The Federation Council shows "a much greater ability to compromise than the Duma," says Stanislav Vavilov, a member of the consumption commission from the Senate. According to him, members of the commission from the upper house will not insist on amending the recall of senators. "I want to note that the upper house has always been distinguished by balanced and reasonableness, and we will not reject this law in revenge for the fact that some of our amendments have not passed," Vavilov said.

The first vice-governor of the Primorsky Territory Konstantin Tolstoshein was offended by Victor Cherepkov. He, according to Tolstoshein, spreads slander. Cherepkov, defending his right to become the mayor, handed over to the court a cassette with a recording of a telephone conversation of Tolstoshein with subordinates. The recording fixes like Tolstoshein, abundantly filth, instructed his subordinates how to help Kopylov win the elections.

“In the first quarter of this year, the real GDP increased by 2.7% compared to the previous quarter,” recal experts write in the next economic review. Industrial production in May increased by almost 1%. In May, for the second month in a row, following the reduction of income, real consumer expenses of the population (by 2% of April) are declining. At the same time, investments in fixed assets continue to grow steadily - they practically returned to the level of the beginning of 1996.

Senators - at least in words - are quite satisfied with the work of the conciliation commission. The co -chairman of the commission Vladimir Platonov described her work as "extremely successful." Of the 13 amendments, 12 is agreed.

Oleg Morozov explained why the work of the conciliation commission ceased. As Polit.ru suggested, the Duma part of the commission refused to visize the protocol due to the fact that a double amendment was rejected (that the governors appoint their representatives and recall them only with the consent in the regions). On the 19th, the Duma is likely to overcome the veto of the Federation Council. And a member of the commission from the ATP Viktor Pokhmelkin is sure that the veto will be overcome.

Vladimir Putin visited the Armed Forces Exhibition "Ural EXPO ARMS 2000". Accompanied by the Minister of Defense, Igor Sergeyev, Deputy Prime Minister Ilya Klebanov and Governor of the Sverdlovsk region of Eduard Rossel, the president carefully familiarized himself with the exposition and received as a gift a model of an unmanned reconnaissance “Bee”, which is used in Chechnya.

Anatoly Chubais sent a letter to Mikhail Kasyanov, in which 25% of restrictions for foreign shareholders in RAO EEC stands for the abolition.

It seems that the debts of the Russian government of the Swiss company Noga are a more serious problem than the Russian leadership claims. Recently, the Parisian court arrested banking avoirs of Russian diplomatic missions in France, and today the Russian four-masted sailboat Sedov was arrested during the Brest-2000 sports festival.

Following Vladimir Putin, who announced raising pensions in Russia, Yuri Luzhkov announced raising pensions in Moscow. From August 1, those who have a full work experience will pay 1000 rubles per month, the rest - 900 rubles. According to the mayor, the increase in pensions is due to the fact that the cost of living in the capital is 980 rubles per month.

The State Duma Budget Committee recommended that the lower house maintain a tax rate on road users of 1% until January 1, 2003. At the same time, the governors have the right to cancel or change tax rates on car owners. VAT benefits for the media are preserved until January 1, 2002. Recall that yesterday the government actually resigned to the fact that the tax on road users would have been overcome for another year (however, it hopes to abolish it during 2001).

A source in the FCCB in an interview with AK & M correspondent told why the deputy chairman of the commission Alexander Kolesnikov was fired . Since Kolesnikov overshadowed the consumption of funds allocated by donor organizations for the development of the Russian stock market of securities, “gross violations of labor duties” could consist in abuse of extra -budgetary funds allocated through international financial organizations.

The World Press Freedom Committee has distributed a statement today, in which Putin’s reign time is evaluated rather unpleasant. In particular, experts came to the conclusion that Putin was still limited to formal allegations that he supported free media. In fact, everything looks completely different. The intimidation of the press in Russia has several different forms - ranging from the Babitsky case and ending with shares against the Media Most.

“The conciliation commission completed its work with a complete collapse,” Oleg Morozov, the leader of the deputy group “Russian regions”, said at the end of its work. Obviously, the latest innovations proposed by the deputies did not arrange senators. Now, according to him, on July 19, the Duma will overcome the veto, voting according to the initial version of the bill on the reform of the Federation Council.

The Ministry of Communications and the IDO are preparing a program for the transition to targeted payment of preferential communication services, according to which benefits for 28 out of 48 categories of beneficiaries will be canceled. However, the most interesting in the sentence of the Ministry of Communications is not that.

The price of Russian oil Urals today has increased to $ 27.09 per barrel, which is $ 0.59 higher than the value of the price of the medium.