Vladimir Gusinsky was released. But what can it cost him? This question is asked by the journalist of Vedomosti and comes to the conclusion that Putin will try to transfer all the media under state control: "How could you just take and cancel the decision of the Prosecutor General’s Office in relation to Gusinsky? Everyone will be brought to a common denominator.

As expected, at a meeting in the Kremlin, the president gave the oligarchs a “security letter”.

p. 2 Poles do not need Russian gas Yesterday, Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Khristenko and the Polish Prime Minister Buzek opened the memorial in memory of the executed NKVD in 1940 of Polish officers in Katyn near Smolensk. But beyond the scope of the Protocol, Khristenko wanted to agree with Warsaw on a gas transit bypassing Ukraine. However, Buzek did not want to get into the gas problems of Russia. P.2 Putin went to meet the governors.

Dalenergo spread the next mournful press release, which states that if in the next 2-3 weeks not to take emergency measures, then "there will be no time left to bring the necessary amount of coal to the warehouses of power plants." The company notes that the agreement signed on July 6 between the administration of the Primorsky Territory, the Far Eastern branch of the railway and Dalenergo on the set -off of mutual payments is not made.

The investigation of the reasons for the fall of the Mi-8T helicopter at the Levashovo airfield, as a result of which 19 people died (the Air Force team in parachute sports) ended unexpectedly quickly. As Interfax reported on Friday in the General Staff of the Air Force, according to the commission’s conclusion, the pilot’s mistake was the cause of the disaster.

Vladimir Putin ordered Interior Minister Vladimir Rushailo to strengthen efforts to solve crimes against individuals. At a meeting with the President, Rushailo spoke about the stabilization of the operational situation in the first half of the year: the total number of crimes committed decreased by one and a half percent compared to the same period last year. The best part is that for serious and especially serious crimes the reduction was 7.5%. At least these are the official statistics.

The governors joyfully accepted the handout of the State Council abandoned by the president yesterday. Tatarstan President Mintimer Shaimiev told RIA News that Vladimir Putin himself should become the chairman of the State Council. This body will develop agreed solutions regarding the strategic, fateful issues for Russia. It will be an advisory, advisory body, which all governors should not be included, Shamiev believes, who, without a doubt, expects to enter there.

Putin's meeting with the oligarchs resembles the conversation of "dumb" with the "deaf". The head of the Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky wanted to talk with the President about the global problem of wear of the fixed assets of Russian industry, and President Lukoil Vagit Alekperov - to discuss the implementation of two large oil projects of the company: Timano -Pechersky and North Caspian.

The agreements of Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko with the Turkmen President Saparmurat Niyazov yesterday were brutally disavowed by President Leonid Kuchma. According to him, the decision on gas supplies "should be made at the presidents." Kuchma is not primarily satisfied with the price - on the border with Ukraine it will be $ 90 for 1000 cubic meters. "But in Ukraine it is necessary to add another $ 15. Which company will withstand this?" he is outraged.

Andrey Mochenov , Sergey Nikulin In Russia, the change of head of the state always leads to the declared change in the priorities of its development. Often, not only a change in the elites occurs, but also a change of eras, but in “every era they grow up” ... words and, as a result, the language of the media changes.

Ukraine, slightly reflected, allowed Russian peacekeepers to fly to Sierra Leone. According to morning media, a hassle with debts for airspace is the only asymmetric answer that Ukraine can give Russia's attempts to get its money for gas.

Gusinsky flew quietly; The essence of his agreements with the Kremlin is still an unclear sprint speed, with which the “Gusinsky case” suddenly ended, and the decisive lack of information and comments on the central television channels remain the main sensation of the week.

Tomorrow's newspapers write: B in the Volga Federal District ended the first contest of managers, which Sergei Kiriyenko held to find people in his management apparatus The Friday disposition of the creation of the State Council is not about the "State Council under the President of the Russian Federation", but about the State Council of the Russian Federation.

Last night: Chubais demonstrates extreme aggressiveness and self -confidence - he is ready to meet shareholders at which his powers can be revised. The meeting will be held approximately on September 10-15. Leonid Kuchma is unhappy that they speak Russian in Crimea Zyuganov calls on the oligarchs to share, and one of the future participants in the meeting with Putin hopes that the president promises them not to arrange the redistribution of property. Evening tape.

In Russia, the change of head of the state always leads to the declared change in the priorities of its development. Often, not only a change in the elites occurs, but also a change of eras, and, as a result, the language of the media changes.