The chief architect of Russian economic reforms, Yegor Gaidar, appreciated the actions of his followers The director of the Institute for the Economy in Transition, Yegor Gaidar, yesterday outlined his vision of the current economic situation in Russia, calling on the government not to rest on its laurels of abnormally high prices for Russian oil. Mr.

Air Force Commander Dzhokhar Dudayev became Secretary of the Security Council of Chechnya Khairudi Visengeriev became the new secretary of the Chechen Security Council instead of Rudnik Dudayev, who died on December 11 last year. Most recently, Mr. Visengeriev worked as an assistant to the First Deputy Prime Minister of Chechnya, now acting Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov. This, however, is not the first high position he held in the Chechen leadership.

Deputies propose to simplify tax administration At the first meeting of the State Duma tax subcommittee in 2006, deputies began to discuss a package of 750 amendments proposed by the subcommittee to the government bill on improving tax administration. For a warm-up, the deputies took some of the amendments that were not the most controversial. And they “suppressed” the Ministry of Finance on all counts.

The President finally gave the Kaliningrad region the status of a special economic zone Yesterday, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the federal law “On the special economic zone in the Kaliningrad region and on amendments to certain legislative acts of the Russian Federation.” Let us recall that the law was adopted by the State Duma on December 23, 2005 and approved by the Federation Council on December 27. However, the new law will come into force only on July 1, 2006.

A package of new state duties comes into force on February 1 Some of the tax changes, adopted in haste at the end of December, did not have time to come into force at the beginning of the new year. Among last year's tax "tails" there are very significant ones. From February 1, the state will begin to charge increased state fees when registering some legally significant actions. In particular, fees for issuing new international passports and registering new products will increase significantly.

According to the Air Force Commander-in-Chief, Russia lacks great military pilots Yesterday, curious details became known about the flight accident of a Su-24MF reconnaissance aircraft in the Far East on January 16. The Air Force Commander-in-Chief, Army General Vladimir Mikhailov, named the reason for the fall: the variable-shape wing did not rise to the “sweep 16” position, as required during landing, despite the presence of three duplication systems.