Personnel changes in the leadership of the armed forces Personnel reform of the Russian Armed Forces, which actually began back in February last year with the appointment of the then head of the Federal Tax Service Anatoly Serdyukov to the post of Minister of Defense, continues.

The Duma Defense Committee wants military specialists to receive 25% more than civilians On the eve of the end of the first session of the State Duma of the fifth convocation, the chairman of the defense committee, Colonel-General Viktor Zavarzin, who rarely appears in public, convened journalists and told them about the results of the committee’s work.

Dmitry Medvedev held negotiations with key Western partners The Windsor Hotel on the shores of Lake Toya, where the G8 leaders gathered yesterday, was covered in fog in the morning. The night before, it enveloped the airport in the nearby town of Chitose, where heads of state were flying. But hopes remained that bad weather would not reach Windsor and that the G8 leaders would be able to see the unique beauty of the local nature.

Condoleezza Rice to sign missile defense agreement with Czech Republic Today Prague welcomes US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. The guest must sign a bilateral agreement on the deployment of an American radar in the Czech Republic as part of the missile defense system (ABM). In the fall, the document will go to the Czech parliament for ratification. Negotiations on the construction of an American radar station (radar) in the Czech Republic have been ongoing since March 2007.

Russian drawing and watercolor in the Perm State Art Gallery In terms of the composition of names and the breadth of genres represented - portrait, landscape, historical, animalistic compositions, illustrations, sketches of paintings - the exhibition of drawings and watercolors now deployed in the Perm Art Gallery is a real museum within a museum. In total, about seven hundred works are presented here.

Four people died in another explosion in Abkhazia Mutual accusations between Georgia and Abkhazia regarding their involvement in Sunday’s explosions of four charges in a row at the side of the road near the bridge over the border river Inguri had not yet been heard when a new explosion in the zone of the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict claimed the lives of four people.

"A Just Russia" does not give up hopes of becoming the second party in power The Social Revolutionaries took heart.

A few days ago, the vicar of one of the London churches was taken to hospital in a pre-heart attack condition. When the doctor asked what exactly had caused him so much stress, the vicar sadly admitted that he had performed the funeral service for a 15-year-old boy who had been stabbed to death by teenagers from a nearby street. “Why are you taking everything so personally,” the doctor complained. “But how should I perceive this,” the vicar was indignant, “after all, children kill children!

The Serbian government yesterday approved an energy cooperation agreement with Russia , which provides for the sale of a controlling stake in the state oil concern NIS to Gazprom Neft, the laying of the South Stream gas pipeline through Serbian territory and the construction of a gas storage facility near Banatski Dvor.

Kaliningrad Governor Georgy Boos rode with bikers and sang songs to them Ordinary people are even more interested in how the political elite relaxes than in how they work. Georgy Boos, the head of the westernmost Russian region - the Kaliningrad region, has two weaknesses: he loves motorcycles and singing with a guitar. And if these passions are combined, you get the “Night Wolves” bike show, which in recent years has literally “registered” in Kaliningrad.

Vladimir Potanin headed the board of directors of Norilsk Nickel and replaced the general director of this company The first meeting of the board of directors of Norilsk Nickel in its new composition (with the participation of representatives of the new shareholder - RUSAL), which lasted more than five hours, became sensational. The general director of the nickel giant, Denis Morozov, has been dismissed. His place was taken by Deputy General Director of Interros Sergei Batekhin. Mr.

CLUBS Alexander Pisklakov. Blues, piano. "Blue Bird" , 19.30. "Latino". Author's music. Duet of Georgy Osmolovsky (violin) and Alexander Vinitsky (guitar). "Union of Composers" , 20.00. Mikhail "Petrovich" Sokolov (vocals, guitar) and Hot Rod Band . Blues. BB King , 8 p.m. Ash. Igor Nadezhdin, pianist and organizer of the group, lived in Israel for a long time, where the idea was born to assemble a team playing brazil jazz. The repertoire of song arrangements by A.-K.

The collected works of Zhukovsky have grown into a ballad volume The publication of the next (by numbering - third) volume of the Complete Works and Letters of Zhukovsky (M., “Languages ​​of Slavic Cultures”) is an undoubtedly joyful and significant event.

“In the Ella Valley” on Moscow screens Vietnam veteran (very little time will pass before this character will become a thing of the past on American screens as a class), military policeman Hank (Tommy Lee Jones), who lost his eldest son in peacetime, receives a bleak message about his youngest: he, having enlisted in Iraq, went AWOL, after which nothing was heard of him until his mutilated remains were discovered on the outskirts of a military base.

The 62nd International Avignon Festival has opened In the last few years, one of the oldest, most famous and prestigious theater festivals in the world has acquired not only a new, young director, but also a tradition of inviting a new artistic director of the program from among the creators every year. This director not only brings several of his performances to the festival at once, but also determines its direction as a whole.