The lawyers for Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev were almost late for the announcement of the verdict against their clients due to increased security measures near the Meshchansky Court in Moscow. As reported by RIA "Novosti", lawyer Elena Liptser, representing the interests of Lebedev, announced this on Tuesday. “We know that police squads have been strengthened near the court to ensure law and order, so we always leave for the meeting in advance.

"Nashi" responded to a recent statement by the speaker of the Federation Council, in which he called them "ideological wolves." The youth movement reported on the forthcoming personnel revolution in Russia, as a result of which the speaker may lose his post. According to RBC, Nashi sees the personnel revolution as one of its main tasks. This is stated in the statement of the information center of the movement.

In the southern Philippines, three armed men took 13 bus passengers hostage on Tuesday. According to preliminary information, most of the hostages are women and children, reports Reuters. The criminals took hostages after a failed robbery attempt. Currently, the bus is cordoned off by law enforcement officers, negotiations are underway with the bandits. The incident occurred at a checkpoint in the city of Plaredel on the island of Mindanao.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev in the courtroom. Photo by RIA '' News '' At the process in the Meshchansky court in the case of Khodorkovsky, Lebedev and Kraynov, a break was announced to Wednesday, May 25, RIA Novosti reports. “The break is announced until the last day of the court session,” said the presiding judge Irina Kolesnikova. On Tuesday in the Meshchansk court, reading the sentence continued.

In Andijan, 97 people were detained on suspicion of organizing terrorist acts. According to Gazeta.ru with reference to Interfax, this was announced on Tuesday by the prosecutor of the Andijan region of Uzbekistan Bakhodir Dekhkanov. Of these, 52 were arrested "after their direct involvement in the crimes was revealed," he said.

Uzbek authorities have arrested Saidzhakhon Zainabitdinov, a member of a human rights group from Andijan. Representatives of Human Rights Watch announced this on Tuesday, Fergana.Ru reports. The human rights activist was reportedly detained on Saturday. It is not yet known what charges he has been charged with. According to representatives of Human Rights Watch, the arrest was related to Zainabitdinov's statements regarding the events in Andijan.

A major railway accident occurred on Tuesday in the Novosibirsk region on the West Siberian Railway, RIA Novosti reports. "The accident occurred at 13.15 Moscow time on the Krasnozerskoye - Zubkovo section. For an unknown reason, 33 empty wagons of a freight train derailed," said a representative of the Ministry of Emergency Situations. According to him, there were no casualties as a result of the incident, but about 400 meters of the railway track and three contact supports were destroyed.

In the Stanford Laboratory of Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (SSRL) in the center of Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Center - SLAC , the US Department of Energy began work, during which particles accelerator with an accelerator (actually, the scientists who are considered to be the letters of the great ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes that are long -lost to the long -lost maths of Archimedum restore the heavily lost to him.

The ceremony of the last bells on May 25 in the schools of North Ossetia will be held with a limited number of guests and in the mode of optimally compressed duration, RIA Novosti reported. According to the Ministry of Education, a letter with relevant recommendations signed by the Minister of Education of the Republic was sent the day before to the heads of municipal education authorities and directors of subordinate educational institutions and organizations.

Victor Yushchenko. Photo by the Air Force The Ukrainian authorities want to do everything so that "a Jew who lives in Ukraine said that he lives better here than in Israel, a Russian in Ukraine could say that he is better here than on his native land." This, according to Proua.com, said President Viktor Yushchenko at a meeting with representatives of Jewish organizations of North America.

"The Russian foreign expert commission to investigate the fate of the remains of members of the Russian imperial house, killed by the Bolsheviks in Yekaterinburg on July 17, 1918" called for a hearing in the State Duma on the problem of identifying the remains of the family of Nicholas II in connection with "newly revealed circumstances." It is reported by RIA Novosti.

Five police officers were injured in a land mine explosion in Ingushetia on Monday. This, according to Gazeta.Ru, was reported to Interfax by a source in the republican Ministry of Internal Affairs. According to him, the explosion occurred on the federal highway "Caucasus" near the Ingush village of Nasyr-Kort, not far from Magas.

9 activists of the NBP, who are in the Moscow women's prison "Pechatniki", began on Monday an indefinite hunger strike, arrested for an action on December 14, 2004 in the reception room of the presidential administration. This was reported on the website of the party. The girls demand the release of all political prisoners of the National Bolsheviks.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky and escort. Photo by ar In the Meshchansky court, on Tuesday, reading the sentence in the case of Khodorkovsky-Lebedev-Korinov continued. The judges continue to read out evidence of the guilt of the defendants in the failure to fulfill the court decision on the return of the 20 percent package of shares of Apatit OJSC, the press center of Mikhail Khodorkovsky reports.

Telephone From July 1, 2005, fixed -communication subscribers will pay for calls to mobile phones, RIA Novosti reports. According to Boris Antonyuk, Deputy Minister of Information and Communications of Russia, such a norm is provided for by the Rules for the provision of local, intrazone, intercity and international telephone services.