The Privolzhsky District Court of Kazan sentenced two former police officers from the Dalniy department. RAPSI reported this on September 25. Former district police officer Ilshat Garifullin was sentenced to 2.5 years in a penal colony, and his colleague Ramil Nigmatzyanov was sentenced to two years. The police were found guilty of illegally detaining 52-year-old Sergei Nazarov.

Shares of the Internet search engine Google following trading on September 24 rose by more than two percent ; the price of the company's securities rose above $749. As The Wall Street Journal points out, Google's quotes have updated the most since November 2007. By comparison, the tech-heavy Nasdaq index fell 0.6 percent at the end of the session. In total, since the summer of this year, Google shares have risen in price by more than 30 percent.

Sberbank is developing a business plan for investing in potash deposits in Belarus. stated this According to Interfax , Chairman of the Board of Sberbank German Gref . The manager did not specify the volume of potential investments, but noted that they could be significant for the economy of Belarus. In addition, Gref said that he refinanced a billion dollar loan to Belaruskali.

Forward of the Belarusian national team Mikhail Grabovsky signed a contract with hockey CSKA on Tuesday, according to the club’s website. It is expected that the 28-year-old forward of the NHL club Toronto Maple Leafs, after a medical examination, will go with the army team on a three-game away tour along the route Chelyabinsk - Yekaterinburg - Magnitogorsk.

Switzerland has refused to revise the agreement with Germany on tax evaders, writes Spiegel. Neither the government nor the banks are ready to renegotiate its terms. This became known on Monday, September 24, after a request from the Minister of Finance of North Rhine-Westphalia Norbert Walter-Borjans. According to the current draft document, in the future, deposits of German citizens in Swiss banks should be taxed at a rate of 21 to 41 percent.

On Tuesday, September 25, an All-Ukrainian protest against the adoption of the libel law began. She was supported by the country's leading online publications, in particular, "Ukrainian Pravda", Korrespondent.net, the newspaper "Komsomolskaya Pravda in Ukraine", Segodnya.ua, LB.ua, Football.ua, TVi, LigaBusinessInform, "Telekritika" and others. At 8 a.m. local time, the banner “Defend your right to know. Say no to the libel law” appeared on the main pages of these publications.

The Investigative Committee for St. Petersburg will not initiate a criminal case against officials of the city committee for culture suspected of embezzlement of funds allocated for the celebration of Victory Day. The Izvestia newspaper reported this on September 25, citing a source in the department.

Engineers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology proposed using vibrations of magnetic balls to determine the concentration of biomolecules. The work was published in the journal Lab on a Chip ; its summary is provided on the institute’s website. The method is based on the fact that the resistance to movement in a liquid strongly depends on the size of the moving body.

Forbes magazine's rating of "200 largest non-public companies in Russia" includes 19 companies whose main activities are related to development, construction of real estate for various purposes, real estate business or property management. The rating includes companies whose shares are not listed on the stock market. In the list, participants are ranked by annual revenue (for 2011).

The State Duma will not consider a bill on the transition to permanent winter time. told Interfax on Tuesday, September 25.

Deputy Prosecutor of the Vinnytsia region Roman Shubin, who, as a senior investigator for particularly important cases of the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine, led the cases of the murder of journalist Georgy Gongadze and the poisoning of presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko , died in an accident, the Ukrainian newspaper Segodnya reported on the evening of Monday, September 24. .

In Serpukhov, a drunk policeman, driving a personal car, crashed into the car of the head of the Serpukhov district, Alexander Shestun . agency reported this on September 25 ITAR-TASS . According to Life News, the accident occurred in the morning at the intersection of Sovetskaya Street and Krupskaya Street. Shestun was on his way to work, and policeman Vladimir Abrosimov was returning from a celebration of receiving the rank of major. No one was seriously injured in the accident.

The Russian Foreign Ministry proposed to radically strengthen the security of Russian diplomatic missions located in countries with a difficult socio-political situation, Izvestia writes on Tuesday, September 25. The editors have at their disposal a draft concept for strengthening the resource and personnel potential of the system of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Economic Development and Rossotrudnichestvo, designed until 2020.

Two Marines who desecrated the bodies of killed Taliban fighters have been charged with criminal offenses, Agence France-Presse reported on Monday, September 24, citing US defense officials. Staff Sergeants Joseph Chamblin and Edward Deptola, the Pentagon said in a statement, are accused of, among other things, improperly performing their duties in supervising subordinates. Both defendants will be court-martialed.

The Federal Tax Service went to court demanding that the Central Passenger Suburban Company (CPPC) pay 740 million rubles in taxes, penalties and fines. According to the Federal Tax Service, the Russian Railways structure paid for a number of its expenses twice, as a result of which it greatly underestimated its profit, and in some cases showed a loss. newspaper writes about this in its issue dated September 25 The Vedomosti . The tax service's claims relate to the period 2008-2009.