Ilya Milstein A view from the outside is always useful, and if it is the view of an American diplomat, immersed in our mournful election affairs, then is doubly useful. That is why the publication of Novaya Gazeta, dedicated to fresh leaks from WikiLeaks, is an Otradny phenomenon. Planing the head over the “problem-2012”, it is interesting and instructive to find out how they tried to solve the “2008 problem” in the State Department. Everything is so close, so familiar.

Defense of the Khimkinsky forest 08/02/2010. Photo by L. Barkova The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development refused to participate in financing the construction of the Moscow-Petersburg highway, which should go through the Khimkinsky forest. According to Gazeta.ru, the representative of the EBRD in Russia Richard Wallace announced this. "The EBRD does not participate in the project. There is an agreement on financing with a pool of other banks," he said.

Bribe. Photo from the site Press.try.md The presidential administration prepared a bill tightening responsibility for bribery, Vedomosti reports. According to the text of the document, fines for bribes will be multiplied by the amounts received by criminals and in some cases will exceed 100 times. Famous fines are supposed to be introduced for the four article of the Criminal Code.

Victor Baturin. Frame NTV The Odintsovo City Court of the Moscow Region satisfied the lawsuits of the guarantor and Park-Service companies against businessman Viktor Baturin and decided to recover 98.7 million rubles from him, RAPSI reports with reference to the representative of the court. According to the agency, the court also satisfied the lawsuit against Baturin, filed by the Inspectorate of the Federal Tax Service in the Ryazan Region.

Yuri Zdorenko, deputy head of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Central District of Moscow Representatives of the Solidarity movement, Mikhail Krieger and Sergey Davidis and the leader of the movement in defense of the Khimki forest, Yevgeny Chirikov, applied to the Investigative Committee with a statement of crimes committed by the deputy chief of the Internal Affairs Directorate of CAO of Moscow and the head of the public security police, Colonel Yuri Zerorenko.

The building of the Central Bank. Photo by ITAR-TASS At the end of 2010, the net outflow of capital from Russia amounted to 38.3 billion dollars, the Central Bank’s press release said. Most of the outflow fell on the first quarter of 2010 and the last. At the beginning of the year, 14.7 billion dollars were taken out of Russia, and at the end - $ 22.7 billion.

Vladimir Bukovsky. Frame of the faces-TV Last December, by its violent events, it once again confirmed that I have long suspected: in addition to other many times described ailments, Russia suffers from Alzheimer's disease, and almost all segments of the population, including the ruling elite, suffer from it. This is really some kind of "groundhog day" on a scale of the whole country. In fact, what's new in the events of December 11? Nothing.

In support of Khodorkovsky. Photo by Dmitry Borko The defense of Mikhail Khodorkovsky does not exclude that a new criminal case can be instituted against him, in the framework of which the ex-head of the Yukos will be accused of murders. According to Interfax , Yuri Schmidt Khodorkovsky said at a press conference on Thursday. “If we talk about accusations of this kind, considering them absolutely irrational and impossible, I began to admit that this could happen somewhere,” he said.

Julian Assange. Photo Guardian The founder of WikiLeaks website Julian Assange spoke about the “safety” documents that he had for publication in case something happens to him or his resource. According to Lenta.ru, the statement was made in an interview with Assange by New Statesman magazine. Assange did not disclose the content of files, but noted that it is worth fear not only to the US government, but also to the Media Magnate Rupert Murdok.

Portrait of Valentina Matvienko in the snow. Photo: sergey-chernov.livejournal.com In relation to the Governor of St. Petersburg Valentina Matvienko and a number of city officials, a criminal case may be instituted due to the death of a child from ice falling from the roof. According to RIA Novosti, the State Duma deputy from "Fair Russia" Oksana Dmitrieva appealed with a statement addressed to the prosecutor of St. Petersburg.

Tu-154 aircraft. Photo from the site www.uraal.ru Smolensk-Severny airfields were supposed to ban the landing of the Polish Tu-154 Polish aircraft with President Lech Kacinsky on board, the Minister of Internal Affairs of Poland, Jerzy Miller, said on the air of the TVNN24 television channel. “The reaction of dispatchers to attempts to land the plane should have been unequivocal,” Miller emphasized. He said that Smolensk dispatchers consulted with Moscow, which negatively affected their work.

Prague. Photo Greenwich-tour.ru Ex-Minister of Economics of Ukraine Bogdan Danilishin received political asylum in the Czech Republic. According to UNIAN, the lawyer Danilishin Marina Makhitkova reported this. The decision to provide asylum was made by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Czech Republic. Until now, Danilishin was in a prison of preliminary detention in Prague. The city court must resolve the issue of his release from custody.

The FSB building on Lubyanskaya Square. Photo by A. Karpyuk/Grani.ru In Moscow, a participant in a single picket was detained in support of the Tyumen teacher Andrei Kutuzov, accused of extremism. As Indimia reports, the picket and three journalists were detained on Lubyanskaya Square people in civilian clothes. Without introducing themselves, they took the picket and journalists to the FSB reception, where they rewrote their passport data.

Donald Tusk. Photo from the site www.www.gover.pl Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk called the “incomplete” report of Russian experts about the causes of the catastrophe of the aircraft President of Poland Lech Kachinsky near Smolensk. According to RIA Novosti, at a press conference in Warsaw Tusk said that Poland would seek from Moscow a joint report that would suit both parties.

Fight. Frame NTV The fifth participant in the fight, in which the Spartak fan Yegor Sviridov died, was detained during the New Year holidays, Interfax reports with reference to a source close to the course of the investigation. A native of Dagestan Akay Akayev, who was previously hiding from law enforcement agencies and was arrested in absentia, was detained, according to some sources, in the suburbs, according to others - on the outskirts of the capital.