VTsIOM presents the results of a survey conducted on June 30 - July 4, 2000 by 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. Polls were conducted in 83 settlements of 31 of the region of the country (150 points of the survey), 1600 respondents. The permissible error is within 3.8%.

It was quite a minute and having mastered the more sharp criticism of the law on the procedure for reforming the upper house, regional leaders begin to try pieces of federal reform that previously unconditionally adopted by them. Yesterday, the President of Tatarstan Shaimiev again spoke on the relevance of the local constitution to the Basic Law of Russia (having stood up at the same time for fraternal Bashkiria): “I must say that our parliament is used to working independently ...

The Duma adopted in the first reading a draft amendments to the law on the Central Bank regarding its status and authority. 313 deputies voted for the adoption of the bill introduced by the deputies of the second convocation by Pavel Medvedev, Vladimir Nikitin and Andrei Makarov, and 16 deputies voted, and 16 were not against. Proposed by Nikolai Arefiev, the "tough version" of amendments, the deputies rejected.

Read the first monitor : Realizing that senators can discuss the law on the formation of the Federation Council for a long time, the Duma decided to extend the meeting on July 7 from 14 hours "to the stop". In the order of compensation, the autumn session will begin not on September 4, as expected, but on September 7.

Almost two weeks passed after the government meeting, which discussed the fuel balance. Then, recall, Gazprom received the task of increasing the supply of RAO UES, but decisions were postponed on other important issues. Now the situation seems to have cleared up. All postponed decisions, except for one, have been made, and everything is clear about the balance sheet tasks of the oil companies.

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Yuri Luzhkov signed a decision to increase the cost of travel by Moscow. From July 15, the cost of one trip in the subway will be 5 rubles (instead of 4 rubles), and 3 rubles (instead of 2 rubles) in ground transport. Talks about the need to increase the cost of travel have been going on for a long time. The last time the metro fare increased on January 1, 1999.

The government cannot support gas stations accepted by the Duma for gasoline - the Deputy Prime Minister Kudrin to the decision of the deputies indignantly reacted. "If the bill is adopted in such an edition, the government is likely to maintain part of the taxes from the turnover," he said.

The new version of the privatization law will be received by the government this week, ”said the deputy minister of property relations Sergey Molozhvy at the privatization conference. The main idea of ​​the new law has already been stated by the head of the minimum per perinion by Gazizullin - privatization should finally become market, that is, it is carried out with benefits for the state.

As it turned out, the agreement between the budget committee and the government was not so unshakable. The Duma did not accept the government version of excise taxes on gasoline (2500 rubles per ton for low -octane and 3,000 rubles per ton on high -octane), but agreed with the version of the budget committee. As a result, at the suggestion of the deputy chairman of the committee Sergey Shtogrin, an excise tax on low -octane gasoline will be 1100 rubles, and for high -octane - 1800 rubles.

Long disputes about the sale of the oil industry, which was scheduled for June, finally ended. The Minister of Property Relations Gazizullin at a conference on privatization said that next week, most likely, a competition for the sale of 85% of the ONACO company with investment conditions will be announced. In fact, it will be an auction - just the legislation now does not allow auction bidding, in which more than 51% of the shares are sold.

The ruble exchange rate in relation to the dollar practically did not change and amounted to 28.0330 rubles. Despite the fact that, due to the weekend in the United States, banks could not reserve dollars for today's auction on Tuesday, the exchange of currency for the ETS remained significant today, as evidenced by the high trading turnover - $ 184.867 million.

Vladimir Putin spoke yesterday about an hour with the leader of the ATP faction Boris Nemtsov. We discussed the law on the Federation Council - ATP, according to Nemtsov, will support it. In addition, the ATP will support the abolition of deputy inviolability - the Duma must consider this law in the fall, as well as the relationship between the authorities and business. "None of the businessmen should have exclusive rights," Nemtsov said.

In Moscow, the conference "Privatization in Russia: possible development scenarios." Speaking on it, and the head of the government apparatus Igor Shuvalov, and the head of the minimum perception Farit Gazizullin assured that there would be no deprivation. “This is impossible,” said Shuvalov. “We will never go to this,” Gazizullin responded.

The quotes of the most liquid Russian actions following today's trading results decreased by 2-4%. RTS combined index sank 1.5% to the level of 175.98 points. The turnover in the RTS today amounted to $ 14.2 million, which is $ 8 million below the similar indicator of Tuesday.