The Duma overcame the veto of the Federation Council to the Code of Administrative Offenses and at the same time on the law on the introduction of the Code into action. Thus, if the code is signed by the president, he will enter into force on March 1, 2001. The Code was adopted by the Duma on October 4 and rejected by the Federation Council after three weeks.

Secretary of the Security Council Sergei Ivanov did not rule out that Edmond POUP could celebrate Christmas at home. According to Ivanov, Putin will consider the issue of pardon on December 14, since the decision on this issue can be made no earlier than a week after the announcement of the sentence, that is, from the moment of its entry into force.

The famous criminal Vladimir Tatarenkov was transferred to the Greek authorities: on Friday he had already flown under the convoy in Athens. However, as the Prosecutor General Ustinov said, soon Russia can agree with Greece so that Tatarenkov is again transferred to Russia: this time to prosecute criminal liability. “We fulfilled our obligation to the Greek side and transferred Tatarenkov to their justice,” said Ustinov.

The Duma adopted a bill on the coat of arms in the first reading. With the 300 votes necessary for the adoption of the law, 378 deputies supported him, 17 voted against, 2, 2. A little earlier, a bill on the flag was adopted.

RIA Novosti reports how the fractions of the anthem voted. There was no split in any fraction. The communists voted in consolidated “for” (85, two did not vote), the “people's deputy” (60), the “regions of Russia” (41, did not vote three), farmers (42 votes) and the LDPR (16). Consolidated "against" - "Yabloko".

While the Nizhny Novgorod governor Sklyarov accuses journalists of intentional distortion of information about the gas position, the press service of the enterprise confirms that the production is suspended. A new large industrial group is born in the Urals; The Consolidation Center is the Pervoural Novotrobe Plant. The Far Eastern envoy Konstantin Pulikovsky managed to mobilize the Japanese to jointly fight the smuggling of sea biological resources.

The Duma adopted in the first reading amendments and additions to the law "On the Constitutional Court". The bill introduced by the president cancels the age limit of stay in the post of judge of the Constitutional Court. Now at this post can be persons no older than 70 years. The bill also proposed to increase the term of powers of judges from 12 to 15 years. Only the Communists opposed the changes.

The Standard & Poor-S agency once again increased the Russian credit rating in foreign currency from "SD" (selective default) to "B-". An increase in the credit rating followed after the successful completion of the restructuring of the OVVZ-3 in the amount of $ 1.322 billion, which were in the state of default from May 14, 1999. The agency also revoked the rating at the level of "D" (default), previously assigned to the OVVVZ of this series.

The “News Time” publishes an extensive interview with the leader of the opposition social company of Ukraine, Alexander Moroz, who accused Kuchma, the head of the presidential administration Vladimir Litvin and the Minister of the Interior Yuri Kravchenko of involvement in the disappearance of opposition journalist Georgy Gongadze. After that, a loud political scandal erupted in Ukraine.

The approval of the symbols was carried out quickly and impudently: by half past two on Friday, the country of Russia already had the anthem-flag-coat of arms approved in three readings, and its armed forces had a red “flag”, as Kotenkov calls it, as a battle flag. The Stalin anthem passed with a score of 381 against 51, the tricolor with a score of 342 against 20, and the eagle with a score of 343 against 19. “Polotnishche” received 388 votes for and 1 against.

Igor MAKSIMOV The Gongadze case led to a full-scale political crisis in Kiev. A political scandal, unprecedented even for the CIS space, which is not distinguished by its purity of morals, continues to gain momentum in Kiev.

In Pyatigorsk at one o'clock in the afternoon two powerful explosions occurred. According to local police, a car filled with explosives exploded. Reporting the location of the explosion, RIA Novosti speaks of the “so-called upper market.” According to Interfax, the second explosion occurred in a pharmacy. There are victims. Details are being confirmed.

According to the newspaper "Today", according to one version, the arrest of Glushkov is an action on the "pushing" Berezovsky in the struggle for ORT. Berezovsky has already stated that in connection with the arrest of Glushkov, he recalls his proposals on the transfer to the administration of the creative intelligentsia of the part of his ORT shares, while reporting that 49% of the ORT shares will be transferred to Abramovich.

Main trends In November, public sentiment improved somewhat. The level of public approval of President V. Putin's activities returned to the July level of 70%. At the same time, the government's activities are assessed rather negatively. According to those surveyed, during the year in power, V. Putin achieved noticeable success only in strengthening Russia’s international positions. The results of the reform of the vertical power structure are assessed by the population mainly negatively.

Yakov Urinson, Deputy Chairman of the Board of RAO UES, speaking at the conference "Electricity: the basis of stable growth of the economy", said that the growth of electricity tariffs is inevitable. So far, according to him, the share of electricity in the cash expenditures of the population has not reached even the "Soviet level". At the same time, in regions with cheap electricity, for example, in the Irkutsk region, there is no rapid growth of the economy either.