Vladimir Putin has reduced the number of deputy heads of Rosprirodnadzor Prime Minister Vladimir Putin yesterday supported the personnel initiative of the head of Rosprirodnadzor Vladimir Kirillov. The government press service reported that the prime minister signed a decree reducing the number of deputy heads of the environmental department from four to three. As Rosprirodnadzor told Vremya Novostei, the decision on who will be laid off will be made after a qualification exam.

About the first Russian biography of Jim Morrison No, this is not a typo - for the first time in Russia, a biography of Jim Morrison, frontman of the legendary group The Doors, written by a Russian author has been published. Aleksey Polikovsky, a journalist who once worked for that same “Rovesnik” magazine, a cult magazine for all music lovers born in the 70s, shouldered this difficult, thankless work on his shoulders.

News agencies report the news: police officers detained two people who were filming the film “The Mummy 3” using very high quality equipment in the hall of a Moscow cinema. Apparently, this very quality became the main evidence against young people suspected of piracy. In general, they found the switchman again. Like, we don’t yawn, the fight against piracy is underway: stalls are being checked, discs are being broken, and now the criminals have been caught red-handed.

The government received a draft country development strategy until 2020 The long-suffering long-term concept of the country's socio-economic development until 2020 was submitted to the government last night. The Ministry of Economic Development spent more than two years developing it. At the same time, it was absolutely clear that a document of such scale and complexity would always be doomed to criticism.

Next Monday, the famous British actor will appear on two central channels at once Last Monday, the Kultura TV channel was supposed to finish showing the first season of Peter Kingdom, but because of the memorial program about Solzhenitsyn, the episode was postponed, and now we will only be able to see it on the screen on next Monday. Following it, on the same evening, “Culture” staged the first episode of the second season - and will continue to show it on Mondays.

Russian arms exports break records In 2008, Russia should sell weapons worth a record $8.5 billion. This was stated yesterday by the director of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSMTC) Mikhail Dmitriev. This information appeared on the eve of the opening of the third international salon of arms and military equipment MVSV-2008, which will be held from August 21 to 24 at the Exhibition Center on Krasnaya Presnya in Moscow.

Watch from August 7 on Moscow screens “The Mutant Chronicles” (USA, 2007, Simon Hunter). An extremely cheeky and primitively ferocious variation on the theme of the board game of the same name. In 2707 (this is not a typo), a team of daredevils led by the mercenary Hunter (Thomas Jane - “Dreamcatcher”, “The Punisher”, “The Mist”) goes to the rear of the underground mutants who have captured the planet.

The Ministry of Economic Development has determined the criteria for the future of the Russian MFC The Ministry of Economic Development has determined the criteria for creating an international financial center (IFC) in Russia. This is stated in the document “Basic provisions for the creation of the MFC” prepared by the ministry, which was sent for approval to the departments.

A new domestic quality standard has been developed for drug manufacturers The transition of the entire domestic pharmaceutical industry to the international quality standard GMP (good manufactured practice) and the legislative consolidation of this set of rules seems to be a matter of an increasingly distant future. Significantly more distant than 2010, which is officially considered the date of transition to the new standard.

A new stage has begun in the life of the United Russia party. The presidential and parliamentary elections passed, then the old dream of United Russia came true - they found a new leader in the person of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. After these events, there was talk of significant internal party reforms. At the next, X congress, which will be held on November 20, United Russia is going to amend its charter.

Tomorrow, Deputy Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency Olli Heinonen will arrive in Tehran. During the year he visited Iran more than once, but this visit will take place against an unfavorable background. The Iranians have not given the world community an answer to the proposal to provide economic assistance to Tehran in response to its suspension of uranium enrichment work.

A stormy Atlantic cyclone is leaving the European territory of Russia, giving way to a ridge of high pressure. However, the northern winds of the rear part of the cyclone contribute to the influx of cold Arctic air, so you should not count on warming. In the northwestern regions it is only +13...+18оС, on Thursday the air will warm up to +16...+21оС, however, small short-term rains are still possible in places.

Five rounds were played at the Grand Prix tournament in Sochi. The leadership of three grandmasters with an asset of “plus one” with such a balanced composition looks quite natural. But this state of affairs was preceded by a real leapfrog, which was the result of gross mistakes by the grandmasters. After Teimour Radjabov beat the obvious outsider Mohamed Al-Modiahi in the first round, and Alexander Grischuk beat Sergei Karjakin, there were no surprises.

The educational process on anti-terrorism misfired An unusual “gift” was presented yesterday by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Prosecutor General’s Office of Kyrgyzstan to a delegation of American senators headed by the leader of the democratic majority, Senator Harry Reid, who arrived in Bishkek the day before.

Russia will make it easier for foreign specialists to enter It appears that the side effects of an overly centralized foreign labor quota system are leading federal officials, if not to reform it entirely, to abolish the quota in some cases. Inadequate assessment of the needs of regional labor markets for foreign specialists has already led to a shortage of senior managers.