Alexey Kudrin. Photo by ar Vice Prime Minister, Minister of Finance of Russia Alexei Kudrin, on Wednesday, sent a petition to the Investigative Committee on the liberation of his deputy Sergei Storchak from the custody of his personal guarantee. According to Prime-Tass, this was announced by the lawyer of the accused Igor Pastukhov. "According to the law, we must receive an answer at this request within three days," the lawyer said.

Salavat Karimov. Photo from the site Lenta.ru Former investigator for particularly important cases of the Prosecutor General’s Office, Salavat Karimov, who previously headed the brigade in the case of Khodorkovsky and Lebedev, was questioned in the District Court of Nicosia (Cyprus).

Employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Dagestan. Frame of the TV channel "Russia" The court of the Soviet district of the city of Makhachkala made a decision to arrest one of the leaders of the local branch of the ATP of Nukha Nukhov. This was reported by Gazeta.ru with reference to a relative of the detainee. According to him, the arrest decree was issued for a period of two months.

The cover of the destroyed number forbes The ninth appeal of the arbitration court canceled the decision of the court of first instance on the recovery from the AXEL Springer Russia Publishing House 106.5 thousand rubles in the claim of Seteko CJSC. According to RIA Novosti, the court appointed on December 26 a second consideration of this case in the ninth appeal of the arbitration court according to the rules of the first instance.

Valentin Rodionov. Photo from the site Rambler.ru Leaders of more than ten Russian public organizations demanded the resignation of the director of the State Tretyakov Gallery Valentina Rodionov. According to Interfax, the corresponding appeal to the Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov was signed on Wednesday.

Police. Photo from Newsru.com The deputy head of the Vsevolozhsk Internal Affairs of the Internal Affairs Directorate V. Tretyak knocked 25-year-old Alexander Filippov, who, among other strikers, stood on a picket at the Ford Passenger Plant. According to Gazeta.ru, this was announced by the leader of the trade union movement of the Ford plant workers Alexei Etmanov. The incident occurred on Wednesday morning. Tretyak was driving a personal car.

Alexander Bulbov. Frame NTV The Basmanny Court of Moscow on Wednesday extended until March 15, 2008, the term of the General of the Federal Drug Control Service of Russia, Alexander Bulbov, suspected of illegally listening to telephone negotiations, Gazeta.ru reports. Thus, the court fully satisfied the request of the Investigative Committee on the extension of the term of detention of Bulbov. The arrest was extended for 5 months 15 days.

Sergey Lavrov. Photo from the site www.ilyapitalev.ru Russia is disappointed with written proposals in the United States on missile defense. According to RIA Novosti, this was stated by Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, returning to Moscow from a conference in the Middle East to the United States. “If these oral ideas in Moscow (set forth during the meeting in the two plus two format. - Ed.) Were improvisation, then apparently, improvisation failed,” said Lavrov.

Ingosstrakh logo Ingosstrakh minority shareholder, deputy chief accountant of the company Vladimir Tulnov challenges in court a domain of shares of this company. This is written on Wednesday "Kommersant". The Arbitration Court of Moscow on the eve held a preliminary meeting on the lawsuit of Tynnov against OSAO Ingosstrakh.

Taxi taxi. Photo SFN A serious accident in the Yaroslavl region: a route taxi PAZ collided with a Volvo truck. According to Interfax with reference to the Office of the traffic police of the ATS in the region, four people were killed, nine were injured. Among the dead there are one child. The tragedy occurred in the area of ​​the village "Forest Polyany" at about 16.00. Rescuers and traffic police officers work at the scene.

Irakli Distribvili. Photo from the site rin.ru In Berlin, the ex-Minister of Defense of Georgia, Irakli Okashvili, was arrested. About this, reports RIA Novosti with reference to the newspaper Berliner Zeitung. According to the publication, he was arrested on Tuesday evening. The prosecutor's office of Berlin confirmed that the Georgian side had previously addressed them to the arrest of Okaashvili. The case of the district is now in absentia in the criminal board of the Tbilisi City Court.

The poster 'don't chat!' From the site www.davno.ru The Russian government develops a situation according to which middle and lower link officials will be prohibited from communicating with the press. It is supposed to limit the movement of journalists in the White House and to ban their communication with officials, with the exception of deputy prime ministers and ministers, writes on Wednesday RBC Daily with reference to sources in the government.

Accident -VIP car. Photo '' New Izvestia '' A deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, managing the Krasnoyarsk branch of OJSC SUEK, Alexander Kuznetsov died in a car accident. Three more people died with him, Interfax reports with reference to the press service of the Legislative Assembly. The tragedy occurred on Wednesday on the highway in the Uyarsky district of the region. “Together with Kuznetsov there were four more people in the car.

Tatyana Paramonova. Photo '' Echo of Moscow '' Former first deputy chairman of the Bank of Russia Tatyana Paramonova took the post of adviser to the President of the Russian Railways. According to Echo of Moscow, this was announced on Wednesday by the head of this Russian railway state monopoly Vladimir Yakunin. “Paramonova will become my adviser to finance and work with banks,” he said.

Rashid Nurgaliev. Photo from the site "Gazeta" A foreign mercenary was killed in the Shatoysky district of Chechnya, which was related to the organizational core of foreign terrorist organizations. According to RBC, Rashid Nurgaliev, Minister of Internal Affairs of Russia, stated on Wednesday.