19:58 // 12.05.2006 In Nizhny Novgorod, the former director of the Elite Mod model agency, a resident of Kazakhstan, Dmitry Petrakovsky was sentenced today. According to the court of Nizhny Novgorod district, Petrakovsky was sentenced to 5.5 years in prison for involving minors in porn business under the guise of participating in fashion shows. Together with him, by four and three years in prison, two accomplices were also sentenced.

19:00 // 12.05.2006 In Chechnya, in the near future, the military of the 42nd division of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation and the 46th brigade of the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which are deployed in the Chechen Republic on an ongoing basis, may begin to pay the income tax and rent for land occupied by parts of these formations.

The dollar overcame the "psychological barrier" at 27 rubles and for the first time since the end of December 1999 fell to 26.94 rubles. For the dollar. The American dollar at the MICEX exchange auction on Friday fell below 27 rubles, reaching the end of the end of December 1999 due to negative economic statistics in the United States, published the day before.

Since July 1, Russia completely removes restrictions on the movement of capital, said the Minister of Finance Alexei Kudrin at a meeting of the Council under the President’s envoy in the Ural Federal District. "The envelope of the national currency around the world depends on the freedom of capital circulation, and in a number of countries, including Russia, China and India, such restrictions exist, and they do not allow investing capital even in the nearest countries," the minister said.

20:40 // 12.05.2006 In the White House they are worried about democracy in Russia, but retain their readiness to cooperate with Moscow. The official representative of the US National Security Council Frederick Jones confirmed this Corr. ITAR-TASS , commenting on the Environment of the President of Russia on Wednesday to the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation.

19:25 // 12.05.2006 The Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation prepares for sending documents to Italy to the extradition of Pisa detained in the city of Pisa in the “Yukos case” by Alexei Golubovich, who was on the international wanted list, RIA Novosti was told in the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation.

18:15 // 12.05.2006 For the terms of 6 to 17 years in prison, the Stavropol Regional Court was sentenced to employees of the company's real estate transactions "Larisa". He is charged with the murder of the Stavropol pensioner Stepan Pogorelov and the assignment of funds from the sale of his and his wife Tamare Pogorelova apartment. All three convicts are large mothers. With this in mind, they are defined in a general regime colony.

12:33 // 12.05.2006 The Moscow prosecutor's office charged the Moscow notary Fail Sadretdinov, justified in the case of the murder of the editor -in -chief of the Russian version of Forbes magazine Paul Khlebnikov. "Today, the Moscow prosecutor’s office charged Sadretdinov under paragraph" A ", part 3, Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation in the old edition of the Criminal Code (" Fraud), "RIA Novosti Lawyer Elena Lipzer told RIA Novosti. Source: gzt.ru

10:19 // 12.05.2006 Since July 1, the Russian Federation completely removes restrictions on the movement of capital, said Minister of Finance Alexei Kudrin in Yekaterinburg. "The envelope of the national currency around the world depends on the freedom of capital circulation, and in a number of countries, including Russia, China and India, such restrictions exist, and they do not allow investing capital even in the nearest countries," he said.

17:35 // 12.05.2006 The Zamoskvoretsky court of Moscow today issued a sanction for the arrest of the Moscow notary Fail Sadretdinov, previously justified in the "murder of the murder of the journalist Paul Khlebnikov." The Moscow notary is accused of part 3 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (large -scale fraud). According to investigators, he performed fraudulent actions with the purchase of apartments in Moscow.

18:50 // 12.05.2006 People's Artist of Russia Nikolai Karachentsov, hospitalized "due to temporary ailment" to the clinic of the Military Medical Academy in St. Petersburg on May 5, "is prescribed from the hospital in a satisfactory state for medical reasons. This was announced today by one of the close St. Petersburg friends Nikolai Petrovich, vice-president of the Tennis Federation of the North-Western region Igor Jolepov.

15:30 // 12.05.2006 This was announced to reporters by the head of Aeroflot Valery Okulov. "The projects of creating a unified airline in Russia, which are pushed by all assets, are irrational and unreasonable," he said, emphasizing that such projects do not exist. According to Okulov, you can create large airlines for passenger, cargo and helicopter transportation, but not a single airline.

10:11 // 12.05.2006 The House of Representatives of the US Congress voted to submit to the Congress to be a classified report on possible scenarios for the use of military force against Iran to the head of the Pentagon. According to RIA Novosti in the Chamber Secretariat, the appropriate provision is included in the US defense allocation project approved on Thursday for 2007.

15:40 // 12.05.2006 The State Duma on Friday rejected the proposal of members of the Rodina faction to give the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation the exact definition of the concept of "pornographic materials or objects". With a proposal to supplement Article 242 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, the appropriate note was made by deputies Alexander Chuev, Andrei Savelyev and Alexander Krutov.

19:51 // 12.05.2006 The Government of the Penza Region invited the regional legislative assembly to pay money to the third child in the family in the amount of the subsistence minimum up to seven years. About this today at a special press conference on the discussion of the main provisions of the Address of the President of the Russian Federation to the Federal Assembly, the governor of the Penza region Vasily Bochkarev said.