For the first time in Russian practice, bailiffs seized the accounts of a non-state pension fund (NPF), threatening the payment of pensions of 40 thousand people. newspaper writes about this The Vedomosti . Bailiffs seized the accounts of NPF Sotsium following a claim by the company Vladimir-Sibir for almost 40 million rubles. The NPF refused to pay the company agency fees, accusing it of forging pension insurance contracts.

The criminal case against the head of the Internet library "Antikompromat" and the president of the "Panorama" center Vladimir Pribylovsky has been discontinued, RIA Novosti reports . The corresponding decision was made back in May 2009, but Pribylovsky’s lawyer Irina Khrunova received it by fax only the other day. Vladimir Pribylovsky was suspected of disclosing information constituting an investigative secret on the Anti-Kompromat website, which he owned.

20.01.2010, 15:36:35 version Print | PDA/PDA Victory Parade on Red Square. Photo by Alexander Kotomin, Lenta.Ru American troops will march through Red Square Military personnel from the countries of the anti-Hitler coalition - the USA, Great Britain and France - will take part in the parade on Red Square dedicated to the 65th anniversary of the Victory on May 9, 2010.

A serial pedophile has been sentenced to life imprisonment in Yekaterinburg. agency reported this on January 20 The Interfax . The Sverdlovsk Regional Court found a resident of the city of Pervouralsk guilty under articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation 131 (“rape”), 132 (“violent acts of a sexual nature”) and 105 (“murder”).

Russian-American negotiations have begun in Russia to unblock the import of poultry meat from the United States. newspaper The Kommersant writes that at the meeting, which was held behind closed doors, representatives of the American side said that they were ready to change the technology for processing chicken meat if they received a delay of two to three months.

The only Russian participants in the world's largest circus arts festival in Monte Carlo did not take part in the gala concert due to a conflict with the organizers and left the event early, RIA Novosti reported on Wednesday . The troupe under the direction of Vyacheslav Chernievsky received the jury prize, but the Russians expressed disagreement with this decision, explained festival vice-president Urs Pils.

Alexander Grek has become the new editor-in-chief of National Geographic Russia magazine. This was reported on the official website of the Independent Media holding.

On January 12, Google took offense at Chinese hackers, and on January 14 it became known that it and 30 other large companies had been hacked using a vulnerability in Internet Explorer. A few more days passed, and the German and French governments recommended that citizens switch to alternative browsers.

Canadian pop singer Celine Dion has been named the highest-paid artist of the decade. The Ultimate Top 10 rating, which was topped by the performer, was compiled by the Los Angeles Times based on data on musicians’ income from tours and CD sales. According to the publication's calculations, from 2000 to 2009, Dion earned $747.9 million, of which $225.7 million from album sales and $522.2 million from concert activities.

Ufa's Salavat Yulaev became the leader of the Eastern Conference in the Kontinental Hockey League. The Ufa team beat Novokuznetsk Metallurg with a score of 6:1 and moved ahead of Magnitogorsk Metallurg in the standings. In the general KHL table, Salavat Yulaev rose to second place. The official website of the KHL reports this. In the game with the Novokuznetsk club, Salavat forward Alexander Radulov scored a double. Radulov's teammate Patrick Thoresen also scored two goals.

Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov suspended the restoration of four capital estates that are objects of cultural heritage: Kuskovo, Ostankino, Vorontsovo and Kuzminki. This was reported by the Interfax agency with reference to a statement by a representative of the city administration. The official explained that Luzhkov ordered an inventory of the condition of all objects, to determine a list of necessary work and to minimize the city’s costs for the restoration of buildings.

The Federal Arbitration Court of the Moscow District exempted Gazprombank from payments to a psychiatric hospital in Tver for a stake in Gazprom lost in the Tver Korona Plus depository in 1997 . newspaper writes about this The Kommersant . The court overturned the decision of the Moscow Arbitration Court, which provided for the recovery of more than 325 million rubles from Gazprombank in favor of the hospital, whose patient vouchers were used to purchase the lost shares.

On Wednesday 20 January, Ireland's three largest airports will close for four hours this afternoon due to an air traffic controller strike. More than 300 staff at Dublin, Cork and Shannon airports are walking away from their duties in protest at the suspension of 15 colleagues who were unhappy with the introduction of new technology.

Two residents of Voronezh were sentenced to five and six years in prison for robbing a jewelry store. This was reported on January 20 on the website of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation. 39-year-old guard of the robbed store Vitaly Chukaev and 32-year-old former saleswoman Lyubov Dorokhova were found guilty of stealing 5.4 thousand jewelry worth more than 80 million rubles, as well as 4.6 million rubles in cash.

The American company TPI Composites conducted the first successful tests of a new armored vehicle entirely assembled from composite materials (All Composite Military Vehicle, ACMV), reports DefPro . At the first stage, ACMV passed endurance and sea trials. In total, the armored car traveled 80 thousand kilometers on asphalt and dirt roads, as well as over rough terrain. The new armored vehicle was based on the HMMWV (Humvee), common in the United States.