Participants of the bargain around the sixth button continue to make ambiguous statements. The President of the Olympic Committee Leonid Tyagachev, literally repeating what Valentina Matvienko said, says that he considers unlikely the appearance of a sports channel on the sixth button. “If I had been offered TV-6, I would not refuse and took Vagit Alekperov to the partners,” he said, however, at a joint press conference with the head of Lukoil.

The President of Yakutia Vyacheslav Shtyrov, apparently, has no doubt that the current Prime Minister of Yakutia Vlasov will lead Ak Alrosa, which Shtyrov told Kommersant. The President of Yakutia turned to the speaker of the upper house of the State Assembly of the Republic with a request to convene an extraordinary session of the chamber on February 5 to elect a new prime minister.

Darkin, trying to establish a financial balance in the Primorsky Territory, received a warning from the prosecutor's office about the illegality of raising tariffs for water. The prosecutor’s office claims that by his resolution the governor grossly violated the federal law on antimonopoly policy and state price regulation, as well as the charter of the Primorsky Territory.

The hurricane, which swept over Europe, carried away the lives of 17 people. Hundreds of thousands of people were left without electricity. The authorities of Denmark evacuated the inhabitants of the coast of the North Sea, since in some areas the water level rose four meters higher than normal. In Sweden, due to a break in power lines without electricity, 100 thousand houses were left.

Putin spoke at the State Council dedicated to sports. He urged the government to carefully consider the construction and repair of sports facilities, the list of which was prepared by the Olympic Committee, and "move the case from a dead point." There are many problems in big sport - the preparation of the reserve, the organization of the training process, the material encouragement of athletes and coaches. Federal structures should be more closely interacting with the regions.

"Lukoil" again reminded of his readiness to participate in the competition for broadcasting on the sixth channel. The concern has not yet decided who to support (or rather, the Ministry of Printing has not yet been determined). According to Vagit Alekperov, the head company will not be engaged in television, and one of the subsidiaries will take part in the competition, most likely the same LUKOIL-GARANT.

According to the results of the trading on the ETS, the dollar rate increased by 3.1 kopecks and amounted to 30 rubles 68.5 kopecks. The volume of trading remained at the same level - $ 71.3 million was realized. The increase in the exchange rate of the American currency is primarily explained by an improvement in the situation with ruble liquidity, as evidenced by an increase in the remains of banking corters to 80.3 billion rubles. (+7.9 billion).

The meeting of the Federation Council continues, on which organizational issues are resolved. Having voted for the adoption of a new regulation, the senators chose four vice-spikers. The first vice-speaker was the head of the group "Federation" Valery Goreglyu.

After the scandalous bankruptcy of the American Energy Enron, any actions of its auditor - Arthur Andersen - attract special attention. At the disposal of Izvestia was a letter sent by Arthur Andersen to the Russian government addressed to the deputy prime minister Viktor Khristenko. Auditors propose to eliminate price manipulations with Russian oil. As a savior, a company with a soaked reputation modestly proposed itself.

The Moscow Arbitration Court recognized as invalid the transaction to assign the rights to Vodka Vodka, Russian and Moskovskaya, committed in December 1997 between JSC Fruit Company and Soyuznothodim CJSC. According to RIA Novosti, the representative of the Ministry of Agriculture, these trademarks initially belonged to the state and were illegally alienated by Soyuznothimport CJSC.

Today, Deputy Prime Ministers Valentina Matvienko and Ilya Klebanov should consider amendments to the law on alternative civil service from the General Staff. The law was finalized yesterday by Prime Minister Kasyanov, after listening to Anatoly Kvashnin’s report.

Another episode in the struggle of power engineers with debtors. According to Interfax, the energy sections of the Stavropols are fined for repeated turning off the energy. Such a decision was made by the district court, which considered the criminal case against the general director of the "Stavnernergo" Profitkov and his deputies. Five accused were sentenced to pay a fine of 200 minimum salaries.

On the eve of a meeting of the State Council on Physical Education and Sports, two politicians and sports patrons spoke out in favor of having a national sports channel in Russia. This is Shamil Tarpishchev and President Vladimir Putin. We were talking, of course, about the sixth button, which was released as a result of the completion of the special operation to eliminate MNVK.

Neither peace, no war

As Viktor Khristenko said today, after a meeting of the commission of access to main oil pipelines and oil products he headed, the government intends to create a system of internal reservation of oil, AK&M reports.