The St. Petersburg City Court handed down a guilty verdict in the case of two people accused of complicity in the murder of State Duma deputy Galina Starovoitova in the fall of 1998. Vyacheslav Lelyavin was sentenced to 11 years in prison in a maximum security colony for complicity in the attempt on the life of a deputy. And the second - Pavel Stekhnovsky - was first sentenced to 2 years of strict regime for mediation in the illegal trafficking of weapons and ammunition.

Metropolitan Vitaly (Ustinov), who died in the Canadian city of Mansonville, is the last Orthodox bishop born in Tsarist Russia. However, he lived almost his entire life – almost 86 years – abroad, where he was taken as a 10-year-old cadet when General Wrangel’s troops were evacuated from Crimea. The fate of the Metropolitan is tragic: for many years he did everything that, in his opinion, should strengthen the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad (ROCOR).

The conflict that arose between the Vatican and the Muslim world in connection with Pope Benedict XVI's statements about Islam has been resolved, said Ali Bardakoglu, head of Turkey's Department of Religious Affairs. “Now we can talk again. Cardinal Ratzinger can safely come to Turkey,” Bardakoglu said.

Imagine that you have a friend. Close – you have been communicating almost daily for seven years, and you talk and think about him very often. And after such close communication, another friend of yours asks you: “What do you think Vladimir Vladimirovich (that’s the friend’s name) will do if you lend him money?” You think for a long time, wrinkle your forehead, then slowly answer: “So what? He will, of course. Or he won’t give it back..." Exactly in this situation regarding V.V.’s plans.

RAO UES of Russia proposes to gradually abandon gas supplies to consumers at government prices. Instead, the holding under the leadership of Anatoly Chubais wants to introduce 3- and 5-year contracts, where gas prices would be tied to prices in Germany. It is more profitable for RAO UES of Russia itself to overpay for gas than to replace it with expensive fuel oil or coal. And Gazprom doesn’t seem to mind.

Today in the St. Petersburg Peter and Paul Cathedral, Empress Maria Fedorovna, the Danish Dagmar, the wife of Emperor Alexander III, was buried. They buried Maria Fedorovna Paphno. They came up with a beautiful legend that the coffin with the body of the Empress has made the same path as she herself 140 years ago, when she arrived from Denmark to St. Petersburg: from Copenhagen on the Danish ship to Kronstadt, from there to Peterhof and then to Petersburg.

After eight years of proceedings, the St. Petersburg City Court is finally due to announce a verdict in the case of the murder of Russian State Duma deputy Galina Starovoitova. Earlier, the state prosecutor asked to sentence the accused in this case, Vyacheslav Lelyavin, to 13 years and 4 months in prison, and Pavel Stekhnovsky to 4 years. But on September 22, the jury found only Lelyavin guilty. So today's sentence will only affect him.

The cordon around the building was lifted only after local authorities detained two Russian servicemen. Thus, six representatives of the Russian army and intelligence services are now in custody. As Georgian Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili stated, the detainees created a spy network operating throughout the country. Yesterday, 11 Georgian citizens were also arrested for criminal connections with the Russian military.

The new Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe, has just appointed Taro Aso as Minister of Foreign Affairs, and already the newly appointed head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has released a sensation: Japan, they say, is ready to compromise with Russia - we will once again discuss the problem of the Kuril Islands, come to an agreement and look for a common mutually acceptable solution .

In uniform A tit in the hands September 28, 2006 Anton Oresh There is no precedent right in Russia. Rather, we have an unprecedented law. But practically the case of Sychev is a precedent. His outcome can be approaching unscrupulously, as Sivakov’s lawyers, the Ministry of Defense and how state television made. That is: they fanned from the fly of the elephant, there was nothing special there - unpleasant, but accident.