The situation around the Media Most remains tense and scandalous: after Gusinsky, the first deputy chairman of the board of directors of the holding, Igor Malashenko, was banned - he was forbidden to leave the country to the Economic Forum to Salzburg.

After the Bashkir customs fees recently joined the "Unified Budget Role", Moscow encroached on the most odious creation of Murtazi Rakhimov - to the Constitution. The Bashkir prosecutor’s office yesterday protested a number of provisions of the local constitution that contradict the Basic Law of the Russian Federation.

If the Federation Council and the Kremlin do not agree, not only the political life of Russian society will revive, but the social situation can also be ignited. In the hands of the still existing senators, the tax reform and the payment of salaries and social benefits in the field recalls "News Time".

The troubles of the Tyumen Oil Company are ongoing. In four offices of TNC in Nizhnevartovsk, searches and excavations of documents were carried out. According to the Oil Information Agency, the operation was carried out by the joint forces of the Ural UBOP and the Nizhnevartovskiy assembly. The City Hall of Nizhnevartovsk suggested that the searches are related to the investigation of possible violations committed in transactions with the shares of TNCs and its subsidiaries.

The Duma adopted in the second reading the full text of the Code of Administrative Offenses. However, the second reading has not yet been completed: the deputies agreed on the possibility of the return of individual chapters of the Code when considering in the third reading to the second, if such a need arises

The recently created Rosselkhozbank intends to begin the development of its branch network in the near future. As the Minister of Agriculture Alexei Gordeev stated, the bank plans to open 30 branches in the regions until the end of 2000, and 16 branches will be opened in the very near future, AK&M reports.

The fate of the federal reform has not yet been resolved, but the deputies have already accepted the appeal to Putin about the need to create a working body for the preparation of amendments to the Constitution. For this document proposed last week, OVR voted 370 deputies.

Today's Kommersant talks about how Vyakhirev, who will soon leave the post of chairman of the Board of Gazprom, is trying to share the holding. According to the newspaper, changes to the charter have already been prepared, which will actually deprive the state of the opportunity to control the sale of "daughters" "Gazprom". According to the project, Gazprom is supposed to be renamed from the "Unified Industrial and Financial Complex" to simply the "Unified Complex".

The Duma included in the agenda of today's meeting, the draft resolution “On appeal to President Vladimir Putin on the inadmissibility of the reform of the ECS RAO according to the scenario of Anatoly Chubais”. 252 deputies voted for the inclusion of this question in the agenda. But the draft appeal to Putin with a request for the resignation of General Prosecutor General Ustinov, deputies (in the amount of 234 people) did not want to discuss.

The "high -ranking Kremlin official" shared with "Vedomosti" Putin's plans regarding the reform of party life in the country.

The meeting of the office, which lasted 1.5 hours more planned, ended. The government "as a whole" approved the economic program for the next 10 years (reduced from 500 pages to 200). The Polit.ru government correspondent reports that, according to Kasyanov’s statement, the government will simultaneously fulfill the approved program and consult “with scientific circles”, and in the fall, according to the results of the consultations, the document will be adjusted.

Together with the Federation Council, his speaker Yegor Straev also turned to the opposition to the opposition, telling reporters that the law, in which there are 15 amendments at 14 points, "cannot be perceived as a normal law, but is only a declaration of intent." Straev continued that the question of the Senate now moved from the legal plane to the political.

In a Muslim country, it is preferable to change the floor from female to male, otherwise they are waiting for disappointment - in the new abroad

The Astrakhan press draws attention to the fact that the reform of the upper house is associated not only with many legal conflicts, but also with the fact that the system of retractions and counterweights in the political system of Russia is reduced to naught. There is no need to talk about a real influential political opposition - there is no it in Russia after the presidential election at all. And the rule of law cannot live without it.

Despite its deficiency, the budget-2001 in the ideology approved by the government, oddly enough, is quite fulfilled. According to government officials, childlessness should stimulate economic growth. However, the entire surplus will take the repayment and maintenance of public debt. Where does the inflation come from with a defective budget if the Central Bank does not have to lend to the Ministry of Finance?