The Ministry of Culture intends to double media funding The new cultural and information policy implemented by the Ministry of Culture and Mass Communications created as a result of the government reorganization will be the subject of consideration at a meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers today. The head of the department, Alexander Sokolov, will make a report. And the day before, his deputy Leonid Nadirov presented the main points of this speech to journalists. Mr.

The prosecutor's office found a friend of the organizer of the explosion at Rizhskaya As part of the investigation into the terrorist attack near the Rizhskaya metro station, the Moscow prosecutor's office detained Murat Shavaev, a leading specialist from the department of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation.

The oil company now has almost enough to pay for 10.7% of Gazprom shares Officials still achieved the desired rating for Rosneft. As Vremya Novostey learned, in the updated conclusion of Morgan Stanley presented to the Federal Property Management Agency and the Ministry of Economic Development yesterday, the state-owned oil company was valued at $7.5-8.5 billion.

Russian governors are ready to leave to return Yesterday the federal law “On the general principles of organizing legislative (representative) and executive bodies of state power of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation” came into force. The same one that fixes the new procedure for electing heads of Russian regions. Now the main conflict is whether the popularly elected governors will resign in order to be reappointed by the head of state.

The Constitutional Court found no grounds for softening the law “On Political Parties” The Constitutional Court ruled yesterday that in matters of party building, Russians must rely entirely on the will of the legislative branch. The judges found no grounds for softening the current law “On Political Parties” and confirmed, in particular, the need to ban the creation of religious, national or professional parties in Russia.

Bush's magic shield is malfunctioning A full-scale test of the American missile defense system ended in failure. An interceptor missile failed to take off from its launch pad on the Pacific Ocean atoll of Kwajalein (Marshall Islands) on Sunday. It was supposed to shoot down a ballistic missile with a training warhead that had taken off 16 minutes earlier from Kodiak Island in Alaska, which as a result self-destructed over the Pacific Ocean.

The Moscow City Duma advises the feds to toughen penalties for illegal parking The illusion of a “warming” in the attitude of the capital’s authorities towards ordinary motorists, which was created by Yuri Luzhkov before Constitution Day by suspending the operation of tow trucks and impound lots, was completely dispelled yesterday by Moscow City Duma deputies.

Gelayev's friends are suspected of raiding the drug police in Nalchik In Kabardino-Balkaria yesterday, a funeral was held for four Drug Control officers who died as a result of a militant attack on the FSKN headquarters in Nalchik - senior lieutenant Anzor Lakushev, lieutenant Yuri Pshibiev, warrant officer Murat Tabukhov and driver Akhmed Gergov. The funeral was attended by representatives of all local intelligence services and the leadership of the republic.

Russia has ceased to be attractive to foreign workers The only region through which Russia will be able to replenish its labor resources and solve demographic problems remains the backward part of Asia. We can no longer count on qualified and at least somewhat educated migrants from the republics of the former USSR and Eastern Europe.

Departments The Federal Security Service of Russia has determined a list of persons posing the greatest threat to the security of the Russian Federation. According to FSB director Nikolai Patrushev, this list included the leaders of Chechen extremists Shamil Basayev, Aslan Maskhadov, Doku Umarov and al-Qaeda representative Abu Haws. Of those people who are abroad, the FSB director named Movladi Udugov, one of the main ideologists of Chechen extremism.

Two art fairs were held in Moscow, large and abundant: the Christmas Antique Salon in the Central House of Artists with a special program of Soviet art of the 20-70s of the twentieth century and the giant “Artmanege” at the CSKA stadium. It would be time to rejoice at the intensive development of the art market, if not for several significant moments that subvert the pathos. The Christmas antique salon confirmed that the cost of the Soviet 20th century is still not under control.

RSPP calculated the cost of land purchase The Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs proposed that the government set the price for the initial purchase of land for enterprises at the level of 1-2% of its cadastral value. This was announced after yesterday's meeting of the Bureau of the Board of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, member of the Bureau Oleg Kiselev.

The new decision in the case of the death of Sergiev Posad riot police was assessed in the same way Yesterday, the Presnensky District Court of the capital handed down another verdict to two high-ranking officials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, accused of negligence leading to the tragic death of 22 officers of the Sergiev Posad riot police in Chechnya in March 2000.

Today in Luzhniki the second stage of the hockey Eurotour starts, which this year has received a new name ROSNO Cup. On the eve of the first match between the Russians and the Finns, Vremya Novostey correspondent Olga ERMOLINA talked with one of the coaches of the Russian team, Vladimir Plushev. — How has the composition of our team changed compared to the first stage of the Eurotour in Finland? - The composition has changed by about half.

Today in Moscow, chaired by the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Russia and Poland Sergei Lavrov and Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz, a meeting of the Committee on the Strategy of Russian-Polish Cooperation will be held. The idea of ​​such working meetings of a consultative nature was born during Vladimir Putin’s official visit to Poland in January 2002. Now they are held, as a rule, on the eve of meetings of heads of state. The Russian president is expected in Warsaw next January.