From tomorrow, for the inhabitants of Kamchatka, the light will turn on for only an hour and a half a day. The reason is quite ordinary - consumers do not pay for the light, respectively, Kamchatenergo does not have money for the purchase of fuel. The debt of consumers to power engineers is 2.7 billion rubles, 600 million of which are the debts of consumers funded from the federal budget.

There were some confirmations that Sergey Kiriyenko will become a representative of the President in the Volga Federal District. As reports "regions.ru/ Russia. Regions" with reference to the Nizhny Novgorod Telegraph Agency, tonight Putin signed a decree on his appointment. Press Secretary Kirienko Andrei Polyakov, however, did not confirm the information about the signing of the decree.

The Ministry of Finance proposes to establish a single income tax rate of 13%since 2001, the first deputy minister of finance Sergei Shatalov said, speaking on Wednesday at a round table dedicated to insurance problems. The current three -stage scale "did not justify itself." This is an ineffective method, Shatalov said - now at a minimum rate of 12% income tax pays 90% of Russian citizens, and at a higher rate of 30% only 0.5%.

As a result of an open vote in the Duma, Mikhail Kasyanov was approved for the post of Prime Minister of Russia. 325 deputies - for, 55 - against, 15 - abstained. Kasyanov agreed to participate in the discussion of the theme of the amnesty and took the place of the Prime Minister that he was now supposed by him.

The eighth post -Soviet Prime Minister Kasyanov, with his Duma baptism, broke a record that had previously belonged to the "parliamentary" Prime Minister (315 votes). 325 deputies voted for Kasyanov’s approval - the entire “unity” faction, the entire OVR, the entire “union of the right forces” (27 for, against - 1), in full force LDPR, the “people's deputy” and “Russian regions”.

The Federation Council at a closed meeting in the presence of the acting Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov ratified the comprehensive prohibition of nuclear tests.

Boris Nadezhdin - member of the ATP faction, the main developer of the bill on the mechanism of removal of governors "Polit.ru" you are one of the three authors of the law "On the responsibility of the highest officials of the constituent entities of the Federation for violation of federal legislation" ... B.N. This is a legend that we are making it together. I wrote it when I still worked in the Kiriyenko government.

The dollar rate at a single trading session of the MICEX on Wednesday increased by 0.90 kopecks compared to the result of previous morning trading and amounted to 28.2740 rubles ./ $ 1. The price of the last transaction on Wednesday is 28.2750 rub ./ $ 1, during the auction, the dollar exchange rate fluctuated in the range of 28.2650-28.2750 rubles. $ 1. In total, 1906 transactions in the amount of $ 207.884 million were concluded on the ETS.

The Patriarch of All Rus' Alexy II, being in Japan on a seven-earned visit, gave a press conference to Tokyo. He spoke about his impressions of communicating with President Putin. "Vladimir Putin wants to create a country where the law would act and there was order," said the patriarch. As the Patriarch noted, in Russia a change of power occurred democratically, the people reached Vladimir Putin and hopes that he will solve the problems that are facing Russia.

In the coming days, in the Duma, they expect a package of bills on the improvement of the federal system from Putin. RIA Novosti is reported by parliamentary sources. The first project concerns the mechanism for removing governors from the power of the governors, the second is a change in the principle of the formation of the Federation Council. Drenches about the content of these projects have been more than once.

Interfax became known that Kasyanov should go to Putin from the Duma to discuss the personal composition and structure of the government with him. The sources of the agency do not exclude that the first decrees on appointments will follow today in the afternoon.

Mikhail Kasyanov arrived in the Duma, where he brought his report on the program of actions that the government will carry out if Kasyanov was approved by the prime minister. Presidential representative Alexander Kotenkov at the same time noted that he had contacted the administration, where he was told that Putin at the workplace was not going to go to the Duma to support his creature.

Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the appointment of Mikhail Kasyanov by the Prime Minister. Now all formalities are completed. Tomorrow may begin to go to the new office.

Trenches continues about the presidential envoy in federal districts. RIA Novosti sources in the Duma report that the former governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory Valery Zubov, who lost in the last election, Alexander Lebedu, will represent Putin in the Trans -Baikal District.

The Deputy Head of the Central Bank, Georgy Luntovsky, said that the interim administration will assess the financial condition of the "Bank" within a month, after which he would make a final decision on his fate. Luntovsky claims that when making a decision on the introduction of the interim administration, "there was no policy", and this is a "purely economic issue." “The bank has financial problems,” he said, without specifying which ones.