Alexey Golubovich. Photo "Kommersant" The former financial director of Yukos Alexei Golubovich returned from abroad to Russia and actively cooperates with the investigation. According to Interfax, Golubovich returned after the employees of the Russian Prosecutor General of Russia held negotiations. This information was indirectly confirmed in an interview with reporters on Tuesday, Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika.

NASA's Mars Global Surveyor (MGS). Photo from Physorg.com NASA conducts a special investigation, trying to find out what exactly could destroy at the end of last year the Martian Orbital Cartographic appliances Mars Global Surveyor , which had previously served for a dozen years (it was lost in November 2006). The most probable explanation of the causes of the loss of the device today is a human mistake. Incorrect commands of the software loaded in June could have a fatal nature.

Cherkizovsky market. Photo from the site www.smilga-photos.ru The largest Cherkizov market in Moscow will be closed in several stages. This process will begin on July 1, reports on Tuesday RIA Novosti with reference to the head of the department of the consumer market and the services of the capital Vladimir Malyshkov. "This decision has already been made and will be strictly implemented," said Kalishkov.

VIP bank logo Three former managers of the St. Petersburg branch of the VIP Bank were detained on Monday. According to Fontanka.ru, this is the former manager of the branch Andrei Belov and two security managers - Oleg Timofeev and Sergey Ishchev. Now their names are associated with the successor of the VIP Bank - an Incredbank.

First snow Snow in the Moscow region may fall on January 19, when the Orthodox celebrate the festival of baptism. Such a forecast was given on Tuesday by the director of the Hydrometeorological Center Roman Wilfand, Interfax reports. According to the meteorologist, there is a chance that 2-4 centimeters of snow will fall on this day.

Gazprom. Photo aff Gazprom is going to invest a lot of money in improving its image: this year the Russian monopoly will pay PR agencies of $ 11 million to dissolve on behalf of Vladimir Putin and energy wars. The project is commented on by well -known politicians and political scientists. Alexander Konovalov , President of the Institute of Strategic Objects: Many firms hire PR agencies to improve their image. Gazprom is no exception.

Accident. Photo from the site www.vsluh.ru In Astrakhan, scammers specialized in the deception of insurance companies were sentenced to a long time for imprisonment. This was reported by Gazeta.ru with reference to the prosecutor's office of the Astrakhan region. Five of the ten convicted members of an organized criminal group were employees of the road patrol service.

A cage for the defendants. Photo from the site '' Rossi newspaper '' During the trial, a citizen of Spain disappeared, the former head of the Fargoil company Antonio Valdes-Kharsia, who was under the recognizance not to leave. According to Kommersant on Tuesday, he locked the policemen guarding him in his own apartment. He is accused of complicity of embezzlement of an amount of $ 13 billion, the organizers of which the Prosecutor General considers Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev.

Zemfira. Photo from the site www.bomond.nnov.ru The music of a number of Russian performers may disappear from the air 13 of nationwide Ukrainian radio stations from January 19. According to Interfax, the reason was the disagreement that arose between the FM radio stations and the Ukrainian musical publishing group representing the interests of Russian musicians in Ukraine.

Fight. Frame NTV In Moscow, there was an attack on the Uzbek oppositionist and human rights activist Hamroev. This was reported on the air of "Echo of Moscow" Chairman of the Civil Promotion Committee Svetlana Gannushkina. According to her, on January 14, three men attacked the descent in the Tula metro station on Khamroev and beat, as a result of which he received a concussion. Khamroev turned to the police, who behaved "absolutely correctly," the human rights activist noted.

Russian Embassy in Iraq. Photo from Newsru.com Russian Peter Makaykin went missing in Iraq, where he went to work in the fall. This is written on Tuesday "New Izvestia". The wife of the missing Svetlana Makaykina appealed to the newspaper’s editorial office with a request to help in search. In the fall of last year, the director of the General Construction company Peter Makaykin went to the Iraqi city of Suleimania.

Dry cargo. Photo from the site www.gallery.ncv.ru Two Russian vessels collided in the Sea of ​​Japan, RIA Novosti reports on Tuesday with reference to the Vladivostok Marine Rescue and Cording Center. According to the source, the collision occurred on Monday evening in the International Sangar Strait, sharing the Japanese Islands of Hokkaido and Honshu. There are no victims.

Yuri Golubev. Photo from the site www.2001.yukos.com One of the founders of Yukos Yuri Golubev died for natural reasons. This was announced on Monday by the official representative of Scotland Yard, reports ITAR-TASS. "The results of a pathological and anatomical examination conducted on January 10 by the Morg of Westminster indicate that the cause of death of 64-year-old Yuri Golubev was natural," the source emphasized. In London, they say that the cause of his death could be a heart attack.

Gazprom building. Photo from the site www.gazprom.ru Gazprom is negotiating with the consortium of foreign PR agencies about a three-year contract for holding a series of events to improve its image in the countries of the European Union and the USA. This was written on Tuesday "Kommersant" with reference to a source close to negotiations.

Alexander Litvinenko. Photo by ar The press bureaus of the London police denied the report that Scotland Yard imposed a “complete ban” to provide journalists with new information about the investigation of the murder of Alexander Litvinenko, RIA Novosti reports. “I am unfamiliar to the phrase“ complete ban ”to disseminate new information on this case. I definitely did not use it myself and did not hear it from my colleagues today,” said the representative of the press bureaus Scotland Yard.