AFP Igor Ivanov left Washington obviously in high spirits. He really has something to report to the president.

In relation to Russians, stiffness prevailed to the Chechen campaign. Such a conclusion can be drawn from the latest VTsIOM survey: the number of those who consider the actions of the Russian military in Chechnya are not strict enough (40%), for the first time in six months exceeded the number of those who consider them as adequate (39%).

Tomorrow's newspapers write about the fact that: Putin will spend the weekend in St.

The price of Russian oil Urals with the delivery of the Mediterranean to the ports of the Mediterranean yesterday increased to $ 21.93 per barrel, which is $ 0.78 higher than the price of the price of one -time transactions of the medium.

Metropolitan believes that “right” and “left” are political scenery, and soilism and Westernism are political reality; Putin believes that in the support of local authorities the main principle is “do not harm”; In Smolensk, it was considered that the hitch factory could become the flagship of the economy - it turned out - "All of Russia"

The lobbyists of the domestic automotive industry were not lucky today - the State Duma did not support Putin a request “on the need for state support of the Russian automotive industry”. The request initiated by Valery Saikin said that last year the Russian automotive industry was at risk due to high metal prices. If the prices for metal will continue to increase, then enterprises may stop even without work as a result of about 1 million people.

Due to political reasons, an increase in electricity tariffs may not be followed before the beginning of summer, said Polit.ru Sergey Pinchuk, the press service of the RAO UES press service. So far, the Federal Energy Commission increased by 35% tariffs for Forem market subjects, which, contrary to the reasons expressed in today's Kommersant, will not “automatically” to increase the tariffs of AO-Energo: a separate FEC solution is necessary for this.

The monetary base in Russia continues to grow. In a week, it grew by 3.5 billion rubles and amounted to 339.5 billion. The monetary base includes cash issued in circulation, excluding the balance of funds at the Central Bank’s box office and mandatory reserves for banks raised in national currency deposited at the Bank of Russia.

Enterprising military abducted from the warehouses of inviolable reserves of the homeland everything that came to hand; Principal Bryansk Rights do not want to put up with the absenteeism of the selective electoral law; The Serov Metallurgical Plant is seething again, the work of the liquidation commission is again broken; Kuzbass profilers ask Putin to put things in order in the privatization of the coal mining industry; The work begins - the end of the end - this is how the workers of one of

Judging by the first quarter, the number of bankruptcy cases doubled, said Georgy Tal in the extensive interview with AK & M. If in mid-1999 540-560 procedures were excited a month, now their number has grown to 1200. According to Taly, even if there is no program of restructuring the economy and “regardless of changes in legal regulation, in the next few years the number of bankruptcy procedures will increase and, obviously, will reach a certain stable level by 2004-2005”.

The body of a photojournalist of ITAR-TASS Vladimir Yatsina, who was shot in February in Chechnya, was delivered to Moznoka from Khankala. The remains were discovered during the special operation of the Office for Combating Organized Crime (RUBOP), in the Shato region. However, before ecpertiza, it is impossible to say with absolute confidence that it is about the remains of Yatsina.

Today, Kommersant tells about the plans of Herman Gref, developing the program to Putin, to reduce the tax burden. It is proposed to leave a single income tax rate - 12%, and for well -earning taxpayers, the limit of earnings is established from which the tax is paid (the newspaper suggests that this is $ 300 thousand). Reduced by 4% of payments to social funds - from the current 39.4 to 35.4%. As a result, the total tax burden on the salary will decrease to 41% from the current 60%.

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The last VTsIOM survey clarifies the attitude of Russians to power structures. As for the Cabinet of Ministers, the most popular answers are as follows: the government will ensure the continuation of reforms (58%), but will not be able to withdraw Russia from the economic crisis (47%); It will successfully bring the war in Chechnya (51%) to the end, but will not achieve a political settlement of the situation (36%).

Sergei Stepashin intends to do the work of the counting chamber he headed as open as possible. This was announced today by his assistant Leonid Zhigalov. In particular, Stepashin wants to attract the media wider to the coverage of all inspections conducted by the chamber and achieve timely publication of the results of revisions.