According to lawyers, the indictment repeats not only most of the wording of the charges, but also arithmetic errors in calculating damages. Judging by the fact that Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev have already been found guilty of a number of charges, the sentence may be close to what the state prosecutor is asking for. All the talk that Khodorkovsky and Lebedev might receive suspended sentences appears to have been unfounded.

From the main pop diva Alla Pugacheva, the Ministry of Natural Resources passed to the country's chief electrician Anatoly Chubais. True, no rivers flow along Chubais’s dacha and there are no protected reservoirs either. However, the Ministry of Natural Resources announced a targeted inspection of Chubais’s dacha. The inspection was a great success: no violations were found during the construction of the dacha, which was recorded based on the results of two hours of work.

While there were disputes about the scheme by which Gazprom would absorb Rosneft, Bogdanchikov was growing the company with the donated assets of YUKOS. He continues to do this now, but Gazprom will not be able to benefit either from the fruits of his labors or from Rosneft itself. Vedomosti reports the existence of a document from which it follows that Gazprom has come to terms with the loss of Rosneft.

As Kommersant reports, Titov’s press service released a message that its boss had suspended his membership in the Social Democratic Party of Russia. They say that Titov, as governor of the entire Samara people, deprived himself of membership in the SDPR in the name of working with all institutions of civil society. Titov, who has previously been in at least three political parties, probably knows from his own experience that this is a hindrance.

The amount of claims against RAO UES for 2001 amounts to more than $130 million. Tax officials believe that the company unreasonably did not include in the tax base part of the profit that went towards new construction. The energy holding does not agree with this and claims that they legally used the benefit that existed before 2002. The company hopes to defend its case in court. Our tax authorities have learned not only to apply laws retroactively, but also to repeal them retroactively.

Thus, the leader of the unrecognized republic confirmed the pro-Russian orientation of his policy and its independence from Tbilisi. Russia got a chance to stir things up by accepting Bagapsh's risky proposal. But, most likely, the proposal will remain unclaimed. It is one thing to regularly receive leaders of unrecognized republics in Moscow, and quite another to interact with these same republics in practice as absolutely sovereign states.

The Radio station "Echo of Moscow" is located in a skyscraper on New Arbat. And on the surrounding floors, from Soviet times, different ministries and departments live-apparently, quite important, because among other bells and whistles there is a VIP lift in the building. I went into it once-by mistake, of course. Just the doors opened - well, I entered. Together with me it was done by several more people. In the elevator on the chair, the buttons sat an elevator. - Maybe let's go?