Rosselkhoznadzor has partially banned the import of Brazilian meat and is preparing to allow the supply of vegetables and fruits from Turkey Rosselkhoznadzor has temporarily suspended the import of meat products from the territory of two Brazilian states - Pernambuco and Goiás.

Rosaviatsia tightens flight safety measures In September, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) will conduct an audit of the state of flight safety in Russia, the head of the Federal Civil Aviation Agency (Rosaviatsiya) Evgeny Bachurin said yesterday. According to him, the inspection, which will take ten days, will cover all aspects of flight safety: legislation, regulations and job descriptions, organizational structure and practice of relevant government bodies. Mr.

Yuri Luzhkov does not want to “lose Sevastopol” Foreign policy ambitions do not allow Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov to calmly look at events in Russia's neighbors. The capital's mayor, who has already been declared persona non grata in Ukraine and whom official Tbilisi clearly does not want to see even near the Georgian borders, yesterday again distinguished himself in the field of public diplomacy. During a discussion of the city program to support compatriots abroad, Mr.

Windows XP operating system is being buried alive Microsoft yesterday stopped shipping all versions of the Windows XP operating system. Software sellers and computer manufacturers can sell old stock only until the end of the year. True, the end of deliveries of Windows XP does not mean that you can forget about this operating system.

A film adaptation of Rasputin’s story “Live and Remember” has been released in Russia. The director of the film, Alexander Proshkin, talking about the filming, said that he was shocked by the state of the Russian village (they filmed not on the Angara, but on the lower Volga). Recently, at the Moscow festival, young director Katya Shagalova (competition film “Once Upon a Time in the Province”) also shared her bitter impression of how life is in Podolsk near Moscow.

Gazprom and Turkmenistan cannot agree on supply guarantees On Friday, July 4, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will pay a working visit to Turkmenistan on his way to the G8 summit in Japan. The key topic of negotiations with his colleague Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov will be cooperation in the energy sector, which has recently looked very ambiguous .

The 100th anniversary of the Tunguska meteorite was celebrated in Krasnoyarsk The anniversary of the anomalous phenomenon that excited Russia called the “fall of the Tunguska meteorite” (or fireball, fireball - a bright interplanetary body shaped like a fireball, burning in the upper layers of the atmosphere) can and should be celebrated with passion and talent. The Mikhail Prokhorov Foundation, Siberian Federal University, and Krasnoyarsk Museum Center did everything right.

The head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade is confident that he will learn about the processes taking place in Russian Technologies not from newspapers Management experiments continue in Russia. The Ministry of Industry is one of the most frequently reformed departments - either science and technology or energy are “attached” to it. In the government of Vladimir Putin, it was decided to combine regulation of industry with the sphere of trade .

Belarus is waiting for contractors within a month President Alexander Lukashenko demanded that the government speed up work on the creation of the first Belarusian nuclear power plant . “I am concerned that preparations for the construction of the nuclear power plant are going slowly, at least not as much as we would like,” he said. From the president’s words it followed that one of the main problems was finding a contractor.

Chronicle of sporting events Law enforcement agencies of the Krasnodar Territory intend to strengthen control over the legality of the use by entrepreneurs of the symbols of the upcoming Olympics in Sochi in 2014.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky called the charges against him absurd, and Platon Lebedev himself accused the investigators of criminal matters “In the resolution I received to bring him as a defendant, the investigation repeated the absurdity that I had stolen all of YUKOS’s oil over six years of activity,” this is how Mikhail Khodorkovsky reacted yesterday to the charge that the Investigative Committee of the Russian Prosecutor’s Office (SKP) brought against him on Monday .

One hundred years ago, the first universal distress signal appeared Exactly one hundred years have passed since the day when the Berlin International Convention came into force, according to which the SOS radiotelegraph signal was adopted as an international distress signal at sea: three dots - three dashes - three dots. This combination of dots and dashes, the simplest for the human ear, has saved hundreds of thousands of human lives at sea during its use.

The day after tomorrow, July 4, the first round of negotiations on a new basic agreement between Russia and the European Union begins in Brussels. The document should replace the outdated Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (PCA) between Russia and the EU, prepared in the early 1990s. The path to the start of negotiations was delayed due to attempts by Poland and Lithuania to use their veto power to sort out relations with Russia.

The middle zone and the Volga region still remain at the mercy of a high, stormy cyclone that circles over the Middle Volga. It contains a lot of moisture reserves, and due to daytime convection in the second half of the day, thunderstorm activity intensifies, and rains, even heavy ones, fall not only near the center of the cyclone, but also on its outskirts. This is exactly the weather expected over the next two days.

As one would expect, an unspoken information competition between the country’s two leaders is actually beginning in Russia against the backdrop of competition in their ratings. Quantitatively, Dmitry Medvedev seems to be winning the information duel between the two kings.