The Sochi Internal Affairs Directorate will be headed by a “Varangian” from a disbanded unit Russian President Dmitry Medvedev continued personnel changes in the leadership of departments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. According to the decree signed by the president on Monday, three departments of internal affairs - the city of Sochi, as well as the Zelenograd and South-Eastern administrative districts of Moscow - received new chiefs.

Experts and representatives of the baking industry believe that price increases at the end of the year are inevitable. Experts and participants in the food market fear that the government’s attempts to contain price increases through tough administrative measures can have an effect in the short term, but threaten them with a new surge by the end of the year. According to Rosstat, consumer price growth has stopped accelerating over the past week, but so far the inflation rate has not decreased.

Israel must choose between peace and construction Peace talks between Palestinians and Israelis, which were restored with such difficulty in early September through American mediation, could break down within a week. Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas said the future of the negotiations will be decided by the Arab League, which will meet on October 4. The cause of the crisis in the negotiation process was the expiration of the moratorium on construction in Jewish settlements in the West Bank.

The World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships ended in Moscow, where Russian athletes, out of nine types of the program that were competed, were left without awards of the highest standard in only one. At the Olimpiyskiy Sports Complex, Vremya Novostei correspondent Olga ERMOLINA spoke with the President of the Russian Rhythmic Gymnastics Federation, head coach of the country's national team, Irina VINER.

The Kremlin chose four “ballerinas of the decade” At the word “gala concert,” consciousness mercilessly descends from the heights of tiaras and beautiful ballet legs and turns into a clicking adding machine, counting numbers, fees, a measure of status, the number of tours... Artistic revelations within the endless number of gala performances held in recent years time in our country can be counted on the fingers of one hand.

Barack Obama's closest advisers are leaving The close circle of the American president's most trusted associates may soon suffer new losses. The metropolitan newspaper The Washington Post predicts the imminent resignation of Rahm Emanuel, the chief of staff of the White House staff. In the 2012 elections, he intends to compete for the seat of mayor of Chicago, the city in which he and Barack Obama took their first steps in big politics.

CONCERTS Dub FX. Benjamin Stanford, known under the pseudonym Dub FX, is the most famous beatboxer in the world, performing in Moscow as part of the Cause & FX Tour in support of two new releases. Milk , 20.00. Ash. The repertoire of song arrangements by A.-K. Jobima, Brazilian classics, as well as works by group leader Igor Nadezhdin in Portuguese. Forte , 20.30. Evgeny Grechishchev. "Union of Composers" , 20.30. CLASSIC Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor, France).

The alleged leader of the Ingush underground waged regular litigation with the authorities The Russian FSB announced yesterday the detention of “one of the leaders of the illegal armed group “Caucasus Emirate” Issa Khashagulgov. Based on the position that, according to the intelligence services, he held in the ranks of the militants, this man could well be considered one of the closest associates of the leader of the North Caucasus separatists, Doku Umarov.

On Tuesday, the weather in the northwest and center of European Russia will be determined by a cyclone. There will be rain there, heavy in places, the wind will increase to 13--18 m/s, during the day in the North-West region +6...+11оС, in the Central region in the northern half +8...+14оС, in the southern half + 13...+18оС.

Barcelona went to Kazan in a good mood After five rounds of the Spanish Football Championship, none of the clubs broke away from their pursuers. The leader is Valencia with 13 points. The minimum gap is with Rubin's closest rival in the Champions League - Barcelona. Only Real are shaking a little, having lost points in the last round. Barcelona visited Bilbao, meeting with the local strong Athletic, and did not experience any serious problems, winning 3:1.

New puppet animation at the Krok festival One of the main discoveries of the current Krok is that young people have begun to make a lot of puppet animation, and good one at that. Of course, there are also quite prosaic reasons for this: with the progress of digital technology, stop-frame filming (and this is how object animation is shot frame-by-frame) has become cheap. Everyone has a digital camera of quite acceptable quality, which means that the only thing needed for shooting is a pavilion.

Dunno waited for Dmitry Medvedev Today President Medvedev will be able to personally check how his July order to remodel the Russian pavilion at the EXPO 2010 world exhibition in Shanghai has been fulfilled. The President then, in an unprecedented move, ordered to change the concept of the Russian exposition, having seen the reaction of exhibition visitors that was completely inappropriate from the point of view of modernization policy.

In the Novosibirsk and Chelyabinsk regions, the struggle for seats in future parliaments is intensifying The leader of the A Just Russia party and Speaker of the Federation Council Sergei Mironov continues his election trips to Russian regions. Last weekend he visited the Novosibirsk and Chelyabinsk regions, where elections to regional legislative assemblies will take place on October 10. In addition to the regional capitals, the speaker managed to stop by Magnitogorsk.

American doctors will receive new life-saving technology In the not too distant future, even the most severe traumatic brain injuries and injuries that cause significant blood loss will not be fatal for most victims. A new method of quickly cooling the human body to a temperature of 10 will help reduce by 90% mortality from quickly fatal injuries - such as multiple knife and gunshot wounds, as well as traumatic brain injuries, including as a result of road accidents. --15 degrees.

Japan and China continue their territorial dispute Japanese Government Secretary General Yoshito Sengoku yesterday demanded that China withdraw two patrol ships from the waters of the islands disputed by the two countries in the East China Sea. He also promised that the Land of the Rising Sun will seek from China the restoration of two Japanese patrol ships that were damaged during the detention of a Chinese trawler on September 7.