Read the monitor: The main question is asked by many newspapers: why in five days the drama in the Barents Sea, where the Cursk substrate endures, President Putin did not make any official statements.

Read the monitor Yesterday, a telephone conversation of Vladimir Putin and Bill Clinton took place. After this conversation, the Commander -in -Chief of the Navy received an official instruction to accept help, wherever it came. The Norwegian rescue vessel with scuba divers on board is sent to the accident area of ​​the Russian underwater nuclear boat "Kursk".

Experts calculate the damage from the NATO bombs in Yugoslavia, young Catholics enthusiastically cooked in front of the Basilica of St. Peter, and the Winterfans solve the most important issues on the Caribbean - in the new abroad .

Tomorrow Vladimir Putin will meet eye with Leonid Kuchma. Today, both presidents talked on the phone and confirmed their intention to meet. This will be the first meeting of Putin with Kuchma after the Ukrainian president admitted that his republic is stealing Russian gas on behalf of the government.

The head of the Russian fuel union, Sergei Borisov, acting on Echo of Moscow, warned that a gasoline crisis could occur in Russia in the fall. According to Borisov, the current situation with demand and supply in the oil products market allows you to predict in the next two months an increase in gasoline prices by an average of 10% to the level of October-November last year. Borisov believes that prices in Moscow can increase to 6.7-6.9 rubles. per liter.

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The Prosecutor General’s Office denied the information that some N. Bikmanov and E. Kulikov were suspected in organizing an explosion on Pushkinskaya Square. The Office representative of the department asked "in the interests of the investigation only officially confirmed information and not spread various speculations that may prevent the work of the operational investigation group."

BBC, citing its sources in American intelligence, claims that the most likely cause of the accident on the Kursk submarine was an explosion of torpedoes or missiles in the nasal compartment, which formed large gaps in the atomic submarine building. American intelligence officers believe that at the time of the disaster, 5 Kursk compartments were flooded, which means that there was much less oxygen on board than previously expected.

The government has to decide what to do with federal targeted programs. Obviously, the number of programs “sold” by lobbyists outweighs the capabilities of the federal budget. In addition, regional authorities and enterprises interested in programs violate the conditions of co -financing and are often invested in projects only symbolically.

After the unambiguous statement of Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Khristenko, that the government supports all Slavneft's plans for the reconstruction of Yaroslavneftesinteza, Map decided not to sit back. As you know, this reconstruction (for which Slavneft was started by the additional ministry) was blocked by shareholders affiliated with TNCs (in their hands 34.1% of the shares of Janos).

The struggle of the mayor of Luzhkov with the presidential administrations for his protege, the former chief of the Main Directorate of Moscow, Nikolai Kulikov, ended. Kulikov, whom Putin dismissed with a compromise formulation “of his own free will”, was appointed head of the Office of the City Hall of the capital for relations with law enforcement agencies.

The ruble continues to fall in price. The weighted average of the ruble for the ETS amounted to 27.7349 rubles/$ compared to 27.7310 rubles. $ At previous auction. The volume of transactions amounted to $ 310.678 million.

The Ministry of Taxes and Duties and representatives of law enforcement agencies create a working group in order to jointly consider taxation of military personnel income. The need arose in connection with the entry into force from the next year of the second part of the Tax Code.

Lovers of the Olympic Games are left one hope for the pirates, and all the poor - on Venezuelan Zhirinovsky, however, the rich will also not offend, as television will not remain in losing - a foreigner

The spokeswoman for the St. Petersburg Department of the Ministry of Taxes and Duties of the Ministry of Taxes and Department of the Ministry of Taxes and Directorate of the Ministry of Taxes and Directorate of the Ministry of Taxes and Duties of the Department of Taxes and the Deviations of Yuri Zubkov that within one or two years the Ministry of Taxes and Duties could initiate the introduction of the second income tax rate of 20%does not express the official position of the ministry.