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. The survey was conducted in 83 settlements of 31 of the region of the country (150 points of the survey), n = 1600. The permissible error is within 3.8%. What do you think about the agreements signed last week "Yabloko" and the "Union of Right Forces"?

Togliatti - the loser candidates for mayor united against the winner, proving that the election results were falsified; The head of the administration of the Novgorod region, Mikhail Prusak, took Gennady Burbulis under his wing and does not give him offense to the "red" public; The governor of the Chelyabinsk region at the funeral of the dead fellow countrymen-militias confirmed the intention to turn all humanitarian assistance to Chechnya; The cause of yesterday's explosion of the railway tank

The Media Most extended the expected statement about the intention of Lukoil to sue the holding and the NTV television company. As the head of the Media-Most press service Dmitry Ostalsky told the Prime-Tass agency, the holding advises Lukoil to turn to the proper defendant-the television company "Top Secret". The absurdity of the prosecution and the required amount emphasize some inadequacy of the lawsuit, Ostalsky believes.

In Kazakhstan, criminals were detained who tried to take out about four kilograms of uranium -containing fuel tablets from the republic used in nuclear power plants. According to Kazakh special services, the batch of nuclear materials was intended for subsequent transfer to Afghanistan. If this information is true, then the Taliban are trying to develop nuclear weapons.

"Vedomosti" I tell some details of yesterday’s decision of the minimum permissive about the fate of state oil companies. It turns out that the state will not sell Slavneft, because, as the source of the newspaper in the ministry said, “now the budget does not have an urgent need for the money that TNC can pay for 19.68 % Slavneft. It is curious that the state still needs the money that can be reached out of the sale of 85 % of the Onaco shares.

The Federation Council at tomorrow's meeting will consider not only the issue of creating a conciliation commission regarding its own reform. Senators decided to discuss the economic program and tax initiatives of the government that will form the basis of the budget. It will be very difficult to compete in this extreme form of martial arts with masters from the upper house of the liberal-economic block, especially when they try to change the professional status of a government team.

The Duma realized that the plans to consider tomorrow and the Land Code are unrealistic. Therefore, Speaker Seleznev said that the deputies will consider it on July 19 at an extraordinary plenary meeting, after the annual message of the president to the Federal Assembly. As expected, the compromise project proposed by the President will quite suit the Duma.

Sergei Stepashin is trying to increasingly expand the influence of the Accounts Chamber. In an interview with the Japanese television company Fuji, he said that the Chamber could prepare its opinion on the draft 2001 budget.

Interfax publishes excerpts from the project of Putin's message to the Federal Assembly. The project has about 40 pages and consists of the sections "Our main challenges", "On power and Russian society", "On our economic policy", "On the federation". Russia "had previously lacked the state approach and the appropriate attitude to the case," the document says.

The government does not intend to enter into a strict conflict with deputies regarding the second part of the Tax Code. According to the API of the Deputy Minister of Finance Mikhail Motorin, the government, despite the fact that "still considers it advisable to pursue a policy to reduce tax burden, including by canceling taxes from circulation", will not make the amendments and changes to the already adopted chapters before the third reading.

The RTS index at today's auction increased by 3.8% and amounted to 182.66 points, while the volume of bidding reached $ 26.42 million, which is more than $ 12 million higher than yesterday. Analysts evaluate growth as speculative interest from internal market participants. The deficiency of significant internal news creates good soil for following the quotes of domestic shares for Western stock indices.

The head of the Moscow representative office of the IMF, Martin Gilman, said that the Fund does not consider the June leap of inflation in Russia critical. "We do not yet consider this a problem, since the temporary increase in inflation for one or two months is not critical, given that the inflation rate has still been lower than the framework in the budget," Gilman said.

According to Vedomosti, the state intends to take advantage of the Berezovsky PR and pick up 49% of the ORT shares controlled by him. The “informed source” of the newspaper in the Presidential Administration said that the Kremlin was interested in getting a stake in Berezovsky and with it full control over the channel.

General Troshev called the last actions of the militants "an attempt to create the appearance of resistance." According to him, "without the strength to carry out powerful response operations to destroy checkpoints and seize settlements, the bandits switched to new tactics.

Neither peace, no war