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.

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.

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.

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 .

Mike Patton. A Perfect Place (Ipecac). Mike Patton is a wonderful avant-garde vocalist who became famous throughout the world as the frontman of the band Faith No More, the main “starters” of alternative in the 90s. Patton's credo in all projects is a combination of incompatible styles, mixing everything with everything. This soundtrack (for a short Australian film) is not very hostile towards the listener. Moderately hostile, so to speak. Unlike the group, let's say Fantomas.

Athens bronze medalists will not travel to Beijing At the end of last week, two world qualifying tournaments with the participation of Russian men's teams ended. And if no one initially counted on the field hockey team in Chile (everything immediately became clear after two crushing defeats with a score of 0:8), then the fiasco of the water polo players in Romania can be called a serious nuisance. Especially considering that at the previous Olympics in Athens our team won bronze medals.

Boris Ekimov became the winner of the Alexander Solzhenitsyn Prize The eleventh decision of the jury of the Alexander Solzhenitsyn Prize is equal parts predictable and joyful. Boris Petrovich Ekimov (born in 1938, lives in the city of Kalach-on-Don) is perhaps the most indisputable active Russian writer.

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.

Denis MOROZOV, General Director of Norilsk Nickel, answered questions from Vremya Novostey columnist Irina TSYRULEVA. — How many representatives can Vladimir Potanin and Mikhail Prokhorov appoint to the board of directors today? -- Depending on the turnout of shareholders at the meeting. But if we take into account that large shareholders now have about 55-60% of the shares, then they can nominate about six or seven candidates to the board of directors.

Ksenia Yudaeva became the chief economist of Sberbank The scientific director of the Center for Strategic Research, Ksenia Yudaeva, became a senior adviser to the president and chief economist of Sberbank. The press service of the credit institution reported this yesterday. Ms. Yudaeva will head the newly created center for macroeconomic research at Sberbank. It was known at the beginning of the year that Ms. Yudaeva would go to work at Sberbank (see Vremya Novostey, February 14) .

Members of the board of directors of Norilsk Nickel do not want to be re-elected at an extraordinary meeting of shareholders MMC Norilsk Nickel, following the results of yesterday's meeting of the board of directors, announced the list of candidates for the new board. Interros President Vladimir Potanin and Onexim Group President Mikhail Prokhorov, who have been in the process of a conflictual division of assets for a year now, are the largest shareholders of MMC: Mr.

The first matches of the 1/8 finals of the second most important continental tournament of men's basketball clubs - the ULEB Cup - took place. At this stage, three Russian teams out of four that started in the competition continue to fight for the trophy. The prestige of our super league has been noticeably undermined by Khimki, which is now in second place in the national championship. The Moscow region team suffered a crushing defeat on its site from the Spanish Juventud from Badalona - 73:96.

Warm weather will remain in most of the European territory of Russia. In the regions of the north-west, precipitation in the form of sleet and rain, +1...+6оС. The central regions of European Russia will be at the mercy of stormy weather fronts on Thursday. So it will be cloudy here, with occasional precipitation in the form of sleet and rain.