The head of Yukos, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, speaking on Thursday in Washington, noted an improvement in the investment climate in Russia, but at the same time criticized the action of the Prosecutor General’s Office in relation to his business partners. Khodorkovsky spoke at the annual meeting of the American-Russian business council, whose members are more than 280 large companies in the US private sector, carrying out business operations in Russia.

The second son of the Queen of the Netherlands Beatrix Prince Johan Friso abandoned his right to succession. He stated that he would marry, despite the negative attitude from the government and parliament, who did not want to approve his choice. In accordance with the laws of the Netherlands, the ruling office and the country's highest legislative body are responsible for the future of the royal family.

The cleric of the Nizhny Novgorod diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church (Russian Orthodox Church) Vladimir energy, devoid of the ROC of the Jerely San for the wedding of a homosexual couple, denies his guilt. According to Blagovet-Info , the former clergyman said on the eve of the Nizhny Novgorod television company Volga that he did not take the wedding ceremony, and the photos in the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda are a fake.

Akhmad Kadyrov invited the widow of Johar Dudaev Alla to return to Chechnya and guarantees her and her family complete security in the republic. "She (Dudaeva) is not to blame for what her husband did. I can become a guarantor that if she wants to return to the republic, then no one will touch her there. If she needs her and her family, I am ready to provide this assistance," the elected president of the Chechen Republic Akhmad Kadyrov said on Friday, Interfax reports.

On Thursday, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said that the Russian government hopes that the American military would withdraw their troops from bases in two former Soviet republics in Central Asia, when the operation in Afghanistan will be completed, the New York Times (translation on the website inopressa.ru ) writes.

The World Boxing Council at the 41st Kongress in Moscow for the first time in history went to change the rules by establishing a new title of honorary world champion. For two days, the WBC Congress violently discussed the dilemma: on the one hand, the absolute world champion in the category of up to 63.5 kg Konstantin Tszyu violated the deadlines for protecting his title, and on the other, he, without a doubt, is a great boxer.

The Russian oil company Yukos is of interest in oil production in Iraq, the head of the company Mikhail Khodorkovsky in Washington said during a speech at the Carnegie Foundation. According to Khodorkovsky, if tenders for oil development take place in Iraq, "then we will certainly consider the possibility of our participation in this," Interfax reports. The Russian entrepreneur noted that Iraqi deposits are of great interest, and Yukos will try to "get ahead of other companies."

On Thursday, lawyer Sergei Belyak met with a member of the Central Committee of the National-Bolshevik Party Vladimir Linderman (Abel) in the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center. Vladimir Linderman disappeared on September 24 , when he left the house in slippers to buy newspapers in Kiosk. Recall that until yesterday evening both the Prosecutor General and the FSB denied the fact of his arrest.

In the UK, on ​​Thursday, the most terrible and effective Internet pedophile was sentenced by the court to imprisonment for a period of five years. 64-year-old Douglas Lindsel, the father of two children, under the guise of a girl in Internet chats managed to get acquainted with 54 girls in the UK and in 18 other European countries. After meeting, he made an appointment to his victims and tried to persuade them to depraved actions.

Russian doctors beat the alarm: the number of mental disorders in the country is growing from year to year, Nadezhda - to the federal program for assistance to the population, said Anna Sernikova, official representative of the Serbsky Institute. “The growth of patients over the past decade amounted to 41.5 percent,” she said on the eve of World Mental Health celebrated on Friday. “In Russia, 2.5 thousand mentally ill are in Russia for every 100 thousand people.

Several dozens of Israeli tanks on Friday night invaded the Palestinian refugee camp in the Rafach region located in the south of the gas sector on the border with Egypt, Kairo Radio reports. According to the Internet site of the Israeli newspaper ONOT AHRONOT, referring to eyewitnesses, Israeli armored vehicles were met by Palestinian militant fire, RIA Novosti reports.

From October 10 to 15, on many large routes in the Moscow Region, traffic will be difficult in connection with the repair work on the roadway, the Directorate of the GUVD of the Moscow Region reports. In particular, the movement will be difficult on the Moscow-Nizhny Novgorod highway-54 km in connection with the reconstruction of the overpass, in three places on the Moscow-Sancti-Petersburg highway; 88-89 km and 62-72 km - marking, 48 km - repairs of sidewalks.

The assignment of an investment rating will bring Russia not only obvious benefits, but also serious problems, one of which is the strengthening of the ruble course. On Thursday, enthusiastic speculators lowered the dollar to the level of January last year , forcing the Central Bank to buy almost $ 1 billion from them. This can be only a warm -up in front of the Battle with strengthening the ruble. On Friday, the dollar fell into another 12 kopecks.

A group of inhabitants of the Paigarm Parasqua-Voznesensky Convent of the Saransk Diocese refused to accept the passport of a new citizen of the Russian Federation, referring to the fact that the document could interfere with the salvation of the soul, because the number of beast 666 is encrypted in its symbolism, the Blagovers-Info reports.

Siegfried Fishbacher, a partner of Roya Horn on the famous Siegfried & Roy show, said that Tiger Montecor, who had almost bitten Horn, almost did not want to harm his owner at all - on the contrary, he tried to help the stumbled tamer, writes Russian Ny . Recall that the illusionist Roy Horn from the star duo Siegfried & Roy on Friday was the victim of the tiger. The animal attacked him during the performance in Las Vegas , which was broadcast live.