Vasily Aleksanyan. Photo '' Novaya Gazeta '' The Simonovsky court of Moscow resumed the trial in the case of the former vice president of the "Yukos" Vasily Aleksanyan. According to Kommersant on Friday, the judge requested medical documents from the Moscow Hospital #60, where Aleksanyan was treated. If the court considers that the treatment of Aleksanyan is completed, then hearing will begin on the merits.

Vitaly Portnikov. Photo by A. Karpyuk/Grani.ru "Two scenarios of the development of events are becoming more and more relevant. The first: the collapse of the country will happen so rapidly that it will be possible to take control of the protest of people who are dissatisfied with the surrounding mess, only in every region separately. Each of them will stand out their own political leaders, which will not necessarily be accepted by neighbors. The second scenario will be able to avoid, but ...

Yerevan. Frame "Vesti" Armenia asked Russia, the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development of a loan of one billion dollars to counteract the consequences of the global financial crisis, Interfax reports with reference to an anonymous source in the Armenian government. The same source said that negotiations between Russia and Armenia on the issue of loan allocation have been carried out since the end of December last year.

State Duma. Frame NTV The State Duma adopted in the third, final reading a law that cancel the electoral pledge to participate in the elections. Amendments are made to Russian legislation, in particular, the law "On Basic Guarantees of Electoral Rights and the Right to Participate in the Referendum of Citizens of the Russian Federation" and the Law "On the Election of Deputies of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation," RBC reports.

Fidel Castro. Photo on 10/29/2006 from the website of the Juventoud Rebelde newspaper The former leader of Cuba Fidel Castro called on the country's leadership "to work, regardless of a possible sharp deterioration in his well -being or even death." As ITAR-TASS reports, Castro made the corresponding statement in an article that local media published on Thursday.

Vladimir Putin. Photo by RIA '' News '' The rating of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin sank to the lowest level from the time he headed the government. According to Vedomosti on Friday, the ranking of the Prime Minister, which has reached 81 percent from the beginning of Putin’s premiere, fell to 77 percent in January, almost compared with the rating of President Medvedev, which is held at 75-76 percent.

Destroyed houses on the streets of Tskhinvali. Photo - Marcus Bleasdale, Hrw.org During the conflict in South Ossetia in August last year and in the subsequent period, the Russian, Georgian and Yugosetan forces committed numerous violations of humanitarian law, which entailed the death and wound of many civilians, as well as significant damage to the property of the civilian population.

Protest Protest in Vladivostok. Photo Primamedia The import of foreign cars through the port of Vladivostok decreased by almost 18 times and amounted to 5 percent of the last year. According to ITAR-TASS, this was stated by the head of the Far Eastern Customs Administration Igor Vlasenko. According to him, if about 900 cars per day were issued on average last year, now about 50. Customs officers directly associate this situation with an increase in duties on foreign cars.

Price tag. Photo from Pokrovsk.info The increase in food prices in Russia in 2008 amounted to 17.7 percent, which is 4.3 times higher than the increase in food prices in the European Union, Interfax reports with reference to the Rosstat data. Food prices increased most noticeably among EU countries in 2008 in Finland (11.3 percent), Lithuania (10.9 percent), Latvia and Malta (by 10.1 and 10.2 percent, respectively).

Evgeny Chichvarkin, co -owner of “Euroset ''. Photoxpress photo The Investigative Committee at the prosecutor's office appealed to the court with a petition for the absentee arrest of the former co -owner of the Euroset company Evgeny Chichvarkin. According to Kommersant on Friday, the investigation issued a decision to attract Chichvarkin as the accused in the case of abduction of a person and extortion, putting him on the federal wanted list.

Stanislav Markelov. Photo by Vladimir Voronov The Dimitrovgrad city court received a complete cassation appeal against the court decision on the parole, Colonel Yuri Budanov. The cassation was sent by the lawyer of the victims Stanislav Markelov four days before his murder.

Stanislav Markelov. Photo by Vladimir Voronov In Moscow, Stanislav Markelov was buried - a lawyer and human rights activist, a villainous killed in broad daylight on the metropolitan street ( Photo report from the funeral ). Those who knew him from joint work recall: the chairman of the ICG Lyudmila Alekseev, the memorial Alexander Cherkasov, the head of the “For Human Rights” movement Lev Ponomarev, lawyer Vasily Syzganov.

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Nursery. Photo by ar In Belgium, an unknown criminal attacked children and educators in nurseries in the city of Dendermond, located near Brussels, the Air Force reports. As a result of the incident, several people died. About 20 people were injured. The number of dead to date is specified. According to the Air Force, five people were killed: two adults and three children.

Anton Stradymov. Photo from the community of LJ namarshr On Thursday, the funeral of the National Bolsheviks of Anton Stradymov killed on January 14 took place. According to the comrades of the deceased, the parents of Stdydymov secretly buried him under the pressure of investigators, and possibly special services. This was reported by the press service of the National Academy of Sciences.