Kazakh border guard Vladislav Chelakh, who is accused of killing 14 colleagues at the Arkankergen post and a ranger, announced an attack on the Chinese border post, says witness Erzhan Moldagaliev, who serves in the Usharal border detachment and participated in Chelakh’s detention, Interfax reports. As Moldagaliev reported, on Monday during a court hearing in the Taldykorgan city court, during his arrest Chelakh said “that they were attacked by the Chinese.

Major Maxim Musatov will become the new commander of the Swifts aerobatic team. Until now, Musatov was a pilot of another aerobatic team of the Air Force - “Russian Falcons”, RIA Novosti reported on Monday . “Major Maxim Musatov will most likely become the new commander of the aerobatic team,” a source at the Lipetsk Aviation Center told the agency. Major Maxim Musatov is 33 years old, he is a first-class pilot from the Falcons of Russia aerobatic team from the Lipetsk Aviation Center.

A new episode may appear in the case of fraud with the property of the Ministry of Defense. The FSB began checking the circumstances of the closure of the Ryazan Museum of Military Automotive Equipment. It was disbanded in 2010 on the personal order of Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov, and the unique ZIS and ZIL cars driven by Yuri Gagarin, Fidel Castro and Nikita Khrushchev ended up in the capital’s Defense Ministry garage on Rublyovka. Some cars could even end up in private hands.

photo by Fotobank/Getty Images Price growth in the American economy is accelerating for the fourth month in a row. Although inflation in Russia is three times higher, consumer losses in the two countries can already be compared Exactly ten years ago, when I was studying at university and working a little part-time, my daily diet was dull and simple. One Alpen Gold chocolate bar in a stall near the Kuznetsky Most metro station cost 12 rubles.

The TNK-BP company discovered a new oil field - Malouimskoye - as part of the Uvat project. Recoverable reserves of the new field are 5 million tons of oil. “Based on the results of the studies, the potential of the field in category C1+C2 is estimated at 5 million tons of recoverable reserves,” says a statement published on the TNK-BP website .

The American bank Morgan Stanley is close to completing a deal to purchase and further expand the Moscow Metropolis shopping center for more than $1 billion, Bloomberg reports , citing three people familiar with the negotiations. According to the agency's interlocutors, the deal could be completed in the coming weeks. The Metropolis shopping center is located in the north-west of Moscow, not far from the highway to the city airport. It was opened in 2009. Its area is 80,000 km m.

The ruling United Russia party believes that former Prime Minister and now co-chairman of the opposition RPR-PARNAS Mikhail Kasyanov betrayed the country’s national interests by supporting the American law on the “Magnitsky list”.

The Onexim group of billionaire Mikhail Pokhorov (No. 7 on the Forbes list of “Russia’s Richest Businessmen - 2012”, fortune $13.2 billion) acquired 19.71% of the shares of billionaire Suleiman Kerimov (No. 19 on the Forbes list “Russia’s Richest Businessmen - 2012”, fortune $13.2 billion) at the International Financial Club (IFC) bank.

The interests of members of the punk group Pussy Riot Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alekhina, sentenced to two years in prison for the punk prayer “Virgin Mary, drive Putin away!” in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, will be represented in the presidium of the Moscow City Court and in the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) by lawyer Irina Khrunova, who previously achieved for the third defendant in the case of Ekaterina Samutsevich the replacement of the real sentence with a suspended

Estonia may introduce criminal penalties for “aggressive denial” of Soviet deportations, as well as the Holocaust, the Rwandan genocide and other events that, according to Tallinn, are crimes against humanity or war crimes. The Ministry of Justice of the Republic has prepared a corresponding bill, reports the Delfi.ee portal with reference to Eesti Päevaleht.

The fifth film in the popular vampire saga “Twilight” was released. Saga. Dawn. Part 2 grossed $141 million during its first weekend of release in the United States. However, this was not the best start for films in the Twilight series—Twilight grossed $2 million more in its first week of release. Saga: New Moon ($143 million).

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev sharply criticized the government for failure to implement decisions of the Constitutional Court. According to the prime minister, in 58 cases the decisions of the Constitutional Court have not been implemented and more than 200 by-laws provided for by federal laws have not been adopted. “The reason is unacceptable.

The former head of the Expert legal support center, Ekaterina Smetanova, who was arrested in the case of fraud at Oboronservice OJSC, is not going to give any more testimony, since the investigators are not fulfilling their promises to her. She herself told The New Times magazine about this . “They promised me to change the measure of restraint to house arrest. They promised to see their mother. I won’t tell the investigators anything more,” says Smetanova.

Israel, through Egyptian intermediaries, presented an ultimatum to the Hamas movement: if rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip do not stop within 36 hours, Tel Aviv will expand its military operations. This was reported by the Israeli Defense Forces radio station. The Jewish state demands a complete end to rocket attacks and weapons smuggling into Gaza. Hamas believes that Israel must lift the blockade of the Strip.

photo by RIA Novosti Forbes has become aware of the conditions under which Megafon and Alisher Usmanov’s structures will buy 50% of Euroset. The deal will allow Alexander Mamut to earn about $1 billion from the purchase and sale of Euroset and get back 50% of SUP Media. The cellular retailer Euroset for the deal with Megafon and VimpelCom was finally valued at $2.34 billion, a source close to Megafon shareholders told Forbes. Thus, businessman Alexander Mamut (No.