Elena Valyavina. Photo from Legalworld.ru The leadership of the Russian judicial system first recognized the fact of pressure on the court by the Presidential Administration. According to Kommersant on Tuesday, the first deputy chairman of the Supreme Arbitration Court Elena Valyavina gave evidence of this.

Earthquake in China: the analysis of the rubble. Photo by ar About ten thousand people became the victims of the earthquake in the Chinese province of Sichuan. According to the Sinhua agency, the latest data about the dead was announced by the Prime Minister of the State Council of China Wen Jezybao, who manages rescue work in the injured province. Tens of thousands of people are buried under the rubble. Only in the city of Myanju under the wreckage there are at least 10 thousand people.

Kremlin. Frame NTV At the next meeting, at the claim of the Presidential Office for Personnel issues and state units, Valery Boeva, journalist Vladimir Solovyov will be given testimonies that will produce "the effect of an exploding bomb." This was on the air "Echo of Moscow" said Solovyov’s lawyer Shota Gorgadze.

Dmitry Medvedev. Photo by ar Russian President Dmitry Medvedev appointed the head of the protocol of the head of state Marina Entaltsev. As RIA Novosti reports, the Kremlin press service reported this. Entaltseva, who has been headed by the presidential protocol and organizational department since 2004, replaced the head of the protocol Igor Schegolev, appointed by the Minister of Communications and mass communications. Marina Entaltseva was born on January 10, 1961 in Leningrad.

Vladislav Surkov. Photo gzt.ru President Dmitry Medvedev on Monday appointed Vladislav Surkov to be the first deputy head of the administration of the head of state, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Kremlin press service. Previously, Surkov was the deputy head of AP. Surkov will oversee the issues of domestic policy and replace the head of the administration during its absence. On Monday, Sergey Naryshkin was appointed head of the presidential administration.

A picket of railway workers at the new arena. Frame of the faces-TV In Moscow, four picket participants were detained against the actions of the leadership of Russian railways. As the correspondent of the Grani.ru reports, the action took place in Georgievsky Lane at the new Manege, where the photo exhibition "from the train window" takes place.

The widow of Badri Patarkatsishvili Inna Gudavadze. Photo from the site compromat.ru The Badri Patarkatsishvili family won the court against his relative, US citizen Joseph Kay (Joseph Kakalashvili), who claimed the right to dispose of the property of the businessman, the News-Georgia agency reports. After the death of Patarkatsishvili, Joseph Kay said that he owns 70 percent of the shares of the Imady channel.

White House A series of permutations in the highest echelons of power did not bring sensations. The vertical of power was bent in accordance with the movement of Vladimir Putin from the Kremlin to the White House. The young president Medvedev will have to work in order to establish herself in a new status. Comments of Stanislav Belkovsky, Vladimir Prelilovsky, Mark Urnov and Dmitry Oreshkin.

Zenit fans. Photo from the site Pravda.ru Together with the fans of the St. Petersburg football club Zenit, 30 Petersburg police officers will go to the UK Final to the UEFA Cup. According to RIA Novosti, this was announced by the representative of the press service of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region. "Together with the fans, 30 police officers will go from both the headquarters and from the district departments of the police.

Locust. Photo from the site www.uksafari.com The international group of researchers from the USA, Britain and Australia reported that they may have been able to find an explanation of the formation of flocks of locusts that devers a huge number of plants, BBC News reports. According to experts, these insects are lost in flocks because they are afraid that they will be eaten by their own relatives (conclusions are published in the journal Current Biology ).

Earthquake in China. Photo "Sinhua" The number of victims of the earthquake in the Chinese province of Sichuan exceeded 8.5 thousand people. This was reported on Monday by the Sinhua agency with reference to local authorities. The scale of destruction is not fully defined. It is known that in the area of ​​the epicenter of underground shocks, 80 percent of the buildings were destroyed. After the impact of the elements in the province, a telephone connection is paralyzed.

Valeria Novodvorskaya. Photos of faces Well, so we returned to the point of no return. On external attributes - 1990. We said correctly, the Deesians, speaking in Lithuania in February of that year, before the referendum about the separation and restoration of independence: "The Soviet occupier has no fatherland. His homeland is a tank." We cannot without tanks and at home. Without tanks, ballistic missiles, fighters.

Vladimir Putin and George Bush in Kennbankport. Photo by ar Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and US President George Bush agreed to meet in Beijing, where both would come to the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games. According to RIA Novosti, this was announced by Prime Minister Dmitry Peskov. According to him, on Monday, a telephone conversation of Putin and Bush took place. The opening of the Olympics is scheduled for August 8.

Vladimir Loskutov. Frame of the TV channel "Russia" Investigator Vladimir Loskutov was removed from the investigation of the "Three Whales" case. According to Moskovsky Komsomolets on Tuesday, he was appointed deputy head of the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee at the prosecutor's office in the Leningrad Region. Further investigation of the case of the "Three Whales" was entrusted to Sergey Deptitsky.

Moscow planetarium. Photo from the site static.vfocuse.ru The Moscow Arbitration Court recognized the Moscow Planetarium OJSC. According to RIA Novosti, the court satisfied the petition of the meeting of creditors of the planetarium. “The court decided ... to open bankruptcy proceedings against the planetarium for a period of a year,” the judge of the bankruptcy squad announced his decision. Alexei Tarasov was appointed bankruptcy trustee of the planetarium.