After the traditional meeting on Monday, the Prime Minister, where the 2001 budget was discussed, Deputy Prime Minister Kudrin told reporters that the government was ready to increase defense costs by 12.5 billion rubles, and expenses for education-by 3 billion rubles, and science-by one and a half billion.

The position of the Central Bank determines the procedure for the provision and repayment of loans of the Bank of Russia.

According to Kommersant, Russian President Vladimir Putin had the opportunity to take part in the Middle Eastern summit, which opened yesterday in the Egyptian city of Sharm-Esh-shih, but decided to refrain from the trip, granting the US president to reap the fruits of his peacekeeping. On October 16, at a hearing in the Duma, proposals were announced for the first time to reform the Russian electoral system.

Patricia Isaeva , Peter Oppenheimer , Richard Stoneman Introduction After the financial crisis of 1998, in Russia for the first time in all ten years of market transformations, economic growth has been observed. In 1999, the growth rate amounted to 3.2%, and in 2000 they already overtook last year.

The Federal Energy Commission, according to the Vedomosti newspaper, announced the next, fifth, raising tariffs for pumping oil in the Transneft system by 22.2%. Due to this, Transneft's expenses for the construction of the oil pipeline bypassing Chechnya are compensated. According to the Olma investment company, the oil pipeline cost about $ 130-140 million, but due to the lack of oil in Azerbaijan, it is practically not used.

The operation to raise the bodies of the dead submariners is planned to be completed in 18 days; Deputy Minister for Taxes and Duties - Vasily Kovalev and Vladimir Panfilov - are dismissed from their posts; According to Livshits, a massive influx of foreign investment in Russia is possible no earlier than two years later; Anatoly Aksakov, Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Economic Policy and Entrepreneurship, believes that the second reading of the budget will cause serious disputes; The

Berezovsky once again confirmed that on October 17, at the invitation of investigator Alexander Filin, he intends to visit the Prosecutor General. Berezovsky does not intend to avoid meetings with representatives of bodies, since he believes that everything he did, including in business, lies within the framework of Russian legislation.

The Moscow City Court on Monday postponed for an indefinite time the hearing of a criminal case on charges of the former Minister of Justice Valentin Kovalev, accused of embezzlement of $ 50 thousand, due to the fact that the lawyers did not manage to get acquainted with the materials of the criminal case.

Naro-Fominsky court announced the indictment in the case of Tamara Rokhlina. The conclusion says that the fault of Rochlina in the murder of her husband was fully proved that "the crime was caused by hostility to her husband based on personal relations" (the general did not take serious measures to treat her son Igor) that at the time of the murder Tamara Rokhlin was not in a state of affect.

The chairman of the State Council of the Republic, Alexander Volkov, won a confident victory in the elections of the First President of Udmurtia, despite the fact that the inhabitants of Izhevsk preferred him the chairman of the Government of the UR Nikolai Ganszu. Irkutsk Governor Boris said spoke out for the merger of the Ust-Ordynsky Buryat Autonomous Okrug with the Irkutsk region.

Boris Berezovsky on the eve of today's, third round of the meeting of future shareholders of Teletrast and - in a slightly more distant perspective - the US presidential election published an article on The Washington Post, which meets critics accusing him and other oligarchs of corruption under Yeltsin, and the Customudon administration - in Custom The indulgence of the oligarchs.

The ruble exchange rate on the MICENB ETS on Monday grew by 6.39 kopecks and amounted to 27.8347 rubles./$ 1. The price of the last transaction is 27.8360 rubles ./ $ 1, during the auction, the dollar exchange rate ranged in the range of 27.8203-27.8510 rubles./$ 1. In total, 1889 transactions were concluded in the amount of $ 107.901 million. The dealers that refer to the Prime -Tass refer, argue that the cause of growth is the currency intervention of the Central Bank.

An employee of the prosecutor’s office of the Novosibirsk region Yuri Kondratyev said that investigative actions with entrepreneur Alexander Tikhonov could resume by the end of this week. In the middle of the week, the period set by doctors expires. Recall that Tikhonov was in a hospital with a hypertensive crisis.

After a recent disagreement that happened, however, through the fault of Lukashenko, the presidents of Russia and Belarus had a good reason to make peace. Yesterday late in the evening, Putin called Lukashenko and congratulated him on holding the parliamentary elections, and then invited the Belarusian president to stay in Sochi. There is no gas question painful for Lukashenko in the program of informal meeting.

After a meeting at the President-Hotel, the head of the Chechnya administration Akhmad Kadyrov made peace with his main political opponent Buslane Gantamirov and appointed him his deputy. Both parties declare that the working contradictions have already almost smoothed out, and note the large role of the president’s plenipotentiary in the southern district of Viktor Kazantsev.