Today it became known that new criminal cases are being prepared against Yukos. The disgraced oil company was today accused of non -payment of taxes in the amount of $ 5 billion . And her new leader Semen Cukess is suspected of violating Russian legislation .

The Bild newspaper (translation on the website inopressa.ru ) offers readers a list of the most expensive things in the world, which has the most expensive serial car, the most expensive suit, the most expensive pack of cigarettes and much more. The most expensive woman in the world The most expensive woman in the world is the Hollywood actress Jennifer Lopez. Her body is insured in one New York insurance company in the amount of 1 billion euros.

Next year in Moscow it is planned to provide video surveillance systems of 18,307 entrances of residential buildings. This is provided for by the program "My Yard - My Entrance" for 2004, approved on Tuesday at a meeting of the government of the capital. Almost 17 thousand entrances will be repaired.

CSKA’s official statement regarding his player Nikolai Zherdev’s departure to North America and a possible continuation of a career in the Kolambus Blue Jacks club, which should be addressed to the Russian Hockey federation of an unprecedented scandal between the FHR and NHL.

The Blind Minister of Internal Affairs of Great Britain David Blankette appeared on Monday at a meeting in a public center in Lids with a broken eye. The minister was accompanied by the head of the British government Tony Blair, the British edition of the Daily Telegraph reports on Tuesday.

The American Marine Marine, who married an Iraqi woman, was reprimanded and threatens to send it to the reserve. The lawyer of the 27-year-old Sean Blackwell claims that his client "was found guilty for falling in love." After the wedding, he was not released to his wife working as a psychiatrist. He, patrolling the streets of Baghdad in Patrol, escaped from his comrades to the bride to accept Islam and after that to issue a marriage.

The biggest problems of Vladimir Putin are the economy and Chechnya, and most of the Russians are unhappy with the results of how he puts things in order in the country. These are the results of the survey, which was conducted by the analytical service of the VTsIOM-A at the end of November.

On Saturday, in the Chinese resort city of Sansa, the contest "Miss World 2003" opens. The names of the most likely applicants for this honorary title have already become known. This is Miss Ireland Rosanna Davidson, Miss China Guan Ki and Miss India Ami are yours. Observers consider the most likely winner it is the 19-year-old Irish Davidson.

The manuscript of the Titanic officer, which describes the last hours of the most legendary vessel before flooding, will be sold at the Sotheby's in London. The 17-page document of Charles Laitoller will leave the hammer along with other memorable things related to the Titanic. This was reported on Tuesday by the British television company Sky News . Laitoller was the last person who was taken aboard the Karpaty rescue ship.

The ghost of the banking crisis is walking around Russia. Almost all experts are sure that he may not happen soon, but rational arguments do not soothe. The large amounts the Russians trust banks, the longer the period of a relatively calm life lasts, the stronger the fears that sooner or later all this will turn into a new collapse.

Russia will not ratify the Kyoto protocol in its current form, said the adviser to Russian President Andrei Illarionov, Interfax reports. At the end of the meeting of Vladimir Putin with the participants in the "round table" of industrialists in Russia and the European Union Illarionov told reporters that this position of the Russian leadership was stated at European entrepreneurs at the meeting.

The Khamovnican Court of Moscow sentenced the founder of the infamous financial pyramid "MMM" Sergey Mavrodi by the year and a month of imprisonment for organizing a falsification of a document - a passport. The convict will serve his sentence in a colony-settlement. The passport found in Mavrodi in the name of Yuri Zaitsev, registered in St. Petersburg, was lost by the legal owner at the end of 2000.

Spanish law enforcement agencies extradited one of the leaders of the so -called Orekhov organized criminal group Sergei Butorin to Russia. Tonight, the plane, on board by Butorin, landed at the Sheremetyevo-2 metropolitan airport. According to ITAR-TASS in the information department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, accused of organizing a series of murders, the leader of the "Orekhovsky" will stay in Moscow for several months.

The cat from Snezhinsk (Chelyabinsk region) is called the International Felinological Federation The best cat of the world. The Ural champion nicknamed Maximilian at the exhibition in Ufa won the most prestigious nomination "Best of the Best", that is, he became the best among cats of all breeds, the press service of the Snezhinsk administration reports. The champion was raised by the senior teacher of the Snezhin State Physics and Technical Academy Irina Varganova.

Ukrainian industry is developing a record pace. So abnormally high that the authorities do not see this of rational explanations. The Government of Ukraine, faced this year with an unexpectedly high growth rate of industrial production, which in January-October 2003 amounted to 15.7%, cannot explain the nature of this phenomenon, the Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Gaiduk recognized.