There was growth in the American stock market yesterday. He called his report to the National Association of Procurement Managers, which stated that the growth rate of production has decreased. And in this case, the likelihood is reduced that the federal reserve system will significantly increase the discount rate. As a result, Dow Jones grew by 129.87 points (1.23%) - to 10652.20, NASDAQ - by 181.59 points (5.34%) and reached 3582.50.

The weaker Maskhadov becomes, the louder his statements sound; In the Amur Region, large -scale power outages began; "Interros" develops its offensive on the Novolipetsky Metallurgical Plant; The Kaliningrad governor began hostilities against the main opposition newspaper, and the Penza governor - against bureaucratic privileges. Read about this in the news review of the agency "Regions.ru/ Russia. Regions."

Mikhail Kasyanov signed an order on the appointment of Sergei Pavlenko as the head of the Secretariat of Deputy Prime Minister and the head of the Ministry of Finance Alexei Kudrin for the duration of the execution of the last authority for this position, AK & M reports. Sergey Yuryevich Pavlenko has recently worked in the government apparatus.

Rosselkhozbank de facto created. The issue of ordinary shares of OJSC Russian Agricultural Bank was registered in the amount of 375 million rubles. According to AK & M , the entire issue was acquired by the sole founder of the Rosselkhozbank - an agency for the restructuring of credit organizations (ARKO).

At the disposal of the distribution of powers signed by Kasyanov, it is said about who will replace whom. Kasyanov himself can be replaced by Kudrin and Khristenko. In addition, they can replace each other. In the absence, Valentina Matvienko, questions assigned to Ilya Klebanov, will consider the questions of Alexei Gordeev, - Viktor Khristenko, in the absence of Valentina Matvienko, will be considered by Ilya Klebanov.

In general, at the ceremony of the presentation of Kiriyenko today a huge number of speeches, statements and revelations were pronounced from geopolitical to musicological. Putin’s note was nearly lost in this gam: it turns out that the position of president’s representative in the Volga district was first proposed by Shaimiev, but he refused, saying that he “clipped to Kazan”, the Russian Regions agency reports.

Leonid Kuchma annoyedly instructed the Prime Minister of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko and the acting The chairman of the company "Naftogaz of Ukraine" Igor Didenko categorically prohibit unauthorized selection of Russian gas and the leave of gas to insolvent consumers. As it turned out, contrary to everything that has recently happened between Russia and Ukraine, theft of gas only for May amounted to 1.2 billion cubic meters. m (apparently prohibited was not categorically enough).

Presenting Kiriyenko , Putin again took advantage of the ceremony to search for a common language with the overwhelming governors.

VTsIOM presents the results of a survey conducted on May 26 V 29, 2000 in a sample, representative for adult (18 years and older) of the population of Russia on the floor, age, level of education, region and type of settlement. The survey was conducted in 83 settlements of 33 regions of the country (150 points of the survey), each participated in 1,600 people. The permissible error V is in the range of 3.8%.

Ecstatic Ayatskov invited Vladimir Putin to finally resolve the issue with the Russian Simolika of Russia - the coat of arms, flag and anthem, choosing the President of the Volga governors and presidents for this performance. Ayatskov does not like Glinka’s music, he prefers Alexandrov’s music, which first sounded on January 1, 1944.

The next material of Marina Ionova is dedicated to the budget project 2001. The basic parameters embedded in it demonstrate two new principles of budget policy: the rigidity and critical assessment by the government of their capabilities. The priority of expenses number one - debt service. The basic forecast parameters are based on the budget are taken in a conservative version. The budget seems honest and compact, social programs are disappearingly small.

The leadership of the Sheremetyevo customs, inspired by its unexpectedly noticeable role in the international process of human rights, told Interfax about the situation with the International Amnesty and its seized publication that "the brochures have been in the customs warehouse for the fifth day and still no one announced the intention to take this literature." Customs officers recalled that the careless passenger "did not have any documents explaining to them what Russian organization and

The cost of Russian oil Urals (with delivery to the ports of the Mediterranean) on Thursday increased to $ 28.76 per barrel, which is $ 0.88 higher than the price of one -time environmental transactions.

According to the head of the General Staff Anatoly Kvashnin, in Chechnya, all large detachments of the militants were partially destroyed, and partially scattered. Thus, the military stage of the counter -terrorism operation is completed. Recall that over the past week 22 Russian soldiers died in Chechnya.

Today, at three in the morning in Moscow, a fire of a second degree of complexity began on Raspletin Street. According to at least three people, at this hour, at this hour, at least three people died. The fire began on the second floor of the 5-story "Khrushchev", but then covered the whole house. Now the fire has already been liquidated, employees of the Ministry of Emergencies are disassembled by blockages. The reasons for the fire are clarified.