Yesterday late in the evening the president signed a package of bills on the reform of the electric power industry. Now he will immediately be entered into the Duma. According to the source of Polit.ru in RAO UES, this means that "for the president, a discussion on the principles of reform of the RAO UES is completed" - the concept approved by the government should now be implemented. As the Deputy Chairman of the Board of RAO Vyacheslav Sinyugin said in an interview with Polit.

The morning "Kommersant" continues to talk about the frictions around the future sixth television channel, which again became noticeable on Thursday evening, at the next meeting of shareholders of CJSC "Sixth Television" CJSC. Entrepreneurs again attempted to change the general director of CJSC Alexander Levin to his man and again, as follows from the report, were defeated.

The Board of Directors of the RAO "UES of Russia" on Friday created the Committee on the assessment of the company's assets during reform . According to the board of the RAO Andrei Trapeznikov, the committee included 12 people - representatives of specialized ministries and departments, minority shareholders, and RAO management. The Committee was headed by a member of the board of directors of RAO, deputy minimumacy Sergei Kosarev.

The day before the second round of the presidential election in Ingushetia, the chairman of the Central Election Commission Alexander Veshnyakov suddenly expressed frank concern to the situation in the republic. Today, we recall, the Supreme Court decides the issue of withdrawing Alikhan Amirkhanov from the elections. “Unfortunately, the court is still going on.

The prosecutor's office of the Kursk region opened a criminal case against Governor Alexander Mikhailov and a number of other officials. The case was initiated on the grounds of a crime provided for in Article 160, Part 3 - embezzlement or embezzlement. According to the GUBEP, in 1994 Mikhailov privatized a three-room apartment in the city of Shchigry, Kursk region. In 1996, when Mikhailov was Rutskoi’s deputy, he was given a two-room apartment in Kursk out of turn according to the contract.

Leonid Kuchma very cleverly puts Russia in a rather awkward position: at a joint press conference with Polish President Alexander Kvasnevsky, he said that, in his opinion, Moscow would not be offended if Ukraine is invited to closer cooperation with NATO. In general, Kuchma says, Ukraine "understands the role and place of this structure in Europe well." Kvasinevsky, for his part, said that it would be very good if Ukraine joins NATO.

According to RTR, they showed the corpse of Hattaba. An accident occurred at the Novovoronezh NPP. The power of the fourth block is half reduced. The government cancels the purchase tax tax. The Duma adopted the draft law on electoral rights of citizens in the second reading almost unanimously. On the issue of the possibility of shooting candidates, a compromise was reached, the rest of the amendments to the ATP did not pass.

Although the Russian trading systems, unlike the Western ones, work today, there are few transactions: there are practically no transactions, and those that are still performed are held at a rate that does not differ from the course of the previous day: a little less than 31.20 rubles/dollar.

Vladimir Putin decided to stay in the Astrakhan region for a day. According to the press service of the regional administration, today the president wanted to go to the Volga Delta to "get to know the unique biosphere reserve." Earlier we wrote that today Putin, having visited the shelf of the Caspian Sea, returned to Astrakhan to fly to Moscow today.

Raikov responded to yesterday's gay action near the walls of the Duma.

This morning, in Tbilisi, another ardent impetus of up to 3.5 points occurred. As a result of yesterday's earthquake, we recall, 6 people were killed, dozens were injured. Some politicians decided to pump up the situation, saying that the earthquake was allegedly artificially caused by the Russian military using the capabilities of the esher seismic station located in Abkhazia.

Israel does not intend to remove the blockade of the headquarters of Yasir Arafat in Ramallach, reports Radio Liberty. According to the representative of the Israeli government, the Arafat may allow the gas to go to the gas sector if he promises to eradicate terrorism there. The Palestinians, however, rejected this proposal. Meanwhile, the siege of the Church of the Nativity of Christ in Bethlehem continues.

The Nanai, the Udegeans, Nivkhs, Ulchi and other indigenous people's nationality also use a number of benefits, mainly in the field of nature management, as well as in the socio-cultural sphere, which are legislatively assigned to small peoples leading a traditional lifestyle. Now, when exchanging old Soviet passports for new =? Soviet model, they do not worry in their new documents an indication of nationality.

Russian special services have already determined who will replace Huttaba. According to Ilya Shabalkin, a representative of the regional operational headquarters for managing a counter-terrorism operation in the North Caucasus, Khattaba will replace a certain Abu al-Valid, who, according to Shabalkin, maintained close ties with the organization of the Muslim Brothers and, along with Khattab, received and distributed money from abroad.

Today, Izvestia published a commentary on Yastrzhembsky about the broadcasting of Freedom in Chechen. At one time, we recall, he stated that the radio became almost a handle of militants and separatists.