Roszdravnadzor collected data on paid services in domestic clinics Every year Russian state medical institutions provide more and more paid services and less and less free ones . Moreover, the more money the state allocates for healthcare within the framework of a national project, the more state medicine demands “real” money from citizens.

The Duma may approve amendments to the Constitution as early as Friday The constitutional amendments of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to extend the powers of the head of state and the State Duma to six and five years, respectively, will be considered by the House of Parliament this Friday. Perhaps the law will be adopted in three readings at once. The same fate awaits another presidential initiative concerning the establishment of government accountability to the Duma.

Due to the departure of Russia's first dancing couple Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin to new mentors, the athletes' coach Alexey Gorshkov was left without students. There were two ways to solve the problem - find a job abroad, and such offers were received, or stay in Russia and start training young athletes. Gorshkov chose the latter and did not leave the Odintsov skating rink near Moscow, which actually turned into an international sports center for training figure skaters.

VEB is preparing the next anti-crisis solutions Vnesheconombank has currently received applications for the allocation of funds as part of the government's anti-crisis program to refinance the external debts of Russian companies and banks totaling $75 billion. The head of VEB, Vladimir Dmitriev, told reporters about this yesterday. Applications from banks totaled $31 billion, and from companies - $44 billion.

Oil price forecasts of the Ministry of Finance and companies coincide Oil prices, which had stopped falling and even began to rise somewhat, began to fall again . On the New York Stock Exchange, a barrel of WTI standard was sold yesterday at $56.74, and in London the price of Brent was $53.04 per barrel, Russian Urals even fluctuated around the level of $50 per barrel.

Europeans will no longer measure the curvature of cucumbers The financial crisis has forced Europeans to take a new look at vegetables and fruits. And recognize as erroneous the standards previously introduced by the European Commission on the appearance of agricultural products, which blocked the way to the shelves of supermarkets in the Old World for crooked cucumbers, pale and knotty carrots, uneven watermelons, fused cherries and other supposedly inferior sources of vitamins.

The strongest chess players in the world gathered in Dresden The 38th World Chess Olympiad starts today in Dresden and will last until November 25. Teams from 154 countries are entered in the men's tournament, and from 116 countries in the women's tournament. The current forum differs from previous ones in fundamental innovations. The main thing is that for the first time, in terms of player representation, women are equal to men and teams have four main and one reserve players.

In Shanghai, Stepanek replaced the injured Roddick At the final tournament of the Association of Professional Tennis Players “Masters Cup” in Shanghai (China), matches of the second round of the group stage were played in the “red” quartet yesterday.

CLUBS Oleg Mityaev. Moscow Art Theater named after. M. Gorky , 19.00. Alexey Aigi and 4'33" and "Namghar" (music of Southern Siberia and Mongolia). As part of the forum of cultural intersections "Rose of the World-2008". House of Music , 19.00. Kirkincho sp. Music of the Andes: traditional Indian, Creole, Afro-Creole, as well as relatively recently formed musical styles based on them. CC "Dom" , 20.00. Sergey Kristovsky. Solo project of bass guitarist and co-founder of Uma2rman.

The Ministry of Transport supported Aeroflot's desire to obtain a blocking state stake in the second largest Russian airline, Sibir Airlines. True, at the same time the Ministry of Transport made it clear that it would not lobby for the deal through other federal departments, whose consent is necessary for the transfer of state property.

The Ministry of Defense formed all veterans in one column Veterans of the wars that Russia has waged within the memory of living generations are now united in the All-Russian Public Organization of Veterans of the Armed Forces. Its founding conference took place yesterday at the Cultural Center of the Russian Armed Forces in Moscow.

The dollar to ruble exchange rate reached its maximum in 2.5 years The change in the ruble exchange rate to the bi-currency basket and the increase in the Central Bank refinancing rate to 12% per annum intensified the fall of the domestic currency. In two days, the dollar exchange rate increased by more than 54 kopecks, to 27.47 rubles.

The true history of the Soviet naval station near Socotra Speculation about Moscow's plans to acquire naval bases outside the country has been supplemented with one more thing - today we are allegedly showing interest not only in the Syrian port of Tartus , but also in the Yemeni island of Socotra. In Russia, Socotra has only recently become known as a place of pilgrimage for ecotourists.

The new mayor promises to flood the city with tourists The number of tourists coming to Jerusalem should increase. This task is set by the newly elected mayor of Jerusalem, 49-year-old Nir Barkat. “Today, one of the most ancient cities in the world is visited by about a million tourists a year, while almost every second inhabitant of the earth dreams of coming to Jerusalem. We need to make the city even more attractive for tourists,” explained Roman Gurevich, head of Vremya Novostey.

Vladimir Putin told the Finns why Nord Stream is needed At yesterday's meeting in Moscow, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his Finnish counterpart Matti Vanhanen quite expectedly discussed two main topics in Russian-Finnish relations: the forestry issue and the progress of the Nord Stream gas pipeline construction project. But the statements following the meeting turned out to be not so predictable.