From 2012 to 2015, the number of civil servants in Russia grew, and in 2016 it decreased by 5.6%. However, the reduction affected only the lower link, and the leaders, on the contrary, became more. About this, according to Interfax , said the head of the Accounts Chamber Tatyana Golikova at a meeting with President Vladimir Putin. “We have increased the number of managers.

On August 10, commemorative events were held in St. Petersburg due to the 80th anniversary of the birth of the first mayor of Anatoly Sobchak, who died in 2000. In the morning, the relatives and friends of Sobchak laid flowers and wreaths at his grave in the Nikolsky cemetery in the Alexander Nevsky Lavra, and later an official ceremony was held at the monument to the mayor on Vasilievsky Island.

In Abkhazia, two residents of Yekaterinburg, Vasily Snegirev and his 16-year-old son Andrei, who came to the republic on vacation on August 2 in his own car, on August 7 in Gagra fell into a staged accident, after which they were forbidden to leave the republic without buying an old truck for 200 thousand rubles, the URA.RU agency reports. The eldest son of Vasily S.

The Brazilian football player Neymar, now the Paris Saint-Germain club player , advised his compatriot Luan, who plays for Gremio, not to move to Russia, where the player has a substantive interest from the Spartak Moscow, Radio Gaucha reports. Neymar and Luan played together in the Olympic team of Brazil, which won gold at home games in Rio de Janeiro in 2016.

The Swedish actor Gustaf Skarsgord, known for the role of Floki in the historical television series Vikings, will join the team of the American fantastic series "Western World", reports Tvline . The Western World is returning to the HBO TV channel with the second season in 2018. The premiere of the "Western World" took place at HBO on October 2, 2016. The project is based on the Western World film, shot by Michael Crouton in 1973.

Gleb Kuznetsov “The topic of the Moscow municipal elections has died down despite the heroic efforts of both liberal and pro-government media to galvanize it. Various interested people have been warming it up all spring, warming it up, and now that’s it. Elections to municipal deputies have ceased to be interesting at all,” the political scientist writes on Facebook . Why? I think like this: 1.

The largest amount of transport tax assessed in Russia, taking into account the increasing coefficient, exceeds half a million rubles per year, RNS reports, citing data from the Federal Tax Service of the Russian Federation. “As an example of the largest amount of calculated tax, taking into account an increasing coefficient equal to 3 (this is the maximum value of the increasing coefficient.

Volvo Cars LLC, which is the official representative of Volvo on the Russian market, is recalling 35 Volvo XC90 and V90 Cross Coutry cars sold from 2016 to 2017, according to the Rosstandart website. The recall of 17 Volvo XC90 vehicles is due to a possible malfunction of the right third row seat belt pretensioner.

The aircraft of the aerospace forces (VKS) of Russia on Wednesday, August 9, flew over the Washington Center and the environs of the American capital. His route, in particular, ran over the Pentagon, the White House and the CIA building. The observation flight was committed within the framework of the Open Sky Treaty (Don), CNN reports with reference to two sources. The Tu-154M aircraft route was completely agreed with the American authorities, sources emphasized.

The premiere of the first television series, on which famous American directors Ethan and Joel Cohen are working in 2018, reports Business Insider with reference to Netflix streaming service. The series in the genre of Western "Ballad about Bastera Skraggs" will consist of six stories about the wild West. The Cohen brothers in the project are not only directors, but also screenwriters, as well as executive producers along with Megan Allison and Sue Naigl.

The Kalina Cossack theater from Yekaterinburg turned to the regional Ministry of Culture with a request to finance the production of the prepared production - the play "Emelya and Star Knights", which combined the Russian folk folk fairy tale "The Franchise" Star Wars ". This was reported by URA.RU. The theater advertised a new production in July.

The hydrological situation on the Mir diamond mine in Yakutia, where on August 4, there was a breakthrough of water and partial flooding, it is complicated: the water level in the mine, where the sixth day is undergoing work to search for eight miners, continues to increase, the Siberian regional center of the Ministry of Emergencies of the Russian Federation reports.

The artistic director of the Gogol Center Kirill Serebrennikov , who is a defendant in a high-profile criminal case of theft of budget funds, became the laureate of the prestigious theater award "New theater reality". The award will be presented in December this year in Rome. According to the jury member from Russia Marina Davydova on her Facebook page, Serebrennikov was first nominated for the prize and became the winner on the first attempt, which is an extremely rare event.

“Kirill Serebrennikov created the Seventh Studio with the criminal intent of stealing budget funds,” the Investigative Committee reports in the indictment submitted to the Moscow court,” the journalist recalls on his Facebook page. “The tentacles of this octopus go back centuries.

Late in the evening of August 9, the Medusa publication published a decoding of two audio recordings from a meeting of officials, rescuers and representatives of Alrosa with relatives of those who are now blocked inside the Mir Ruda, where water breakthrough and partial flooding occurred on August 4. The meeting took place on August 8 or 9.