TNK-BP logo In the central office of the Russian-British company TNK-BP in Moscow, a seizure of documents was carried out. According to Interfax, the official representative of the Investigative Committee under the prosecutor’s office, Irina Dudukina, said that investigative actions are carried out by investigators of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Victor But. Photo from the site Lenta.ru The Thai court on Tuesday extended the detention of a Russian citizen Viktor Buta for 12 days. As ITAR-TASS noted, the suspect himself was not present at the meeting. The defense of Buta said that she would send the next request for the release of the client on bail. The entrepreneur was detained on March 6 by the warrant issued by the Thai court at the request of the United States.

Andrey Piontkovsky The unheard of words sounded from the lips of the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs at a joint press conference to complete the negotiations "2+2" on March 18. Sustainable progress in most areas. Professional work on the basis of mutual respect and accounting for each other in those issues that still share us.

Leonid Rozhetskin. Photo from the site www.topnews.ru The Latvian police put on the wanted list of the American businessman of Russian descent Leonid Rozhetskin, who was missing from his home in Jurmala on March 16, Kommersant reports. In Russia, Rozhetskin is known as the author of a number of historical transactions, including the purchase by the Mustcom consortium 25 percent of the shares of Svyazinvest holding in 1997. After the sale of the “Megafon” blockpack, Alfa-Group, Mr.

Burning dollar. Photo from inmagine.com The US Federal Reserve reduced the base interest rate by 0.75 percentage points to 2.25 percent. According to RIA Novosti, this is stated in a statement by the Fed’s open markets, published in Washington at the end of a two -day meeting. The last time the US federal funding rate was reduced to 3 percent (by 0.5 percentage points) in January.

Veliky Novgorod. Photo from the site sakhtravels.narod.ru Specialists of the Moscow Institute of Archeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences in the study of a tanning excavation in Veliky Novgorod found a fragment of ceramics with a mysterious image. A wooden street bridge was also found, which was built about 600 years ago. All this RIA Novosti was announced by the head of the excavation, an employee of the Institute of Archeology, candidate of historical sciences Oleg Oleinikov.

Grigory Yavlinsky. Photos of faces The St. Petersburg branch of the Yabloko party did not support the open letter of the party member Daniil Kotsyubinsky, in which he called on the leader of the party Grigory Yavlinsky to reveal all the details of the meeting with Vladimir Putin or leave the post of chairman of the party. According to the Internet publication by ZAS.ru, such a decision was made at a meeting of the Bureau of the St. Petersburg "Yabloko".

Storm in the Kerch Strait. Photo from the site Kerch.com.ua Ukraine intends to recover almost one and a half billion dollars from Russian shipowners. The losses that the republic suffered due to the pollution of the water area and the coast of the Kerch Strait with oil products after a series of shipwrecks on November 11, 2007 were estimated. This was reported by RIA "Novosti" with reference to the statement of the press service of the Ukrainian government.

Andrey Kozlov. Photo from the OG.ru website The author of an anonymous letter who warned Kozlov about the impending attempt came to the process of the murder of the first deputy chairman of the Central Bank Andrei Kozlov, Gazeta.ru reports. The day before, the main accused banker Alexei Frenkel said that the author of the letter Kozlov and a certain Moskalev, whose testimonies were attached to the criminal case - one person.

Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Shot CNN Both US presidential candidates from the Democratic Party have a chance to win the elections of Republican John McCain. This is evidenced by the data of a public opinion poll conducted by order of the CNN television company. If Barack Obama will be a candidate from the Democrats, he will support 47 percent of voters, while McCaine expressed their readiness to vote 46 percent of the respondents.

Visa in the USA. Grani.ru collage Since March 19, the US Embassy in Minsk temporarily stopped issuing visas to Belarusian citizens, the News Prima reports. According to the embassy, ​​this is, first of all, with the request of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus to reduce the number of staff of the diplomatic mission.

Army. Photo by Dmitry Borko/Grani.ru For the death of the ordinary presidential regiment Igor Andreev, the Ministry of Finance will pay his parents 900 thousand rubles. This is the final decision of the Moscow City Court, adopted on Tuesday after consideration of the cassation appeal of the defendant - the Federal Security Service, according to the website of the Mother Right Foundation. Igor Andreev was drafted into the army on April 28, 2004.

Leonid Nevzlin Hearing on the merits in the criminal case regarding the ex-campaign of Yukos Leonid Nevzlin will begin on Wednesday in the Moscow City Court. As RIA Novosti reports, his lawyer Dmitry Kharitonov announced this. The process will be open, the case will be considered by one judge. Even before the process, the lawyers of Nevznin had claims to his jurisdiction. In particular, they only had two weeks to familiarize themselves with 84 volumes of a criminal case.

Themis. Grani.ru collage Judge of the Tagan Court of Moscow Mikhail Kazakov, who considers the complaint of supporters of Mikhail Kasyanov to the Fed’s refusal to register the party "People for Democracy and Justice", is "in close contact" with representatives of the defendant. As the correspondent of the faces reports, this was stated after the court session on Wednesday a member of the Presidium of RNDS Konstantin Merzlikin.

Tokyo. Photo from the site tokyoyakei.cool.ne.jp The Ambassador of Serbia to Tokyo Ivan Mrkich received an instruction from his government within 48 hours to return to his homeland. This order of the Foreign Ministry of Serbia made after the decision of the Japanese government announced on Tuesday to recognize the independence of Kosovo, ITAR-TASS reports. The diplomat, according to informed sources, responds to conduct consultations.