State Duma deputies intend to significantly tighten the punishment for officials for the "official forgery" and "negligence". The corresponding amendment to the Criminal Code was adopted by parliamentarians in the first reading in February, and on Wednesday, as expected, it will be accepted in the second reading. According to the Duma apparatus, the amendment implies an increase in both a fine and the term of possible imprisonment for such crimes.

In Makhachkala, a homemade explosive device worked at the time of movement of the patrol police machine. There are no victims and victims. The incident occurred on Tuesday evening at about 23:00 near the Sheriff's trading house on Amet-Khan Sultan Avenue. This was announced on Wednesday by a source in the duty unit of the Leninsky regional police department of the capital of Dagestan.

We are talking about the transfer from the Moscow hospital of the former vice president of Yukos Vasily Aleksanyan back to the pre-trial detention center or to another metropolitan clinic. This was announced on Wednesday by the representative of the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) of the Russian Federation. "The treatment of Aleksanyan goes according to plan, in the near future he will be in the hospital.

A strong fog, formed due to moist (98%) and calm weather, led to difficulties in the movement of transport on Moscow's highways on Wednesday evening. The metropolitan traffic police reported that the longest traffic jam on Wednesday evening was formed on the Shchelkovo highway - its length was over 3.3 kilometers.

In Cyprus, unknown people stole a 60-year-old Russian businessman Vyacheslav Shimkevich, who was engaged in real estate. According to the wife of businessman Irina, the entrepreneur was stolen on the night of Tuesday from his own home in a suburbs of Paphos. She also said that the attackers, dressed in all black and with hoods on their heads, spoke Russian. In their conversation with Shimkevich, according to her, it was about money, the Cyprus Mail reports the Cyprus edition.

The President of Ingushetia Murat Zyazikov, on Wednesday, dismissed the government of the republic, headed by the chairman Ibrahim Malsagov, as well as the heads of executive power in the field, the presidential press service said. Zyazikov explains the government’s resignation with the need to activate reforms: it is necessary to set “more ambitious tasks” and “work in the regime of constant open exchange of views with the population”.

On Wednesday, US Ambassador to Belarus Karen Stuart left Minsk and went to Washington, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the press service of the American diplomatic mission. "The absence of Stuart is temporary, it still remains the US ambassador to Belarus," the embassy noted. “The United States Policy regarding Belarus has not changed,” the diplomats said.

On Tuesday, the press service of the traffic police department of the Internal Affairs Directorate in the Tomsk Region reported that last Sunday, March 9, at about nine o’clock in the evening, an employee of one of the local housing and communal services was hijacked from the parking lot of the enterprise, a Musoboz MAZ car. At the same time, he did not have the right to drive and drill in a vehicle.

The writer Sonya Hartnett from Australia became the laureate of the annual international memory Astrid Lindgren memory. This largest award for achievements in the field of literature for children and youth was established by the Sweden government after the death of Lindgren in January 2002. The jury says that Hartnett is “one of the most significant innovators of a modern novel for adolescents,” ITAR-TASS reports.

The convicted "Bitsev maniac" Alexander Pichushkin gave an interview before his sending to the colony. The serial killer does not repent of anything and wants to return to the criminal commercial, starting with his lawyer. The serial killer, whose name went down in the history of forensics, will soon leave Butyrskaya prison and go to one of the colonies for convicts to serve lifelong opinion, the newspaper "Your Day" writes.

On Tuesday, the last participant in the 1/4 final of the Champions League, whose final will be held in the Russian capital, was determined. Thanks to the goal of Fernando Torres, the English "Liverpool" won a guest victory with a minimum score of the Milan "Inter", having reinforced the advantage of two goals in the first meeting. After the match, the head coach of Inter Roberto Mancini said he would leave his post at the end of this season.

The presidents of the unrecognized republics - Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Transnistria - met in Moscow and accepted a joint statement. According to Interfax , this was stated by President of Abkhazia Sergey Bagapsh. However, he mysteriously added that the document will be published later.

The Moscow Arbitration Court on Wednesday partially satisfied the lawsuit of the capital's department of land resources to recover from the International Club Association (MAC) "What? Where? When?" About 2 million rubles of rent on rent. According to the correspondent of Interfax -Afi agency from the court, the lawsuit was initially filed for 42.1 million rubles, including about 12 million rubles, the main debt and 30.1 million rubles were the penalty.

A criminal case has been instituted against a resident of the Moscow Region, threatening to blow himself up the night in the center of Moscow in Lubyanka. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the representative of the Office of Information and Public Relations of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the capital. "The criminal case was opened under part 1 of Article 207 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation -" knowingly false message about the act of terrorism.

The Orange project developed by Inteko and the British architect Normal foster, can be realized in the territory of the existing Central house of the artist (CDH) at the Crimean Val in Moscow, reported Journalists on Wednesday President Intaco Elena Baturina on international Exhibition-Fair of Real Estate MIPIM-2008 in Cannes. According to E. Baturina, while the Orange project is an architectural concept.