The volume of paid government services to the population and companies will be reduced by a third As part of the administrative reform, the government does not give up hope of introducing into a unified framework the practice of providing public services to the population and companies . The White House cannot accept the fact that government agencies, in addition to the regularly collected duties and fines prescribed in the Tax Code, can, at their discretion, charge money for certain services.

Today, at the US President's country residence Camp David near Washington, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is holding talks with George Bush. Brown arrived in the United States for the first time yesterday as head of government of the United Kingdom. The British prime minister and the head of the White House spent Sunday evening talking over dinner, leaving negotiations for Monday.

The cause of an outbreak of pneumonia in the Sverdlovsk region was a rare virus Three days after the outbreak of pneumonia in Verkhnyaya Pyshma (Sverdlovsk region), doctors identified the causative agent of the disease and suggested the causes of the emergency. Let us remind you that an outbreak in the satellite city of Yekaterinburg was recorded last Wednesday - 52 people were hospitalized in one day, two died on the first day.

In the coming days - August 1 or 2 - the Central Election Commission of Ukraine should officially announce the start of the election campaign for early elections to the Rada, scheduled for September 30. Meanwhile, last Friday, Speaker of Parliament Alexander Moroz issued an order to convene an extraordinary meeting of the Rada.

TNK-BP sells Buguruslanneft TNK-BP continues to sell oil production assets in Russia. As the head of the company, Robert Dudley, said last Friday at a meeting with the governor of the Orenburg region, Alexei Chernyshev, this time we are talking about a small enterprise in the Orenburg region, Buguruslanneft. This is already the fifth subsidiary in Russia that the British-Russian holding has put up for auction over the past year and a half.

In response to the war on crime declared in Ingushetia, the bandits unleashed their Yesterday in Ingushetia, in the village of Ali-Yurt, a special operation to capture militants who last Friday fired grenade launchers at the FSB building in Magas ended. One soldier was killed in the attack.

Navy Day was celebrated in all fleets and even in Antarctica This holiday was approved on the initiative of the famous naval commander, Hero and Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Nikolai Gerasimovich Kuznetsov, since 1939. Yesterday, in accordance with the order of Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov, sailors in all four fleets and the Caspian Flotilla organized military and sports festivals, in which representatives of the Navy's high command, politicians, and businessmen took part.

FOOTBALL. Russian Championship. Premier League. 19th round. August 3. "Saturn" - "Kuban". August 4th. "Rostov" - "Wings of the Soviets", "Dynamo" - "Zenit", "Amkar" - "Luch-Energia". August 5th. "Spartak" Nch - CSKA, "Moscow" - "Rubin", "Spartak" - "Tom". Champions League . Second qualifying round. First matches. July 31, August 1. UEFA Cup. First qualifying round. Return matches. July 31, August 2 . Russian Railways Cup. Commercial tournament. August 3. Semi-finals. August 5th.

From the great to the ridiculous one doping test. Well, at least two - to get confirmation of the correctness of the first positive test. The great, main cycling race of mankind, the Tour de France, like all professional road cycling in general, is degenerating into some kind of unprecedented farce on a global scale.

The new Internet reality will change people's social lives A few years ago, the term web 2.0 became popular. It is typically used as a comprehensive definition of new opportunities and direction for the Internet. About web 2.0. usually mentioned when talking about any innovations or promising projects on the Internet.

June 20 -- July 20, 2007 “Politicians Through the Eyes of the Media,” a joint project of Vremya Novostei and the Medialogia company, are ratings of the political figures most actively discussed in the Russian media.

The ballet video market has never had much choice. The move to DVD didn't improve matters much. Yet sometimes, and for some reason always through the West, unknown records emerge from the recesses of our homeland. It’s hard to call them new products, but it’s just as hard not to consider them as such. Here is Don Quixote with Nadezhda Pavlova and Vyacheslav Gordeev, recording 1978. A legendary, star couple...

Kolodinsky and Barsuk won silver at the World Championships Belgorod pair Igor Bazuka Kolodinsky - Dmitry Barsuk achieved the highest success in the history of domestic beach volleyball. At the World Championships that ended in the Swiss city of Gstaad, the Russians won silver medals.

On the eve of the start of national championships, Super Cups are played in many European countries. In France, this trophy is called the Prize of Champions, and once again it was won by the permanent winner of the last championships of the country, Lyon, who beat the winner of the French Cup, Sochaux, 2:1. This match took place at Lyon's home stadium, Stade Gerland, although it could have taken place in China, where both clubs were conducting pre-season training.

War anti-heroes remembered in Latvia and Estonia Last Saturday was colored brown in Latvia and Estonia. In both countries, rallies of national partisans and former fighters who fought in the Second World War on the side of Nazi Germany as part of the legions and divisions of the CC were held with state honors. The Latvian partisans even received a letter of welcome from the country's new president, Valdis Zatlers.