Chairman of the Management Board of OJSC Gazprom Alexey Miller is healthy, is now resting and is ready to return to work. The press secretary of the head of Gazprom, Sergei Kupriyanov, stated this live on the Ekho Moskvy radio station. Answering the question of how the chairman of the board felt, Kupriyanov replied: “Excellent.” He also noted that Alexey Miller continued to participate in the management of the company throughout his illness.

The involvement of Alexander Pichushkin, known as the “Bitsa maniac,” in 10 more murders has been proven, Iskandar Galimov, acting head of the criminal investigation department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, told reporters, Interfax writes. Now, 62 cases of murder of women on the territory of Bitsevsky Park in Moscow have been proven against A. Pichushkin. The investigation into this criminal case has been completed and sent to court.

Today, August 1, begins a series of ceremonial events dedicated to the celebration of the Day of the Tyumen Region, which turns 63 this year. In particular, as part of the celebrations, the governor of the region, Vladimir Yakushev, will present “Maternal Glory” medals and 50 thousand rubles to mothers with many children who have given birth to and are raising at least five children with dignity.

Today, Vice-Governor of the Tyumen Region Sergei Sarychev turns 48 years old. As URA.Ru learned from its own sources, Sarychev’s colleagues in the regional government prepared greeting cards for him. In addition, some work colleagues are preparing to call the birthday boy today and congratulate him on the holiday personally. According to our information, the head of the region, Vladimir Yakushev, will be among them.

In the Angarsk district of the Buryat Autonomous Okrug, a police major threatened Anna Gritsevich, a journalist with the Vesti-Irkutsk program, with a pistol because he did not like her last name, SAN writes. The film crew of the program went on a business trip to the Alarsky district of the Ust-Orda Buryat Autonomous Okrug to film a report about a prayer service in a Buddhist temple. The journalists stayed at a hotel in the village of Kutulik. Komsomolskaya Pravda reports the victim’s story.

The former head of the Bailiff Service for the Middle Urals, Alexander Popov, seems to be left without a job. The security officer dismissed from the SPP was destined for a warm place in the newly created Ural Transport Prosecutor's Office, under the wing of the former Sverdlovsk prosecutor Pavel Kukushkin, who headed the department. There were rumors that Popov would take the place of Kukushkin’s deputy, but expectations were not met.

From August 1, traveling on public transport in Magnitogorsk will become a high-tech event: traditional paper tickets in the city of metallurgists have been replaced by electronic cards, the use of which, as local authorities assure, will allow passengers to significantly save on transport costs. As URA.Ru was told by the Magnitogorsk City Hall, an electronic ticket for 60 trips will cost the owner 420 rubles, while a pass for 120 trips will cost only 720.

The Taliban promised to kill four hostages on Wednesday because they “did not receive positive answers in the negotiations” on the release of South Korean missionaries and intend to carry out their threats in the near future, ITAR-TASS reports. "Once the deadline has expired, one or more hostages could be killed at any time," AFP quoted Yusuf Ahmadi, a militant spokesman, as saying.

In Moscow, in the Mitino district, a police patrol shot and killed a hooligan who was smashing car windows with a club, Interfax writes. At about five in the morning, the duty control panel received a message that in the courtyard of a house on Baryshikha Street, a man armed with a club was breaking car windows. The police officers who arrived at the scene tried to stop the attacker, but he did not respond to their call, and when trying to detain him, he began to threaten them with a knife.

Chelyabinsk received 50 million rubles from the budget of the Chelyabinsk region as compensation for costs associated with preparing the city for joint military exercises of the participating countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. This is approximately half of all expenses incurred by the capital of the Southern Urals before the meeting of delegations of the SCO member states led by the leaders of the countries.

Woman's hysteria in Rossel's office Kovaleva's resignation. How it was 01 August 2007 at 20:31 Text size - 17 + On the left in the photo you can see the culprit of Rossel’s bad mood – Galina Kovaleva. This is how Tuesday began for the Sverdlovsk governor... Eduard Rossel is furious: another faithful friend stuck a knife in his back.

Today, on August 1, the branches of Sverdlovenergo OJSC started competitions for integrated teams of operational personnel, which will last until August 10. As the press service of the energy company explained to URA.Ru, competitions are an important element in the training of operational dispatch personnel of the energy system, on whose professionalism a stable and reliable supply of electricity to consumers in the Sverdlovsk region largely depends.

The speaker of the Kurgan Regional Duma, deputy secretary of the regional political council of the United Russia party, Marat Islamov, has no time for vacation.

On the night of August 12-13, earthlings will be able to watch the most beautiful spectacle - star rain. At this time, from 50 to 100 stars will fall from the sky per hour, writes “Dni.ru” Every year from July 23 to August 20, the Earth passes through debris and dust from Comet Swift-Tuttle. Dust particles released from the comet's nucleus enter the earth's atmosphere and burn up in it.

Vice-Rector of the Ural Mining University Vladimir Makarov, thanks to whom the political career of the head of the university Nikolai Kosarev was threatened (he was included in the draft list of the regional branch of United Russia), today, August 1, was arrested for 2 months by a court decision and placed in a pre-trial detention center , reported “URA.Ru” in the press service of the Office of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation for the Ural Federal District.