The rate for selling foreign currency earnings has been reduced by a third Exporters are rejoicing, the Central Bank is indignant: before leaving for the holidays, the Duma reduced the standard for the mandatory sale of foreign currency earnings from 75% to 50%. The liberalization of currency relations, for which President Vladimir Putin has been personally campaigning since the beginning of this year, was, however, not unanimously supported by deputies, giving only 240 votes for the law.

The Moscow City Duma elected its representative to the Federation Council. This was one of the oldest members of the Moscow City Duma, the head of the Duma commission on the organization of power and the development of local self-government, Vladimir Plotnikov. He will replace the head of the Moscow City Duma, Vice-Speaker of the Federation Council Vladimir Platonov, who, according to the new procedure for forming the Federation Council, can no longer work in the Senate.

Sterile “Bravo”, “Eugenics”, Moroz Records Evgeniy Khavtan has always had a reputation as a strong melodist and excellent stylist. But he preferred to stay in the shadows. And only when charismatic vocalists like Aguzarova or Syutkin left, and nothing terrible happened to Bravo, did it become clear who was really pulling the strings. In the new album “Eugenics” Havtan is not only the author of all the melodies. He also sings, more than the official lead singer Robert Lenz.

The City Duma adopted the Moscow charter The capital finally has a new charter, which significantly changes the special system of capital management that was painstakingly created by Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov. On Friday, at an extraordinary meeting, deputies of the Moscow City Duma adopted “in general” a new edition of the capital’s charter. The document was sent for signature to the Moscow mayor and after official publication it will come into force.

Investigative teams in Assinovskaya and Sernovodsk did not find anything special The preliminary results of the investigation into the purges in Assinovskaya and Sernovodsk will be announced today by the presidential envoy to the Southern District, Viktor Kazantsev. He himself promised to publish the results last Sunday, but then it was decided to wait a little: there were obvious differences in views on what had happened.

The largest consignment of drugs was seized on Saturday morning by Russian border guards on the Moscow section of the Tajik-Afghan border. Armed smugglers were spotted in the mountainous area. FPS fighters tried to detain the violators, but in response they opened fire. Despite the superior forces of the bandits, the battle ended in victory for the border guards - the offenders retreated in panic.

Duma worked very quickly The Land Code nevertheless passed its second reading in the Duma on the last day of its spring session. True, it is possible that in the fall the Duma members, before adopting the code as a whole, will again take up its second reading. And not because the left is going to challenge the legality of the Duma’s consideration of the code in the Constitutional Court.

General Musharraf remembered his childhood Today, on the final day of the Indo-Pak summit in the Indian city of Agra, Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf will tell an excited audience exactly what they have achieved during their bilateral talks. The leaders are expected to hold a joint press conference or even release a joint statement, the Agra Declaration, in the afternoon.

Tula hosts the Russian Athletics Championships, which is a qualifying tournament for the World Championships. Therefore, almost all of the country's strongest athletes participate in competitions at the Arsenal Stadium. This is the reason that in Tula, in almost all types of programs, participants demonstrate very high results. And in the women's pole vault, a European record was set. “Athletics fans may ask why our best middle-distance runner, Yuri Borzakovsky, did not come to Tula?

A high-ranking employee of the Moscow Central Internal Affairs Directorate became a victim of unknown criminals at the end of last week. On Friday night, the police received a message from the 1st City Hospital that an ambulance had brought Viktor Bondarenko, deputy head of the Investigation Department of the capital's Main Internal Affairs Directorate. Doctors discovered he had a fractured upper and lower jaw, as well as a concussion.

The Russian-Chinese treaty is intended for future generations Yesterday, the Chairman of the People's Republic of China and the Secretary General of the CPC Central Committee, Jiang Zemin, arrived in Russia on a state visit, which may well claim the status of an epochal one - today, after laying wreaths at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and a long conversation with Vladimir Putin, Jiang will sign a two-decade Treaty of Good Neighborhood and Friendship and cooperation with Russia.

IL-76 flew only 500 meters The second major plane crash in the past two weeks occurred last weekend. On Saturday morning, an Il-76 transport plane belonging to Rus Airlines crashed during takeoff at the Chkalovsky airfield near Moscow. All nine crew members, as well as the pilot-inspector of the Moscow Territorial Administration of the Civil Aviation Service, who were on board the airliner, died.

Officially, transactions on the NBA free agent market can be carried out after July 18, but negotiations have already been allowed to take place, and therefore the fate of many stars can be predicted today. The most tasty morsel is considered to be Sacramento Kings power forward Chris Webber. 15 teams entered into negotiations with him at once, and his club, according to rumors, is ready to offer him the maximum possible contract - $ 120 million over seven years.

McLaren driver Mika Hakkinen won the eleventh stage of the Formula 1 world championship. At the English circuit in Silverstone, the Finnish driver won his first victory of the season. Championship leader Michael Schumacher finished second in the Ferrari, but was unlikely to be very upset by this, since he further strengthened his position. His main pursuers David Coulthard (McLaren) and Ralf Schumacher (Williams) were unable to reach the finish line and did not receive any points.

RAO UES of Russia will be reformed without haste Chairman of the Board of RAO UES of Russia Anatoly Chubais specially interrupted his vacation to hold a press conference on Friday and call the electricity reform plan signed by Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov “a triumph of common sense.” The document approved by Kasyanov provides for the division of the electricity monopoly into the Federal Grid Company (FGC), a network operator and a holding of generating companies.