The Accounts Chamber believes that the share of federal subjects in the 2004 budget was calculated incorrectly The holidays announced by the Duma during the consideration of the 2004 budget and the haste of the first and second readings began to noticeably affect the quality of this document. According to the Accounts Chamber, next year, due to miscalculations by the Ministry of Finance, regional budgets may lose several billion rubles in revenue.

George Bush makes excuses to the Americans Yesterday, two more American troops were killed in Iraq. In the desert 120 km from Baghdad, their tank was blown up by a landmine. And near the city of Essaouira (near Baghdad), a patrol of Ukrainian peacekeepers was ambushed and seven people were wounded. Rumors circulating in the Baghdad capital promise an intensification of resistance starting November 1.

Restrictions on gas acceptance from independent producers have been lifted Gazprom's threat to restrict access to the gas transportation system to a number of independent gas producers - Northgas, NOVATEK, SIBUR and Rospan - was never carried out. As is known, the “offenders” were charged with maliciously packing the pipeline system with gas that was not chosen by their consumers (see issue dated October 21).

The Central Election Commission published financial documents of election participants The Russian Central Election Commission yesterday published data from Sberbank on the amounts of election funds of political parties, as well as on their spending. In total, 808.5 million rubles were received into the election funds of parties and blocs, of which 408.5 million have already been spent.

Our tennis players have finished playing this year Our tennis players, who are in the top 100 in the world rankings, played their last official matches this year at the Masters Series tournament in Paris with a prize fund of $2.45 million. Unfortunately, both Russians were eliminated in the first round. Following Nikolai Davydenko's defeat from Briton Tim Henman, Mikhail Youzhny also suffered a setback in the fight with Spaniard Fedisiano Lopez - 6:7 (4:7), 3:6.

To travel around the world you will have to tell everything about yourself The fight against terrorism is leading to a global tightening of controls over the movement of people between states.

Governors imbued with the Kremlin atmosphere The next meeting of the State Council was held in the Kremlin in the usual format. The already traditional “passing” of strategic documents through the governor’s meeting, by definition, did not imply a lively discussion and concrete decisions.

United Russia will appoint a new editor-in-chief of the Parliamentary Newspaper Since yesterday, the position of editor-in-chief of the Parliamentary Newspaper has become vacant. Yesterday, at a plenary meeting of the Federation Council, 113 senators voted for the dismissal of Leonid Kravchenko from the post of editor-in-chief of the official publication of the Federation Council and State Duma. The decision was made on the basis of a statement from Mr.

The resignation of Alexander Voloshin is perceived by many politicians and businesses as a more dramatic and significant fact than all the events surrounding YUKOS. Some consider it like a point in the modern history of Russia. After which a new story begins - frightening, incomprehensible, vague at best. Not just a change of elites, bosses, oligarchs, but a change in the vector of development itself. However, the main boss remains in his place.

State guarantees on deposits in Sberbank may last for a long time One of the most controversial issues of financial reform - the deprivation of Sberbank of state guarantees on deposits - is close to resolution. The working group on the law on deposit insurance yesterday proposed maintaining a 100% guarantee for Sberbank until January 1, 2009, and not until 2007, as previously proposed.

Another 20 houses and three prosecutor's offices will be built in the destroyed republic Former presidential candidate of Chechnya Malik Saidullaev left his post as head of the board of directors of the Milan group of companies. Instead, the group will be led by his brother, Milan Saidullaev.

CLUBS Danilo Perez Trio consisting of: Danilo Perez (piano), Benjamin Street (bass), Adam Cruz (drums). Danilo Perez is one of the most famous jazz pianists and composers working at the intersection of jazz and Latin American music. His deeply original style is a fusion that highlights elements of the music of his native Panama, pan-Latin, Afro-Cuban rhythms and the improvisational thinking of North American jazz. October 30, 31 and November 1 at Le Club , 20.00.

The Moscow City Duma helps the mayor who went on vacation While going on pre-election leave, Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov made sure that both the executive and legislative authorities of the city continued to advertise him to voters, even in absentia. Recently, the mayor introduced a number of social bills to the Moscow City Duma with the expectation that they would be adopted and come into force before the elections.

An exhibition of the book collection of the Historical Museum opens Et data reddit. “And the given gives. And what is perceived returns again.” This motto from the book of emblems, popular in the 18th century, can serve as the password for the delightfully subtle and witty exhibition “The Magic of the Book” opening today at the Historical Museum.

Anyone who has studied the discipline called “general theory of statistics” probably remembers the immortal words of Otto von Bismarck that “there are three kinds of lies,” namely “lies, damned lies and statistics.” It is clear why Bismarck put statistics in third place - the “iron chancellor” saw special power in it: any content can be squeezed into exact numbers. Until recently, it seemed that this maxim was true in all areas of life, with the exception of pop music.