The Moscow City Court recognized the searches carried out in April in April and the country of the executive vice president of the NK Yukos Vasily Aleksanyan, accused of embezzlement of someone else's property and laundering of funds. Thus, the court refused to satisfy the cassation complaints of the lawyer Aleksanyan, who believed that the searches were carried out illegally.

The pro -presidential block "Our Ukraine" proposed its own version of the agreement of three political forces in order to withdraw from the impasse negotiations on the creation of the ruling coalition. On Wednesday, the headquarters of Blok Yulia Tymoshenko confirmed the receipt of this document "on the creation of the Coalition of Democratic Forces," ITAR-TASS reports.

For a long time it was believed that Russian President Vladimir Putin does not have any special preferences in food, but the thesis of the “omnivorousness” of the president was refuted by his wife Lyudmila in the book “Vladimir Putin. Road to power”. Putin himself claims that he is simply trying to eat healthy food. “There are no special addictions,” the president admitted earlier. “I love vegetables: tomatoes, cucumbers, salad.

On the surface of the toxic acid clouds of Venus, the astronomers saw the mysterious ripples of grandiose dimensions. The distance between the waves reaches several hundred kilometers. The waves were seen by Japanese scientists during observation of the second planet of the solar system using the powerful Subaru infrared telescope installed on the Hawaiian Islands, ITAR-TASS reports. The reasons for the giant storm on the clouds of Venus are unknown, experts said.

In the United States, the Utah’s staff was closed in a tent camp in the National Park due to the detection of rodents infected with a bubonic plague. It is reported by AP. The mice and braubs and chipmunks turned out to be ill. There is a real danger of a person’s disease through a flea bite that previously bitten by a sick rodent. Cases of human infection have not yet been identified. Recently, the Park's caretakers have discovered a large number of dead mice and chipmunks.

The Russian party in Athens completed preparations for the Eurovision Song Contest-2006 competition . The organizer of the party, the popular singer Dima Bilan, representing our country on a musical review, told the day before to numerous journalists and contestants from other states about Russia, its national traditions and attractions.

The State Duma of the Russian Federation on mandatory issues and ethics will consider the question of the possible deprivation of a word for a month of a member of the Communist Party faction Viktor Tyulkin next week. The corresponding order of this commission gave the State Duma on Wednesday, supporting the initiative of the deputies of the United Russia - Valery Grebennikov and Sergey Osadchy.

Slovenia will switch to calculations in euros in January 2007. The economy and the financial system are completely ready for this, the central radio of the country said on Wednesday. The entry into the zone of the Unified European currency will ensure the growth of the national economy, attract new foreign investments, and will positively affect the process of creating new jobs.

The leader of the Belarusian liberal opposition, Alexander Milinkevich, arrived on Tuesday in Poland in the process of the newspaper of the Belarusian diaspora "Niva". He intends to hold a number of informal meetings with representatives of the Belarusian diaspora living in Poland, Interfax reports on Wednesday with reference to the Polish radio.

The circle of Putin’s possible successors will be determined in late 2006 - early 2007. Then the government of Fradkov will resign, and the main theme of the 2008 presidential election will be the fight against corruption. Such a forecast for the future political climate in Russia was presented by the chief strategist of the analytical department of the Alfa Bank market and shares Christopher Weefer in the next report entitled "Elections of 2008. Light! Camera! Motor!" .

Representatives of the Roman Catholic Church in the UK demanded that during the show of the movie "Da Vinci Code", a warning about its danger to the health of the viewer is made. They came to this conclusion based on a statistical study, during which a thousand residents of Great Britain were interviewed, Interfax reports with reference to the publication in the Daily Mail newspaper.

The European Union of Football Associations resolutely reacted to a small scandal around the linear referee Ole Hermann Borgan, who was supposed to serve the Champions League final match between the Spanish Barcelona and the London Arsenal. On Monday, in the Norwegian newspaper Drammens Tidende, a photograph was published in which Borgan posed in the Barcelona T -shirt.

The state in the person of its unitary enterprise "Rosoboronexport" plans to regain control of shipbuilding enterprises. According to Kommersant , officials are already negotiating with businessmen on the acquisition of enterprises. To prevent nationalizations, shipbuilding companies that make money on the export of military courts abroad almost cannot.

None of the officials are trying to find a Chelyabinsk soldier who disappeared two years ago in the ranks of the Russian army. Nikolai Lemesh was drafted into the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation from Satka (Chelyabinsk Region) in December 2002. After the distribution, he fell into the military unit deployed in Yekaterinburg. After a year and a half, Nikolai was seconded to the city of Kant in Kyrgyzstan, the New Region reports.

Despite the political disagreements between Moscow and Kyiv, Russian citizens can visit the Black Sea coast of Ukraine without any problems. The requirements for Russians who decided to relax in the Crimea or visit Ukrainian relatives were told at a press conference by Ivan Kitta, the head of the consular department of the Ukrainian Embassy in the Russian Federation, writes the Russian Newspaper .