Today, the State Duma at its plenary meeting rejected amendments to the law "On guarantees to the President of Russia, which has stopped fulfilling its authority," RIA Novosti reports. Only 69 deputies spoke out for its adoption, against 72, 4. The author of the bill, the State Duma deputy Viktor Ilyukhin proposed to exercise social guarantees to the President of Russia who had terminated his authority only after the federal assembly of his activities as the head of state.

Determining in the activities of a freshly built agency for printing and mass communications will be political limiters, and not the figure of its chapter. Such an opinion regarding the refusal of Mikhail Lesin to head the agency and possible appointment to this post by Mikhail Ceslavinsky was expressed by the deputy editor -in -chief of the Echo of Moscow radio station Sergey Buntman. “Mikhail Seslavinsky is a wonderful professional who knows his job well.

On Tuesday, French newspapers received letters with threats of terrorist attacks from the organization of "servants of Allah, Almighty and Wise," RIA Novosti reports. The existence of this letter was reported in a special community of France, which also informed about the initiation of a Paris prosecutor's office of a criminal case on the fact of terrorist threats.

Today, negotiations between the presidents of Russia and Ukraine Vladimir Putin and Leonid Kuchma, who arrives in Moscow on a working visit, should be held in the Kremlin. As it became known to Kommersant , the parties plan to discuss controversial issues, some of which are included on the agenda at the insistence of the Ukrainian side, the other part is at the request of the Russian.

Yesterday, Tuesday, at a meeting with Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov, President Putin once again outlined solving the housing problem as one of the government’s priorities. Mortgages, which have often been mentioned in recent times, have also appeared as by no means the only, but effective, means. The peculiarity of the Moscow mortgage, which the local authorities decided to develop simultaneously with the federal ones, is that in essence it is not a mortgage.

In the Lenin Federal Court of St. Petersburg, the consideration of the case of a group of extremists-SKINHEDOV, who called themselves, called the Schults-88, reports Interfax. Five members of an extremist organization have been charged under Article 282 of the Criminal Code of Russia (“Organization of the activities of an extremist organization”).

According to RIA Novosti, citing the Netherlands Information Agency of the Anp, during a visit to the United States, the Prime Minister of the Netherlands, Yan Peter Balkenende did not make any assurances to US President George Bush regarding the further stay of Dutch military personnel in Iraq.

From April 1, the cost of travel in public transport in Moscow will rise in price. This was reported to the Interfax agency today in the regional energy commission. One trip in the Moscow metro will cost 10 rubles instead of seven. The cost of a travel ticket for five trips in the metro will be 45 rubles, for ten trips - 75 rubles, for 20 trips - 140 rubles, and a ticket for 1 month (not more than 70 trips) - 350 rubles (now - 250 rubles).

The number of victims of the explosion of the house in Arkhangelsk increased to 50 people. Viktor Beltsov, Deputy Head of the Information Department of the Russian Emergencies Service of the Russian Federation, told RIA Novosti that rescuers removed two more people from the blockages of the building of the body. Earlier, two wounded died in the hospital. 43 bodies of victims of the tragedy are already identified.

Russian lawyer Vitaly Kaloev Vladimir Sergeev said that his client did not plead guilty to the murder of the Skyguide Swiss air traffic controller, Interfax reports. Sergeev said: "The prosecutor's office claims that Kaloev partially pleaded guilty.

According to the latest data, the number of victims of the explosion in a residential building in Arkhangelsk increased to 52 people. According to RIA Novosti, Deputy Head of the Information Department of the Russian Emergencies Ministry Viktor Beltsov, who is at the site of the tragedy, the bodies of two more people-men and women were extracted from under the rubble. According to him, the bodies of 43 victims of the tragedy are now identified.

** Federal Assembly ** The State Duma has amended Part 1 of Article 49 of the Law "On Insurance of Deposits of Individuals in Banks of the Russian Federation". The bill is proposed to extend state guarantees to the deposits of citizens in Sberbank only under contracts concluded before the law "On insurance of deposits of individuals in the banks of the Russian Federation".

In Warsaw, on Wednesday, another round of tripartite Ukrainian-Polish-American consultations will be held on Wednesday, RIA Novosti reports. The consultations will be attended by Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Second Deputy State Secretary of the United States and First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland.

Today, the speaker of the Georgian parliament Nino Burjanadze should arrive in the capital of Adjaria Batumi. "The decision on my trip to Batumi was made after consultations with the President of Georgia and telephone negotiations with the head of Adjara Aslan Abashidze," Burjanadze said. Ways of exit from the Ajar crisis will be discussed. In turn, in Tbilisi, to meet with President Mikhail Saakashvili, the mayor of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov arrives from Batumi.

At the disposal of the newspaper Vedomosti was the draft government decree on new tariffs for auto -citizens prepared by the Ministry of Finance. Due to the reduction of individual correctional coefficients, the price of the policy should be less by 10-30%. The current tariffs for compulsory insurance (OSAGO) were calculated by the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Economic Development and approved in May 2003 Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov.