Gazprom-Media and Media-Most agreed not to inform the details of the close to concluding a settlement agreement before signing it. The only thing that the head of the Media-Most press service Dmitry Ostalsky said is the amount for the settlement of which the agreement will be concluded-$ 211 million. In general, the "bridge" is satisfied that the implementation of the agreements reached will ensure the real independence of the media that are part of the holding.

The decision on the creation of the Government Commission for the regulation of tariffs in railway transport does not mean that the issue of the body occupied by the regulation of tariffs in this area was removed from the agenda, Vice-Prime Minister Viktor Khristenko said. The issue of regulating railway tariffs is still key.

The second meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers on the MPS reform is now being held in the White House. (The first took place last week: the agreement was not reached. The parties brought up positions, but the main controversial issues were not eliminated). According to Vedomosti, there is a great faith that today the reform in the editorial office of the Ministry of Railways will be rejected.

Mikhail Fishman The almost sensational news of the beginning of October about the readiness of the Tatar President Shaimiev not to argue with CIK and transfer the elections in Tataria back to March, it turned out, as it turned out soon, its opposite. It’s not that a large legist suddenly erupted in Shaimiev and the Democrat, the Tatar president, which ends his second term, simply agreed with the Kremlin and waits for the right to go for a third term in the form of a legislative guarantee.

It seems that the government has finally decided on the goals of the reform, which Kasyanov spoke of the impecution of which last week. According to Khristenko, the main task is to increase the availability, quality and safety of services by reducing costs for the transportation of goods by rail.

News from the Middle East are still disappointing: several Palestinians are wounded in a shootout near the Jewish settlement Kfar, in Ramallach on the western coast of Jordan, new clashes between Israeli troops and Palestinian demonstrators. And some Palestinian groups - including the movement of the Arafat "Fatam" - called for the continuation of the uprising against Israel.

Published in the USA data on the inflation level, as well as the statement of the IBM and Copper Mountain Networks Inc. The deceleration of sales growth in the third quarter entailed a collapsible fall in global stock markets. The drop in prices of Russian shares intensified and amounted to 6-10%of the auction. The RTS index decreased by 6.18% to 183.98 points.

The Kremlin’s original initiative, which proposed to amend the governors to be elected for a third term, finds an understandable response from the regional authorities. Recall that the Kremlin initiative is that the new version of the law will interpret the current governor's term as the first. Thus, those governors who are only the first term are in the saddle, and those who nourish the region for two terms will be equalized.

The Moscow City Court announced a break until October 20 in the process of US citizen Edmond Pope, whom the FSB considers a spy, and the American side - an honest entrepreneur, patients with a severe form of cancer. Congress demands to impose economic sanctions against Russia in connection with the arrest of POUP, and the Russian intelligence agencies claim that the POP receives all the necessary medical care.

The price of Russian Urals oil with the delivery of the Mediterranean on Tuesday was $ 28.32 per barrel, which is $ 0.17 higher than the price of a single Monday transaction price.

The Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov, who is on a visit to Iran, said that next year the President of the Islamic Republic of Mohammad Hatami will visit Russia next year. Since the Islamic Revolution of 1979, as a result of which Iran was proclaimed the Islamic Republic, not a single representative of the highest leadership of this country has been in Russia. In addition to the former speaker of the parliament, Natega Nuri, who came to Moscow three years ago.

The Chuvash President Fedorov in hot pursuit responded to the current decision of the Duma to reject the amendments to the law that limits the deadlines for the head of the constituent entity of the Federation. Despite the fact that this decision, according to Fedorov, was predicted "for all 100", sooner or later a request will be submitted to the Constitutional Court on compliance with the Constitution of such restrictions.

Putin’s economic adviser Andrei Illarionov in an interview with the “independent newspaper” said that he was not satisfied with either the budget parameters or the concessions that the government went to. Budget forecasts of oil prices should be built, according to Illarionov, with a focus on minimum values ​​(about $ 10).

The almost sensational news from early October about the readiness of Tatar President Shaimiev not to contradict the Central Election Commission and to postpone the elections in Tatarstan back to March, turned out, as it soon became clear, to be its opposite.

The newspaper Vedomosti reports the details of the intrigue that unfolded last week around the head of the Central Bank Viktor Gerashchenko. As you know, all the past week in the press (not without serving from the Kremlin-government sources), rumors were intensively extended about the resignation of the non-replaced Hercules, and on Friday, Aleksey Kudrin, who had come out of the meeting with Kasyanov, suddenly firmly declared the press that there would be no resignation.