Regions will ask to increase co-financing of drug purchases for beneficiaries For the third Monday in a row, President Vladimir Putin has made Minister of Health and Social Development Mikhail Zurabov nervous. At traditional meetings with members of the government at the beginning of the week, the head of state made it a habit to inquire about the problems of providing medicines to beneficiaries .

The Tax Service intends to create a unified database on citizens' incomes The idea of ​​introducing total cost control , voiced so far only in the form of proposals, seems to have a chance to materialize. The Tax Service is trying to take the first step towards this by first taking control of citizens' incomes . The Federal Tax Service (FTS) plans to create a unified federal information resource for information on the income of individuals.

The border agreement between Russia and Latvia will be signed on March 27 The border agreement between Latvia and Russia will be signed in the Russian capital on March 27. The verbal agreement reached on this issue by the foreign ministers of the two countries, Sergei Lavrov and Artis Pabriks, was announced yesterday by the Secretary of State of the Latvian Foreign Ministry Norman Penke. The information was also confirmed by Russian diplomatic sources.

State Duma deputies propose increasing the fine for violating smoking rules Lawmakers are intensifying their offensive against Russian smokers, increasingly localizing the places reserved for them. Yesterday, State Duma deputies Tatyana Yakovleva, Vladimir Medinsky, Nikolai Gerasimenko and Ivan Savvidi introduced amendments to the law “On Restricting Tobacco Smoking”, as well as to the Code of the Russian Federation on Administrative Offences, for consideration by their colleagues.

A weekend of fundamental confrontations took place in Europe Last weekend in European football was marked by classic derbies. While in Russia the capital's Dynamo and Spartak tried to fight each other, in Italy Inter asserted itself in the match with Milan, in Glasgow Rangers took revenge on Celtic for leadership in the Scottish championship, and in London Chelsea escaped from Tottenham. The celebration of continental football began in Catalonia, where Barcelona hosted Real Madrid.

Jacques Chirac says goodbye to the presidency More than a month before the presidential elections in France - they will take place on April 22 - Jacques Chirac began farewell to the nation as head of state.

Rostekhnadzor is trying to close the new terminal at Sheremetyevo Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport opened its new international terminal C yesterday, accepting its first flight from Vilnius. On the same day, the Federal Service for Environmental, Technological and Nuclear Supervision (Rostekhnadzor) announced that it was preparing to transfer materials on this matter to the prosecutor’s office, as it believed that the terminal could not be operated.

"The Age of the Merovingians" at the Museum of Fine Arts The main idea of ​​the exhibition, prepared with phenomenal diligence, on the theme of the first page of the life history of European peoples, is to show that culture is indivisible, that we have a largely common past, and iron borders are a barbaric and outdated concept. An exhibition on which an entire army of museum workers from the A.S. Pushkin Museum worked.

The Russian did not know that he had borrowed unjust money The Russian Foreign Ministry believes that in the case of Russian citizen Vladimir Kuznetsov , who was found guilty last week by a jury in the United States of accepting bribes and money laundering while serving as chairman of the UN Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, there were “many dark places” from the very beginning " In particular, the single-handed lifting of diplomatic immunity from Kuznetsov by former

Vladimir Putin is preparing a decree on shipbuilding Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday instructed Minister of Industry and Energy Viktor Khristenko to urgently prepare a draft decree on the creation of an all-Russian shipbuilding holding. The Ministry of Industry and Energy has already developed a basic scheme for such an association.

Vladimir Putin begins his visit to Italy Vladimir Putin will meet with several heads of state for the first time today. The Russian president's visit to Rome will begin with a meeting with the new Italian President Giorgio Napoletano, after which Mr. Putin will head to the Vatican for an audience with Pope Benedict XVI. And just an hour after the start of this meeting, the Russian President was scheduled to have a conversation with an old acquaintance, Romano Prodi.

The trial of the PricewaterhouseCoopers subsidiary is dragging on The court hearings initiated by the Federal Tax Service against the Yukos auditor, PricewaterhouseCoopers, cannot reach a constructive stage. But they are constantly overgrown with scandalous details. Yesterday, the fourth court hearing took place, and this time it stalled on the initiative of representatives of YUKOS bankruptcy manager Eduard Rebgun, who unexpectedly challenged judge Pavel Markov.

Based on the ratio of costs and votes, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation won the elections As usual, regional elections brought some the joy of victory, others the bitterness of defeat, as well as troubles in connection with future personnel decisions and claims of falsification.

Crisis of controllability of the international system What will the world be like in 2017? It is enough to look back ten years to understand how much can change even in such an insignificant period by historical standards. In 1997, at the height of post-Cold War euphoria, no one predicted upheaval, but the next decade was rife with military conflict and increasing chaos in international relations.

American regulators are trying to change the rules in the financial market The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is going to revise the rules by which corporations live. Late last week, the agency announced that it was preparing to publish a special report containing recommendations for changes in financial regulation.