The main character, or rather, the antihero of the scandalous documentary of the French director Barbet Schroeder “Terror Lawyer”, who is now on metropolitan screens, was the man-hand of Jacques Verges. Half the Frenchman, half the Taets, a specialist in philosophy, history, oriental languages and jurisprudence, in his youth he fought in the army of General Charles de Gaulle and participated in the hostilities in Morocco and Algeria.

19:37 // 24.02.2009 The representative of the LDPR, the candidate for the Legislative Assembly of the Nizhny Novgorod Region in the district No. 1 Sergey Vavilychev was attacked the day before, he was hospitalized with a concussion, an employee of the press service of the regional branch of the LDPR said on Tuesday. He said that the attack was committed during the distribution of campaign materials in the Avtozavodsky district of Nizhny Novgorod.

12:46 // 24.02.2009 Employees of the Altai Territory private security last night detained a resident of Barnaul, who left about 60 cars without wheels. The man pierced the tires on one of the parking lots of the regional center and was caught red-handed, the ITAR-TASS reported in the press service of the Department of Neuded Assembly. A 48-year-old man made his way to one of the Barnaul parking lots and pierced his tires with an awl, and also beat the glass of some cars.

21:45 // 24.02.2009 The former NBA star Vlad sofatz was elected head of the Olympic Committee of Serbia, reports Reuters. The former Central Los Angeles Lakers and Sacramento Kings received his post yesterday, after the former head of the committee, Ivan Churkovich, withdrew his candidacy. The plans of the former basketball player "create more favorable conditions for Serbian athletes." Prior to this, the 41-year-old sofas worked as a sport adviser in the Serbian government. Source: gzt.ru

13:20 // 24.02.2009 Moscow police detained two residents of Dagestan on Sunday, who are suspected of threatening the weapon with their compatriot, took possession of the BMW-520 machine and demanded 100 thousand rubles for its return, a source in the city law enforcement agencies said on Tuesday. On Sunday, around 16.30, a car service locksmith, registered in the Republic of Dagestan, turned to the police.

16:00 // 24.02.2009 GOOGLE ELECTRICAL Mail service has stopped working this afternoon: when trying to go to the site, the server gives an error message. The PR director of Google in Russia Alla Zabrovskaya told RIA Novosti that the lack of access to the mail is associated with technical problems, and users around the world are deprived of access to their boxes. "We are working to eliminate this problem.

19:56 // 24.02.2009 Every year, prosecutors of the Russian Federation are restored by about a million people who applied to the supervisory authority for help, said the chief prosecutor of the Russian Federation Yuri Chaika. "More than three million citizens are contacted annually to the prosecutor’s bodies. As a rule, the third part of the complaints is satisfied." - said Chaika. The Prosecutor General noted that employees of the department restore violated rights for free and quickly.

The colonel helped to hide from the state 22 million rubles in Vladivostok for official crimes condemned the former acting Deputy Head of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Primorsky Territory on Economic Security Anatoly Latsepov. The colonel, who allowed one of the businessmen to avoid taxes in the amount of 22 million rubles, was sentenced to three years in prison with a trial period of three years.

15:30 // 24.02.2009 The rapprochement of the European Union and Belarus will be inhibited in the event of the recognition of the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, the European Commissioner for the foreign policy and the neighborhood of Benit Ferrero Waldner said. The parliament of Belarus on April 2 will consider the recognition of the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

12:14 // 24.02.2009 The metropolitan administration of the Investigative Committee at the prosecutor's office (SCP) of the Russian Federation is investigating the murder of the former FSB General of the Russian Federation, which has recently been engaged in business, a source in the city law enforcement agencies said on Tuesday. The murder occurred last Sunday in the north of Moscow.

15:44 // 24.02.2009 Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin considers it wrong to "shift responsibility for a doping topic only to athletes." "I want to draw the attention of the National Olympic Committee, the corresponding ministries and departments, the Government of the Russian Federation that we have no right and will not transfer responsibility only to athletes - the organizers should also understand their own responsibility," he said at a meeting of the Presidium of the Council for the

BST Bank delayed customer payments Bank of High Technologies (BVT, 342th place in terms of assets in the Interfax Ranking for 2008) has been delaying the payments of some of its customers for several weeks. Information about this, which appeared in banking forums, the correspondent of Gazeta was confirmed by several bank customers at once. “Since the beginning of February 2009, the bank has not been making a payment. Operationists do not report reasons, ”says one of them.

Alexander Gafin was fired for the distribution of rumors, Alexander Gafin, adviser to the chairman of the board of Alfa-Bank, was relieved of his position. "The latest statements regarding the president of Alfa Bank Peter Aven were completely initiative and were not initiated by any of the bank leadership. All this is a gross violation of corporate ethics.

The artist, the widow of John Lennon Yoko, will receive the prize of the 2009 Venetian Biennale, American avant -garde Yoko, it and John Baldessari will receive the highest awards of the 53rd Venetian Biennale, which will be held from June 7 to November 22 - “Golden Lions” for great contribution to world art. The decision on this was made by the leadership of the Venetian Biennale at the suggestion of its curator Danel Burnbaum.

The head of the Foreign Ministry, Sergei Lavrov, first paid a visit to Chisinau, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov arrived in Chisinau yesterday and met with Moldova President Vladimir Voronin. A visit to Moldova was the first for Lavrov as the head of the Foreign Ministry. The parties discussed not only the Transnistrian conflict, but also the development of a new European security agreement proposed by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.