Andrei Trapeznikov, the head of the Department of RAO UES with the media, said that nothing threatens the interests and rights of foreign investors of the company. So he commented on the message of the head of the FCCB Igor Kostikov about a possible reduction in the share of foreign shareholders in the authorized capital of RAO from 30% to 25% in force. RAO UES intends to use all the available opportunities to protect the interests of foreign and domestic shareholders.

The press center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs called misinformation the information about the dismissal of more than 200 employees of the Chechen police that appeared today from Mozdok. Recall that according to the information spreading today, the Chechens were enrolled in the police, received weapons, and then went to the militants or simply did not come to the service.

The leader of the ATP faction Sergei Kiriyenko today again informed reporters that he highly appreciates the probability of Kasyanov’s approval by the prime minister, but said that he considers the candidacy of the head of the budget committee Zhukov more acceptable - she "would not cause a negative reaction of the Duma." In addition to Zhukov, Kiriyenko called five more worthy candidates for the post of prime minister: Alexey Kudrin, German Gref, Alexey Ulyukaev, Andrey Illarionov, Andrei

Vladimir Putin met today with the governor of St. Petersburg Vladimir Yakovlev. At the meeting, preparations for the World Hockey Championship were supposed to be discussed (which, judging by Yakovlev, the president and governor were talking "for more than an hour"), but it is clear that the main topic was still the upcoming governor's elections and support for one of the candidates Putin.

Komsomolskaya Pravda notes that in the presidential election, Yavlinsky was winning.

Yesterday, Vladimir Putin spoke on the phone not only with the leaders of Belarus, Ukraine, India, China and Japan. Among the foreign leaders who managed to congratulate Putin in a personal telephone conversation, was Bill Clinton. Among other topics, the issue of a bilateral summit was also affected. The question was only mentioned, nothing concrete was said.

Today, during the next clearance of Komsomolsky, another famous field commander Hamzat Bataev was killed. He, according to the commander of the grouping of the internal troops of Mikhail Lagunets, was the "commander of the Bamut direction." As evidence of Bataev’s death, the general demonstrated his documents to reporters.

The OSCE Secretariat spread a statement condemning the actions of the Belarusian authorities on March 25 in relation to the supporters of the opposition, intended to conduct a march. "The use of force was not provoked, it was unreasonable and too exaggerated," the statement said.

The price of Russian Urals oil (delivered to Mediterranean ports on Monday dropped to $23.28 per barrel, which is $0.33 lower than the price of one-time transactions on Friday. Prices are falling in anticipation that OPEC countries will agree to increase oil production quotas.

It turns out that Vladimir Putin’s victory in the elections with 52.64% of the vote is not at all exemplary: in the parliamentary elections in Iraq, the son of President Udai Hussein received 99.99% in his district. Udi promised to "do all the best for this great people, their brave men and wonderful women." Most likely, the son of Hussein will become the speaker of a single -fingered legislative assembly. There will be no second round.

The chairman of the Federal Energy Commission Andrei Rustonyuk announced today in the Duma about the need to strengthen the state regulation and control system at the fuel and energy system. According to him, the absence of a unified system of state regulation in this area is the main drawback, and the absence of the vertical of the regulation system entails various negative phenomena.

The work of the Russian Government Commission in Chechnya has just completed. The task of officials was to create structures of federal authorities in the republic, for this they met with the heads of the administration of the liberated regions and envoy of the government Nikolai Koshman. Meanwhile, the heads of administrations have already shown yesterday that the most acceptable form of relations between the federal and local authorities in Chechnya would be a direct presidential rule.

Yesterday the Golden Mask theater award ceremony took place. The “laughter room” of the theater-studio Oleg Tabakov in the production of director Kama Ginkas was recognized as the best performance. In this monospect, Tabakov plays the old veteran who is crazy from the loneliness. In the nomination "Opera" "Msako" received the performance of the Mariinsky Theater "Semyon Kotko". The best director was Lev Dodin, who staged a performance based on Platonov’s novel “Chevengur”.

Gerashchenko at the conference "21st century - a new model of a specialist -economist" said that the brainchild of Kasyanov and Zadornov - the treasury system is not good. In this system “we have been spinning for 10 years, but there is no order all, and the costs are huge,” said the head of the Central Bank. Gerashchenko recalled the system of treasury in connection with the idea of ​​recalling the Central Bank of the supervision function carried by the same Kasyanov.

As it became known today, the government appointed its representatives to the supervisory board of the actively created "Rosselkhozbank". The Minister of Agriculture Alexei Gordeev, deputy ministers of finance and economics, heads of the Department of Economics of the Ministry of Agriculture and the Department of Macroeconomics of the Ministry of Finance, were included there.