Her presidential election campaign will be financed by Yukos shareholder Leonid Nevzlin Yesterday, co-chairman of the Union of Right Forces Irina Khakamada, speaking to journalists for the first time in her new status as a presidential candidate, announced that her election campaign would be financed by the largest shareholder of the Yukos oil company, Leonid Nevzlin.

Attraction "bribe" The prosecutor's office of the Zheleznodorozhny district of Novosibirsk opened a criminal case yesterday against the head of the Novosibirsk circus Nikolai Tarasov. He is suspected of receiving a large bribe. According to the local Economic Crime Department, Tarasov was recently approached by artists touring Russia with the “White and Red Tigers” program. For their show they wanted to rent the arena of the Novosibirsk circus.

The government is thinking about a personal number Today the government will discuss a problem that, perhaps even by its name, suggests that it concerns everyone. This is the creation of a system of personal registration of the Russian population.

President Met with the Chairman of the Board of Vneshtorgbank Andrey Kostin. At the meeting, Vladimir Putin said that he considered it necessary to pay attention to improving the level of service in Russian banks. Andrey Kostin informed the president that in the coming years the bank intends to invest $200 million in the development of technology and the opening of new offices. Last year, the bank opened a mortgage center in Moscow, and in March of this year the same center will be opened in St.

The island of discord between Russia and Ukraine may disappear from the face of the earth To preserve Tuzla Island in the Kerch Strait, it is necessary to create a state reserve. The Committee on Ecology and Natural Resources of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea came to this conclusion on January 13. According to the chairman of the committee, Konstantin Belousov, only the organization of a reserve will solve the problems of pollution of the island with human waste and free nesting of birds.

Yesterday, a sensational article entitled “Caspian Compromise” appeared in the “Rossiyskaya Business Gazeta” (a supplement to the “Rossiyskaya Gazeta”).

The leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs decided to oust Gosnarcon The leadership of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs yesterday decided to take a fundamentally important political step - to start talking about drugs again.

MEDT calculates profits and losses from foreign trade The main tasks in foreign trade this year are to complete bilateral negotiations with the European Union on accession to the WTO and to maximize the promotion of Russian exports, Alexey Kaulbars, the recently appointed first deputy for economic development, told reporters yesterday. The head of Russian negotiators, Deputy Minister Maxim Medvedkov, in turn, assured that the negotiations were going very successfully.

Yuri Roslyak has been instructed to increase Moscow budget revenues Having won a landslide victory in the Moscow mayoral elections without any election campaign, Yuri Luzhkov, lacking his own election program, decided to begin the fight against corruption and bureaucracy, as well as to sharply increase city budget revenues. The mayor instructed the chief economist of the capital's government, Yuri Roslyak, to solve the tasks, concentrating the broadest powers in his hands.

The Air Force is expanding its combat use Air Force Commander-in-Chief Colonel General Vladimir Mikhailov yesterday summed up the results of the past year and spoke about plans for the future. Today, this branch of the armed forces unites the Air Force and Air Defense itself, but its share in the military budget remains the same as it was before the merger - 15%. As a result, some programs have to be minimized or compressed. To be fair, it must be said that forced savings are often beneficial.

The company does not agree with the tax authorities' accusations It took YUKOS two weeks to officially respond to the Ministry of Taxes and Duties (MTS) to the accusation of tax evasion in the amount of 98 billion rubles.

Today the first plenary meeting of the State Duma of the fourth convocation will take place Today the State Duma of the fourth convocation will meet for its first plenary session. It will be not so much working as solemn. Among the working issues, only the formation of the very top is planned - the speaker and his deputies, who form the Duma Council.

Chechnya is still without a prime minister Leaving for a visit to Saudi Arabia, Chechen President Akhmat Kadyrov promised to close the issue of appointing a prime minister of the republic immediately upon his return, that is, at the beginning of next week. During his absence, he transferred the affairs to the acting. Prime Minister 36-year-old Eli Isaev. “We have strong rears in Grozny, and I am sure that he will cope,” Mr. Kadyrov said. It turns out that after the end of Kadyrov’s trip, Mr.

Yuri Luzhkov will have to sell Moscow land The capital lost the fight for land. The Moscow authorities will no longer be able to independently set the price of land. This is the ruling of the Constitutional Court, which came into force yesterday. The court's decision should finally break through the boycott on the sale of land, which was actually established by the capital's government.

Russian bases from Batumi and Akhalkalaki can be withdrawn for $500 million Russian guests who will arrive in Tbilisi for the presidential inauguration ceremony on January 25 will not be able to limit themselves to ceremonial celebrations. Georgian Foreign Minister Tedo Japaridze told the Vremya Novostei newspaper that the Georgian side plans to invite Muscovites to the negotiating table on the issue of the withdrawal of Russian military bases from Batumi and Akhalkalaki.