Yukos. Photo by ar The company "Yukos" filed a lawsuit to compensate for the damage of $ 20 billion to Gazpromneft, Gazprom, Baikalfinancheg, Rosneft in connection with their participation in Yuganskneftegaz. According to Interfax, this is stated in a press release common on Friday.

The post of president of the Russian State University for the Humanities, held by historian Yuri Afanasiev, may be abolished. As it became known to "Echo of Moscow", this issue will be discussed on February 15 at a meeting of the academic council of the university. The cause of the conflict was the publication in Novaya Gazeta, where Afanasiev sharply criticized the education reform proposed by the government.

In Moscow, two young people were detained for attacking protesters against the monetization of benefits. "The detainees are currently in the fourth police station of the Moscow metro," a source in the Moscow police department told RIA Novosti. According to him, the attack took place in the subway around 14:00, when a group of National Bolsheviks and Communists was returning from a rally. The details of the incident are being investigated.

The Georgian parliament will be forced to raise the issue of declaring Russian military bases "outlawed" and demand that Moscow withdraw them from Georgian territory if bilateral negotiations on this issue do not bring the desired result. This was stated on Saturday by a member of the Georgian Parliament Georgy Bokeria, who took part in the negotiations in Tbilisi on February 10-11 on the timing of the withdrawal of bases, RIA Novosti reports.

Moscow has no plans to supply Syria with Iskander-E operational-tactical systems and man-portable air defense systems (MANPADS), Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said on Saturday. "I repeat once again: although under international agreements there are no restrictions on the supply of this complex (Iskander-E) and similar weapons, Moscow has not conducted and is not conducting any negotiations on this topic with Damascus.

Hands. Illustration from the site www.memo.ru Investigators of the Moscow City Military Prosecutor's Office detained three military personnel of the metropolitan military unit of the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, because of which 13 soldiers were arbitrarily left universally on the eve of the military unit.

Among the prisoners of the Soviet camps could be American soldiers. Many of them may have died in the camp. This is stated in the report of the Pentagon, which will be made public later on Friday, according to CNN. A joint US-Russian commission is investigating unconfirmed information about Americans who may have been imprisoned in the Gulag.

Chechen President Alu Alkhanov appealed to the residents of the republic with an urgent request to "return their sons from the forest," Ekho Moskvy reports with reference to Interfax. “Spring is ahead, we need to do peaceful creative work,” he said on Saturday at a meeting with residents of Urus-Martan.

Approximately 1 kg of spilled mercury was found in the building of the Moscow State Geological Prospecting University. According to NEWSru.com, on Saturday, Interfax was informed by the press service of the Moscow prosecutor's office that a mercury spill was discovered the day before at about 18.00 on the sixth floor of the university building.

The head of a criminal group that smuggled illegal migrants from Ukraine to the UK was sentenced on Friday to seven years in prison for money laundering. According to BBC, last week 44-year-old Ukrainian citizen Viktor Solomka was also found guilty of violating immigration laws. According to the investigation, Solomka organized one of the largest criminal groups in the UK, which supplied illegal immigrants to factories in Scotland.

Two-day Georgian-Russian negotiations on the timing of the withdrawal of Russian military bases from the territory of Georgia and the creation of anti-terrorist centers ended without results, RIA Novosti reports. As Igor Savolsky, Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian Foreign Ministry, told reporters, the stumbling point was how to interpret and implement the previously reached fundamental political agreements on the creation of anti-terrorist centers.

On Saturday, the inauguration of the new president of the unrecognized republic, Sergei Bagapsh, will take place in the capital of Abkhazia, Sukhumi. As RIA Novosti was told by the coordinator for organizational issues, the head of the apparatus of the parliament, Alexander Adleiba, the ceremony will be held modestly, but solemnly. According to Adleiba, the inauguration will be held by the Speaker of the Parliament Nugzar Ashuba, who will make an opening speech.

A police officer was kidnapped in the mountains in the south of Chechnya, Gazeta.Ru reports. As Interfax was told on Saturday at the Shatoi District Department of Internal Affairs, the night before, a group of unknown armed men in camouflage uniforms stopped a VAZ-2112 car, in which junior sergeant Islam Bashaev, a local police officer, was traveling with his parents, under the pretext of checking documents.

A column of federal forces was fired upon between the settlements of Shali and Chechen-Aul in the Grozny region of Chechnya. This was reported to Interfax on Saturday morning at the Regional Operational Headquarters (ROH) for managing the counter-terrorist operation in the North Caucasus, Gazeta.Ru reports. The servicemen returned fire and forced the attackers to flee, the Rosh reported. The group involved in the attack has already been identified.

A rally against the abolition of benefits in Moscow. Photo Newsru.com On Saturday, the All -Russian Protest Protest, organized by the Communist Party and its allies on the left bloc. In particular, the rally show the flags of the "Motherland" and youth radical organizations. The Communists advocate the abolition of the law on monetization of benefits, the resignation of the government and the dissolution of the State Duma.