The dispute between candidates for mayor and the election commission of Vladivostok continues. The former, recall, recently stated that they were confident in falsifications during the future counting of ballots in the case of early voting, since these votes are most difficult to control to observers. The deputy head of the current city administration Olga Korolkova made a touching explanation of why a significant part of the citizens would have to vote ahead of schedule.

The former special representative of the president in relations with industrialized countries, Alexander Livshits, did not go long without civil service. Although his place was taken by Andrei Illarionov, Livshits himself today took the post of freelance adviser to Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov. According to the press secretary of Prime Minister Tatyana Probash, Livshits will allegedly be responsible for issues of financial and economic policy.

The most likely future chairman of the Commission of the Rights of Investors, Sergei Generalov, in an interview with Kommersant, continued reasoning on the topic "How to equip RAO UES. According to him, to increase the profit of the company, it is necessary that the loading of effective large stations grows and ineffective capacities are written off from the balance. In addition, it is necessary to establish a fair system of calculations with fuel suppliers. However, all this is half measures.

The Federation Council is busy today with important problems of its own existence. A wide discussion unfolded in the upper house regarding the mechanism of its formation proposed by the President - the Federation Council ardently discusses the amendments to the bill prepared by the Constitutional Committee, headed by Sobyanin.

Kotenkov explained why the government asked deputies to transfer the consideration of social tax. According to the representative of the president, "the parliamentarians are right that serious explanatory work is needed on these amendments, and for now they are not ready to vote. The government decided not to risk it and allow the deputies to seriously familiarize themselves with amendments.

The discovery that will allow the whole world to feed is made in Thailand; The British will finally be able to find out what flies over their heads, and the Mexicans and the Americans remembered about Wendetta - in abroad .

Vladimir Putin met with Finland President Tarya Halonen. The meeting, as is customary with the Russian president, dragged on - the leaders of the two countries talked for an hour and a half instead of the planned 30 minutes. Putin assured that the territorial issue for Russia and Finland "was resolved and closed completely." These problems are regulated by interstate agreements. Russia and Finland must "look into the future" and cherish the established good relations.

The Duma approved the introduction of a single income tax rate of 13%since January 1 of next year. The exception will be the income of interest on deposits in banks (if the payment rate exceeds three quarters of the refinancing rate of the Central Bank operating during the percentage of accrual), as well as the winnings in the lottery, on the totalizator, prizes and some insurance payments - in all these cases, the rate will be 35%.

As expected, the deputies did not object to the government’s proposal on the introduction of a single tax rate since January 1, 2001, AK&M reports. Now, from all income of individuals, with the exception of interest on deposits in banks, a 13%tax will be levied. In addition, deputies supported the abolition of benefits to military personnel, prosecutors, judges, police, tax police and customs officers.

The US presidential candidate from the Democratic Party Albert Mountains said that if Russia's position does not change about the agreement, then if he was elected by the president, he will do everything necessary to ensure the security of all Americans, and if necessary, he will refuse the proceedings, or more precisely, “does not exclude this,” Reuters reports. However, the current vice-president of the United States believes that Putin’s position “may change in the future”.

On June 13, the Central Bank, after a rather intense struggle around the creation of the Rosselkhozbank, will nevertheless give him a license. According to Viktor Gerashchenko, despite the controversial moments in the Rosselkhozbank business plan, the Central Bank considered it possible to “not pay special attention to it” ( about the claims of the Central Bank to the RSHB “Polit.ru” told in detail).

The Federation Council, as we expected, approved the sending of Russian paratroopers to the UN peacekeeping mission to Sierra Leone. For this decision, 94 members of the upper house voted, against 15, abstained - 9. The main objective of the Russian contingent would be to ensure the security of the UN personnel.

The Federation Council came to the conclusion that the establishment of a single social tax "will mean the destruction of the entire social insurance system." This is stated in the access to the President, Duma and the Government adopted by the upper house.

About an hour ago, RIA Novosti, with reference to the Information Department of RAO UES, reported that, on June 4, on Sunday, a meeting of the Directors of the RAO UES of Russia was held. The Council "agreed with the need to conduct transformations" in the company, the concept of restructuring was adopted by a majority vote.

Yesterday, Arko announced that it prepared the calculations to repay the debt of SBS-GRO to depositors, whose requirements do not exceed 5 thousand rubles. However, the situation of the SBS-AGRO is such that, as the representative of Arco Alexander Voznesensky said, the calculation draft will be used if the “strategic” decision is made to pay money from the armed forces of Arco himself. Since 1998, Arko cannot resolve the issue with SBS-AGRO.