The Federation Council approved today the new edition of the Constitutional Law on the transfer of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation from Moscow to St. Petersburg. It was finalized by the conciliation commission after the rejection of the option in December last year, which prohibited the Constitutional Court to hold meetings anywhere except the northern capital.

A room in a size of 7 square meters at a price of 335 thousand dollars is put up for auction in London. The real estate agent, Andrew Scott, explained the reason for such an unusually high price for the room the size of a prison camera by its exclusive location next to the elite district of Knightsbridge, which is considered one of the most expensive areas for living in the world, reports Ar.

From 7 to 8.5 years of imprisonment - such a punishment asked on Wednesday to appoint a representative of the prosecution to the participants of the attack on a native of Vietnam at a meeting of the Ostrogozhsky district court in the Voronezh region. This was reported to ITAR-TASS in the City Court. The verdict will be passed on January 25. The participants in the attack - four teenagers - were charged with committing crimes under Part 4 of Art.

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) intends to call on both chambers of the Federal Assembly of Russia to conduct an independent investigation into the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya in October 2006. This situation is contained in the draft resolution, which the chamber will discuss at its meeting on Thursday.

In the US state of Georgia, a man who spent 22 years in prison was recognized as innocent after the DNA analysis. While all the formalities were settled, 44-year-old Pete Williams dreamed how he would be at large and the first thing he would accept a hot bath-because he was deprived of this pleasure in prison. Currently, the former prisoner has already been released from prison.

On Wednesday, January 24, the annual conference of the World Economic Forum (VEF) starts in the Swiss Davos. According to the Kommersant newspaper, despite the fact that the main official theme of the forum is global warming, the most interesting discussions will unfold around the theme of Petroeconomic - Nefteeco economics, that is, a significant strengthening of the political influence of neftexts. Russia is far from the last place in this world.

The IL -86 plane of the Ural Airlines, flying the flight of Dubai - Yekaterinburg was forced to return to the airport of Dubai (UAE) at the request of the Iranian side. The reason for the ban on continuing the flight over Iranian territory was Tehran's statement about the lack of a permit for a flight permit. There were 157 passengers on board the ship. All of them had to spend almost a day at the foreign airport in anticipation of the departure, the New Region agency reports.

The government was concerned that the country practically does not have a system of examination and supervision in construction. The old does not work, but in return they did not create anything. For the development of the concept of the new system, the head of the Ministry of Regional Development Vladimir Yakovlev is allotted for 10 days.

The UN Security Council on Wednesday will conduct consultations on the situation in the Zezino-Abkhaz conflict zone, at which Jean Arno, special representative of the UN Secretary General in Georgia.

The head of the Main Department of Internal Affairs of the Voronezh region, Oleg Khotin, recently appointed to this position, came up with the initiative to allocate 100 rubles to each working resident of the regional center for the needs of the police. This was stated by the mayor of the city Boris Skrynnikov at a weekly meeting, the Kasparov.ru website reports.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe appears in the materials of the court case, instituted in the lawsuit of one of the public organizations, as a person who put pressure on the NHK television channel and forced him to make changes to the captured plot. As it became known on Wednesday, we are talking about the events of 6 years ago, when the current Japanese prime minister still held the post of deputy general of the Cabinet of Ministers, ITAR-TASS reports.

From January 24 to March 11, an exhibition of autolithographs of the famous Leningrad artist of the 20th century Herta Nemenova was opened in Moscow in Moscow in Galeev Galeeres. At the exhibition at the Galeev Gallery, you can see the autolithography of Gertha of the Nemenova of the 1930s and 70s, in particular, portraits of outstanding literature and art figures: F. Dostoevsky, N. Gogol, F. Kafki, Marsto, M. Prust, Ch. Chaplin, O. Uailda, A. Blin, A. Grin, A.

As a result of the crash on Tuesday, the American helicopter in Baghdad died five military personnel. The helicopter belonged to the private security company Blackwater USA, which protects a number of important facilities in Iraq. This was reported on Wednesday by the US Army Command. The helicopter at that moment flew over the Sunni district in the center of Baghdad, where there was a shootout between Iraqi law enforcement agencies and rebels, AP reports.

In the cell of the Krasnoyarsk pre -trial detention center, a local resident was hanged on suspicion of performing a number of apartment thefts. According to Interfax, at present the district prosecutor’s office on the fact of death is being tested, which will allow you to establish exactly whether it was suicide. As it became known, the corpse will be opened, after which the experts will give their conclusion. Checking can last up to 10 days.

The ex-champion of the world in heavyweight boxing Ukrainian Vitaly Klitschko confirmed the information about his return to the ring . The purpose of his return, Klitschko Sr., who will turn 36 this year, outlined the unification of all belts according to prestigious versions in one family: two for his brother. Vitaly ended his career in November 2005 due to injury during preparation for the defense of the title with American Hasim Rahman.