The plenipotentiary representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Far Eastern Federal District, Viktor Ishaev, demanded that regional authorities and federal structures step up preparations for carrying out flood control measures, the press service of the plenipotentiary mission reports. “50% of existing hydraulic structures in the Far East require repairs.

An explosion occurred in front of the Indonesian Embassy in Paris on March 21. As AFP reports, citing a police source, there were no deaths or injuries. An embassy employee discovered a package left by three unknown people and threw it aside, after which an explosion occurred. The fragments from the device scattered within a radius of 50 m.

But she left the Ministry of Justice the right not to register them The State Duma yesterday adopted in the second reading amendments to the law “On Political Parties” initiated by the president. Representatives of opposition factions warned that a radical reduction in the number of parties (to 500 people) would lead to the emergence of “clone parties” and destroy the existing political system.

The Moscow City Court recognized as legal the extension until May 24 of the arrest period for Maxim Kagansky, the alleged accomplice of investigator Nelly Dmitrieva in accepting a bribe in the amount of $3 million, RAPSI reports. Thus, the court rejected the cassation appeal of his defense, which asked to replace the preventive measure with any one not related to detention.

Minister of Culture defends conductor Minister of Culture Alexander Avdeev said that the artistic director of the Mariinsky Theater Valery Gergiev has nothing to do with the financial irregularities discovered during the construction of the second stage of the Mariinsky Theater, which were announced by the Accounts Chamber.

A US Air Force F-16 fighter jet crashed in South Korea today. The incident occurred 235 km southwest of Seoul during a scheduled training flight. According to the South Korean news agency Yonhap, the pilot managed to eject safely. The circumstances of the incident are being clarified. Developed in the 1970s by the American company General Dynamics, the F-16 multirole fighter is the most popular fourth-generation fighter and is in service with more than 20 countries.

Today in Russia, a significant part of healthcare and drug costs (over 75%) is paid directly by patients out of their own pockets. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, standards of health care services fell sharply. Their quality has also been seriously affected by the effects of the recent financial crisis. As a result, the life expectancy of many Russians today is lower than in Soviet times, and the incidence of many serious diseases is significantly higher than in European countries.

The company is being claimed by the Russian Railways structure As Kommersant has learned, the Second Freight Company, owned by OJSC Russian Railways, wants to purchase the railway operator Transgarant from the FESCO group of Sergei Generalov. Thus, the monopoly, contrary to the original plans for reform of the industry, not only does not reduce, but increases the fleet of cars.

PKGUP "Avtovokzal" summed up the results of the next competition for leasing the premises of the enterprise. At the auction, the lease of industrial and warehouse premises at the address: st. Mekhanoshina, 29. All property was divided into three lots. Lot No. 1 included a built-in non-residential premises with an area of ​​19.8 square meters. m. The participants in this lot were two individual entrepreneurs: Yuri Semenovich Negodyaev and Semyon Vasilyevich Negodyaev.

"Rot Front" sued the Kirov factory for compensation for brands The Rot Front confectionery factory (part of the United Confectioners holding) sued its Kirov competitor Sladkaya Sloboda for 500 thousand rubles. for the production of waffles under the Artek and Yuzhnye trademarks, the copyright holder of which is Rot Front. In “Sladkaya Sloboda” they say that they earned less than 90 thousand rubles from waffles under the controversial brands.

Several participants in the shootout in the Dagestan city of Kizlyar, as a result of which four people were killed, were detained by law enforcement agencies. The Minister of Internal Affairs of Dagestan, Abdurashid Magomedov, announced this on Wednesday. At the same time, the relatives of the victims again, as the day after the massacre, blocked the Caucasus federal highway on Wednesday - this time in the Tarumovsky district of the republic.

87 2 minutes. ... Metro Group reduced sales in Ukraine by almost 2% One of the world's largest retailers, Metro Group, in its 2011 report reported a decrease in sales in Ukraine by 1.92% compared to 2010 - to 819 million euros ($1.1 billion). In particular, in Metro Cash & Carry stores (31 outlets) sales decreased by 1.98%, while in the only Real hypermarket they increased by 3.7%, to 28 million euros ($35.5 million).

TV leaders // March 12-18 Last week’s premiere was Valeria Gai Germanika’s series “A Short Course in a Happy Life” on Channel One. This time, Konstantin Ernst, in “co-authorship” with Denis Evstigneev, again presented to the audience a project that is completely atypical for current television. Two years ago there was a “School” of Germanika, which caused an unprecedented resonance in society.

28 1 min. ... Football Spanish Championship 27th round. Espanyol--Racing 3:1. Team position. 1. Real - 71 points. 2. Barcelona - 63. 3. Valencia - 47. 4. Levante - 41. 5. Malaga - 41. 6. Espanyol - 39. 7. Osasuna - 39. Italian Championship 28th round. Roma-Genoa 1:0. Team position. 1. Milan - 60 points. 2. Juventus - 56. 3. Lazio - 48. 4. Napoli - 47. 5. Udinese - 47. 6. Roma - 44.

Russia and Belarus will sign two contracts by the end of March on the supply of equipment and on preparations for the construction of nuclear power plants. Construction will begin in April, said Valery Limarenko, head of the Nizhny Novgorod engineering company Atomenergoproekt (NIAEP). “The draft contracts are undergoing the necessary amendments, and in the next week, maximum by the end of the month, the contracts will be signed,” Mr. Limarenko said.