Russian sprats fell under the hot hand of Voronezh sanitary doctors The campaign to remove Latvian-produced sprats from Russian shelves, which started in early November, also “hooked” Russian producers. The sanitary doctors of the Rospotrebnadzor department in the Voronezh region, who zealously took up the task of protecting the consumer table from poor-quality canned food from the territory of the new NATO member, also discovered harmful canned food of domestic production.

Former top manager of RAO will give advice on the construction of energy facilities The Board of Directors of RAO UES of Russia yesterday finally decided who would head the investment board commission created a month ago.

CLUBS The Russian reggae festival will take place on Wednesday. It will feature groups such as Jah Division , DUB TV and Trio Positiva . At the B2 club, 20.00. CONCERTS Famous American-French jazzwoman Dee Dee Bridgewater , as well as musicians Patrick Manugian (guitar), Minino Garay (drums and percussion), Ira Coleman (double bass) and Marc Berthumier (accordion) will perform French songs in a jazz arrangement.

The Stavropol governor wants to be personally responsible for all water supply systems in the region The Governor of the Stavropol Territory, Alexander Chernogorov, as they say, is an experienced apparatchik. From the “steering wheel of the state farm” (this position is listed in his official biography), he rose to the rank of governor of the Stavropol Territory and has not legally given his place to anyone for ten years.

Benedict XVI supported Turkey's accession to the EU Today, Pope Benedict XVI is visiting Istanbul, where he meets with the Orthodox Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew I. For the remaining days of the pontiff's four-day visit to Turkey, conversations are planned with the heads of other Christian communities, as well as Muslim and Jewish leaders of this predominantly Islamic, but constitutionally secular 71- country of millions.

Scotland Yard detectives found polonium-210 in the London office of a Russian oligarch The London Police's counter-terrorism department, investigating the circumstances of the death of Alexander Litvinenko , continues to search for possible sources of his contamination with polonium-210. Detectives paid a visit to Boris Berezovsky's office at 7 Down Street in central London. And there they found traces of the same radioactive isotope that poisoned the former FSB officer.

Russian journalists announced a boycott of the President of Belarus The anniversary summit of the CIS, which President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko so sought to hold in Minsk, ended in an embarrassment unprecedented in the history of meetings of the leaders of the Commonwealth. Russian journalists from the Kremlin pool, accredited at the summit, refused to participate in the final press conference and left the National Library, where it was supposed to take place.

In a week, military specialists from the 100th separate bridge battalion of the Russian Ministry of Defense are completing work on restoring bridges in Lebanon that were destroyed during Israeli bombing this summer. The chief of logistics of the armed forces, Deputy Minister of Defense of Russia, Army General Vladimir ISAKOV, told Vremya Novostei about the work of our military builders in the Middle East.

It is easier to disband an agency for special zones than to form the zones themselves The Ministry of Economic Development and Trade cannot in any way sum up the results of the competition for the creation of special economic zones of a tourist and recreational type . Moreover, the prospects for the existence of the very special body created to manage special economic zones are extremely vague.

The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine intends to allow the processing of radioactive metal from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant Ukrainian metallurgists expect the ban on the export of radiation scrap metal outside the Chernobyl exclusion zone to be lifted.

Russian Art Festival in Nice The annual festival of Russian art on the Cote d'Azur is not a pompous event. Without orchestral parades along the embankment, without spilled banquets, without numerous government delegations, without official speeches and congratulations. Only participants, journalists and spectators. Moreover, there are more and more spectators every year.

In the north of European Russia, Atlantic cyclones replace each other, protecting the central and southern regions from the icy breath of the Arctic. As a result, in most of European Russia the air temperature will remain 5-7 degrees above the long-term average. In the northwestern regions there will be light rain in places, the prevailing temperature will be +4...+9оС.

“This is such a profession - you are always healthy during the performance,” said Lyubov Grigorievna Polishchuk. But this show is now over. She died early yesterday morning at home, where she had recently returned after an endless series of clinics, operations and rehabilitation centers, abandoning further treatment and plans to return to work. I received disability and received a pension. Less than a month later she was gone. She had a severe spinal disease after several injuries.

German pensioners need shelter from the young, and Russian pensioners need communication The authorities of the German city of Nuremberg decided to create “play zones” specifically for pensioners. True, not in sparsely populated areas, but in the very center of the city. The Nuremberg City Hall intends to build several playgrounds “for those over 60”, and to isolate them as much as possible. “Those under 60” will be strictly prohibited from entering the fenced area of ​​the site.

The Party of Pensioners in the Kaliningrad Region is friends with United Russia instead of Just In the westernmost region of the country, the construction of “A Just Russia”, which absorbed Rodina, the Party of Life and the Party of Pensioners at the federal level, seems to have reached a dead end .