The Duma Security Committee is considering the facts set forth in Kirill Belyaninov's book "Gentlemen with hexogen," RIA Novosti reports. The author of the book refers to certain documents testifying to the facts of embezzlement of budgetary funds during the restoration of the Chechen Republic and other facts of embezzlement of budgetary funds. Nikolai Kovalev, deputy chairman of the State Duma security committee, said that the committee would make a decision on this issue within 2-3 weeks.

Western Union intends to appeal in court the decision of the commission of the Russian Ministry for Antimonopoly Policy and Entrepreneurship Protection (MAP), Interfax reports. This is stated in a press release from a company that provides individuals with money transfer services without opening an account. The IAP Commission ruled that Russian banks - members of the Western Union system - should have the right to simultaneously act as partners of other money transfer systems.

Eric Raymond , one of the gurus of the open source movement, proposed the creation of a hacker community emblem that would be an obvious and transparent sign of a person or group's affiliation with hackers or sympathizers. Most communities within the open source community have identifying marks: a penguin for Linux users, a camel for Perl fans, a wildebeest for the Free Software Foundation, and so on. As a hacker emblem, Raymond proposed a glider - one of the figures in the game "Life".

Paul McCartney and Hezer Mills in Ireland May 27, 2003. Photo by ar On October 29, Paul McCartney's wife, Hezer Mills, gave birth to a daughter, reports Reuters. The girl was born 3 weeks ahead of schedule. She was named Beatrice, in honor of her mother Hezer. “She is a real little beauty, and we are very proud of her,” the McCartney couple said in an official statement. The doctors of the London Hospital of St. John and St. Elizabeth made Hezer an emergency cesarean section.

Russia has never made territorial claims against Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov said on Thursday. According to RIA Novosti, Ivanov said that "the construction of a dam in the Kerch Strait was not regarded by anyone as an encroachment on the territorial integrity of Ukraine." "There are no encroachments on the sovereignty of Ukraine and there will not be," he said.

Mikhail Trepashkin. Photo from Newsru.com On Thursday, it became known that in the apartment of the former FSB colonel Mikhail Trepashkin was going to search. This was reported to the granim.ru was reported by the wife of Trepashkin Tatyana. Trepashkin’s lawyer Marina Yulina told the faces that Tatyana Trepashkina called from law enforcement agencies. She was informed that she could have a search at her house.

Dennis Kozlovsky. Photo from the site www.forbes.com The trials of corporate scammers rarely attract the attention of the general public: the materials of the preliminary investigation consist entirely of financial statements, which is not easy even for a specialist. The public needs a spectacle: having looked at how a darling in a suit of excellent cloth and cut leads to the FBI agents, she loses interest in further administration of justice.

On October 28, the consideration of the case of Rakevich v. Russian Federation ended at the European Court of Human Rights. Tamara Rakevich, who was forcibly kept in a psychiatric hospital in Yekaterinburg without sufficient grounds, will receive compensation in the amount of 3,000 euros by a court decision. Tamara Rakevich, a 42-year-old resident of Yekaterinburg, was taken to the 26th psychiatric hospital in Yekaterinburg on September 26, 1999.

On Thursday, the Moscow City Court will consider the cassation appeal of the lawyers of the victims of the Dubrovka events against the decision of the Tverskoy Court of Moscow, which rejected another group of claims by the victims for compensation for moral damage. It is reported by RIA Novosti. On September 9, the district court refused to satisfy four claims of the victims and to recover a total of $3.5 million from the Moscow government and the capital's department of finance.

Police. Photo from Newsru.com In Moscow, an employee of the Main Directorate of the criminal investigation department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation was detained, Interfax reports. The detention was carried out as part of the investigation of the actions of the criminal group, which was engaged in extortion in Moscow. The organized crime group, according to preliminary data, consisted of six former and existing police officers.

Valery Melnikov. Photo from the site www.legis.krsn.ru The official registration of Valery Melnikova, elected on October 26 by the head of the Norilsk administration, was scheduled for November 15. However, as RIA Novosti reported on Thursday in the city of Horizolcoma, Melnikov will be registered as a mayor only if until this time the local court does not recognize the results of the repeated elections invalid.

Prosecutor General. Photo from Newsru.com On Thursday, investigators of the Prosecutor General’s Office tried to interrogate the Volgograd lawyer Vyacheslav Patskov, Interfax reports. According to Patskov, he wanted to receive information on the circumstances related to the case of an employee of the Security Service of the Yukos NK Alexei Pichugin. The lawyer said that in the morning he was called to the Investigative Department of the Prosecutor General.

Astronomers compiled the most detailed 3D model of the Universe at the moment and are sure that this card allows you to discard all doubts about the " dark energy ": it really exists and fills all the cosmos. The three -dimensional card contains over 200 thousand galaxies and covers six percent of the sky. Moreover, the most distant of the "covered" galaxies are located from us at a distance of 2 billion light years.

The organizers of the rally in memory of the victims of political repression, held on Thursday in Moscow on Lubyanskaya Square and gathered about a thousand people, did not give the floor to one of the leaders of the Union of Right Forces - the head of RAO "UES of Russia" Anatoly Chubais. It is reported by Gazeta.ru with reference to Interfax.

Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin hopes that the court decision on the Yukos case will be objective and that trust in the Russian market will be restored after this decision is made, RIA Novosti reports. The vice-premier stressed that only a trial "can become a solution to all disputable issues and increase confidence in our economy." "And if questions arise for law enforcement agencies, they also need to be resolved in court," Kudrin said.