General medical examination of workers will help doctors The increase in healthcare spending not only made it possible to begin re-equipping district hospitals and building new high-tech medical care centers, but also brought mass medical examinations back to life. Yesterday, Minister of Health and Social Development Tatyana Golikova signed an order to conduct a total medical examination of working Russians insured in the compulsory health insurance system in 2008-2009.

Representatives of PPF were not allowed onto the board of directors of Ingosstrakh Representatives of the Czech PPF group - a minority shareholder of Ingosstrakh - will not sit on the board of directors of the insurer. This decision was made at an extraordinary meeting of the company's shareholders. Thus, the main owner of Ingosstrakh, the Basic Element holding, continues to use every opportunity to prevent PPF from managing the company .

Liechtenstein intends to find a seller of data on tax evaders Authorities in Liechtenstein have issued an international arrest warrant for Heinrich Kiber , suspected of disclosing confidential banking information that led to investigations into major tax evasion cases in several countries, the Associated Press reported yesterday, citing police in the principality.

The President of Ingushetia dismissed the entire executive branch President of Ingushetia Murat Zyazikov yesterday dismissed the government of the republic.

FAS accuses the capital authorities of being too zealous in the fight against landing stages The Federal Antimonopoly Service intervened in the conflict between the owners of landing stages and the Moscow authorities , which has been going on openly since the summer - it stood up for floating offices and restaurants that complained of harassment by capital officials.

The legendary almanac on the history of Russian art became the theme of the exhibition at the Tretyakov Gallery An exhibition has opened at the Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val - large and luxurious, like the magazine to which it is dedicated. The exhibition bears the polemical title "The Golden Fleece": At the Origins of the Avant-Garde." The golden stacks of the beautiful magazine became a threshold for Russian art, the line between former life and the twentieth century.

Gazprom and Naftogaz returned to the negotiating table Official Russian-Ukrainian gas negotiations have resumed in Moscow. Yesterday, the Naftogaz of Ukraine delegation, armed with the published directives of Viktor Yushchenko and oral instructions from Yulia Tymoshenko, spent the entire day at Gazprom.

The Peruvian fireball made it through the earth's atmosphere safe and sound The rock meteorite that fell in Peru last year did not behave as expected from ordinary fireballs colliding with our planet. Professor of geology Peter Schultz from Brown University (Rhode Island, USA) is sure of this.

After the arrest of Maxim Reznik, the St. Petersburg "Yabloko" is thrown into the street The date of the arrest of the leader of the St. Petersburg branch of Yabloko, Maxim Reznik, coincided with the “outgoing” date of letters sent by the St. Petersburg Committee for City Property Management (KUGI) to the regional branch of the party demanding to vacate the premises in house No. 46 on Mayakovsky Street by June 1 of this year.

The general layout of energy facilities until 2020 is replete with shortcomings and even strategic mistakes The Russian government yesterday published what RAO UES of Russia and the Ministry of Industry and Energy had been hiding for more than two years - the General Layout Scheme for Electric Power Facilities until 2020. As you know, Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov approved it on February 22 (see Vremya Novostey, February 28) , while work on it took almost three years.

"Ingush people" held a congress at a safe house The Ingush oppositionists decided to postpone the protest rally for several weeks, which, as the Vremya Novostei newspaper wrote, was scheduled for March 12. This decision was made by a supposedly extraordinary congress of the Ingush people, which, as its organizers say, took place on the night of March 9 in the second largest city of Ingushetia - Karabulak.

Russian inflation in European context In terms of food inflation, our country has surpassed almost all of the 27 EU countries, with the exception of the Baltic countries. This is evidenced by the figures in the published Rosstat report on changes in consumer prices for food in the countries of the European Union. Average European food inflation in January of this year (compared to the annual average for 2005) amounted to 11.1%. In January last year, this figure was 9.9%.

Russian clubs have rejuvenated their squads before the start of the Russian Championship The quietest off-season in the history of the Russian championships has ended. The deadline for Premier League clubs to apply ended last night. Each team had the right to register up to 60 players from the reserve and main squads to participate in the national championship starting tomorrow. But among these players there were almost no more stars of the first magnitude.

The Russian State Duma today will consider appeals from the parliaments of Abkhazia and South Ossetia to recognize their independence. Depending on the outcome of this discussion, tomorrow the Georgian parliament will formulate its position regarding Russian policy. Chairman of the Parliament of South Ossetia Znaur GASSIEV told Vremya Novostey about what decisions are expected from Russian deputies. — The State Duma has previously considered the situation in Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

CLUBS Sergei Yursky will perform at the “Color of Night” club, 21.00. Murcof & Tristano (Mexico - Luxembourg). Fernando Corona (Murcof) - electronics, Francesco Tristano - piano. Experimental electronics. "Home" , 20.00. "Radioicra": DJ Lev Gankin. One of the famous music critics, and part-time DJ, will play his favorite records at the Ikra club, 23.00. "Sanchez Thursdays": Junction SM (Switzerland), DJ Sanchez , VJ Addams . "Propaganda" , 0.00.