Roszdravnadzor discovered anonymous drugs on the market The White House may have to deal with another high-profile scandal involving the discovery of “counterfeit drugs” on the Russian pharmaceutical market.

America hasn't learned Robert McNamara's lessons Today in the United States they are paying their last respects to former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara (pictured) , who led the Pentagon at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Vietnam War. He died on July 6 at his home in Washington at the age of 94. “My husband was not sick, he died calmly, in his sleep,” his widow Diana Masieri Byfield told reporters.

Andrei Khrzhanovsky completed many years of work on a film about Brodsky The film “A Room and a Half, or a Sentimental Journey to the Homeland,” directed by Andrei Khrzhanovsky, by his own admission, took seven years to film. The result was 130 minutes of action, made up of fiction, documentary and animation material, which also included the previous half-hour film “A Cat and a Half,” shown for the first time in 2002.

DIA promises a reduction in the number of Russian banks by the end of the year Approximately 60 more Russian credit institutions may lose their banking licenses by the end of this year. This was stated yesterday by the General Director of the Deposit Insurance Agency (DIA) Alexander Turbanov (pictured) . He did not limit himself to just one forecast.

Alexey Kudrin outlined the timing of the global economic recovery “Next year the crisis is expected to continue; economic recovery will take several years.

Israel and Russia will compete in the Davis Cup quarterfinals For three days, starting on Friday, the Davis Cup quarterfinal match between Israel and Russia will be held on the court of Tel Aviv's 12,000-seat Nokia Arena. On the same days, other meetings of this round of the unofficial men's team world championship will take place, the main prize of which is the “Silver Salad Bowl”.

From July 1, 50% of all electricity in Russia is sold on the free market. How do German power engineers assess the process of liberalization of the Russian electric power industry? How negatively do the current global crisis turmoil affect their investment activity in Russia? Lutz FELDMANN, member of the board of the largest foreign partner of the Russian energy industry, the German concern E.ON, answered questions from Berlin correspondent of Vremya Novostei Yuri Shpakov.

They are trying to return the historical name to the oldest station in Moscow A few years after the completion of the last wave of renaming Russian cities and streets, railway workers unexpectedly decided to participate in the noble cause of restoring historical justice. Yesterday, reports appeared with reference to the order of the head of Russian Railways, Vladimir Yakunin, that the oldest station in Moscow - Leningradsky - was renamed Nikolaevsky. That's what it was called until 1924.

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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev outlined the stages of creating the Vostochny cosmodrome in the Amur region. 2008-2010 are allocated for design and survey work. The commissioning of first-stage facilities for the preparation and launch of unmanned spacecraft is scheduled for 2015, and the second-stage facilities for manned space flights are scheduled for 2018. From here, rockets, as Roscosmos plans, will deliver manned expeditions and cargo to the Moon, Mars and other planets.

The G8 heads of state, meeting these days in L'Aquila, Italy, signed a statement that to restore the financial system, "it is extremely important to decisively get rid of bad assets and recapitalize viable financial institutions." Moreover, this must be done in international cooperation on the basis of common principles and a transparent assessment of these assets. For Russia, as a member of the G8, such a statement obviously means a new stage in discussions on the problem of “bad” assets.

The Tour de France stage took place entirely in Spain The sixth stage of the 175 km multi-day Tour de France cycling race was won by Norwegian sprinter Thor Hushovd from the Swiss Cervelo Test Team. The route passed through the territory of Spain. The peloton started in the northeast of the Spanish province of Catalonia in Gerona and finished in Barcelona. The caravan will return to France only on Saturday, as tomorrow it will travel from Spain to the dwarf state of Andorra.

Screenings of short arthouse animation in Moscow People often ask: “Why do they make arthouse cartoons if audiences can’t see them, is it really just to show them several times to specialists and at festivals?” Here you can argue that festival cartoons are discoveries in art and technology, that it is here that professionals learn, and the profession moves forward, and animation in general as an original art form, but these conversations do not make it any easier for the audience.

Public discussion of the main urban planning document begins in Moscow Apparently, Moscow officials prefer to work on documents that long-term determine the city's construction policy in the summer, when ordinary citizens go to their dachas and on vacation. As the chief architect of the city, Alexander Kuzmin, told reporters yesterday, the updated master plan for the development of the city until 2025 will be presented to the general public on July 23.

Painting by Oleg Pavlov in the Tretyakov Gallery In the Exhibition Hall in Tolmachi, owned by the Tretyakov Gallery, a chamber exhibition of Oleg Pavlov, one of the elders of the Moscow painting workshop, is taking place without noisy advertising. It would be a shame to pass by: here is a selection of what has been created over seven decades, the true custodian of the Russian classical tradition.