Whatever the deputy prime minister Viktor Khristenko said about the construction of the main gas pipeline bypassing Ukraine on the territory of Poland, he does not manage to convince the government of the republic. "Kommersant" suggests that the trip of Khristenko to Kyiv broke this is why. Moscow cannot yet nominate any alternative to the Ukrainian "path". Khristenko promised that Russia would pay Poland for building a pipe with additional gas supplies.

Foreign shareholders of RAO UES lost the fight against Chubais. Now there are clear reasons why the head of the RAO went to Va-Bank and suggested raising the question of changing the leadership at an extraordinary meeting of shareholders. The presidential administration, which was considered the main intercessor of foreign shareholders, took the side of Anatoly Chubais. "Kommersant" talks about how the events around the never -consistent resignation of Chubais developed.

A protest rally is currently taking place in the Chechen village of Shelkovskaya. Residents demand that Cossack formations from the Stavropol Territory be brought into the region, and that the village itself, together with the Naursky and Shelkovsky districts of Chechnya, be annexed to the Kuban. The reason for the rally was the murder of three Russian residents of the village: 14-year-old Natalya Morozkina and her two relatives.

The prosecutor's office of Chechnya decided not to institute criminal proceedings against Buslav Gantamirov. Actually, there is nothing surprising in this. The habit not to wave his fists after the fight is sacred. Moscow decided to forget about the military rebellion of Gantamirov against Ahmad Kadyrov.

The apparatus of Yastrzhembsky is forced to admit that the border between Chechnya and Ingushetia is transparent. The feds recognized the obvious - news agency has already reported an unsuccessful attempt on Arbi Baraev in the eastern part of the republic, which was organized by relatives of people abducted by the field commander. The explosive device laid down on the path of the field commander worked late, so Baraev was not injured.

According to the military, on the Chechen section of the Russian-Georgian border, "unprecedented activity in the movement of small groups of armed people" was recorded. The North Caucasus Regional Department of the FPS reports that at night from the territory of Georgia (from the side of the Kerigo River) fire on Russian border guards. In the morning, the military is conducting large -scale stripping of the areas of the location of militants under the cover of aviation and artillery.

The militants again attacked the military column on the Grozny highway - old Atagi. The battle, whose eyewitness was the ITAR-TASS correspondent, lasted 40 minutes. Details of the battle are still unknown. ITAR-TASS claims that the militants knocked out the Ural car, and Interfax reports that the ZIL who went in the column exploded, after which the federal helicopters inflicted a massive blow to the mountains.

The meeting of the oligarchs with the authorities finally happened. At the suggestion of Kasyanov, it was decided to create an advisory body under the government. The President promised that "companies and banks guided in their activities of state interests" will be guaranteed "support and fully assistance." Especially important the moment is that the statement said the refusal of power to "conduct political campaigns to redistribute property and revising the results of privatization." V.

Lawyers of the Swiss company Noga continue their PR company against the Russian government. Having missed Sedov at sea, they said that they would arrest all Russian property, up to the presidential aircraft . Apparently, the lawyers of the company have already begun some work in this direction. Meanwhile, it is obvious that the sailboat in the port is still easier to arrest than to catch the Board number one on the runway.

The government is actually not going to lower taxes. Yesterday, First Deputy Prime Minister Klebanov said that the 13 percent income tax V “Temporary Measure” approved by the Federation Council. As soon as enterprises stop hiding the salary of employees, the rate will be sharply increased. The Kommersant newspaper claims that the persuasion first of the Duma, and then the Federation Council, go to an unprecedented reduction in tax of V, no more than the game of the new cabinet in liberalism.

Politicians and businessmen discuss the results of the "round table" with the oligarchs with Putin. The head of the Yukos oil company Mikhail Khodorkovsky believes that after the meeting of the President of the Russian Federation with leading Russian entrepreneurs, assessing the political risk of investment in Russia decreased.

The newspaper Kommersant explains the decision adopted by the leadership of Sberbank to restructure the reluctance to conflict with the IMF. "The intentions of the IMF are well known: to prove the inefficiency and monopolism of Sberbank and recommend to dismember it." According to Kommersant, “The Bank’s restructuring makes an additional verification initiated by the IMF, which is conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers, absolutely meaningless.

The conflict between the General Staff and the Ministry of Defense regarding the fate of the Strategic Missile Forces, which President Putin called the "conversation of military specialists", is growing. A meeting of the Security Council planned for July 27 did not take place. The Kremlin takes a waiting position. In these conditions, each statement of politicians can be considered as a kind of "competitive proposal".