The widespread personnel changes undertaken in his department by the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Boris Gryzlov (our newspaper reported about them yesterday) did not leave the policemen any hope for a quiet life in the coming months. Each of the newly appointed heads of services publicly, and more often at closed meetings, informed their subordinates that serious changes awaited them.

Anatoly Chubais demands the resignation of the leadership of Gorelektroseti Tambov In his letter yesterday to the head of the administration of the Tambov region, Oleg Betin, Anatoly Chubais accused the management of Gorelektroseti Tambov of causing the death of a person. The tragedy occurred on January 15 between ten and eleven in the morning. A 66-year-old patient died due to a stoppage of the artificial respiration apparatus in the Tambov military hospital.

Studying corruption is difficult, but necessary The level of corruption in Russia is on average higher than in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, and on average lower than in most CIS countries. This is the perception of corruption in the business environment, studied by the World Bank (WB).

The Moscow City Duma will adopt today, in the third reading, the city charter, which significantly changes the management structure of the capital. First of all, full-fledged local self-government is being introduced on the basis of the capital’s district governments. In addition, part of the powers of the capital's mayor's office is transferred to the Moscow government, prefects, city duma deputies and local governments. These changes look revolutionary.

"Golden Mask" declared its intentions No sooner had the Olympics ended and critics become despondent about this (when one is accustomed to the exquisite dishes of international theatrical cuisine, it is difficult to switch to the starvation rations of the domestic off-season), the Golden Mask took a step forward.

The funeral of three employees of the Department for Combating Economic Crimes of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Kemerovo Region, who died in Chechnya under mysterious circumstances, took place yesterday in Kemerovo. These officers, as part of a police brigade, went on a business trip to Chechnya, where they worked in the Achkhoy-Martan Internal Affairs Directorate.

Today at a meeting of the council of the Russian Basketball Super League, the issue of including the men's team of the capital's Dynamo in the B division may be resolved. A club with the richest traditions, a participant in all USSR championships, a two-time national champion, ceased to exist in the spring of 1998. Then the team took penultimate place in the Super League and refused to participate in transition games, experiencing financial difficulties.

The situation in Primorye yesterday was the subject of special attention of all officials. This issue was discussed at a meeting between Vladimir Putin and Mikhail Kasyanov, who was also invited to speak before the Duma on January 24. In the evening, the prime minister held a special meeting, following which Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Khristenko stated that power outages in Primorye should end by February 1. Now electricity and heat are turned off in the region for 10 hours. According to Mr.

Reshuffles in the Russian generals are not yet completed Informed sources of the Vremya Novostei newspaper in the Kremlin administration yesterday denied persistent rumors that the decree on the resignation of the head of the main department of international military cooperation of the Ministry of Defense Leonid Ivashov has already been signed.

Anti-money laundering law is almost ready The bill on combating money laundering has become softer, and therefore today it will most likely pass the second reading in the Duma. It is unclear how this law will work and whether it will work at all in Russia. But he will play his role: at the end of July, at the meeting of G8 finance ministers, the Russian delegation will be able to present evidence that the fight against money laundering has begun.

The past 24 hours turned out to be extremely stressful for employees of the capital’s fire department. On Wednesday night alone, the State Fire Service rescued 33 people from fires. The first alarm signal arrived at the duty station “01” at about nine o’clock in the evening. In house No. 65 on Angarskaya Street, a two-room apartment on the fourth floor of a nine-story building was on fire.

A mechanism for changing the status of federal subjects has been developed The constituent entities of the Russian Federation will apparently soon have the opportunity to self-determinate. The Ministry of Federation Affairs, Regional and Migration Policy has almost completed the development of the draft constitutional federal law “On changing the status of a subject of the Russian Federation,” the head of the department, Alexander Blokhin, said yesterday.

Russian missiles aim for the French equator French President Jacques Chirac concluded his visit to Russia yesterday with a trip to Samara. Here he visited the state research and production rocket and space center TsSKB-Progress. This company produces Soyuz launch vehicles, which Mr. Chirac agreed with his Russian counterpart to launch from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana.

Roger Corman - the father of American mythology and genre cinema At the Moscow Film Festival, Roger Corman was presented primarily as a producer who decided to work with domestic filmmakers. And his retrospective was composed mainly of his production works, which were shot by completely different directors. This is largely true: the filmography of Corman’s production projects includes more than 300 films of various properties.

Eduard Rossel called on the police to be friends with the Uralmash OPS The governor of the Sverdlovsk region, Eduard Rossel, called on the police to actively cooperate with “voluntary assistants in the fight against drug trafficking,” in particular with the public organization “City Without Drugs,” created on the initiative of a number of entrepreneurs belonging to the Uralmash socio-political union.