Deputy Minister of Health and Social Development Vladimir STARODUBOV claims that 150 billion rubles are missing to start the reform. — What is the main goal of the Ministry of Health and Social Development, which insists on the immediate start of another painful reform?

Safin again did not give up a game to his opponent The main hope of Russian fans in the men's tournament of the British Open, Marat Safin, yesterday pleased his many fans. The Russian managed to win again in the second round match without losing a single set to his opponent. After Thai Paradorn Srichapan, Australian Mark Philippoussis became Marat's next victim - 7:6 (7:4), 7:6 (7:4), 6:4.

Cases of split economic consciousness have been identified in Russia Not long ago, the president’s economic adviser, Andrei Illarionov, diagnosed the Russian economy as “drug addiction,” with which a “consilium” of ministers agreed a week ago at a regular government meeting. Yesterday, another disease was discovered, not in the economy, but in a part of Russian society directly related to the economy. The disease is called schizophrenia and it is expressed in split consciousness.

Director Anatoly Vasiliev is ready to resign Yesterday, an unusually gloomy press conference took place at the School of Dramatic Art. The conflict between the theater and the Moscow Culture Committee and personally with its chairman Sergei Khudyakov has entered a new, probably decisive phase.

Moscow United Russia bet on officials There are six months left before the elections to the Moscow City Duma, and the capital's deputies, remembering the electorate, one after another began to submit populist bills to their colleagues. The most extensive raid on voters was, of course, carried out by representatives of the party in power. For example, United Russia deputy Evgeny Gerasimov, in the old fashioned way, relied on the most socially vulnerable segments of the population.

Baptist was convicted only 41 years later A Philadelphia, Mississippi court found 80-year-old Edgar Ray Killen guilty of organizing the murders of three African-American rights activists 41 years ago. Typically, such a crime is punishable by 20 years in prison. Now a Baptist preacher, Killen arrived in court in a wheelchair. But then he was a member of the racist organization Ku Klux Klan and a wealthy businessman.

The latest version of the bill “On Subsoil” turned out to be more liberal than the previous ones The government has decided which companies it intends to restrict access to Russian mineral deposits.

The post-Soviet space is recognized as non-existent Yesterday, the ministers of foreign affairs and defense, as well as the secretaries of the security councils of the member countries of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), held a meeting in Moscow. The leitmotif of the meeting was the fear of possible “color revolutions” (although Kyrgyzstan is also a member of the organization).

Those who rushed into the sea in time were saved Yesterday, the search continued for people who were covered in a landslide on the “wild” beach in the village of Kacha near Sevastopol on the morning of June 21. Eyewitnesses say that the collapsed slope was the height of a five-story building. Those who managed to throw themselves into the sea immediately after the collapse began were saved. This place, located near a military base, was prohibited for recreation.

Four especially dangerous criminal escaped from the Khabarovsk pre -trial detention center From the central Khabarovsk prison, four especially dangerous criminal escaped yesterday. The police authorities in more than a centuries-old history of the pre-trial detention center cannot recall the case when one of the arrested manages to leave this building arbitrarily.

Washington cures AIDS and alcoholism with democracy The United States decided to use new tactics in relations with Moscow, focusing on the fight for the health of Russians. This emphasis was heard at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Tuesday in Washington.

New leaders of Kommersant are mobilized from the Internet Yesterday, at the deadline scheduled a week ago, the names of the new leaders of the Kommersant publishing house were named. As promised by the disgraced oligarch, it turned out to be "famous people in the media community." Vladimir Lensky became the general director of the ID, and Vladislav Borodulin became the chief editor. The decision was made in London at a meeting of shareholders of a publishing house.

BP has lost interest in the Shtokman project Within a week, all candidates for participation in the development of the giant Shtokman field in the Barents Sea must submit their proposals to Gazprom. As Vremya Novostei learned, among the contenders, most likely, today’s largest supplier of liquefied gas to the American market, BP, will not be among the contenders.

Detroit and San Antonio will play a “golden” match For the first time in 11 seasons, Game 7 of the NBA playoff finals will be played. The day before, Detroit won against San Antonio on the road for the first time in many years - 95:86 - and tied the series score, 3:3. Meanwhile, at the end of the fifth game, it seemed that everything was over for the Pistons in this final.

Russia will give border outposts to China in exchange for a chapel The first round of negotiations on the demarcation of the section of the Russian-Chinese border in the area of ​​the Tarabarov and Bolshoy Ussuriysky islands has ended. The official start of the demarcation of the last undemarcated section of the Russian-Chinese borders was given in Khabarovsk.