Vladimir Putin positively accepted the proposal of the three governors to extend the term of powers of the President up to seven years, but he believes that if this idea is supported by the people, then the corresponding decision should be applied only to the president elected in 2004. It would apparently be difficult to extend the terms of the presidential powers to the immediate elections.

The letter of three governors and their colleagues in the workshop, and journalists consider primarily as a political document.

Andrei Babitsky gives either conflicting testimony, or generally refuses to give them - he complained to the "Interfax" by the deputy prosecutor of Dagestan Khazbul Aliyev.

Khristenko, speaking at a meeting of the College of the Ministry of Trade, defended Russia from cheap imports, the danger of which in consolidation of low consumption standards. "Cheap imports worsen the quality of life of Russians, so the necessary measures should be taken to prevent this," the Deputy Prime Minister said. He also noted that after the crisis there was no import substitution, but import exaltation, and many market segments simply closed.

In the Samara region, Governor Titov is too fond of letting go to the presidency; Governor Prusak believes that "there will be two real candidates - Putin and Zyuganov. And there is no need to nominate others"; In the Smolensk region, an autograph in support of Gennady Zyuganov was estimated at 1.5 rubles, and for Stanislav Govorukhin they paid on the top five; Aum Sinrika continues to operate in Russia; Primorye is terrorized by wild animals - the whole Russia agency reports.

We still have problems with self-identification. Even in choosing a symbol for our own country, we cannot decide. Over the past two years, according to VTsIOM, the Russians seemed to have become more respect for the country's pre -revolutionary symbols and with a smaller one - to the Soviet one. So, the absolute leader of popularity - a tricolor flag - now collects 57% of the vote versus 47% in 1998, but the number of fans of the Red Star decreased from 16% to 13%.

The Ministry of Trade at an expanded meeting of the board continued to talk about duties, export and imports. The Minister of Trade Fradkov expressed a brilliant thought on the collegium that it was time to organize monitoring of prices in the world market in order to quickly adjust duties. In addition, he advocated the strengthening of state control for foreign economic activity, but without limiting the independence of enterprises.

Interfax tried to find out what Vladimir Putin and Evgeny Primakov spoke about during the Saturday meeting Tet-A-Tet.

According to the journal "Profile", Abramovich and Berezovsky are well aware that property can be unhindered only until March 26, because before this time Vladimir Putin is unlikely to try to intervene in the struggle of the "oligarchs"; In Chechnya, a military “tactical” group was created for the complete destruction of militants in the Argun Gorge; A powerful explosive device is neutralized in Grozny; In Vladivostok, a conflict is flared between the city leadership and commercial vehicles -

Sergei Stepashin met with Putin in the Kremlin. At the end of Stepashin, he informed Interfax that he handed over the materials of the Presidential Materials of the Anti-Corruption Committee headed by him, and "no other issues, including issues of the upcoming elections of the Governor of St. Petersburg, were discussed." In fact, this answer means that the Kremlin refused Stepashin in support of the governor’s elections.

The Russian-Mexican negotiations ended in which Vladimir Putin, Igor Ivanov and Foreign Minister Mexico Rosario Green took part. Igor Ivanov said that the main result is the agreement of the parties to continue the active dialogue in the spirit of cooperation and interaction.

Vladimir Putin spoke to his proxies. Opening the meeting, he said: it is necessary, "on the one hand, to act very actively", but at the same time "not to create a sweet-siring image of the candidate." In his opinion, the election work should be carried out "not around a specific figure", but "around the political line, ideas" that will be attractive to voters. After that, Io began to develop ideas.

The Tver inter -municipal court of the capital refused today to consider a complaint of the prosecutor Yuri Skuratov, who was going to challenge the measure of restraint, who was elected to him - a subscription of the lower -off wizard. According to the judge, the consideration of such complaints is not subordinate to the courts.

Alexander Zozulya, a lawyer who was announced in Makhachkala and newly detained Andrei Babitsky, said that the journalist was charged with “using a fake passport”, and captivity was chosen as a preventive measure. According to the lawyer, such a measure was never applied under this article, and he is going to file a complaint with the court: Babitsky should be released on bail.

The Commissioner of the Council of Europe Alvaro Hil-Robes, located in Grozny, shares the first impressions. "No one can be satisfied when he visits the city where the war has just ended." “We saw the consequences of many victims and suffering,” he said. Hil-Robez expressed concern how much the exerted restoration efforts correspond to the level of the amount of suffering that he saw there.