Evgeny Chichvarkin, the former co-owner of Euroset, whose extradition from the UK is being sought by Russia, was arrested in London on September 7, but released on bail the same day, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrei Nesterenko told RIA Novosti. Earlier, the Attorney General's Office reported that the Westminster London District Court issued an arrest warrant for the businessman on August 27. "As for the issue in the case of Mr.

At the Sayano-Shushenskaya HPP, the remains of two persons who were reported missing were presumably found - painter Marina Rau, born in 1976, and master Maxim Zholob, born in 1967. This was reported to ITAR-TASS by the official representative of the Investigative Committee under the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation Vladimir Markin.

The slogan "Freedom is not given, it is taken" according to the results of the state examination was recognized as extremist and "undermining the moral foundations of society," the human rights association AGORA reports. The expert opinion, made at the request of the prosecutor of Novorossiysk Alexander Kazimirov, was signed by associate professor of the Gelendzhik branch of the Kuban State University, candidate of philosophical sciences Vladimir Rybnikov.

The first Japanese unmanned cargo spacecraft HTV-1 on Thursday successfully launched from the Tanegashima cosmodrome to the International Space Station, Interfax reports. The launch of the ship was broadcast on the website of the Japanese space agency Jaxa. The ship will spend a little more than a month in autonomous flight. During this time, experts will test the performance of all its systems.

On Monday, the leadership of the Volga Automobile Plant will lay off five thousand employees. In addition, another 31,000 AvtoVAZ employees may lose their jobs before the end of the year. This is with reference to several sources close to the car factory and the government of the Samara region, reports Interfax . As one of the interlocutors of the agency explained, on Monday the first five thousand employees will be informed about the reduction of their jobs.

The Russian Foreign Ministry has no information about the secret visit of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Russia. However, Kommersant's sources in the Kremlin confirmed that the Israeli prime minister had come to Moscow. The Israeli embassy in Moscow told the publication that they did not know anything about this visit.

Gosnarkokontrol at the end of the year will launch a hardware and software complex that will block access to sites that promote drugs. Infox.ru about this informed Nikolai Kartashov, head of the public relations department of the Federal Drug Control Service of Russia, . According to him, these filters will be installed, first of all, in schools and other educational institutions.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is a "marginal" and his decision to recognize the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia will not have any consequences, Georgian State Minister for Reintegration Temur Yakobashvili said. According to Georgia Online, according to the minister, Abkhazians and Ossetians should be offended by recognition from such a marginal politician.

The prosecutor's office has begun checking the distribution system of AvtoVAZ, writes Kommersant . Letters have been sent to dealers of the concern with a request to inform how many cars of the concern they sell and how many they would like to receive from the manufacturer.

The tragic events of September 1999 in Buynaksk, Moscow and Volgodonsk created the conditions for the power oligarchy to come to power in Russia, curtail civil and political freedoms and retreat from the democratic foundations of the constitutional order, Russian human rights activists believe. A statement in connection with the tenth anniversary of the terrorist attacks that claimed hundreds of lives was circulated by the "For Human Rights" movement.

The lawsuit of the President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov against the head of the Memorial human rights center Oleg Orlov will be considered in the Tver court of Moscow on September 25. It is reported by "Echo of Moscow." Kadyrov requires a human rights activist 10 million rubles of compensation for damage to his honor, dignity and business reputation.

International naval exercises of NATO member countries and their partners called Jackal Stone began on Thursday in Croatia. It is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the Croatian national TV channel HRT. About 1,500 military personnel from Albania, Croatia, Hungary, Lithuania, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Sweden, Ukraine and the United States take part in the maneuvers.

The Armenian authorities released 1,208 people from penitentiary institutions as part of an amnesty adopted in June at the suggestion of President Serzh Sargsyan, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the press secretary of the Cassation Court of Armenia Alina Yengoyan. The National Assembly of Armenia, at an extraordinary meeting on June 19, adopted Sargsyan's proposal to declare an amnesty, in particular, for those who committed crimes during the March 2008 events in Yerevan.

The State Duma adopted in the first reading a bill according to which the President of Russia will now appoint the rectors of the country's two largest universities - Moscow State University and St. Petersburg State University, writes BBC News . The legislative initiative was submitted to the Parliament by President Dmitry Medvedev. In exchange for giving up self-government, a special status will grant Moscow State University and St.

The average size of a bribe in Russia compared to last year has almost tripled and amounted to more than 27,000 rubles, ITAR-TASS reports citing Yury Shalakov, head of the Economic Security Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. He made such a statement after a meeting of the coordinating council of heads of tax investigation bodies of the CIS countries. Shalakov acknowledged that the fight against corruption is not yet effective enough.