The editors of the Israelinfo.ru website apologized to lawyer Alexei Navalny for publishing an article in which the famous blogger was compared to Hitler. The article itself, which became known in the Russian media on the day the criminal case against Navalny was initiated , has been removed from the resource.

11 May 2011, 03:40 Sports Adamov: let Sukhina continue to judge and disgrace the whole country Rostov forward Roman Adamov commented on the refereeing of the 7th round match of the Russian Championship with Anzhi ( 1:2 ). “What Sukhina did in our match with Anzhi does not fit into any framework,” Adamov told Soviet Sport . “I have known this referee for a long time; this is not the first time he has refereed a match in which I am participating. And Sukhina always made a lot of mistakes.

11 May 2011, 18:59 Sport VTsIOM: 89% of Russians believe that Russia will be able to adequately host the Olympics in Sochi The All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion ( VTsIOM ), on the eve of the countdown of 1000 days before the start of the 2014 Sochi Olympics, published the results of a survey on whether Russia can adequately organize these Olympic Games.

Billionaire hedge fund Galleon Group founder Raj Rajaratnam , who was arrested in November 2009, was found guilty in court Tuesday on 14 counts, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York said. The verdict of 12 jurors was unanimous. Rajaratnam's sentence will be announced July 29 in federal court in New York. The billionaire faces a maximum prison term of 145 years. Almost each of the charges also carries a fine of $5 million.

11 May 2011, 17:15 Sports The KHL has published lists of participants in the 2011 junior draft On May 28, the Continental Hockey League junior draft will take place at the Arena-Mytishchi Ice Palace. The KHL Scout Bureau has published the final qualifying lists of its participants.

11 May 2011, 00:33 Sports McGeady: I ​​felt that the match with CSKA was a big derby Spartak midfielder Aiden McGeady spoke about his impressions of the derby before the Russian Cup semi-final match with CSKA on Wednesday. “Even before moving to Spartak, I knew that the red-white matches against CSKA were of fundamental importance,” McGeady told the press service red-white .

11 May 2011, 13:19 Business Spammers will be overwhelmed with work The State Duma is developing a law on criminal liability for spam Igor Bakharev The State Duma has prepared a draft law on criminal prosecution of spammers. Deputies are going to introduce responsibility for sending and creating “spam databases.” Until now, the article on illegal entrepreneurship was applied to spammers. Experts expect a redistribution of the 4 billion market and an increase in prices for mailings.

The head of the main department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow, Vladimir Kolokoltsev , in an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda, expressed the idea that, in the event of malicious evasion of motorists from paying fines, they should be deprived of their driver’s license and returned “only if they pay in multiple amounts.” “In a number of cases of malicious - I emphasize, malicious - evasion of paying a fine, we should probably think about confiscating the offender’s driver’s

Danish authorities on Wednesday decided to restore customs control with the border European countries of Germany and Sweden, reports the Associated Press . The country's finance minister, Jort Fredriksen, announced that the country would soon tighten border controls with neighboring Germany and Sweden. This decision was made after consultations with right-wing parties. Fredriksen promised that the new rules will take effect in two to three weeks.

President Dmitry Medvedev's press conference, scheduled for May 18, will be held at the Skolkovo School of Management in Moscow, with 802 journalists accredited to cover the event, the Kremlin said in a statement. Medvedev will hold a so-called big press conference for the first time . Unlike his predecessor Vladimir Putin, who introduced this practice, Medvedev preferred the genre of interviews and meetings with media groups.

French newspaper Le Monde journalist Khaled Mohand, released from prison in Syria after 23 days in captivity, gave his first interview since returning to Paris, talking about the conditions in which he was kept. “In a way, I have nothing to complain about. They beat me several times during the first days of my arrest, then they stopped touching me,” Mohand said in an interview with France24 . “But soon a stronger torture appeared - psychological. It became the screams of other prisoners.

Blogger and lawyer Alexei Navalny , known for his anti-corruption initiatives, refused to gain immunity by nominating himself as a candidate for the Duma of the Slobodsky District of the Kirov Region. This option was offered to him by representatives of the youth public chamber of the Kirov region. At the elections on March 13, elections in one of the constituencies there did not take place, since all candidates except one stopped participating in the elections.

US President Barack Obama said that immigration law reform is aimed at ensuring that migrant professionals can live in the country and do business without hindrance. “One way to strengthen the middle class is to reform the immigration system in a way that eliminates the huge underground economy that relies on cheap labor,” he said Tuesday in the city of El Paso, on the border with Mexico.

Security measures have been strengthened on Manezhnaya Square in central Moscow due to reports that nationalists are planning to hold an action there. As an Interfax correspondent reports , reinforced squads of Moscow police officers have been deployed to Manezhnaya Square. There are about 10 riot police buses here. The ascent to Manezhnaya Square is not blocked, but police officers are on duty on the steps. Access to the Okhotny Ryad shopping center is open.

The Arbitration Court of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region prohibited the registration of transactions in relation to the historical complex - the palace of Grand Duke Mikhail Romanov , sold to a private investor several months ago . The initiator of the trial, the ex-tenant of the building, Complex Admiralteyskaya-8 LLC, fears that the new owner of the mansion will transfer the rights to the building to third parties, reports Fontanka.Ru .