General Director of Putin's Victory To manage the project with one hundred percent political profitability will be again St. Petersburg lawyer Svetlana Koretova, Natalia Melikova Next week (the latest V until December 16), the Federation Council must appoint presidential elections V which, as expected, will be held on March 14. The start of the election campaign-2004 may be given at a meeting of the upper house in the near Wednesday.

The emergence of information that the Ministry of Taxes and Duties is suspected of Yukos of non -payment of taxes by 150 billion rubles can move the main shareholders of the Yukos to transfer the management of the company Sibneft managers, the Vedomosti newspaper writes today. According to Interfax, at the beginning of the week a letter about the non -payment of these taxes, the deputy minister for taxes and fees Igor Golikov sent to the prosecutor general Vladimir Ustinov.

On the smoothly cleaned political landscape, the presidential elections in Bashkortostan, which will be held on December 7 simultaneously with the parliamentary ones, somehow stand out sloppily. In fact, this is the only region where any real election struggle is taking place. Rakhimov is opposed by the former chairman of the board of Mezhprombank, Sergei Veremeenko, who is close to the group of St.

In Cherkessk there is a trial of three people who are suspected of involvement in the Dubrovka terrorist attack. According to the Echo of Moscow radio station, the state prosecution insists that one of the accused Rita Bijev for a bribe of 5 thousand rubles issued a passport in the name of a long -dead person. Then Shadid Barzaev and Louise Daudov handed this passport to the militant who left for Moscow.

The Deputy Prime Minister and the head of the Ministry of Finance Alexei Kudrin said he intends to stop all abuse in the tax sphere. As Kudrin said in an interview with Financial Times, all tax crimes must be punished.

Anton Nikolaev On a smoothly cleaned political landscape, the election of the President of Bashkortostan, which will be held on December 7 simultaneously with parliamentary, somehow strokely stand out. In fact, this is the only region where some real election struggle occurs.

Bulat Nureyev The forecast of election results, a description of the specifics of the voting day and falsification technologies from one of the oldest researchers of the political movement in our country, director of the Panorama Research Center Vladimir Prelovsky. Can you give a forecast of election results to the State Duma? I would divide the forecast into 2 parts: how many votes will actually take parties and how much they will be recorded.

In search of the Golden Meaning The middle class in Russia cannot be calculated Literally all the forces in the country, whether it is a government or political parties, in their endeavors are trying to rely on the middle class. In fact, all liberal reforms, with greater or lesser success, conducted in the country, and all election campaigns are designed for it. The elite is not of any significant part of society, and the poorest segments of the population have its favorite authors.

Kamchatka prosecutor's office, it seems, finally overtook the mayor of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Yuri Golenishchev And charged him. According to the regional prosecutor Alexander Voitovich, from that moment Golenishchev acquired the status of the accused. A preventive measure in the form of a non -departure subscription was applied to it. Yuri Golenishchev refused to testify, and also did not sign the corresponding papers.

The British Ministry of Internal Affairs refutes the statement of Boris Berezovsky that the passport addressed to Plato Elevin, with whom he came to Georgia, was given to him by the British side, RIA Novosti reports to him. “The British Ministry of Internal Affairs has no way to issue several passports or other documents for trips to the same person to different names,” said an employee of the press service of the British Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Today, Boris Berezovsky visited Tbilisi - under a stranger. The head of the press center of the State Department of Georgia for the protection of the state border of Shalva Londaridze specified that Berezovsky flew by plane Badri Patarkatsishvili, at about midnight on Tbilisi time, and at 6 in the morning he flew to London, RIA Novosti reports. According to him, Berezovsky presented documents in the name of Plato Elevin with a Georgian visa affixed in London. "He passed the usual check.

The French Association of Holders of Tsarist Loan Bonds (Afper) once again lost in court a case against the Russian government, RIA Novosti reports. The highest instance court decided on Wednesday to consider the lawsuit not to be considered, in which AFPER demanded from the Russian government the payment of compensation for a total amount of 337.8 million.

Alexander Voloshin in the near future may become the head of the Board of Directors of RAO UES. According to the Chairman of the Board Anatoly Chubais, the board of directors of RAO UES may consider this issue at its next meeting, which will be held on Friday, Interfax reports. So far, Voloshin did not give an answer to this proposal, but with his candidate already according to the majority of members of the board of directors of RAO, said Chubais.

In Tbilisi tonight, a delegation of the US State Department, headed by the assistant to the US Secretary of State on Eurasia, Lin Pasco, arrives tonight. According to RBC in the State Office of Georgia, Lin Pasco will meet with the acting President Nino Burjanadze and the state minister of the country of Zurazham. = According to official information, the delegation came to discuss issues of the United States of Georgian assistance.

The Prosecutor General of Russia sent a criminal case to the Mosgorsud on the murder of deputy Sergei Yushenkov, the Russian Prosecutor General’s Information and Public Relations Department said. Six people are held in the case - Mikhail Kodanev, Alexander Vinnik, Alexander Kulachinsky, Igor Kiselev, Vladislav Palkov and Anton Drozd. They are accused under Art. 105 of the Criminal Code of Russia (murder), Art. 277 (an encroachment on the life of a state or public figure) and Art. 222 h.