Officially

President

I visited the testing center of railway transport in Shcherbinka, visited the exhibition center, where samples of the latest railway equipment and technologies used in the industry are presented. The center's exposition presents the latest scientific developments in the field of railway transport, ensuring high efficiency, quality and safety of transportation. A special feature of the exhibition complex is its information system, which has a wide functional application - from processing and storing scientific research materials in electronic form to analyzing the data obtained.

Government

Allocates 5.4 million rubles in 2005. for sanatorium-resort treatment of injured citizens and family members of those killed as a result of the terrorist attack in Beslan. The corresponding order was signed by Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov. The funds will also be used for treatment in sanatoriums for parents with children. Expenses will be spent, the government order notes, “at the expense of funds provided in the budget of the Social Insurance Fund for the improvement of children’s health and sanatorium-resort treatment of employees.”

Departments

Since the beginning of the year, 28 leaders of criminal groups have been brought to justice in Russia, Oleg Koryagin, a representative of the Department for Combating Organized Crime and Terrorism of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, told reporters. He noted that recently this category of people “leads criminal communities, remaining in the shadows and not committing serious and especially serious crimes.” “Nevertheless, over the six months of 2005, 28 thieves in law were brought to justice, and three of them were arrested on suspicion of leading criminal communities,” said Mr. Koryagin.

The head of Rosstroy, Sergei Kruglik, believes that the population will not be able to fully pay for housing and communal services. “It will be an unbearable burden,” he told reporters. At the same time, he noted that there should be a tariff policy that would cover the costs of producing housing and communal services. Read more about the problem of tariff policy in housing and communal services in the next issue of the newspaper.

Regions

“The ban on gambling on the territory of the Chechen Republic has been imposed forever,” said First Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov in Gudermes at a meeting with the heads of district administrations . At the meeting, in the presence of gambling business owners from all over the republic, the problem of business repurposing was discussed. At the same time, the owners of the gambling houses turned to Ramzan Kadyrov with a request to give them time to close the establishments. By mutual agreement, a deadline was set - until August 25.

Public opinion

After the decision of the Russian government to allocate 185 billion rubles from the stabilization fund in 2005. To provide support to the Russian Pension Fund, the Bashkirova and Partners company decided to conduct a survey on how Russians feel about the problem of using the stabilization fund. More than half of the respondents (55.5%) were in favor of the government spending the funds from the Russian Stabilization Fund on solving social problems . 17.5% of respondents would prefer that the stabilization fund funds be allocated for the development of science and education, another 6.1% suggested investing them in the development of the transport structure. Only 3.9% of respondents agree to pay off Russia’s external debt using the stabilization fund.

According to news agencies and own information