The head of the local branch of the Ingosstrakh-Russia company, Eduard Kuznetsov, was shot dead on Wednesday in Naberezhnye Chelny. The body of a 32-year-old entrepreneur was found in an elevator on the 12th floor of the building in which he lived. Kuznetsov was shot at point-blank range with two pistols; experts counted seven wounds on the body of the victim. A criminal case has been opened and an investigation into all the circumstances of the incident has begun.

The Ministry of Health intends to reduce the time patients spend in hospital In Yekaterinburg, the Russian Ministry of Health began an experiment to introduce the position of a visiting nurse into the regional and municipal healthcare system. Last week, at the regional clinical hospital No. 1, four people were enrolled in the staff of the new department - patronage medical care.

The capital's Akropol Bank intends to finance the completion of the construction of three mines and two processing plants owned by Donskoy Ugol. The amount of the proposed investment has not yet been announced. This week, auditors hired by Muscovites will begin working at the company and will determine the exact size of the required investments. However, Acropolis and a group of investors friendly to it express their readiness to spend 1.5 million rubles monthly.

The police and the prosecutor's office sorted things out in court A trial, which could become a precedent for the domestic law enforcement system, took place recently in Belgorod. There the issue was decided whether police officers had the right to conduct searches without the sanction of the prosecutor.

The World Cup Group E qualifying match between Italy and Georgia will take place in Tbilisi on June 2, as planned. According to Italian coach Giovanni Trapattoni, the Georgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs assured the Italian side that the players would be ensured complete safety. "This game will be important for us," Trapattoni said. - But we know what happened to the brother of Milan football player Kaladze, and we didn’t want to take any risks.

The Duma received a pension package of laws from the president The pension reform project entered its most dangerous phase yesterday. The President sent four bills to the Duma, with the help of which the government intends to carry out the reform in the form in which it intended it. But not all Duma factions agree with the government. The dissenters have not yet declared their readiness to compromise.

The governor of Chukotka, the famous businessman Roman Abramovich, was questioned on Tuesday by an investigator from the Prosecutor General's Office. He testified as part of a criminal case initiated against the management of the Sibneft company. The day before, the Prosecutor General's Office interrogated the chairman of the board of directors of Severnaya Neft OJSC, former Deputy Minister of Finance Andrei Vavilov. The investigators’ questions to Mr.

The Ministry of Railways will help straighten the Kuznetsk rails The Ministry of Railways may take part in the reconstruction of the rail production of the Kuznetsk Metallurgical Plant. The head of the Ministry of Railways, Nikolai Aksenenko, announced this yesterday after negotiations with the management of the plant. According to the minister, his department is ready to participate in the reconstruction of the KMK rail and beam shop to organize the production of high-quality rails.

The Moscow City Court granted the petition of Media-Most's lawyer Geralina Lyubarskaya, removing from cassation consideration the complaint of Media-Most's subsidiary, Media-Most Capital. On May 4, the Cheryomushkinsky court of the capital decided to transfer to the ownership of a subsidiary of Gazprom-Media - Leadville - 19% of the shares of NTV, as well as 25% of shares in 23 more companies of the media holding. Media-Most filed a cassation against this court decision.

In the Moscow region town of Ivanteevka, the director of NBA LLC, 38-year-old Boris Nikolaev, was killed. The criminal shot him with a TT pistol at 6 a.m. near a garage cooperative on Zavodskaya Street. According to the criminal investigation department of the local police department, the deceased was engaged in arranging the territory of the collective farm market in the city of Pushkino. A month ago, several stalls at the market burned down, interfering with construction.

New film by Robert Rodriguez on Moscow screens Anecdote of the year: Robert Rodriguez, the bloodthirsty author of Desperado, From Dusk Till Dawn and The Faculty, made a picture for family viewing and without age restrictions. And he was right - now he has a film on his track record that has grossed more than the coveted hundred million, and the filming of a sequel is just around the corner.

The news of the change of power at Gazprom caused a sharp rise in the price of its shares to a new record level. But the market has been waiting for this for a long time. Almost immediately after the announcement of the appointment of Deputy Minister of Energy Alexey Miller as chairman of the board of Gazprom, the company's share price increased to 12.39 rubles. per piece (more than 5%).

Opera "Rigoletto" at the Sobinovsky Music Forum The fourteenth Sobinov Festival, dedicated this year to the memory of Verdi, ends in Saratov. The centenary of the death of the Italian master is celebrated here on a scale unprecedented for Russia. The program includes all Saratov productions of Verdi, each of which features two guest performers, a video seminar introducing recordings of foreign Verdi productions, and solo concerts of famous Russian soloists.

Victims of forced labor will finally get what they deserve Victims of forced labor under the Nazi regime will now be able to receive promised compensation. The German Bundestag cleared the last hurdle yesterday by passing a law that will protect German firms from additional lawsuits. Thus, the payment procedure, as Wolfgang Gibowsky, who heads the Memory, Responsibility, Future Foundation in Berlin, said immediately after the decision was made, could begin in the coming days.

At today's regular meeting of President Vladimir Putin with the renewed oligarchic RSPP there will be no rigid agenda. This was announced by the press secretary of the head of state Alexei Gromov. This time, 23 representatives of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, headed by Arkady Volsky, were invited to Mr. Putin.