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.

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.

Production of the Russian alcoholic beverage industry in January-August 2000 decreased by 11.6% compared to the same period in 1999, Goskomstat reports. At the same time, in the food industry as a whole, production growth amounted to 10.4% of the level of the same period in 1999. In August, the production of vodka and liqueurs amounted to 9.8 million deciliters and decreased by 5% compared to August 1999.

Viktor Kazantsev promised contract soldiers money The conflict with contract soldiers who were not paid their due remuneration for participating in the counter-terrorist operation on the territory of Chechnya seemed to have been settled yesterday.

Muscovites waiting in line to improve their living conditions are in for serious changes. This was stated yesterday at a press conference by the chairman of the commission on housing policy and communal reform, deputy Galina Khovanskaya. According to her, in the near future the Moscow City Duma will approve a new Regulation on the procedure for determining the amount of free subsidies provided to citizens for the construction or purchase of housing in Moscow. At the initiative of Ms.

Deputies will return to the responsibility of car owners The situation with the adoption of the law on compulsory civil liability insurance is developing more and more rapidly. Last week, the government's negative opinion on this bill was announced, and yesterday the Committee on Credit Institutions and Financial Markets already presented a new version of the document. It allegedly takes into account all previously expressed comments.

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 Alpha group was sent to Sochi The largest hostage-taking terrorist attack in recent years was marked yesterday in the quiet resort village of Lazarevskoye, located in the outskirts of Sochi. In the morning, a group of unknown people broke into the building of a hotel under construction and declared several construction workers there prisoners. Until late yesterday, the security services failed to somehow resolve the incident.

The retirement age will not be raised yet There is money for pension reform, the government established yesterday. The White House has not yet specified what exactly the reform will be. It was decided to consider this issue on October 5. We only know that no one is going to abandon the idea of ​​switching to funded pensions. The authorities do not intend to increase the retirement age, said Mikhail Zurabov, Chairman of the Pension Fund, after yesterday’s government meeting.

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.

The Ministry of Energy and the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade decided to increase the volume of oil supplies to Russian oil refineries in the fourth quarter by 3 million tons compared to the current quarter, INTERFAX-ANI reports. This measure will make it possible to additionally supply about 1 million tons of fuel oil, 1 million tons of diesel fuel and 400 thousand tons of gasoline to the domestic market.

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.

French 400m favorite Marie-Josée Perec has left Sydney with her coach and boyfriend Antoine Maybank. The two-time Olympic champion left 24 hours before the start. Her withdrawal from the Games has not yet been confirmed, but yesterday morning she was in Singapore - an 8-hour flight from Sydney. Meanwhile, her sponsors, Reebok, issued a press release explaining that the runner was subjected to relentless pressure at Sydney's Mercure Hotel.

The Russian government has approved a draft federal law that exempts the Bank of Russia from paying taxes when issuing bonds, INTERFAX-AFI reports with reference to the government information department. For now, according to the law “On Tax on Transactions with Securities,” the Bank of Russia, when issuing bonds, is required to pay a tax on transactions with securities in the amount of 0.8% of the nominal amount of the issue.