The Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC) and the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) signed an agreement in Montreal (Canada) to improve the safety and efficiency of air transport in the CIS. As the IAC told PRIME-TASS , ICAO and the IAC are creating a center for flight safety issues under the IAC. Specialists from the CIS countries will undergo training at the center and receive the status of international experts in the field of flight safety monitoring.

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In old Central Bank reports The Central Bank was “exposed” to almost 4 billion rubles. The essence of the bill approved yesterday by the budget committee, which was introduced by deputy Nikolai Gonchar back in June last year, is simple. The Bank of Russia is ordered to return to the budget 50% of additionally identified profits generated according to reports for 1996 and 1997. Mr.

The planet's second cosmonaut, German Titov, has died. On Wednesday evening he was found dead in the sauna of the cosmonauts' residential complex on Khovanskaya Street in Moscow, where he lived. According to preliminary data, the cause of death was heart failure. German Stepanovich Titov was born on September 11, 1935 in the village of Polkovnikovo, Kosikhinsky district, Altai Territory.

Parliamentary hearings on Chechnya took place in Moscow In the capital they made another attempt to figure out how to develop Chechnya. This time the initiative came from a State Duma commission with a long name - to promote the normalization of the socio-political and socio-economic situation and the observance of human rights in the Chechen Republic. The commission wrote several recommendations to President Putin, Duma deputies, the government and ministers.

The tax police wants to become financial The Federal Tax Police Service (FSNP) could become a super agency with extremely broad powers. At the same time, it will change its name. The head of the main operational department of the Federal Tax Police Service, Kuzma Shalenkov, said yesterday that the leadership of the FSNP proposes to rename the tax police to the financial police. The need for this, according to Mr. Shalenkov, is related to the expansion of the service’s sphere of competence.

The leadership of the Federal Tax Police Service announced yesterday a new high-profile criminal case - this time against RAO UES of Russia. The head of the operational department of the FSNP, Kuzma Shalenkov, who announced the scandalous news, did not go into details, saying only that the power engineers underpaid taxes to the budgets of various levels by 3.2 billion rubles.

Putin's advisor accuses the government of not complying with presidential covenants At first glance, the message that Presidential Adviser on Economic Affairs Andrei Illarionov delivered to the public yesterday was agitation for the budget. They say that its macroeconomic indicators are not at all overestimated, and even the most experienced international analysts have never accurately predicted the price of oil.

“Criticism is the engine of progress. Only at the same time she should be welcoming and friendly.” Judging by these words of the leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Gennady Zyuganov, this is the style of communication that ordinary party members should adhere to in conversations with the leadership. It seems that yesterday's plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation took place in a welcoming and friendly atmosphere.

Mosenergo is fully ready to work in the autumn-winter period, said JSC General Director Alexander Remezov. As of September 20, Moscow power plants have reserves of fuel oil in the amount of 425.7 thousand tons, coal - 573 thousand tons. In addition, Mosenergo entered into an agreement with Gazprom on the allocation of gas in the amount of 6922.9 million in the fourth quarter cube m. The heating networks have carried out all the necessary tests and are 100% ready to supply heat, INTERFAX reports.

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The Bank of England summed up the results of the third gold auction - 804,400 ounces of gold were sold at a price of $270.6 per ounce. The auction price was $1.4 below the London gold market's morning fix of $272.0 per ounce. Demand at the auction exceeded supply by 2.6 times, which gold market analysts assessed as a surprise, RBC reports.

The fate of the Agency for Restructuring Credit Institutions, apparently, has not been fully determined. This conclusion suggests itself from what the head of the Central Bank Viktor Gerashchenko said at the banking forum in Almaty. “There is a lot of talk about the merger of ARCO with state banks,” noted Gerashchenko, explaining that we are primarily talking about the Russian Development Bank, Eximbank and the recently created Rosselkhozbank.

Republicans turned out to be great oil specialists The gasoline crisis, which paralyzed Western Europe last week, seems to have either changed direction (remember that it previously moved from west to east), or “jumped” across all of Eurasia. In a word, it came to North America. The price of crude oil for October delivery on the New York Mercantile Exchange reached $37.8 per barrel on Wednesday.

The President was acquitted four months before the end of his term As the end of Bill Clinton's eight-year presidency approached, strict American investigators came to the conclusion that numerous accusations of violations of the law committed by him and his wife were impossible to prove. Independent prosecutor Robert Ray (successor to the notorious Kenneth Starr) yesterday released a brief report, from which it followed that there was no convincing evidence in the Whitewater case.