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.

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”).

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.

In the State Duma, legislative initiatives are ripening, which can limit users' rights to visit the Internet, the Izvestia newspaper writes. The purpose of the bill is to regulate Internet access for information security, to prevent the spread of pornography, spam and intellectual piracy. It is proposed, for example, to prohibit free access to the network for those who have already been held accountable for these crimes.

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).

According to RIA Novosti, with reference to the press service of the UN International Court of the UN, from April 19 to 23, public hearings will be resumed on the legality of applying force by NATO countries against Yugoslavia in 1999. The Union Republic of Yugoslav filed claims against Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Portugal, the United Kingdom and the United States regarding the bombing of its territory.

The largest Russian automakers offer duties on the import of new cars. According to the President of the Association of Automobile Producers of Russia (OAR), Yevgeny Lebechev, such a measure is necessary in connection with Russia's entry into the WTO, the Monitor reports. Now the customs duty rate on new foreign cars is 25%. Lebechev believes that it should be increased to 35%.

** Themes of the day ** Articles with an analysis of the results of the presidential elections are gradually beginning to disappear from the first bands of the central media - the attention of the mass media switches to the process of filling vacancies in the new executive structure, to the first steps of the updated cabinet of ministers. One of the days of the day is the comments on the meeting of President V. Putin with the first deputy chairman of the government A. Zhukov .

The emergency regime on the territory of Adjara, which was introduced on November 24, 2003 after the resignation of Eduard Shevardnadze, will be canceled. This was stated by the head of the autonomy of Aslan Abashidze after the negotiations with the speaker of the Georgian parliament Nino Burjanadze, RIA Novosti reports.

The "Bulletin of Public Opinion", which goes to the Levada Center, arose at the site of "monitoring of public opinion", is made by the same editorial composition and authors. Today, in the heading of the life of ideas, Polit.ru publishes an article by Lev Gudkov, Boris Dubin and Anastasia Leonova about Russian education from the last issue of Vestnik. The article discusses in detail the problems of modern Russian education, both higher and secondary, in the mirror of public ideas about it.

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.

Roxana Akhmedova Yesterday, on Tuesday, at a meeting with Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov, President Putin once again outlined as one of the priorities of the government to solve the problem of housing. As by no means the only, but effective means, a mortgage has recently recently recently receptable. The peculiarity of the Moscow mortgage, which the local authorities decided to develop simultaneously with the federal, is that it is essentially not a mortgage.