Lada. Photo from the site Cars.reif.ru In March, the Volzhsky Automobile Plant plans to send about 14 percent of all employees to partially paid leave, Vedomosti reports. As the publication clarifies, the decision on the forced vacation of workers, during which they plan to pay two -thirds of the average salary, was adopted by the AvtoVAZ management due to the difficult financial situation of the enterprise.

Yuri Bogomolov. Photo from the site www.svobodanews.ru The war in the Union of Cinematographers is becoming hotter and hotter. The trial on the claims of Vasily Livanov and Klim Lavrentiev continues. The Ministry of Justice refused to Marlene Khutsiev in registration as chairman of the Union.

Logo of the Standard & Poor's agency. Photo from the website of the agency The Standard & Poor's International Agency once again lowered the sovereign rating of Ukraine, RIA Novosti reports. A long -term credit rating for obligations in foreign currency was changed from "B" to "CSC+", and the short -term - from "B to" C ". In addition, S&P also revised Ukraine’s credit ratings in national currency, reducing them from “B+/B” to “B-/C”.

Moscow, February 24, 2009. Hearings on the planning project for the territory of several quarters of the Yakimanka district, where the Central House of Artists, the State Tretyakov Gallery and the MUZEON Art Park are located. Photographed by Dmitry Borko. Rally in defense of the Central House of Artists

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Moscow, Triumphalnaya Square. Photographed by Dmitry Borko. Photo report

Elnur Baimov, editor -in -chief of day.az. Photo News.mylove.az One of the most popular in Azerbaijan DAY.Az is closed and sold to new owners, Azeri-Press reports with reference to the former editor-in-chief of the portal Elnur Bimov. At the same time, according to REGNUM, the DAY.AZ website and its English -language version of Today.Az stopped working on February 18.

Moscow, Krymsky Val, February 24, 2009. Photographed by Dmitry Borko.

Weapon. Photo from the site of an independent newspaper The famous weapon Monzir al-Kassar was sentenced on Tuesday by the Federal Court of Manhattan to 30 years in prison, RIA Novosti reports. His accomplice Luis Felipe Moreno Hoda was sentenced to 25 years in prison.

Judge Olga Kudeshkina. Photo Newsru.com Judge of the Moscow City Court Olga Kudeshkina, devoid of judges in 2004, won the process of human rights in the European Court of Human Rights against Russia, Kommersant reports. The Strasbourg Court admitted that in relation to Kudeshkina, Article 10 of the Human Rights Convention guaranteeing freedom of expression was violated. The decision in favor of the judge was made the second time after a partial change in the composition of the judges.

Society '' Memorial ''. Illustration from the site of the organization The case of a search in the St. Petersburg Memorial is aimed at a new consideration. On Tuesday, the City Court of St. Petersburg granted the cassation performance of the prosecutor's office and annulled the decision of the Dzerzhinsky District Court of January 20, in which the search was recognized as illegal, and the seized materials were ordered to return to the "memorial".

Alexander Bastrykin, head of the UPP of Russia. Photo Newsru.com The head of the Investigative Committee under the prosecutor’s office, Alexander Bastrykin, proposed in exceptional cases to change territorial jurisdiction in criminal cases, primarily an extremist and terrorist nature, Interfax said. With such a statement, he made the expanded college of the Prosecutor General in Moscow. The head of the UKP emphasized that the problem is especially relevant for the North Caucasus region.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev. Photo from the site www.dw-world.de On March 3, the Khamovnican Court will begin to consider the second case of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev. This time, the former leaders of the Yukos and Menatep are accused of incredible in the scale of the theft of someone else's property. How will it go and how will the new stage of persecution of the most famous prisoner of the country end?

Dmitry Medvedev. Photo by Wikimedia President Dmitry Medvedev submitted to the State Duma a bill on granting parties that did not overcome a 7-percent barrier in the ward, several deputy places in parliament, RIA Novosti reports. The law provides that deputy mandates can receive candidates from federal lists from political parties, who received from 5 to 7 percent of votes in the State Duma elections.

Mikhail Kasyanov. Photo by A. Karpyuk/Grani.ru The beginning of the second process in the Yukos case is the answer to everyone who predicted the Thaw and called for supporting the new "liberal" president. This was stated by the leader of the Russian People's Democratic Union Mikhail Kasyanov.