The Khamovnichesky Court of Moscow was critical of the testimony of high-ranking defense witnesses in the second criminal case against Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev.

Why did the state bank enter the collective investment market only now and how is it going to attract clients? On December 10, 2010, the Management Company (MC) of Sberbank began selling shares of three mutual funds for retail clients - a stock fund, a bond fund and a mixed investment fund.

Aeroflot has decided to allocate an amount of $20 million for compensation to passengers whose flights were delayed or canceled due to bad weather in the last days of December. Interfax on Thursday. Andrey Sogrin, the head of the company’s press service, told According to him, passengers forced to wait for their flights to operate will be paid the cost of a one-way ticket - regardless of whether they ultimately used Aeroflot's services or not.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that inflation in the outgoing year will be lower than in 2009. “Inflation is unlikely to be higher than in 2009, but rather will be lower,” Interfax quotes the head of government .

Mikhail Khodorkovsky's lawyer Vadim Klyuvgant on Thursday, during a break in the announcement of the verdict in the Yukos case in the Khamovniki Court of Moscow, expressed confidence that judge Viktor Danilkin will announce the prison term for the defendants today. As a Forbes correspondent reports from the courthouse, Klyuvgant said: “There is no doubt that this (announcement of the prison term) will happen today.” Read more details of the verdict in the online broadcast .

Khodorkovsky's verdict as a personal drama of one judge Judge Danilkin did not go down in history. He nevertheless got involved in it, 100% agreeing with the prosecutor’s demand in the Khodorkovsky-Lebedev case. But he left the current bosses wide scope for political maneuver. You can behave extremely harshly - and then Mikhail Khodorkovsky will not leave almost until the end of the next presidential term (this is Vladimir Putin’s direct political interest).

The Tel Aviv District Court on Thursday found former Israeli President Moshe Katsav guilty of rape and other sexual crimes, Reuters reports. After a year and a half of closed hearings, a panel of three judges found two episodes of Katsav’s rape of a subordinate when he was Minister of Tourism in 1996-1999 proven. The defendant resigned as head of state in June 2007, two weeks before the expiration of his seven-year presidential term, RIA Novosti recalls .

Airports and airlines in the Moscow air hub have stabilized their operations, the Federal Air Transport Agency said in a statement. Last weekend, the Moscow region was hit by freezing rain, which seriously disrupted the life of a number of regions; in Moscow, disruptions occurred at the capital's largest airports, recalls RIA Novosti . According to the Association of Tour Operators of Russia, delays affected more than 20,000 people.

New Year's tricks of officials when organizing their corporate events, banquets and concerts They say how you celebrate the New Year is how you will spend it. This year the sign came true for all of Russia. Don't believe me? Let's see how the New Year's banquet was organized last year by the Presidential Administration (UDP RF).

The Khamovnichesky Court of Moscow found that Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev fraudulently obtained positive auditors' opinions. Viktor Danilkin, who presided over the trial, announced this on Thursday during the announcement of the verdict in the second criminal case against the former leaders of YUKOS.

Judge Viktor Danilkin of the Khamovnichesky Court of Moscow, presiding over the trial in the second criminal case against Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev, during the announcement of the verdict on Thursday, made another contradictory conclusion, incriminating the accused for publishing financial statements in English. reports this Interfax . According to Danilkin, YUKOS kept double accounting and, in order to hide this fact, the company’s reports were published exclusively in English.

Former head of YUKOS Mikhail Khodorkovsky and ex-head of MFO MENATEP Platon Lebedev are not going to apply for pardon. Khodorkovsky's lawyer Vadim Klyuvgant stated this on Friday. He confirmed that the verdict of the Khamovnichesky Court will be appealed. “In addition, we will raise the issue of bringing those responsible for this illegal prosecution to criminal liability,” the lawyer emphasized, as quoted by Interfax .

Architect Alexander Zusik about who, why and how much builds palaces in Russia In 1976, a young architect from Frunze, Alexander Zusik, won a competition to build the building of the Central Committee of the party in the capital of Kyrgyzstan, the city of Frunze (now Bishkek) - and actually built it 8 years later. The buildings of regional committees, ministries and departments were a kind of palaces of the Soviet political elite.

Director of the Domodedovo airport complex Vyacheslav Nekrasov has been relieved of his position. reported this on Thursday Interfax , citing a source in the aviation industry.

Judge Viktor Danilkin of the Khamovnichesky Court of Moscow announced the verdict in the second criminal case against Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev. The ex-head of YUKOS and the former head of the MFO MENATEP were sentenced to 13.5 years in prison each, to be served in a general regime colony. Let us remind you that the prosecutor's office demanded 14 years in prison for entrepreneurs. The judge clarified that in total Khodorkovsky and Lebedev will spend 14 years in prison each.