The Land Code nevertheless fit into the schedule of the spring session of parliament. The final meeting of the chamber on July 14 will be dedicated to it. The Duma Council, having familiarized itself yesterday with the amendments received by the property committee, decided: it is possible to hold a second reading of the draft without delaying it until the fall.

Russian authorities appear to have come up with a new way to generate money to finance research and development (R&D). Already existing intellectual property will cover the costs of creating new one.

The Prime Minister of Canada will talk to us about investments and the Olympics Today Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien arrives in Moscow for a three-day visit. Although he has scheduled meetings with Russian leadership, the most important purpose of the trip is personal participation in the meeting of the International Olympic Committee, which will determine the 2008 Olympic capital.

The trial on the complaint of the ex-president of the Professional Association of Registrars, Transfer Agents and Depositories (PARTAD) Petr Lanskov to the Chairman of the Federal Commission for the Securities Market (FCSM) Igor Kostikov was postponed to September 26. As Mr. Lanskov told the Vremya Novostey newspaper, he is appealing against violations of the law committed during the formation of the FCSM expert council.

Sergey Kolotukhin will take care of Russian business Russia's need for external loans has suddenly become more acute. Deputy Finance Minister Sergei Kolotukhin told Interfax-AFI yesterday that in 2002 the government plans to attract from 500 million to 1 billion dollars on the foreign market. The official claims that the Ministry of Finance is entering the market not so much out of necessity as out of concern for domestic companies.

The Gazprom stock market is waiting for liberalization and resolution of the dispute between the MFB and Gazprombank Today, the presidential administration will host a final meeting of the working group on liberalizing the Gazprom stock market, led by First Deputy Head of Administration Dmitry Medvedev.

The idea of ​​​​creating socio-political organizations that are alternative to the opposition and loyal to the government is not new. At the beginning of the 19th century, the head of the Moscow secret police, Sergei Vasilyevich Zubatov, spoke with her. It was he who proposed the creation of legal workers' organizations under police supervision. The goal is to limit the possibilities of revolutionary influence on the workers and bring them under their own control.

It is already possible to import foreign nuclear fuel to us. But be careful Irradiated nuclear fuel will be imported into Russia, but not soon. Vladimir Putin signed a package of laws allowing its import, and in some way balanced them by creating a public commission that will give an opinion on each contract.

Tax innovations have brought only cheap real estate out of the shadows The attraction of the unheard-of honesty of Muscovites in the housing market was only partially successful. The new rules for taxation of real estate transactions, which came into force at the beginning of the year, brought the purchase and sale of only relatively cheap apartments out of the shadows.

The military court of the Pacific Fleet began on Wednesday, July 11, a retrial of the case of Vladivostok military journalist Grigory Pasko, accused of high treason. The beginning of the process took place in the presence of journalists, but today the meeting will be closed. On this day, the chairman of the court, Lieutenant Colonel Dmitry Kuvshinnikov, should begin studying the materials of the case, literally stuffed with secret information.

Jamaican democracy is going downhill In Kingston, the capital of the Caribbean island nation of Jamaica, 22 people have been killed and dozens injured in recent days. Three security forces and 19 civilians were caught in intense gunfire after police and army forces entered the city's Tivoli Gardens area. Prime Minister Percival Patterson claims that the killed civilians are members of criminal gangs, and the military action was taken to disarm them.

Management has changed at Tupolev The Board of Directors of JSC Tupolev elected a new president at yesterday's meeting. The previous one, Alexander Polyakov, as he himself told the Vremya Novostey newspaper, “exchanged his position for two - first vice president and deputy chairman of the board of directors.” At the meeting of the council it was also planned to discuss the sale of a 25% stake in the Ulyanovsk JSC Aviastar - Aircraft Production (Aviastar-SP) to the New Commonwealth company.

In Finland, they are preparing to release an album dedicated to Elvis Presley, all the songs on which will be performed... in the dead ancient Sumerian language, which was spoken by representatives of a highly developed ancient civilization in Mesopotamia in the period from 4000 to 1800 BC.

Estonian ambassador accused of embezzlement Estonian Ambassador to Russia Tiit Matsulevich, who served in his post for only two years, leaves him under strange circumstances. The Estonian newspaper Postimees claims that the diplomat's premature resignation (he spent half of his usual term in Moscow) is due to embezzlement. The newspaper writes that Mr. Matsulevich will have to reimburse the state for the government funds spent.

The President corrected the State Duma's mistake Officials in Chisinau, including the head of state himself, did not comment on the unexpected visit of Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin to Moscow. Although the information that Mr. Voronin was flying to Moscow, postponing all current affairs, caused a lot of noise in the journalistic community, all local media, as if by agreement, remained silent.