On Thursday night, Alexander Khabarov, the leader of the powerful Uralmash criminal group and a lesser-known city Duma deputy, known throughout the city, suddenly died in a pre-trial detention center in the city of Yekaterinburg. There is some confusion about the reasons for his death: the pre-trial detention center first called and said that Khabarov died of heart failure, and then they called back fifteen minutes later and said that Khabarov had hanged himself in his cell.

The official representatives of Russia at a session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe hastened to dismiss the resolution adopted by the Assembly in the Yukos case. They accused European parliamentarians of bias and one -sidedness. In fact, both the report of Sabina Loytkhoizer-Schnarrenberger and the resolution are legally verified, taking into account even the smallest details of the documents.

“The fascist punks were led by grown men in civilian clothes,” say those who held the defense at the headquarters. They have no doubt that the shaven-headed freaks were set on them by representatives of the FSB. This version looks very plausible, given that the NBP takes a consistent and active position on the issue of abolishing benefits - in many regions they are the organizers of anti-government demonstrations and rallies.

Particularly dramatic episodes of the tragic incident were demonstrated twice. In general, the plot is permeated with quite fair sympathy for the driver who was trying to get his family out of the aggressive crowd. You just need to understand what caused the shocking report to appear on a sterile TV channel.

We congratulate all readers of the Daily Journal on the outstanding success of Marat Safin. Today, nothing could save his opponent in the final, Leighton Hewitt: neither his native walls, nor the support of a fifteen-thousand-seat stadium, nor the help of local line judges. Safin simply knows how to play tennis better - he literally swept Hewitt off the court. The result was a victory in the Grand Slam tournament, the second in his career.

On Friday, January 28, the regular session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe ended. The news that came from Strasbourg during the week concerned primarily the “main topics” discussed at the plenary sessions of the Assembly. And all the topics are unpleasant. Events in Georgia, Ukraine, again the “YUKOS case”... There remained, however, the hope that not a word would be said about Chechnya.