FAS proposes to limit the shares of chain pharmacy companies in municipal districts The next postponement of the government’s consideration of the draft law “On Trade” will make it possible to add a number of new restrictive measures to the document, including those related to pharmacy chains. The other day, the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) proposed amending the still crude document.

The discoverer of Machu Picchu chose gold over fame George Lucas and Steven Spielberg seemed to be in a bit of a hurry with the filming of the fourth installment of Indiana Jones. A group of historians, including representatives of Peru, the USA, Great Britain and France, recently unveiled a very entertaining story in the spirit of screenwriters from a Hollywood film factory.

Human rights activists calculated the percentage of contract soldiers' combat capability The federal target program for transferring the armed forces to a contract basis ended last year, but a full-fledged professional army has not emerged in Russia. Human rights organizations note massive violations of the rights of military personnel when concluding contracts, the most common of which is forcing conscripts to sign a contract for three years of service.

Group B: Germany, Austria, Poland, Croatia Everything was mixed up in group "B". Ethnic Poles play for the German national team, Germans play for Austria, and for many football players from Poland and Croatia, the German Bundesliga has long been their home. But the teams are far from good neighborly relations - they are divided by the long-standing enmity of fans. Germany (bookmaker William Hill's estimate for qualifying from the group is 4/6).

An action to support Russian theater initiatives was held for the sixth time This project arose several years ago on the initiative of actor Yevgeny Mironov, with the moral participation of Vladislav Surkov and the material participation of his friendly cultural foundation “Egida”. With the aim of providing assistance, first of all, to the theater province, and in general to new, young, interesting endeavors. It's a good thing.

The new head of the Federal Drug Control Service has adjusted the department's policy FSKN Director Viktor Ivanov, who replaced Viktor Cherkesov in this post , yesterday for the first time in his new capacity assessed the state of affairs in the area entrusted to him. Speaking at a coordination meeting in Rostov-on-Don, he said that the drug situation in the country “remains extremely tense” and that “a radical change has not yet occurred.” Under Mr.

CIS summit sets records Seven bilateral meetings in five hours, plus one plenary session and one working lunch, not counting joint photography - this is what Dmitry Medvedev’s working day looked like yesterday, which he spent near St. Petersburg as the host of the next informal CIS summit.

Austrian airline could be privatized Aeroflot and Air France-KLM are interested in purchasing a state stake in Austrian Airlines, the Austrian weekly Format reported in its latest issue. According to the publication, both companies have already established contracts with Austrian investment banks, which they intend to engage as consultants in the possible privatization of Austrian.

Yesterday Ukraine found itself on the brink of a political crisis. The ruling "orange" coalition of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc (BYuT) and the pro-presidential faction Our Ukraine - People's Self-Defense (NUNS) lost its majority in parliament after two deputies left it - one from BYuT, the other from NUNS. Now the “orange” have 225 votes left, with the minimum required 226. President Viktor Yushchenko, who was in St.

Group A: Portugal, Czech Republic, Switzerland and Türkiye Despite the fact that the “group of death” is considered to be the one that included the finalists of the last World Cup, as well as Holland and Romania, this does not mean that in the remaining quartets the fight for reaching the playoffs will be less fierce. In the same group “A”, any of the four teams can be considered a real contender for spots in the quarterfinals, although one favorite is still singled out. More out of habit.

Russia and the United States differed in their assessments of the slow development of bilateral economic relations On the eve of the start of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, some of its participants decided to talk about the prospects for relations with one country, but a very important one. At the Russian-American round table it turned out that relations are developing more slowly than both sides would like, but they understand the reasons for this in completely different ways.

Chubais and Gaidar demand that the authorities create a “Russian flow” in the gas industry The coming cold winter will lead to a severe crisis in Russia's gas and energy supply with unpredictable consequences for the development of the country's economy and social sphere. As Vremya Novostei learned, a letter with such a disappointing forecast was written to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin by two Russian citizens signed “A.B.” Chubais and E.T.

On Monday, at the next meeting of the government presidium, the results of the 2007 budget will be summed up, a source in the government apparatus said. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will do this for his two predecessors at once - ex-premiers Mikhail Fradkov and Viktor Zubkov. The revenue side of the 2007 budget was exceeded by 4.5%. In physical terms, it amounted to 7 trillion 781 billion rubles.

Russia and Cyprus will defend UN resolutions together Tomorrow, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cyprus, Markos Kyprianou (pictured) , arrives in Moscow for a two-day visit. He will hold consultations with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov. This month, Kyprianou has already visited France, as well as the UK (where he was part of the Cypriot delegation led by President Dimitris Christofias, elected on February 24). Mr. Kyprianou will come to Moscow alone.

Deputies want to make taxes socially oriented At high speed, the State Duma began discussing a package of tax amendments introduced by Vladimir Putin’s government last week. The relevant subcommittee and committee amendments passed without any problems. Deputies of the previous convocation can only wonder why their own amendments of similar content were previously blocked by the Ministry of Finance. The tax package was introduced in four bills.