Today, the Duma unanimously approved the budget of the Pension Fund for 2002. With the required minimum, 319 people voted in 226 votes. In accordance with the law, 783 billion 477.7 million rubles will be received in the budget, and expenses are planned in the amount of 739 billion 156.6 million rubles, Intefax reports.

At a joint meeting of the budget and banking committees, it was decided not to return the draft law on the Central Bank to the second reading. Vice-prime minister Alexei Kudrin asked for returning the project, since the government, in particular, is not satisfied with the amendment regarding the checks of the Accounts Chamber of the financial and economic activities of the Central Bank.

The State Constitutional Commission was formed in Chechnya. Its chairman was elected, of course, the head of the Kadyrov administration. And his first assistant to Taus Dzhabrailov said that the only project that would work on will work on, the V document prepared by the Kadyrov group will continue. The authors of the remaining four projects agreed that their proposals will be taken into account during the work.

The sharp phrase of Gryzlov belonged to the problem of illegal migration. The very fact that the issues of regulation of migration were decided to transfer the Ministry of Internal Affairs, indicates that it is this problem, and not better known to the general public, humanitarian issues that seem to the Russian government for the entire migration policy of the state at the moment.

Sergei Ignatiev considers the level of inflation in the range of 12-14% and the average dollar exchange rate - 31.5 rubles laid down in 2002 (Kasyanov in Copenhagen also spoke about 14% yesterday). As the head of the Central Bank at the 12th Congress of the Association of Russian Banks in Moscow stated today, the forecast is based on the fact that inflation is reduced now compared to 2001. If over 4 months of last year, consumer prices were 9%, then for the same period of 2002 - 6.5%.

So far, President Putin is trading in Ashgabat with Tukrmenbashi and the Iranian leader of the Hats, Prime Minister Kasyanov defends Russian interests in Western European territory. In Copenhagen, the prime minister argued V and, as morning newspapers note, without much success V about the problem of the border status of Kaliningrad. Negotiations on the recognition of Russia by a country with a market economy are also not easy.

National support for United Russia is widely supported The party of power acquired new allies Party life Yesterday, the leadership of the General Council of the United Russia party with pomp signed cooperation agreements with the 12th public organizations. Now the party in the authorities, whose rating, according to the VTsIOM survey, has fallen up to 18%, which was widespread yesterday, will be able to report on new victories.

He answered more than three dozen questions related to medical and pension provisions of citizens, migration policy problems, support for disabled people, state and NGO cooperation, and the fight against political extremism, etc. Read the materials of the interview with E. Gontmamer in the "Conference" section.

The Duma unanimously voted for a statement condemning the “Regulation in Chechnya” adopted by the European Parliament.

The Duma nevertheless voted on the draft appeal to the Minister of Justice on the liquidation of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and bringing Zyuganov to criminal liability (because of this draft, its author, Deputy Fedulov, quarreled with his colleagues and was forced to leave the OVR faction).

At the congress of the Association of Russian banks, Kudrin threw a coal into a furnace of macroeconomic optimism, saying that in 2003 inflation of 10-12%is planned. In subsequent years, inflation will decline in stages, he said, and once again recalled the conviction that was common to the government that this year it would not exceed 12-14%.

Morning newspapers describe a small scandal at the Caspian summit in Ashgabat: the owner of the meeting of Turkmenbashi Saparmurat Niyazov made an acute attack on the Azerbaijani leader Heydar Aliyev, urging him to refuse to develop deposits in the center of the Caspian, expressed in the spirit that all this is “smelling of blood”.

According to the Russian parliamentarians, "the resolution of the European Parliament is compiled in the anti -Russian spirit, it is extremely politicized, is clearly a pronounced conjunctural and non -constructive character." Deputies regret that "the resolution is based on the information of the State Department of the United States and a number of non -governmental organizations known for their preferential attitude to the problem of protecting human rights in Russia." Perplexity among State

Aeroflot decided to participate in a criminal case against its former leaders. The airline will make a civil plaintiff, suing compensation for material damage. According to the lawyer of one of the defendants - the former deputy general director of Aeroflot for commerce and advertising Krasnenker - Boris Kuznetsov, at tomorrow's court hearing, representatives of the company will petition for the deposition of the hearing to get acquainted with the case materials.

Anatoly Chubais, in an interview with today's Rossiy Gazeta, said that at the end of 2004, the electricity fee will be twice as much as at the end of 2001. The main reason is the increase in gas tariffs, which in the fuel balance of RAO occupies 62%. In addition, today's tariffs calculated in dollars are two times lower than in Soviet times.