Today, July 5, Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Vladimir Lytvyn registered a draft resolution proposing that the parliament dismiss Valentin Symonenko from the post of Chairman of the Accounts Chamber. The full text of the draft is not yet available on the parliament website. On December 11, 2010, Valentin Symonenko, who was reappointed to this position by a resolution of the Rada on December 11, 2003, expired the seven-year term of office of Chairman of the Accounts Chamber.

not lasting even a week in office Ryu Matsumoto decided to leave after a barrage of criticism came his way after he said that tsunami victims should rely on themselves first. The resignation of the minister indicates a deep political crisis in Japan, experts say. No one is responsible for rebuilding Japan. Reconstruction Minister Ryu Matsumoto resigned after less than a week in office. Prime Minister Naoto Kan announced the creation of the Ministry of Reconstruction at the end of June.

Deputies of the Legislative Assembly of the Primorsky Territory adopted an appeal to Governor Sergei Darkin about the need to increase state support for agricultural production in Primorye. According to legislators, underfunding of the program “Development of Agricultural Production in the Primorsky Territory” for 2008-2012 is holding back its development and may lead to failure to achieve its goals.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, following the results of an interim examination of the case of Hermitage Capital lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who died in a pre-trial detention center in 2009, conducted by the Human Rights Council, gave instructions to the Prosecutor General's Office and the Investigative Committee, said the head of the council, Mikhail Fedotov.

Greek Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos said that Greek banks are ready to participate in rolling their debt. Konstantin Maksimov discussed the topic of debt obligations with the head of the Department for Analysis of Debt Instruments and Derivatives of IFC Metropol, Petr Kadysh. — Actually, the alignment that is now being formed, in your opinion, is it in favor of which instruments - American debt, European debt?

Swedish IKEA plans to open a store of the same name on August 25, which is part of the Mega shopping center in Ufa, but the mall will be fully operational before the end of the year, the retailer said in a statement. “The grand opening of Mega’s key tenant, the IKEA store, is scheduled for August 25. All other stores will open as soon as they are ready, and Mega-Ufa will be fully operational by the end of the year,” the message follows.

To the five disciplines previously included in the Olympic program, the IOC added three more Three new disciplines were approved on Monday at its meeting in Dublin (South Africa) by the Executive Committee of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for inclusion in the program of the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi. They were slopestyle in freestyle, slopestyle in snowboarding and parallel slalom in snowboarding.

Sergei Kondrashin is tipped to take the place of city manager of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky In Kamchatka, four candidates have been identified for the post of head of the administration of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. According to politicians and managers, the current acting president has the best chance of leading the capital. O. Head of Administration Sergei Kondrashin, formerly deputy of the last elected mayor Vladislav Skvortsov, who is now under investigation.

Perm officials invited citizens to choose a sketch of a monument to the victims of the fire at the Lame Horse club, in which 156 people died, the press service of the city administration reported. More than a dozen sketches from artists from Perm, Ukraine, the Czech Republic, Turkey, France and Moldova were submitted to the competition. “All works can be seen on the website of the Culture Committee of the Perm Administration.

Yesterday, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergei Gerasimov, via videoconference, introduced the new head of the regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Major General of Police Viktor Pogolov, to the heads of internal affairs bodies and divisions of the Kirov region. He was appointed to this post by decree of the President of the Russian Federation of June 11, 2011.

By decision of the Customs Union Commission, import customs duties on a number of vegetables and fruits have been abolished. The Commission of the Customs Union decided to establish, until August 1, 2011, the rates of import customs duties of the Unified Customs Tariff of the Customs Union in the amount of 0% of the customs value for tomatoes, cucumbers and gherkins, apples, PRIME reports. This decision came into force today.

The former head of the IMF may be cleared of charges of sexual assault, while a new lawsuit of similar nature is being prepared against him. Anna Kazakova spoke with the head of the international relations department of the Russian State University for the Humanities, Olga Pavlenko, about how the second scandal could turn out for Strauss-Kahn. –– You are probably following the trial of the second case against Strauss-Kahn. Do you think it was fabricated?

Noble French cheeses have firmly taken their place in the Russian diet, and yet it is not easy to navigate their diversity. Denis Bernard Marie Hamon, the owner of Paris Gastronomy Distribution, a company that has been supplying the Russian market with more than 30 varieties of farm cheeses for more than 20 years, talks about the national pride of France. Guide : How many types of cheese have you personally tasted? Denis Bernard Marie Hamon: I never counted.

Operatives detained a Georgian thief in law, known by the nickname Leri, at the Kursky railway station in Moscow. He was found to have several grams of heroin. In the past, a criminal authority named Naenadze, who was repeatedly convicted, was detained on July 4 by employees of the criminal investigation department of the Moscow region. “During his arrest, about 2 grams of heroin were confiscated from him,” a source in law enforcement agencies of the Moscow region told RIA Novosti on July 5.

Federal TV channels take up arms against Oleg Chirkunov Governor of the Perm Territory Oleg Chirkunov found himself at the center of an information war declared on him by a number of federal television channels. Thus, the NTV channel published several stories in which the governor was reminded of the tragedy in the Lame Horse club, red tape with the construction of a perinatal center, and was accused of weak social policies that force women into prostitution.