.

The US administration has already brought to the attention of the Russian side its concern about the export of Iraqi oil to bypass the international embargo - said yesterday the official representative of the US State Department James Fouley. According to him, for almost a month before the detention of a Russian tanker, this problem was discussed with Moscow.