The decision on the liberation of the former lawyer of the NK Yukos Svetlana Bakhmina may depend on her consent to testify in the process over the ex-head of the oil company Mikhail Khodorkovsky and the head of the MFI Menatep Platon Lebedev. This was written on Thursday by the newspaper Vedomosti with reference to an official close to the presidential administration.

A serious fire occurred on Thursday in the territory of the Historical shopping center Apraksin Dvor in St. Petersburg. Around 19:00 a two -story warehouse caught fire. The fire was assigned the 3rd complexity number on a 5-point scale. According to the latest data from the Ministry of Emergencies, at about 20:00 the fire was localized. According to preliminary data, 150 square meters of area on the first and 200 square meters burned out. m.

At the site of the explosion of the house in the village of Vozdvizhenka in Primorye, the body of the last person was discovered, the searches of which were carried out under the rubble. According to the press service of the Far Eastern Regional Center of the Ministry of Emergencies of the Russian Federation, Ekaterina Potrekova, rescuers removed the body of the deceased from under the debris.

In the North Caucasus Railway, 29 trains with grain are idle in anticipation of unloading. The situation, which was reported by local media, for example, Yuga.ru , officially commented on the Russian Railways press service. Her statement is quoted by Interfax . We are talking about the shipment of grain at the Novorossiysk Grain Terminal OJSC (NZT) - 25 trains should be unloaded there.

Two workers were killed and one was hospitalized as a result of the accident at the oil refining plant LUKOIL-Permenefteorgsintez (Perm Oil Refinery), which is part of Lukoil. This was reported to "Interfax" a source in law enforcement agencies. "The release occurred in the plant during repair work on the overflow of two containers on the installation of diesel fuel hydrotherapy during the opening of the valve," the agency’s interlocutor said.

In East Asia, the Modern Toilet restaurant network is rapidly gaining popularity, where everything is dedicated to toilet topics from the interior to the menu, which follows the name. Here you have to sit on the toilets and at the same time eat from them. However, the only thing that, fortunately, does not correspond to the overall style is the taste and smell of the proposed dishes.

The official representative of the largest Swiss bank UBS AG said that the country's laws do not allow the bank to transfer personal information about most of its 52 thousand American clients, whom the US authorities suspect of taxes, reports Bloomberg . Recall, on February 19, UBS agreed to pay the United States $ 780 million and reveal the names of about 300 of its wealthy American investors in order to avoid large judicial persecution from the ocean.

In Barnaul, in his apartment on Thursday night, the corpse of the chairman of the regional election commission of the Altai Territory Sergei Syshkhn was discovered, the press service of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Territory said. Together with Sergey, the bodies of his wife and mother were found well. According to the head of the press service of Svetlana Lyapunova, it is so far unknown whether the death of Sergey Fools came as a result of violent acts or not.

In the police of the Moscow region, the alarm is in alarm in connection with the abrupt growth in crime. In some areas, the level of street crime has increased more than doubled. At the same time, officials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs seriously criticized the work of private security enterprises (PSC), which are evading the fight against crime.

In the UK, a verdict was sentenced to a spiritualist who killed his wife. The woman became known to his love adventures with clients, whom he seduced like the main character of the film "Istuzki Witches". The passions of the insidious medium-alpha, who lived with his faithful money, became married housewives, from whom he begged for thousands of dollars with the help of promises to marry.

The Government of the Russian Federation introduced a draft law to the State Duma, designed to protect the interests of investors by introducing criminal liability for offenses in the field of securities market, Prime-Tass reports. Practice shows that bringing offenders to administrative responsibility is not enough, so the government proposes to supplement the Criminal Code with new articles.

Japan considers the island of Senkaku in the East Chinese Sea its territory, therefore, all Japanese-American agreements, including security agreement, were fully applied to them, the general secretary of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Takeo Kavamur on Thursday in Tokyo said. “We received confirmation that the point of view of the US government is not different from the adopted by us,” ITAR -TASS quotes him.

Rosavia CEO Vitaliy Vantsev held a meeting with directors of airlines, who should enter the new holding. As a result, as Kommersant found out, in the upcoming summer season of the Unified Rosavia Unified route network it will not work out. For the summer season, the slots already received by the companies will not change, all of them will fly on their own schedule.

In the Western world as a whole and in the UK, in particular, more and more married couples are sleeping in separate rooms, Inopressa.ru reports with reference to the Italian newspaper La Repubblica . In the United Kingdom, according to a recent study conducted by Silentnight, a leader in the production of beds and mattresses, this is what every fifth pair does. And this is not only a matter of square meters, but also the problem of habits.

The most famous attraction of Greece - Athens Acropolis - on Thursday again without warning was closed to visitors due to the strike of hundreds of the so -called "contractors" - temporary workers of the country's Ministry of Culture. They claim that they are not paid salaries for four months. The ministry declares that he cannot pay, since this is difficult to vague legal status of seasonal workers in the off -season period. “No need to hide behind false excuses.