Children are the most sensitive to changes in environmental quality. Viktor Golodenko, head of the Center for Environmental Pediatrics of the Federal Medical and Biological Agency, spoke about how scientists monitor the health of children living near chemical weapons disposal facilities.

Ukraine faces new early elections In Ukraine, where early parliamentary elections were held in September last year, a deep political crisis is beginning again. Yesterday, President Viktor Yushchenko was unable to speak in the Verkhovna Rada with his annual message “On the internal and external situation of Ukraine,” and the leadership of the parliament started talking about self-dissolution . The work of the Verkhovna Rada has been blocked since January 18.

Andrey SHEVCHENKO, deputy head of the scientific and technical center of the Federal Directorate for the Safe Storage and Destruction of Chemical Weapons, believes that Russia has already accumulated a wealth of experience in the destruction of chemical warfare agents.

Moscow officials will count all the dead The city authorities, who have been trying for several years to regain control over the delicate but profitable sphere of funeral services , seem to have finally found a way to rid city hall-friendly services from competition with the annoying agents of private funeral bureaus.

Former communist headed Western bloc intelligence agency Over the coming year, the 26 members of NATO will share significantly less intelligence information with each other than before. This was reported by anonymous sources of several Western newspapers, including the influential American New York Times.

Financial intelligence will be able to initiate the revocation of licenses from banks The Federal Service for Financial Monitoring may be legally assigned the right to initiate the procedure for revoking licenses from Russian banks. The head of the Duma Committee on Financial Markets and Credit Organizations Vladislav Reznik and Senator Dmitry Ananyev plan to submit a corresponding bill to the State Duma this week.

What technologies are used in the disposal of chemical weapons and how they were developed, said Valery DEMIDIUK, Deputy General Director of the State Research Institute of Organic Chemistry and Technology for scientific work. The creation of safe and environmentally friendly production facilities for the destruction of chemical weapons required the work of specialists in various fields - chemists, doctors, technologists, engineers, designers, economists, lawyers, firefighters, and the military.

The minimum food package almost doubled inflation in January Food is relatively cheaper in large cities, and numerous regional and all-Russian agreements on fixing prices for socially important products have not slowed down the rise in food prices. Such conclusions can be drawn from Rosstat data on inflation for January 2008, published yesterday. According to data published by Rosstat, the increase in the cost of the minimum set of food products is greatest in regions with imported products.

A holding for the production of medical equipment is being formed in the Sverdlovsk region, which will include about 40 enterprises. Regional Governor Eduard Rossel announced this in Yekaterinburg at a meeting on the development of the domestic medical industry under the leadership of First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. “As a result of the creation of the holding, the production volume will be very large.

The Constitutional Court will deal with tax deductions Some provisions of tax legislation , designed in theory to make the life and financial situation of Russians faced with the sale or purchase of housing, became the subject of consideration by the Constitutional Court.

Viktor KHOLSTOV, deputy head of the Federal Agency for Industry, is confident that without the support of the population, work on chemical disarmament is impossible. In 1988, a plant was built in Chapaevsk, Samara Region, where it was planned to destroy chemical weapons stored in various regions of the country. This caused a violent reaction from the population and numerous protests.

New high-speed train enters the market French President Nicolas Sarkozy yesterday sanctified with his presence the presentation of a prototype of a new high-speed train , with which the French industrial conglomerate Alstom expects to conquer the global passenger rail transport market. Four years ago, during Alstom's difficult times, Mr Sarkozy, then finance minister, played a decisive role in protecting the company from being acquired by rival German concern Siemens.

The Russian national team will hold a friendly match in a restaurant Today, when all the Russian team's opponents in the European Championship group will play test matches, Hiddink's team will gather for dinner to celebrate the end of the first training camp this year. Two dozen Russian players gathered for four days in Turkey to take a break from pre-season training and quarrel between the head coach of the national team and club mentors. It appears that both goals have been achieved.

The RSPP wants to move business abroad with the help of the Medvedev-Putin tandem The enthusiasm with which the business community received the recent statement by presidential candidate and First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev about the need for state support for the expansion of Russian business abroad cannot be overestimated.

He returned to the national team after 14 years. Andrei Nikolishin has not appeared in Novogorsk at the base of the national hockey team since 1994. Before this, the Russian team achieved its last success at the World Championship, and Andrei NIKOLISHIN played on that team. In a conversation with Vremya Novostey correspondent Oleg EREMIN, the striker talked about his game, about Traktor and said that he was ready to go to the next world championship in Canada.