Andrei Illarionov, an adviser to the president in economics, believes that it is necessary to demonopolize the production, transportation and sale of gas at the same time. As Illarionov said at an investment conference in Moscow, if you do not conduct a demonopolization of the transport component at once, then “it will be more difficult to redo it,” RIA Novosti reports.

The Prosecutor General's Office is doing better in extraditing minor persons: the Cypriot authorities agreed to extradite entrepreneur Valery Meshanov to Russia, who is accused of embezzling $40 million. The request from the Prosecutor General's Office indicates that he is suspected of theft by fraud of public funds amounting to more than 1 billion rubles, RIA Novosti reports. Meshanov was charged in absentia, and he himself was put on the international wanted list through Interpol.

Maria Rozhnova During September, Yuri Luzhkov has repeatedly made statements in defense of Muscovites suffering from point development (buildings of individual houses surrounded by existing residential quarters, another option V construction of new housing complexes in places where this housing was not before). The “point” construction in Moscow V is the traditional reason for the conflict of citizens and the administration.

Journalist Sergei Dorenko, known in the past with his scandalous television programs, announced his accession to the ranks of the Communist Party, reports Interfax . According to Dorenko, he is a member of the Partyer in the city of Novopavlovsk (Stavropol Territory), where he received a party ticket. The assumption that he entered the Communist Party for career reasons, Dorenko rejected.

Today, the Central Telegraph Agency of North Korea has spread the official statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Pyongyang is not interested in holding a new round of negotiations on the settlement of the crisis around the North Korean nuclear program. The DPRK intends to continue to take “practical measures” to improve its nuclear weapons, Interfax reports. Talk about this was carried out in North Korea after the first round of six -sided negotiations in Beijing in August this year.

Today, the conditions for the cancellation of the Jackson-Vanik amendment became known: according to the representative of the Trade Department Robert Zellik, to cancel this amendment against Russia, it is necessary to remove restrictions on the import of chicken, pork and beef into Russia. Under these conditions, it will be possible to convince the Congress of the need to relieve discriminatory economic restrictions that have been operating against Russia for almost 30 years, Gazeta.ru reports.

Sergey Kuznetsov The last few years we have been in a fairly new situation: on the one hand, unlike the nineties, the authorities actively impose its discourse, trying to form a new ideology, and on the other, V, unlike Soviet times, V does not destroy those who do not agree with this discourse.

Another video message from Nadezhda Pogosova came to the Internet publication by Email . The letter came from an anonymous address [Email Protected] . According to Pogosova itself, the record was made on September 15. This time, the abducted appears not only to Boris Berezovsky, but also to the Moscow entrepreneur Malik Saydullaev, to all candidates for President Chechnya, to public organizations. Pogosova speaks of a deadly threat, hanging not only over her, but also over other hostages.

Today, Press Minister Mikhail Lesin expressed his attitude to the conflict around the building belonging to the New Time magazine, RBC reports. The minister, however, did not defend any of the parties, and spoke out extremely common and streamlined. He urged to solve the “disputes of business entities” exclusively in the “legal plane”, promised the support of the journalistic team, and prompted journalists for inattention in the “registration of legal procedures”.

Over the past few years, we have been in a rather new situation: on the one hand, unlike the nineties, the government is actively imposing its discourse, trying to form a new ideology, and on the other hand, unlike Soviet times, it does not destroy those who do not agree with this discourse .

The dollar rate remained at the level of V 30 rubles 61 kopecks reached yesterday. Yesterday, we recall, the dollar grew by 11 kopecks. Of course, it could grow up today v, although it could decrease. The situation is contradictory, a powerful deficit of rubles pushes the rate down, but the demand for dollars is high (according to some reports, dollars are bought by non -residents), and the “unusual” of these two forces leads to the lack of market dynamics.

At today's meeting of the Russian Security Council, they discussed the state border protection concept. President Vladimir Putin, speaking at a meeting, outlined his vision of further evolution of the approach to border protection.

Last week, Anatoly Chubais gave a speech in St. Petersburg on the occasion of his being awarded an honorary doctorate at his alma mater, the St. Petersburg State University of Engineering and Economics. Some statements made by Chubais at that time force us to return to this speech, assessing it as his most unsuccessful speech within the framework of this election campaign. It was clearly not a passing speech.

Ukraine has three months left for the investigation of the Gongadze case: this period gave Ukraine the parliamentary assembly of the Council of Europe. PACE Head Peter Schider said at a press conference that the European Council was going to “give time” to the Ukrainian authorities to the winter session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. In January, at the Winter Session PACE, the “new steps” of the Assembly on this issue will be discussed.

The first September release of VTsIOM-A analyzes the current rating situation. The rating of Vladimir Putin among Muscovites remains high (75%) and continues to grow smoothly (compared to June 2000 V by 14%), while the rating of Prime Minister Kasyanov and the government significantly decreases V 6% and 5% over the past month, respectively (in parallel with this, the number of people who do not trust V 3% and 5% are increasing with this).