Gazprom and Serbiyagaz create joint enterprises for the implementation of the South Stream project and the creation of an underground storage of gas "Banatian court". The documents holding this agreement were signed by the head of Gazprom by Alexei Miller and the general director of Serbiyagaz Dushan Bayatovich in the presence of the presidents Dmitry Medvedev and Boris Tadich.

The preliminary investigation bodies made a decision on the results of the pre-investigation of the refusal to institute criminal proceedings on the appeal of the pupil of the Holy Bogolubovsky convent, Valentina Penova on illegal deprivation of liberty, the information of the Investigative Committee is said under the prosecutor's office of the Russian Federation, posted today on the website of the department, RIA Novosti reports.

Two tennis players taking part in the Representative tournament Stockholm Open-2009 this week may be punished for the fact that contrary to local laws used the services of prostitutes. According to police, tennis players were detained on Sunday early in the morning, after they returned to their hotel. At the same time, their names have not yet been disclosed.

The lawyer of the victims as a result of the massacre in the Moscow supermarket "Ostrov" revealed new details of the crime committed by the police major Denis Evsyukov. The lawyer said that the policeman previously robbed the store and threatened the sellers, and after the execution from his pistol mysteriously disappeared fingerprints. So that the offender could not avoid punishment, the lawyer published a full video from the cameras captured by shooting.

Russian media continue to publish materials about the scandal of the children's shelter of the Holy Bogolubovsky Convent in the Vladimir Region. He erupted when his former pupil, 16-year-old Valentina Perova wrote a letter to the prosecutor's office, the press, as well as to the President of the Russian Federation. About her fate, shelter life and “methods” of education are described today in the lengthy publication of “Komsomolskaya Pravda” .

Belorus Vladimir Samsonov won the World Tennis World Cup, which was held last weekend in Moscow. He interrupted the hegemony of Chinese tennis players, winning his third cup in his career. Russians cannot yet boast of such achievements, but the situation in recent years began to correct. According to the leadership of the country's table tennis, the national team can replenish Chinese athletes who have recently dominate this sport.

The Russian economy will be able to restore positions in 2010, said Andrew Somers, president of the American Commercial Chamber in Russia, in an interview with Le Figaro . Part of the interview is given by Inopressa.ru . "The country has extraordinary natural and intellectual resources, not to take into account that it is simply impossible," he remarked.

In Bulgaria, a former judge was arrested, who was involved in the abduction and the alleged murder of a merchant. The previous director of the tax service was also put on the wanted list. The district court of the city of Burgas arrested the former minister of the Bulgarian Themis Galina Kostov on Monday.

The British Auger House Sotheby's opens on Tuesday in the Moscow Historical Museum a betrayal exhibition of the main lots of autumn “Russian” trading, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the press service of the auction house.

Russia introduced a new judge to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, who will take part in the consideration of the complaints of former shareholders of the Yukos NK filed in the Strasbourg court against the Russian authorities. This is Andrei Bushev, an assistant professor of the Faculty of Law of St. Petersburg State University, who studied at it simultaneously with the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev, writes the newspaper Kommersant .

In the Primorsky Territory, a criminal case has been instituted in connection with the impudent theft of hemp directly from the building of the Federal Drug Control Service (FSKN). Almost 80 kilograms of marijuana have become the prey of unknown criminals. Large theft was committed on Tuesday night in the city of Dalnerechensk, RIA Novosti reports with reference to an employee of the press service of the regional department of the FSKN.

The blogger Maxim Kalashnikov , who calls himself a “futurologist” and “fascist”, whose ideas interested the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev, claims that the head of the Russian government apparatus Sergei Sobyanin offered him the position of his adviser, but he refused, writes Moscow Komsomolets on Tuesday.

The new owner of the "Children's World" on Lubyanka VTB Bank is dissatisfied with the reconstruction project of the department store and is going to revise it. Representatives of the bank want to more effectively use the useful areas of the country's main children's store. In the "System-Kals", leading reconstruction of the department store, they promise to double the retail space and add clothing for adults, products and entertainment to children's goods, writes RBC Daily .

The victims of the Sunday terrorist attack in the province of Sistan and Belujistan in the southeast of Iran were 15 military personnel of the Corps of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution (Ksir). This was reported on Tuesday by Reuters with reference to local media. Earlier, six dead troops of KSIR were reported, RIA Novosti notes.

The construction of the South Stream gas pipeline can be started at the end of 2010, the chief executive director of ENI Paolo Scaroni said in an interview with Russia Today . “The technical and economic justification of work on the“ South Stream ”will be completed at the beginning of next year. It will cover a number of aspects. First of all, technical, since the intersection of the Black Sea is a difficult task.