The net loss of the generating company of Mosenergo OJSC for three quarters is 1.5 billion rubles. According to Interfax, this follows from the official materials of the company. Over the 9 months of last year, Mosenergo received a net profit of 1.129 billion rubles, however, it is incorrect to compare these indicators with the results of 9 months of 2006, since 13 new societies were allocated from the company on April 1 as part of the energy station.

The investigation of the murder of Anna Politkovskaya , from the moment of the murder of which 40 days have passed, does not exclude the "foreign" version of the death of the journalist. About this, as Interfax reports, said on Wednesday by the Russian Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika. During today's performance by the Seagull at the government hour in the State Duma, the deputy communist Yuri Ivanov asked if the investigation of the version related to this crime, persons abroad.

In St. Petersburg on the corner of Manchester and Dresden streets, an unknown criminal shot a businessman’s car, heading a branch of one of Moscow companies engaged in computer business. According to Interfax in the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, the Mitsubishi car, on which the entrepreneur was driving his 7-year-old son, was blocked by Zhiguli. Of these, the unknown jumped out and opened shooting at a foreign car.

The KGB businessman and a former agent of the KGB, and now the State Duma deputy from United Russia and the co-owner of Novaya Gazeta, Alexander Lebedev, handed over to the Raisa Gorbacheva charity foundation to Russian children with a Russian share in Russian aircraft in the Russian Federation for about one hundred million pounds (approximately approximately one hundred million pounds (approximately 190 million US dollars).

Russian director Karen Shakhnazarov was awarded the Italian Prize Gastone Predieri in 2007. The jury noted a large personal contribution of Shakhnazarov to cinema and the development of cultural ties between Russia and Italy, Radio Culture reports. The Gastone Predieri Award was established by the Italy-Russia society, which celebrates its 60th anniversary these days. The reward itself is an image of the famous Roman wolf.

Most of the employees of the Ministry of Higher Education of Iraq on Wednesday are liberated on Wednesday. According to the Iraqi television channel Al-Irakia with reference to the country's Ministry of Internal Affairs, the hostages were rescued as a result of operations of power structures. According to Al-Furat’s television, the Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution of Iraq, the fate of another 25 people belonging to the Shiite organization, ITAR-TASS reports.

The security forces of the Philippines arrested on Wednesday the most famous leader of the conspirators in the country - the former colonel and senator Gregorio Onasan nicknamed Gringo. He was captured in Manila after the police were able to intercept several of his conversations on a mobile phone.

The deputy of the Our Ukraine faction Lilia Grigorovich proposed creating a temporary investigative commission to verify the facts of corruption set forth in the book "Donetsk Mafia. Anthology" , Interfax reports. The author of the book is journalist Sergei Kuzin, co -author - head of the Anti -Corruption Public Fund Boris Penchuk. The book refers to the involvement of some ministers and members of the Party of Regions in the criminal world.

The State Department of the United States excluded, as already reported , Vietnam from its annual list of countries that cause special concern in connection with a violation of religious freedoms, and at the same time introduced Uzbekistan into it. This country was criticized "for the persecution and imprisonment of Muslims." The list also includes Burma, China, North Korea, Eritrea, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Sudan, which were part of this list last year, Interfax reports.

Tbilisi "advocates the replacement of the Presidential Miners in conflict zones on the territory of Gpusia international police forces," said on Tuesday the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Gel Gel Plazhashvili after a meeting with the current chairman of the OSCE, Belgian Foreign Minister Kapel de Gukhta and assistant to the US Assistance Meteus, reports ITAR-TASS with reference to Tbilisi TV channels.

The State Duma on Wednesday adopted a bill in the first and second reading, canceling the minimum threshold of the election and early voting. The scandalous bill previously already caused a violent reaction among opposition movements and the media, giving rise to a response demarche of a wide political coalition under the auspices of the “political meeting” of the forum another Russia for the abolition of all anti -democratic amendments to the election legislation.

Sergey Matvienko, the son of the governor of St. Petersburg Valentina Matvienko, received a residence permit in Estonia. The Department of Citizenship and Migration of the country refused to clarify when and what kind of residence was issued by Matvienko, referring to the fact that we are talking about personal data.

The military prosecutor's office of the Pacific Fleet opened a number of criminal cases on the fact of the mockery of officers of the Naval Corps of the Tof regiment over subordinate military personnel.

During the final tournament of the Women's Tennis Association in Spain, Maria Sharapova decided to visit the Starbucks Madrid cafe. Already in the institution, the tennis player noticed that several teenagers were being sent to her. In their hands they held newspapers. Sharapova thought that these were her fans who wanted to take an autograph. But the athlete was brutally mistaken.

On Wednesday, the building of the US Consulate General in Vladivostok hosted a rally of participants in the public movement "Our Country", who performed in support of the requirements of a resident of the Primorsky city of Big Kamen Alexander Kashin, who remained disabled after a car accident, which occurred through the fault of the American diplomat of Dlaglas Kent in 1998.