Over the past day, in Nozhai-Yurt, Shatya and Mesker-Yurt-at the “liberated territory” of Chechnya-police blocks were fired three times. The most serious consequences are in Mesker Yurt, where as a result of the shelling the gas pipeline was damaged and a significant gas leak occurred. In response, the policemen responded to the fire. There are no victims in all three cases.

Sergei Yastrzhembsky said that the militants again demand to give them Colonel Budanov, who killed and raped Chechen.

The Foreign Ministry made an official statement about Pase's decisions. These decisions say in the statement, “a serious blow on the efforts of the Council of Europe, aimed at creating a single European space, and also complicated the continuation of the active dialogue, which was given great importance in Moscow.” This is stated in the statement of the Russian Foreign Ministry received at RIA Novosti.

The RTS index today has slightly decreased and amounted to 221.27 (-0.52%). The volume of trading - $ 27 841 505. First, the news of the PACE resolution caused a certain decline in shares, but by the evening the situation was leveled. According to traders, the current decline is "technical" in nature.

Igor Ivanov said that at a meeting of Putin with representatives of the European Union Zhaima Gama and Havier Solanna, the issue of PACE resolution in relation to Russia was not discussed. This is due to the fact that the European Union has nothing to do with the resolution adopted by the European Parliament. Also, Ivanov did not miss the opportunity to once again criticize the resolution.

From the point of view of the social representation of V in modern Russia, bureaucracy always supplied real candidates for the post of president V. In 1991, Boris Yeltsin and a representative of the party -holding Nikolai Ryzhkov opposed each other to each other. In 1996, the same Yeltsin, who acted on behalf of the Party of Power, and Gennady Zyuganov V candidate of that part of the party-Soviet bureaucracy, which in the early 90s. was pushed from power heights.

According to the results of the elections, conducted in early April, the VTsIOM survey showed that 12% of the Communist Party voters voted in Putin in the presidential election, only 32% of Zhirinov and as many as 32% of the Yablons (which is very surprising). The Yabloko electorate was generally very curious: only half voted for Yavlinsky, only 14%did not take part in the elections (while the OVR and ATP this figure ranged in the region of 20%, and the Zhirinovites reaches 26%).

Russian politicians, despite the difference in views, react equally to the PACE decision; Stepashin, in particular, called the decisions of the session of the Council of Europe "a manifestation of double morality"; The Ministry of Defense does not confirm information about the release of four Perm riot police; In the Republic of Mari El, the election of the heads of administrations of cities and regions has been canceled; Hungary refused Anatoly Bykov to provide political asylum, as well as the

Vice Speaker Vladimir Lukin, regarding the known recommendations of PACE, believes that they do not at all cover Russia with ways to participate in the Council of Europe.

The tax burden on oil companies should be reduced to the global level - 56-58% of profit, the First Deputy Minister of Finance Sergey Shatalov said in an interview with AK & M. According to his estimates, the current nominal tax burden on oil workers is 70-75%, the company, using spaces in the legislation, pay about 60%. Shatalov, the main ideologist of the second part of the Tax Code, believes that a decrease in nominal taxes will solve the problem of transfer (intra -corporate) prices.

The bodies of the seven military personnel of the internal troops were found today in the Saratov region in the commodity car of a train with military equipment. All of them were shot at point blank range. Even earlier, along the path of the train in the Volgograd region, the corpse of an officer of the internal troops was discovered.

After yesterday’s hard decision, PACE against Russia, both parties still hope for the best. The head of the Russian delegation Dmitry Rogozin believes that the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe "will be much more serious to respond to the situation" in Chechnya. PACE Chairman Lord Russell-Johnston urges to calm down.

Stanley Fisher gave a press conference on meetings with representatives of the Russian government. As the correspondent of Polit.ru reports, Fisher expressed satisfaction with the fact that everyone he met with, "made it clear that they intend to continue to follow the path of reforms." Fisher also expressed the hope that "our relationship will be based on trust." What loans will be spent on - the concern is not the IMF, but the government.

The Koshman met in the Kremlin with Putin and after that stated that the presidential rule "in the full sense of the word" would not be introduced in Chechnya. On behalf of Putin, he prepared his proposals for future power in Chechnya for three days, and this morning he set out them. We decided so far to reform the representative office of the Russian government, which would firmly take care of the temporary administration.

The decision of the PACE session “does not correspond to the events that are happening in Chechnya, nor the spirit of Russia's relationship with CE and morally is unlikely to add positive emotions to everyone,” said the Deputy Prime Minister, who oversees ties with international financial organizations, Viktor Khristenko. Since this decision is rash, it "should not affect in no way" on Russia's relations with international financial organizations.