The State Duma Committee on Civil, Criminal, Arbitration and Procedural Legislation has prepared a package of amendments to the current legislation, including the law “On Combating Extremist Activities,” which proposes to establish liability for the dissemination of extremist information via the Internet and computer games. The head of this committee, Pavel Krasheninnikov, announced this at a meeting of the State Duma on Friday.

The United States has blocked Spain's sale of 12 military aircraft to Venezuela, BBC News reports. We are talking about ten C-295 transport aircraft and two CN-235 transport and patrol aircraft, the sale of which was signed by the two countries in November 2005 US officials said the deal, which could destabilize the situation in Latin America, could not take place because the aircraft were carrying American equipment that should not be at the disposal of Venezuela.

The State Duma is investigating the circumstances of the adoption of a government resolution on changes to traffic rules, PRIME-TASS reports . On Friday, the lower house of parliament instructed the constitutional legislation and state-building committee, as well as the security committee, to request information from the government about the reasons for such a hasty adoption of the resolution.

13.01.2006, 21:04:03 version Print | PDA/PDA At the scene of the disaster. NTV frame Red light in thick fog 21 people died as a result of an accident in the Krasnodar region More than two dozen people died as a result of a collision between a bus carrying workers from the Concentrate cannery and a passenger train at an unguarded crossing near the village of Voronezhskaya in the Krasnodar Territory.

At the end of 2005, Volkswagen sold 13,911 vehicles, including commercial vehicles, on the Russian market through a network of official dealers, which is 57 percent higher than in 2004, when 8,866 vehicles were sold. Over the 12 months of last year, Russians purchased 12,007 VW passenger cars and 1,904 commercial vehicles. For comparison, in 2004 these figures were 7,588 and 1,278 vehicles, respectively. Sales of Volkswagen passenger cars alone increased by 58 percent in 2005.

On Friday, Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko called for a national referendum on constitutional reform in the country, calling the Verkhovna Rada's policy "freebie", RIA Novosti reports .

Ukraine is going to restore its missile forces, RIA Novosti reports . This was stated by the Minister of Defense of the Republic Anatoly Gritsenko. “From a military point of view, we are interested in restoring the Missile Forces,” he said. “These weapons will provide a deterrent factor,” the minister added. According to the minister, Ukraine has space technologies and the capabilities to produce tactical missiles of the range required by international agreements.

Ex-President of North Ossetia Alexander Dzasokhov, speaking on Thursday evening at the court hearing in the case of Nurpashi Kulaev, accused of seizing a school in Beslan, said that he did not head the operational headquarters and was not even part of it, reported on the website of Radio Liberty. .

The defense of the former head of the Russian Federal Property Fund (RFFI) Vladimir Malin asked the Moscow City Court to overturn the conviction of their client. “We filed a complaint with the Moscow City Court. We ask the cassation instance to cancel the verdict as illegal and unfounded and to terminate the criminal case against our client. His actions do not constitute a crime,” Larisa Move, the lawyer of the convicted person, told RIA Novosti .

The Yukos oil company announced on January 12 that it had received dividends from Sibneft in the amount of $417 million. This was reported by the press service of NK "YUKOS". The company intends, after transferring the entire amount to its accounts, to use these funds to pay the tax debt accrued to the company to the Russian budget. After paying $417 million, tax claims against Yukos are expected to be reduced to $6.3 billion. Initially, the company faced claims amounting to $27.5 billion.

The Supreme Mufti of the Central Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Russia, Talgat Tadzhuddin, said that he fully supports the idea of ​​the First Deputy Prime Minister of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, to introduce polygamy, Rosbalt.ru reports citing Interfax .

A US special forces soldier must be harmoniously developed culturally and speak foreign languages. These points are key factors for the operative of the future who must participate in the global war on terrorism. This conclusion was presented by US Navy Captain, Commander of the 1st Naval Special Forces Group (SEALs), Sean Pibas, the US Department of Defense information service reports.

The beginning of the January escalation of the gas conflict coincided with the liberalization of the Gazprom stock market. This allowed the gas concern to conduct an interactive presentation of its policies and capabilities in real time.

On Friday, a number of Western media outlets, including the Financial Times newspaper and the UPI agency , published information that Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin had been served with a subpoena to appear in a Washington court in a civil suit brought by American minority shareholders of Yukos.

The High Command of the Russian Navy expressed concern about the seizure of the lighthouse of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in Yalta. According to RIA Novosti , this was stated by Assistant to the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy, Captain 1st Rank Igor Dygalo.