At the retrial in the case of the accident on the nuclear submarine Nerpa, which killed 20 people, the prosecution presented its evidence. According to the prosecutor's office, the culprits in the disaster are the former bilge engineer, foreman Dmitry Grobov, who started the fire extinguishing system without any reason, and the commander of the guard nuclear submarine, captain 1st rank Dmitry Lavrentyev, who did not exercise the necessary control over his subordinates.

Australian Grand Prix won by Kimi Raikkonen "Formula 1" Previous photo Photo: Reuters/Mark Horsburgh Next photo 1 / 4 Photo: Reuters/Scott Wensley Photo: Reuters/Scott Wensley Photo: Reuters/Daniel Munoz Photo: Reuters/Mark Horsburgh Kimi Raikkonen won the first stage of the World Championship held in Melbourne.

In Primorye, the head of a boarding school for the elderly and disabled became a defendant in a criminal case for embezzlement on an especially large scale. “Based on the materials of the prosecutor’s inspection, a criminal case was opened against the head of the Pokrovsky boarding house for the elderly and disabled under Part 4 of Art.

Fyodor Lukyanov sums up the reign of Hugo Chavez What will Hugo Chavez be remembered in history? Hugo Chavez turned politics towards the poor and became an icon of justice for them Photo: Reuters/Vostock-Photo Fyodor Lukyanov, editor-in-chief of the magazine "Russia in Global Affairs" Chavez was not a banal military dictator, obsessed only with power and profit, of which the history of South America has known countless times.

The budget of the US intelligence community was $80 billion in 2012. This money was used to maintain spy satellites, bribe Taliban commanders, probe the Internet and many other needs. Meanwhile, the scouts themselves are also not averse to earning extra money. Some people turn into double agents for this. However, there were also those who managed to get rich without betraying their homeland.

OJSC Soda (part of the Bashkir Chemistry holding) plans to attract loans from Sberbank of Russia and VTB Bank for a total amount of 3.9 billion rubles. The board of directors of the company approved the signing of a general agreement with the Bashkir branch of Sberbank on opening a line with a limit of 2.1 billion rubles for replenishing working capital and paying dividends, the company said in a statement.

132 1 min. ... By the end of 2013, about 6 thousand mortgage loans will be issued under the Affordable Housing program at 3% per annum. This was stated on Friday by Vladimir Vysochin, Deputy Director of the Department of State Programs and Housing Development of the Ministry of Regional Development. The remaining 13% (the loan rate does not exceed 16%) will be compensated to banks by the government from the state budget - UAH 300 million is allocated for this purpose this year.

The international rating agency Fitch has raised the long-term issuer default rating of the German chemical and pharmaceutical concern Bayer AG to A from A-, and the short-term rating to F1 from F2 with a stable outlook, the agency said in a press release. The agency notes an improvement in the company's operating performance in 2012 and a reduction in debt by 2.1 billion euros. Debt levels are expected to continue to decline this year on the back of strong cash flows.

France and Great Britain are ready to arm opponents of Bashar al-Assad At the EU summit in Brussels, held at the end of last week, Syria became almost the central issue. This happened on the initiative of France and Great Britain, who hoped to convince their partners of the need to lift the embargo on arms supplies to opponents of Bashar al-Assad. However, this point of view was not understood by everyone - the Franco-British idea was rejected by Germany and several other states.

The musical group "Aquarium" ceases to exist, said the group's leader Boris Grebenshchikov. After several spring and summer concerts, the musician, as he put it, intends to “become a partisan.” Boris Grebenshchikov noted that today one of the latest studio works of Aquarium will be posted on the Internet. Based on materials from "Echo of Petersburg"

Voice “I make films for love, but in the case of Stalin I cannot apply this rule” Photo: Vasily Shaposhnikov, Kommersant / buy photo Director Emir Kusturica refused the offer of his Russian colleague Alexei Balabanov to work together on a film about Stalin's youth

On Sunday, the head of the Catholic Church held his first service as the new pontiff. The leitmotif of Pope Francis' sermon was a call for humility and compassion. However, such a “course” can lead to social contradictions, experts say. Photo: Osservatore Romano, Reuters Pope Francis addressed the believers with a sermon for the first time. According to tradition, every Sunday at noon the head of the Catholic Church reads the Angel of the Lord prayer along with the faithful in St.

And the deputy did not hide his condition A member of the A Just Russia faction, Sergei Petrov, is again forced to prove that he has not been involved in business since he received a deputy mandate in 2008.

Thing Pablo Picasso. "Picador". Painting on faience. 1953 Lot at the Sotheby's auction, which will be held on March 19 in London. Photo: Sotheby's

Forum On March 22, the 2nd international scientific conference “Bibliophilia and personal collections” will be held in the reading room of the manuscript department of the Russian State Library. Within its framework, it is planned to hold an exhibition of rare books from the collections of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, philosopher and dissident Pyotr Chaadaev, as well as the famous bibliographer Nikolai Rubakin. Painting by Carl Spitzweg "The Bookworm" (1850)