From today, in Moscow, cars parked in violation of the rules began to evacuate to the special parking lots , Interfax reports. According to the representative of the Transport and Communications Committee of the capital, in the period from 9 to 14:00, 39 cars were moved to special parking lots, including 21, in the north - 1, in the east - 5, the western - 4, in the north -west - 7, Zelenograd - 1.

Gazprom announced that there was no promotion in negotiations with Belarus about continuing the supply of gas to this country and creating a joint venture on the basis of Beltransgaz OJSC, RBC reports. This is stated in the official statement of Gazprom OJSC following a working meeting. Gazprom stopped supplying gas to the republic from January 1, 2004 Belarusia recently reported that she was ready to pay a debt of $ 129 million.

Answering the questions of the ITAR-TASS correspondent, the Minister of Labor and Social Development of the Russian Federation, Alexander Pochinok, said that a citizen in a will may indicate which of his loved ones will be able to use the funded part of the pension. If this is not indicated in the will, the funded part of the pension is divided between relatives. Recall that the funded part of the pension is at the request of a citizen in the management of either a private company or the state.

The head of the Ministry of Economic Development German Gref called not to make a political campaign to reduce prices after the abolition of sales tax, RIA Novosti reports. Apparently, by the “political campaign”, Gref has in mind yesterday's sharp statement by the mayor of the capital Yuri Luzhkov, who offered the government to “deal” with trading companies that deceived the president without reducing prices after the tax cancellation.

More recently, Vladimir Putin reminded the Minister Stanislav Ilyasov of the benefits of human rights defenders. When the federal minister for Chechnya complained to the president that human rights organizations that work in the camps of forced immigrants “create a turmoil and interfere with the return process,” the president in response demanded to reckon with these organizations: “First of all, they care about people, and it seems to you so that they create troubles.

The dollar exchange rate on Wednesday increased by one penny to a mark of 28 rubles 80 kopecks, thanks to the active actions of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation. Trading in the American currency in the morning of the tender today took place in a fairly wide range - the session began with deals at the level of 28.68 rubles, but then the course returned to the level of 28.8 rubles and above.

Rumors about the completion of tax reform, published in December Mikhail Kasyanov, are most likely exaggerated. “The decrease in the unified social tax (UST) is the most significant measure in tax reform,” said Arkady Dvorkovich, deputy head of the Ministry of Economic Development, speaking on January 21 on a “round table” on “how Russian corporations pay taxes”.

The company will defend his business reputation, which suffered, according to the leadership of the Yukos, from accusations by tax authorities. According to Interfax, today Yukos filed a lawsuit in the Moscow Arbitration Court on the protection of business reputation to the Ministry of Taxes and Duties and deputy head of this department Igor Golikov.

On Tuesday morning, all Georgia was left without electricity. As the Independent Gazeta was told in the Ministry of Fuel and Energy of Georgia, the cause of the emergency was the failure of one of the units of the Ingur Hydroelectric Power Station, the largest power plant in the country. The protective automation worked and turned off the Kavkasioni power line, according to which electricity imports from Russia is carried out.

The body of Vladimir Lenin will remain unchanged indefinitely - at least even more than a hundred years. This was announced in an interview with Interfax today, on the day of the 80th anniversary of the death of the proletarian leader, director of the research center of Biomedical technology (former laboratory under the Mausoleum of V.I. Lenin), head of the Mausoleum group Valery Bykov.

The name of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, since the day of whose death is today 80 years old, is an officially registered trademark. According to the newspaper Kommersant with reference to the information of Rospatent, the Lenin trademark, including the Russian transcription of this word, is registered with the International Intellectual Property Organization by the Swiss company Human BIOS GmbH.

Speaking today with the annual report to Congress on the situation in the country, President George Bush positioned himself simultaneously as the applicant for the second presidential term of the president, and as the Supreme Commander -in -Chief, which would be “at least imprudently” to change the tomorrow's “ Independent Gazeta ”.

In 2006, Moscow will host the Champions Football Champions League final. This was announced today by the President of the Russian Football Union (RFU) Vyacheslav Koloskov, RIA Novosti reports. An agreement on the final was reached at a recent meeting in Moscow with the participation of the capital mayor Yuri Luzhkov and President UEFA Lennart Johansson. As Koloskov said, President UEFA gave fundamental good to ensure that the 2006 Champions League final take place in Moscow.

The decrease in the unified social tax (UST) is the most significant measure in tax reform. This was stated by the deputy head of the Ministry of Economic Development Arkady Dvorkovich, speaking at a “round table” on the topic “How Russian corporations pay taxes”. The decrease in UST is more important than a decrease in VAT and income tax, as it will help to legalize the business, he said.

Lawyer Leonid Nevzlin Dmitry Kharitonov sent a request to the Prosecutor General’s Office demanding to give him information or his client on the wanted list. Today for the second time ( the first was January 15), some “sources” informed news agencies that one of the largest shareholders of Yukos Leonid Nevzlin was put on the international wanted list. However, his lawyer has not yet received any official documents on this subject, although in such cases they must do this immediately.