Sensational news came from London. During a confidential meeting in London with the 125th leading diamond wholesalers, the diamond monopolist of De Beers announced the abandonment of the monopoly for the sale of diamonds. The goal is to increase the demand for diamonds in the world and protect consumers by creating a worldwide recognized distribution system.

began work In Moscow, the Kuntsevo branch of ROSBANK at the address: Moscow, st. Veresaeva, 6. branch The Kuntsevo provides a wide range of financial services based on modern banking technologies.

Volume of assets (balance sheet currency) of JSCB "ROSBANK" as of 07/01/2000. amounted to 28.1 billion rubles, as of the beginning of this year this figure was 20.7 billion rubles. Thus, according to the results of the first half of the year, the balance sheet currency increased by 35%. The volume of funds raised (including interbank loans) increased over six months from 14.7 billion to 18.5 billion rubles.

Nothing should overshadow the president’s visit to the exhibition "Ural Expoquarms-2000" V all unreliable military equipment will be held under the castle; The head of the Department of the Federal Tax Police Service of the Saratov Region refuses to report to the Secretary of the Security Council, he disseminates secret information about the work of the tax authorities; In Moscow, a territorial unit is created with a special status V to everyone who will work here will be lucky with taxes; "Do

The Constitutional Court accepted for consideration a request from a group of deputies disputing the inviolability of Boris Yeltsin, provided to him by Putin. The request is made in line with others, and it is still difficult to say when it is considered, ”RIA Novosti was told in the court secretariat. The deputies do not like the provisions of the law that "the president who has stopped fulfilling his powers has inviolability, i.e.

The author shares impressions from the Salzburg Forum. Foreign entrepreneurs demonstrate an understanding of what is happening in Russia and are not afraid of repression. But they, like domestic entrepreneurs, are worried about the lack of guarantees for private property, leisurely and insufficiency of tax, judicial and customs reforms. In addition, the government and business have a very different views on the problem of export of capital from the country.

Today's "Vedomosti" not in vain notes that in the well-functioning mechanism of lobbying and propaganda activity, something has broken down. " The former Minister of TEK, known for his sympathies for the company, and now V, the president’s special representative on Caspian oil, Viktor Kalyuzhny, “responded” only on the third day after the announcement of the initiation of the criminal case against the leadership of Lukoil.

A government meeting will be held today. The main issue will be tax reform. According to "News Time", the offers of the Ministry of Finance are as follows: saving tax on users in the amount of 1%; an increase in tax on vehicle owners (from 3 rubles/hp. For cars with a capacity of up to 100 hp to 60 rubles/hp.

Presidential envoy in the Central District Georgy Poltavchenko said that Chechen militants could commit terrorist attacks in Moscow and other major cities of Russia. And they are ready to go to this not even out of revenge, but in order to attract attention. Poltavchenko called on Muscovites and residents of other cities to increased vigilance.

The Goldoval lines of Russia continue to grow rapid growth. According to the Central Bank’s message, their volume as of July 7 amounted to $ 21.8 billion. Meanwhile, as of June 30, they were $ 21.0 billion. Thus, in a week, gold and foreign exchange reserves increased by $ 800 million.

The special service for combating financial crimes, which is part of the US Department of Finance, included Russia, along with Israel, Liechtenstein, Philipin, Panama, Bahamas and Kayman Islands, Marshall Islands, Nauru, St. Kitts and Nevis in the list of countries that "do not cooperate in the fight against laundering money ".

As expected , the conciliation commission relatively calmly voted for all questions, except for the question of early recall of senators. The co -chair of the conciliation commission Oleg Korolev said that the parties could not find "general approaches" and transferred this problem for tomorrow.

The government, as gathered, began to focused on senators of PR-Atak Road Funds. According to the Deputy Prime Minister and the head of the Ministry of Finance Alexei Kudrin, recently numerous cases of misuse of the funds of territorial road funds, which are tax on road users, have recently recorded. According to Kudrin, in 1999, about half of all payments to territorial road funds were carried out in the form of commodity compensation, which is prohibited by law.

The government prepared a gift to the governors. According to the Department of Government Information, at today's meeting of the government, a bill will be considered a bill obliging Gazprom to pay taxes on the property of enterprises not only in Moscow, but also in other constituent entities of the Federation.

AvtoVAZ claims that he has not received any documents on initiating a criminal case and knows all the details only from the media.