In Beijing, negotiations begin on the fate of an American intelligence aircraft. The atmosphere around the negotiations is nervous. The State Department is annoying that Chinese specialists, almost without hiding, gut the electronic filling of the aircraft.

Nikolai Patrushev at a press conference said that not all military personnel in Chechnya should receive "combat". Returning from Chechnya, Putin gave the FSB an instruction to understand the situation with the "fighting", as the military complain about regular delays. And Patrushev says that only those who are directly involved in hostilities should receive “fighting”.

The dollar rose in price by 1 kopeck as a result of increased pressure on the ruble from banks, which have significantly improved their liquidity over the past 2 days; The Central Bank is maneuvering, Finmarket experts report. Most of the session proceeded at a surprisingly stable rate and was accompanied by unusually high activity of speculators. Now they are not unreasonably counting on a quick breakthrough of the dollar to the level of 28.90-29.00 rubles.

Inertia newspapers continue to monitor the ups and downs on the TV-6 channel. Kommersant publishes the longest transcript of telephone communication between Boris Berezovsky with a journalistic team, and the “News Time” is an interview with the retired general director Alexander Ponomarev. The essence of the conflict - in essence, is professional -corporate - that the TV -6 team feels that it will be replaced by the newspaper concept itself.

In Krasnoyarsk, according to a well -known scenario, another spy scandal is developing: a group of scientists defends his colleague, director of the thermophysical center of the local university, Valentin Danilov, who has been in jail on the charges of treason in the form of espionage from February 21.

After long delay from Judge Carlos Oler, the only of the three judges who was ready to extradite Gusinsky to Russia, the Madrid court finally issued a long -expected verdict in favor of Gusinsky. The prosecutor’s office, headed by the former prosecutor of Sochi Ustinov, received a completely clear signal: today Western justice does not consider Russian law enforcement agencies a full partner free of politics.

The price of the May oil futures on the New York Modern Exchange amounted to $ 28.24 yesterday for a barrel, which is $ 0.55 lower than the final indicator of previous trading. According to experts, oil prices fell due to the fact that the information published after the closing of the auction showed an increase in oil reserves by 2.4%, which is an unexpectedly high indicator. On the London Exchange, the price of futures for June increased by $ 0.26 to $ 27.63 per barrel.

Long fan shutdown of electricity due to acute fuel deficiency began in Kamchatka. According to RIA Novosti, residential quarters, schools, kindergartens, and cultural institutions are disconnected from the light. The fuel is not enough due to the huge debt of the Kamchatka power engineers of Rosneft, which has already reached almost 2.5 billion rubles.

A detective story around Dorenko continues. Today, his lawyer Pavel Astakhov said that the TV presenter was attacked. In an interview with Interfax, Astakhov said that immediately after the incident on April 15, Dorenko was hospitalized in Krylatsky Dorenko. Doctors have established a concussion in him, a bruise of the spine with a displacement of the vertebrae, a lacerated wound of the upper lip and bruises of the face.

The Bureau of the Board of the RSPP accepted an appeal to the President about pension reform at today's meeting, Prime-Tass reports. The authors believe that in the existing project, which was considered at yesterday's meeting of the Council on Pension Reform, the most acute issue for business people is about the effectiveness of using investment resources accumulated in the pension system.

The scenario conditions for the socio-economic development of Russia for 2002 and for the period until 2004, and the forecast of the country's socio-economic development for the medium-term perspective (2002-2004) will be considered at the next meeting of the government. As the first deputy minister of economic development, Ivan Materov, will make reporters in the Department of Government Information on Wednesday.

The Bureau of the Central Council of Yabloko at its meeting developed a statement in which solidarity with journalists experiencing the "pressure of the authorities" was expressed. The movement considers the power capture of the NTV, the closure of the newspaper "Today" and the dismissal of the collective of the magazine "Results" by the beginning of a massive occurrence of freedom of speech in Russia.

At the meeting of the Board of Directors of TS-6, it was decided to hold an extraordinary meeting of shareholders on May 14. After the meeting of the Board of Directors at a press conference, Igor Shabdurasulov announced his intention to apply at a meeting of shareholders with a request for a resignation. According to Shabdurasulov, the question of early termination of powers of members of the board of directors was made on the agenda of the meeting of shareholders.

"Human Rights Watch" expressed dissatisfaction with the investigation in connection with the detection of mass burial in the village of Dachnaya in Chechnya. In the report of the organization, distributed in Geneva on the eve of the vote on the issue of Chechnya at the session of the UN Human Rights Commission, human rights activists insist that on 51 bodies discovered, according to them, in this burial, there are, in particular, traces of torture.

Another portion of spy stories was issued by Alexander Zdanovich at today's briefing in St. Petersburg. He stated that the Federal Security Service "has big suspicions" that one of the closest associates of Hattab, Rezwan Chitigov, is an agent of the CIA. However, the FSB has exposure and abruptly. Zdanovich hinted that the whole story with the abduction of an employee of the mission "Doctors without borders" Kennet Glaka was nothing more than a performance played by foreign special services.