Having started the topic of military reform, Polit.ru decided to introduce readers to the official point of view on the state of affairs in the field of military development and military strategy of Russia. The text published today was signed by Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov, about whom we have already written many times. The article is published recently in the issue of the magazine “Russia in Global Affairs”.

Yesterday, world prices for gold fell sharply, RBC reports. The price dropped below $ 400 per ounce and reached the level of November 2003, Sergei Suverov, an analyst with Zenit Bank, believes that this is due to the market expectations for raising the US Federal Reserve Service. An increase in the discount rate should strengthen the dollar, and this, in turn, should lead to a decrease in gold prices.

The head of the Accounts Chamber said in the morning that he was outraged that the governor of Chukotka and prominent businessman Roman Abramomich was giving too little money to a charity fund intended to help orphanages. Abramovich gave only $1 million for the children, while purchasing the Chelsea football club for $300 million. However, “the purchase of Chelsea cannot in any way affect the results of the audit of this subject of the Federation,” he said.

Vladimir Putin spoke at the board of the Prosecutor General. The content of the speech is set out by Interfax. One of the most important areas of the prosecutor's office is the fight against corruption. At the same time, there should not be interference in the economy. Recall, according to the Interma Foundation, in 2002 the amount of bribes paid amounted to 40 billion dollars. Mikhail Khodorkovsky caused the president’s displeasure, naming the amount of $ 30 billion.

Vitaly Leibin “Sharks of Capitulism” - so wittyly called today the editorial in “Kommersant” about yesterday's bustle of Vladimir Potanin with the merger of the RSPP (large business) with “Business Russia” (Central) and “Rossi of Russia” (Small). Everything is right. Although the oligarchic trade union capitulated not yesterday , but on the very day when Putin arrived at the Congress of the RSPP and Chubais did not arrive.

Today, on the basis of the Rodina election bloc, the Social Political Movement has been formed, Sergey Glazyev became the chairman. Glazyev was only the co -chair of the block, but now he became the sole head of the movement. Another co -chair of the "Motherland" Dmitry Rogozin was elected only a member of the national council, which includes 25 people. Glazyev said that one should not see the "signs of a split" in this, which they have been talking about for a long time.

Yesterday, representatives of two companies with a significant share of state capital gave a rather sharp rebuke to representatives of large private capital. The reason was a conflict of interests. Alexey Miller, chairman of the board of Gazprom, issued an ultimatum to TNK-BP production director Viktor Vekselberg regarding the development of the Kovyktinskoye field.

In relation to a number of officials of the Ministry of Defense of Russia, responsible for the storage of narcotic drugs in the central warehouse of the North Caucasus Military District, criminal cases have been instituted, the head of the Main Directorate of the State Directorate of Russia in the Southern Federal District Vladimir Lazovsky said.

The supervisory board of Iran revised the ban on admission to the parliamentary elections part of the candidates, state Iranian television reported. As indicated in the Council’s message, 1 thousand 160 candidates were returned the right to rune, Reuters reports. Previously, approximately 3.6 thousand candidates were forbidden to run for 3, 3 thousand of them.

The Ministry of Taxes and fees considered the objections of the Yukos NK for the tax audit for 2000 and made a reconciliation of taxes, fines and penalties accrued under the act, as well as additional tax control measures taking into account the objections of the company. This was announced by the press secretary of the company Alexander Shadrin.

Rafail Zaynullin, chairman of the board of directors of OJSC Kuibyshevsky Oil Refinery, a subsidiary of Yukos, was released from Samara pre -trial detention center on Thursday, Yukos reported. According to the source, Zaynullin was released “for a lack of evidence in the criminal case,” the agency of oil information reports. The source found it difficult to inform who was signed by the decision to release from custody, but noted that Zaynullin was released without bail.

After the statement of David Kei, the head of the American group for the search for weapons of mass defeat in Iraq, the absence of obvious traces of such weapons, opposition administrations of Bush began to demand an independent Senate investigation. Investigations of CIA data in the Senate are naturally required by the possible candidates of the Democrats of the Democrats John Edwards, John Kerry and Howard Dean.

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe with 46 votes "FOR" and 13 "Against" adopted a resolution on the constitutional crisis in Ukraine, containing a point on the possible exclusion of the country from the Council of Europe, RIA Novosti reports.

The statistics of alcoholic mortality leaves much to be desired: from 1990 to 2001, direct and indirect alcohol losses exceeded 7 million people: the most closely connected with alcohol is growing from west to east and from south to north: which regions suffer the most severe losses: alcohol mortality: Russia amid other countries Russian alcoholic mortality statistics leave much to be desired The human losses in Russia in connection with alcohol consumption are excessively high: in our

The day did not portend anything bad, but on Thursday optimism was not destined to spread on Friday. For a week the market closes in Minor. According to Maxim Shein, the head of the analytical department of Broker Creditsevis, the project for reforming the RAO UES and the creation of OGK finally confused the already nervous investors. At 13:09 Moscow time, unexpectedly, the quotes of shares of RAO UES sank from 9.1 rubles to 8.5 rubles (-6.5%). 60 million shares were sold in 2 minutes.