The Moscow City Court on Wednesday will be sentenced to the head of the company's security, Yukos, Alexei Pichugin, convicted by the jury guilty by the murder guilty. This was reported in court. Today, the second person involved in the case Alexei Peshkun, found guilty of complicity, will also be sentenced to crimes.

A resident of Georgia was detained in the Moscow Region, which forced two girls of 14 and 18 years old.

In the Irkutsk region, two fugitives from a temporary detention center are being searched. According to the Central Internal Affairs Directorate, the escape occurred on Wednesday night from the IVR of the Olkhonsky District Department of Internal Affairs in the village of Elantsi. According to preliminary data, the fugitives got out to freedom, having drank the lattices on the insulator window, RIA Novosti reports.

Chilean investigators, together with archaeologists, leading the excavations authorized by the court in the Dignidad, German settlement in the south of Chile, discovered cars that belonged to the opposition to the dictatorial regime of General Augusto Pinochet, and human remains.

The famous singer Christina Orbakaite is waiting for the child from her husband - a US citizen, businessman Mikhail Zemtsova. Rumors about the pregnancy of the daughter of Alla Pugacheva began to walk after on the recent tour of Orbakaite in Kyiv the hotel staff noticed the obviously rounded tummy of Christina and "a characteristic puffiness on his face." The fact of pregnancy has not yet been officially confirmed: the future father advised reporters to talk on this topic with Christina herself.

The planets hunters should turn their attention to the dying stars - it is near them that life can be discovered, writes New Scientist magazine, the translation of the article published by Inopressa . Astronomers believe that the best environment for the appearance of life surrounded by any star is in the so -called "habitability zone" - where the surface temperature of the planet allows water to exist in liquid form.

Handelsblatt German business newspaper on Wednesday devotes a special application to the analysis of the economic situation in Russia. The conclusions of the newspaper are disappointing. The main task is to overcome the technological lag and create competition. But so far the country cannot get out of the debate of bureaucracy and corruption, and unprecedentedly high oil prices make it possible not to think about low efficiency.

The first Chukotka is planned to be opened in the village of Lorino of the Chukotsky District in Chukotka. At the enterprise it is supposed to produce canned walkers, sausages, slices and other types of products from meat. Equipment for a mini-factory is planned to be delivered to Chukotka from Alaska in April. It was in America that they mastered the new profession of meat processor of 16 sea hunters Chukotka.

Russia showed readiness to repay the debt to the Paris Club of independent creditors ahead of schedule. Igor Shuvalov, senior assistant to President Vladimir Putin, said that Russia would have won by paying off a debt of $ 43 billion in front of the Paris club, even if it does not receive a discount that representatives of Russia, primarily the head of the Ministry of Finance, Alexei Kudrin, try to achieve.

The Ambassador of Israel in Ethiopia Doron Grossman is seriously wounded in the capital of Ethiopia Addis Ababe. This is stated in the statement of the Israeli government, widespread on Wednesday. According to Reuters, the ambassador was fired by an unknown on Tuesday evening and is currently in critical condition. At the same time, AFP, citing a diplomatic source, reports that the Israeli ambassador in Ethiopia tried to commit suicide.

The main government scientist, on the direction of the Prime Minister of Great Britain, developed plans for the early warning system that protects the world from natural disasters - from earthquakes and tsunami to clashes with asteroids. A group led by Professor, Sir David King recommends Britain to achieve the creation of a global warning network in order to reduce the destructive effect of events such as the December tsunami, writes The Times (translation on the Inopressa.ru website).

The long -awaited warming in the Moscow region is expected by the end of the week, the Roshydrome said. “The last day of the working week will present a surprise to Muscovites: in the daytime, up to 3 degrees of heat is expected in the capital,” said Natalya Ershova, assistant to the head of Roshydromet. Until Friday, she clarified, the inhabitants of the metropolitan region will have to be content with in the spring, "only looking at the calendar," ITAR-TASS reports.

The prosecutor's office of St. Petersburg charged eight defendants in the case of the murder of a 9-year-old Tajik girl , perfect in February last year. According to ITAR-TASS in the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office, the Office for the investigation of especially important cases of the St. Petersburg prosecutor’s office is completing a criminal case of a murder on February 9, 2004 9-year-old Khurshed Sultanova.

The most serious situation with the evacuation of the sick and wounded has the most serious earthquake of the Indonesian island of the patients and the wounded. This was told by RIA Novosti by phone Russian helicopters who flew on Wednesday for this island. It is located 90 kilometers south of the epicenter of the earthquake that occurred on the night of March 29. The force of the underground shock then amounted to 8.2 points on the Richter scale.

In Ukraine, the Deutsche Bank loan was “lost” of $ 700 million allocated by the State Railway Company for the construction of the bridge in Kyiv. The loan was provided two months before the fall of the Government of Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych. The new government discovered that the amount from 230 to 320 million dollars did not pass in the reporting and simply disappeared, reports The Daily Telegraph , the article published by Inopressa .