The dollar is falling more rapidly and more incompetent. For today's auction, the ruble has strengthened 9 kopecks. The volume of transactions in the absence of buyers and abundance of sellers continues to be small - 129 million 48 thousand dollars.

In the fall, a government crisis is possible, Marina Ionova believes : this is aggravated by the relations of the federal government with governors and with a number of largest corporations. In response to law enforcement, large companies can reduce budget deductions, which may be the reason for Putin to change the government. At the same time, while the budget situation looks quite prosperous.

The Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church summed up the preparations for the upcoming bishop's cathedral, which promises to become historical - for the first time the foundations of the social concept of the Russian Orthodox Church will be considered on it; The mysterious attack of the vigilance of the special services prevented the delegations from Karachay-Cherkessia to fly to Moscow to persuade Boris Berezovsky to stay in the Duma; Tomsk governor Viktor Korus - is no longer the first of

The American Congress (its House of Representatives) approved the bill according to which Russian debts can be restructured only after the electronic center in Cuba ceases to exist. However, the law will hardly be adopted, since the US administration opens against it, believing that Russia also needs tools to control the compliance with the American side of disarmament agreements.

The conditions for the privatization of the ONACO became known. The starting price of 85% of the shares is $ 425.25 million, investment conditions are 125 thousand rubles (symbolic, as expected). Acceptance of applications - from July 21 to September 5, the results will be summed up on September 8. There are no restrictions on non -residents. Recall that the main applicants are Yukos, Lukoil and Sibneft.

There are more and more victims-debtors of RAO Ese. The press service of Omskenergo informed RIA Novosti that every week it turned off an average of three hundred debt enterprises. And this measure brings the results: last week 260 enterprises, the total debt of which is more than 83 million rubles, received instructions for power restrictions. Some debtors hastened to pay, paying more than 18 million rubles on debt.

The head of the investigative group in the Gusinsky case Valery Nikolaev, giving an order to arrest the property of the magnate , acted under Article 175-1 of the Criminal Code, according to which "in order to ensure possible confiscation of property, the investigator is obliged to arrest the property of the accused." Now everything that will fall into the inventory will no longer belong to Gusinsky, but only to be on his “responsible storage”.

Neither peace, no war

Moscow officials - as usual - are full of determination to prevent the expression of funds, usually without a trace disappearing in the process of the next restoration of Chechnya. Apparently, Moscow hopes that, under the double control of Kadyrov and the federal treasury, the money - let it be deduced - but will flow more slowly and in smaller volumes. The First Deputy Head of the General Staff Valery Manilov demonstrates vigor and optimism.

It was not for nothing that President Putin promised to create a parliament of the Russian-Belarusian Union this year: deputy Vladimir Lukin informed the AK & M agency that yesterday the president sent a draft law on "allied" elections to the Duma. According to Lukin, the Duma will consider the bill in the autumn of the textual year. So, there is a hope that by winter the Union will have not only a budget , but also a parliament.

We still cannot guess the most important riddle of post-Soviet history: where the border between our compatriots and all the others pass. The historical events of the last decades turned so that Russia - as a cultural and historical whole - first turned out to be an empire without borders, the diasporas archipelago. Russia - whether it is beneficial or not, or not - is simply doomed to comprehend its real boundaries and solve the problem of their ratio with territorial boundaries.

Chubais in Blagoveshchensk holds a meeting on the preparation of energy of the Far East for the ambulance. Chubais said that the energy system will “not survive the winter” with the current state of calculations with consumers-payers. By the level of payment by "live" money - 43% - Far Eastern energy is strongly lagged behind the average level in Russia (68%).

The press secretary of the Media Most Dmitry Ostalsky informed RBC that the tax inspectorate began the NTV Plus verification. The management of the television company is proposed to prepare documents on timely and full payment of taxes. Ostalsky recalled that the tax authorities recently checked NTV Plus.

Despite the fact that yesterday the Duma refused to discuss the draft resolution on “the need to revise the privatization of the Norilsk Nickel”, Vladimir Potanin could hardly feel safe. As Kommersant writes, in the near future, and precisely from the filing of the Duma, the Prosecutor General’s Office will try to recognize the results of privatization as invalid. Soon a lawsuit can be filed in the arbitration court.

Kasyanov talks about how the government hopes to agree with the Federation Council. Meanwhile, the senators have no confidence that the government’s tax initiatives will be approved.