The chairman of the commission for the investigation of aviation accidents in air transport, MAC Vladimir Kofman, denied the report that the Yak-40 disaster occurred as a result of the pilot’s error, which did not take the flaps to the appropriate position during the take-off.

The vice-governor of the Primorye on behalf of the leadership of the region expressed dissatisfaction with the quality of American wheat and rice, sent within the framework of a commodity loan: "You can not bake high-grade bread from this grain, since it contains little gluten," and as for rice, it was almost 100% of its supplies in the samoria due to infection with a fungus. And again the question arises, do we need American assistance?

The price of Russian oil Urals for yesterday fell to $ 26.51 per barrel, which is $ 0.12 below the value of the price of the medium. In general, traders note a decrease in demand for raw materials.

The weighted average ruble exchange rate against the US dollar for ETS amounted to 28.4050 rubles/ $ 1 today, increasing by 200 points. The volume of trading was $ 159.744 million. 2185 transactions were concluded.

According to our data, negotiations on the sale of 30% of the shares of Braz of one of the structures of Alfa Groups are really maintained, and maybe close to completion; Turkmenistan unexpectedly agreed with the opinion of Russia that the Caspian Sea should be divided between the Caspian states into national sectors; Ukraine intends to "optimize" relations with Russia and recognizes the need to pay for the supply of Russian gas; Putin did not have time to declare the creation of the "Ministry

The Kemerovo region sent 77 wagons with coal and 3 wagons with forest as a chef to the residents of Gudermes. The next composition with food, clothing and coal is being prepared for sending. In January, the governor of the Kemerovo region, Aman Tuleyev, stated that his region was taking patronage over the city of Gudermes freed from militants and terrorists, and things followed the words.

According to AVN, civilians unexpectedly began to leave the village of Alzazurovo, which is located a few kilometers from Komsomolsky. According to the military, this may testify to the modest capture of the villages of militants - the same thing happened before the militants' entrance to Komsomolskoye. What measures are taken to prevent seizure is not yet reported.

The losses of the combined group of federal troops during the anti -terrorist operation in Chechnya from October 1, 1999 to March 17, 2000 amounted to 1628 people dead and 4308 wounded. In the Armed Forces, 1173 people died, in the Ministry of Internal Affairs - 445.

The Ministry of Press has published a list of frequencies in the Rossiye Gazeta, put up for a competition, which will be held on May 24. In total, 19 frequencies are presented for broadcasting, including “1 TV channel occupied by May 24, public Russian television OJSC, and its distribution network in the capitals of the subjects of the Federation and cities with a population of more than 200 thousand people; broadcasting time, around the clock; the concept of broadcasting is free”.

The Duma with some late adopted the text of the request to the Minister of Antimonopoly Policy Ilya Yuzhanov regarding the sale of shares of aluminum enterprises. The request, in particular, states: “The buyer of shares of these enterprises is supposedly Sibneft and Logovaz.“ Essentially the share of the new owner of these enterprises in the aluminum market is 75%, which contradicts the antimonopoly legislation.

Putin will visit the Denikhovsky Machine-Building Plant in Orekhovo-Zuevo, and the Duma will consider the additions to the laws "On value added tax", "On the rehabilitation of victims of political repressions" and "On the collection for the use of the names" Russia "; Nikolai Patrushev has information about the location of Shamil Basayev and Huttaba; a rally of democratic forces was held in Moscow; Yakovlev recorded a television appeal in which we are talking about his readiness to leave his

Altai believes that election violations are the best way to become president; In Krasnoyarsk, they think that the Gantemirovsky police are just one of the teips; In Orel, they doubt that the Americans landed on the moon; A homemade zoo is being started in Vologda. This and much more - in the press review of the agency "All Russia"

Today, the Center for Strategic Development is the seminar "Corruption: myths, reality, forecasts" (organizers - CSR, Institute "Open Society" and the newspaper "Moscow News"). The Chairman of the Duma Commission for Combating Corruption Sergey Stepashin in his speech set out the main theses of the anti -corruption program prepared by him, which was transferred to Io Putin and which was already discussed at the Security Council.

Kasyanov is pessimistic about the growth of the ruble course. He considers this a temporary phenomenon.

Alexander Pochinok continues to make capitalist obligations. According to him, the tax authorities will collect about 100 billion rubles in 2000 in 2000, which "will significantly increase the financing of socially significant budget items." In confirmation of this repair, he pointed out the successful course of the restructuring of the debts of enterprises to the federal budget, which provided 8 billion rubles of additional revenues to the federal budget.