New “birth defects” found in the DLO program A crisis is predicted for the additional drug supply program in the second half of 2008. Regional health officials, marketers and representatives of the domestic pharmaceutical industry are already warning the leaders of the Ministry of Health and Social Development and the government about the upcoming problems.

President of the International Olympic Committee Jacques Rogge called Shamil Tarpishchev “the king of tennis.” And this is hardly an exaggeration, although Tarpishchev did not realize himself one hundred percent as an athlete. There were reasons for this, but they also largely contributed to the fact that in the future Tarpishchev became an outstanding coach, captain of the national team, whose athletes are now firmly established among the elite of world tennis.

Venezuela, which entered into conflict with Colombia on the side of Ecuador , put its armed forces on alert yesterday. Defense Minister Gustavo Rangel said ten tank battalions had moved to the Colombian border. President Hugo Chavez gave this order on March 2. At the same time, he threatened to use military aircraft purchased from Russia against Colombia and expelled the Colombian ambassador from Caracas.

The Kaliningrad region is trying to become part of tourist Europe Almost all countries of the European Union are literally penetrated by an extensive, convenient network of bike trails with good infrastructure. In the West, it is considered good manners to ride a bicycle, because pedaling is environmentally friendly. Europeans are proud that a cyclist, for example, from France can easily get to Poland along a bike path - there are appropriate routes and maps.

President Putin recently signed a decree conferring special senior management ranks on a number of employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The RFU President wants to find out how much Russian football is worth The Russian Football Union (RFU) yesterday published estimates of income and expenses for the current year. The budget turned out to be a record in the entire history of the national federation. “The psychological mark of a billion rubles has been overcome,” reported RFU President Vitaly Mutko and named the general parameters. His organization will spend 1.469 billion this year and earn 1.424 billion rubles.

Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport yesterday accepted into operation the reconstructed second runway (Runway-2) and entered into an agreement to participate in the reconstruction of another airport - Irkutsk. Both events were sanctified by the presence of the head of the Federal Air Transport Agency (Rosaviation) Evgeny Bachurin, who even personally took to the skies on board the aircraft that made the first (test) takeoff from the updated runway and landing on it.

On the European territory of Russia, the weather, thanks to the Atlantic cyclones, is very warm, typical for the next spring month - April. And cyclones will continue to supply warm and humid ocean air in abundance. On Thursday, the central regions will be between two cyclones, which will minimize the chance of precipitation. In the north-west of Russia, with the approach of the next Atlantic cyclone, precipitation will begin.

Chronicle of sporting events The basketball players of the Perm “Ural Great”, from which a group of Croatian coaches led by Drazen Anzulovic recently retreated under existing contracts, dropped out of the fight for the FIBA-Europe Cup. In the quarterfinal series up to two victories according to the “1--1--1” scheme, the Permians lost to the Estonian team “Tartu Rock”.

The Moscow City Duma without a fight renounced the right to endorse long-term targeted programs of the mayor's office The target program for the overhaul of apartment buildings in Moscow, adopted at the end of last year, with a seven-year budget of 490 billion rubles. may become the last high-budget project of the capital's authorities, in the adoption of which city parliamentarians took part.

The United States is gradually resuming its military presence in Uzbekistan Yesterday a loud sensation almost occurred in the post-Soviet space.

The Central Bank intends to adjust banks' contributions to the deposit insurance fund The Bank of Russia intends to prepare amendments to the law on deposit insurance within the next two weeks, according to which banks will begin to contribute funds to the compulsory deposit insurance fund depending on deposit rates.

The government is unable to stop rising food prices Inflation for February exceeded official forecasts. Even the preliminary forecasts of an impartial observer, Rosstat, turned out to be incorrect, suggesting that this February will completely copy last year’s with an inflation rate of 1.1%. The final estimates of the Federal Statistics Service for February published yesterday showed a figure of 1.2%. Over the past month, prices for milk, bread and vegetables have risen the most in the country.

On Tuesday, the Russian athletics team flew to Spain, where the World Indoor Championships will be held on March 7-9. At the upcoming championship, domestic athletes plan to win 15 medals - five gold, silver and bronze. On the eve of the departure of the athletes, Vremya Novostei correspondent Olga ERMOLINA spoke with the head coach of the national team Valentin MASLAKOV. — Valentin Mikhailovich, how significant is the upcoming championship for us, given that this is an Olympic season?

Evening of Andrei Khrzhanovsky and exhibition of Irina Zatulovskaya Today the problem is insensitivity to details: in assessments, judgments, formulations. They have almost dismantled the openwork structure of cultural languages ​​into plebeian slogans and wretched slogans.