The state intends to increase the judges salaries and strengthen the material base of the courts. This is what was discussed at today's meeting of Vladimir Putin with the leaders of the three leading judicial authorities of the country. According to the chairman of the Constitutional Court, Marat Balyai, the president is concerned that the judicial system has a good material base in the current financial and economic conditions.

Another survey of public opinion conducted by VTsIOM at the very end of June dedicated to mainly federal reform, indicates a characteristic dual attitude towards it.

Commenting on the latest actions of law enforcement agencies regarding the Media-Most, Norilsk Nickel, Gazprom and Lukoil, a member of the Duma Security Committee Vladimir Ilyukhin suggested that they may have the character of political blackmail.

In the first and second monitors, read an interview with Boris Nemtsov to “Moscow News” - it is pointless to build a unitary state in Russia, since this “ends with the collapse of the state”. Kadyrov expects that the number of Chechen police will increase to six thousand people, and Troshev received a reprimand from the authorities for saying that he knew the location of Maskhadov.

It seems that the Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Khristenko Kremlin considers the chief specialist in the North Caucasus. Yesterday he was appointed head of the commission to normalize the socio-political situation in the territory of the Chechen Republic instead of Nikolai Koshman. And today Khristenko became the chairman of the commission on stabilization of the socio-political situation in Karachay-Cherkessia, replacing Nikolai Aksenenko in this post of Minister of Railways.

Sibneft President Evgeny Shvidler told Vedomosti about how the Russian aluminum was created and shared the company's privatization plans. According to him, everything was simple with Rusal - a fundamental agreement was reached at the end of last year. After that, everything happened very quickly, which was also helped by the unsuccessful attempt to merge Sibneft and Yukos.

Last night, Putin, having accepted ministers , talked on the phone with Clinton. Russian and American presidents "exchanged views on topical issues of bilateral relations both in the economic sphere and in the field of international politics," the press service of the President of Russia said in a statement. In addition, Putin and Clinton discussed the routine of his meeting during the Okinawa summit.

The lawyers of Vladimir Gusinsky once again failed to achieve a complaint about the arrest and detention of their client in court. The Moscow City Court, like the Tver inter-municipal court, refused to consider the cassation appeal of the protection of the media magnate.

The Prosecutor General of Interfax confirmed the fact of the existence of a letter from the First Deputy Prosecutor General of Yuri Biryukov addressed to Vladimir Potanin with a proposal to compensate the “Damage to the state” upon privatization of Norilsk Nickel, and return $ 140 million. “In the case of voluntary compensation for damage in the amount of $ 140 million, the requirements for the following will not be presented in the judicial Order, ”promises Potanin Biryukov.

NTV editor-in-chief Vladimir Kulistikov said that the seizure in the office of the company, which was reported earlier without any details, was safely completed. According to Kulistikov, the investigators of the Prosecutor General’s Office were only interested in the register of NTV shareholders, which, having received which, without demanding anything else, left the company's building.

The financial information agency received a preliminary leak that, perhaps tomorrow morning, the FSNP will make a claim to the next large Russian company in connection with the withdrawal of funds from taxation. Who in the Federal Antimonopoly Service takes turns behind Lukoil, "close to the tax police," the agency’s source kept silent.

The head of the Ministry of Labor, Alexander Pochinok, stated at a press conference that the new Labor Code will be adopted in the fall, the Polit.ru correspondent reports. Of the 4 options for the Labor Code, only 2 - government and trade union, disagreements between them are insignificant (trade unions, for example, want to receive premises, office equipment and transport for free, and the government does not according to).

The ongoing growth of foreign exchange reserves and increasing inflation was delivered by the bodies of monetary regulation in fundamentally new conditions. The increase in threats of inflation and revaluation was concerned about the president, who, having heard the Ministry of Finance and the Central Bank, instructed them to overcome disagreements and develop a single monetary policy. Its contours should differ from what the financial authorities have made over the past six months.

The war between business and the authorities, which was expected from the very beginning of the "raids" on the oligarchs, began, said Boris Nemtsov, head of the ATP faction. He has already outlined his point of view to Vladimir Putin in a telephone conversation. In his opinion, the letter of Vladimir Potanin from the Prosecutor General’s Office “is more like a letter to a businessman, and not a letter from the prosecutor”. There can be nothing to say about the claims of the FSNP to Lukoil.

In the case of Gusinsky there was another turn. Exactly a month ago, when the security forces conducted a special operation at the Media Most, it was officially said about the "illegal activity" of the holding security service. Now, Gusinsky’s business, NTV and Gazprom, are already directly related to the “Russian video”. Anton Charkin in the article "Non Russian Video" comments on today's visits of investigators to NTV and Gazprom. Non -Russian video