Experts of the Russian-European Center for Economic Policy have prepared another review of the economic situation. The trend is obvious: the attenuation of economic growth. Consumer expenses are practically not rising this year; Investments are still increasing, but much more slowly than last year. Industrial production is still growing, however, in a number of industries there was a decline, and in such indicative industries as freight transportation, construction, trade - stagnation.

The demand of commercial banks for dollars today has significantly decreased what happened as a result of foreign exchange interventions held by the Central Bank in the last and this week. Against this background, the ruble's course resumed a smooth increase. The weighted average ruble exchange rate grew by 1.55 kopecks. and amounted to 27.6993 rubles ./ $ 1.

The prosecutor's office of the Krasnoyarsk Territory did not come to terms with the fact that the countrymen took Anatoly Bykov on bail, and was going to protest the court decision. Meanwhile, an entrepreneur who was released today directly in the courtroom (he was not taken away from his departure), is accused at once by several articles of the Criminal Code, including complicity in murder and extortion. Nevertheless, the likelihood that the charges will be removed is very large.

In an interview with Polit.ru, Oleg Vyugin shows that in the federal budget of 2001 revenues are significantly underestimated. The economist considers this to be insurance in case of falling oil prices: then the income will be close to the planned ones. If the prices do not fall, the Ministry of Finance will receive additional income that will be aimed at paying off and servicing debt, as it is unlikely to be able to get all the planned external loans.

The price of Russian oil Urals with the delivery of the Mediterranean to the ports of the Mediterranean, according to the results of yesterday's trading, fell to $ 27.15 per barrel, which is $ 0.47 below the value of the price of a one -time Tuesday transaction.

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Yesterday late in the evening, Putin gave an extensive interview with RTR about the Kursk accident. First of all, he once again said that as the president takes full responsibility for what happened. In other words, there will be no resignation of high -ranking military, although Sergeyev, Kuroyedov and commander of the Northern Fleet Popov filed reports on the resignation. But Putin said that first you need to understand the causes of the tragedy, and then make the sewage.

Negotiations of the railroads with power engineers continued at the highest level. Anatoly Chubais and Nikolai Aksenenko agreed to restructure the debt of the Ministry of Railways to RAO "UES". We agreed on the amount of 2 billion rubles. At the same time, Aksenenko hastened to declare that this figure reflects only the “formal debt of railways to the energy systems”. Finally, the debt will be determined until September 1, 2000.

Vladimir Putin removed Viktor Gerashchenko from the post of manager at the IMF from Russia. The Minister of Finance Alexei Kudrin was appointed in his place. Kommersant puts forward several versions of what happened. According to the first, everything is explained by the fact that at the present time, when the Central Bank has managed to strengthen the ruble after the crisis, and the government can be proud of the balanced budget, such a change is justified.

Neither peace, no war

The government laid the sale of almost 19.68% of Slavneft shares in the budget-2001. However, according to Vedomosti, the fate of Slavneft has not yet been resolved. As you know, TNC has long been applying for this company. On August 10, Viktor Khristenko sent to the minimumacy, RFFI and the Ministry of Energy the order to "additionally consider" the issue of the feasibility of privatization of the company. The Ministry of Energy has already responded to the proposal to think.

Omsk Communists went to the people to support their ideas to prohibit the sale of land, their goal is to collect 20 thousand signatures of like -minded people in the region and present them to the State Duma; In the Arkhangelsk region, the phenomena of the energy crisis are smoothly growing - the defense ship’s defense shipyard in Severodvinsk, specializing in the repair and disposal of atomic submarines, is almost de -energized; But the northern delivery this year is a good pace, and there is a

VTsIOM presents the results of a representative survey of 2400 Russians conducted in the summer of 2000 . The distribution of answers to some questions of this study are given as a percentage of the number of respondents, together with the data of similar VTsIOM polls conducted in 1993 and 1996-1999 . The permissible error is within 2%. In general, to what extent is the life that you lead now? What do you think, which of the statements below is more consistent with the current situation?

Foreign rescuers who took part in the operation on the Barents Sea remained unhappy with the organization of work and the attitude of the Russian military to Norwegian and English specialists. In an interview with the BBC, the senior pilot of the British mini-submarine “R-5 Paddi Haron said:“ We had the most perfect remedy in Europe, specially designed to save the team of sunken submarine. And the Russians did not allow us to use it.

The quotes of Russian actions have grown significantly. RTS consolidated index increased by 4.43% to the level of 238.06 of the point; The volume of trading was according to the session of $ 38.5 million. It is argued that the market is responding to positive news about raising oil prices and a statement by Moody-S Investor Service about a possible increase in Russian ratings. True, traders say that the demand in the market was selective and predict a decrease in price growth rates.