The Government of the Russian Federation prohibited the distribution of components of the so -called smoking mixtures. As stated in the resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers, posted at the Bank for data of regulatory documents of the government, a list of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, the turnover of which is prohibited in Russia, is supplemented by some new items.

The former head of the Tax Code of Yukos, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, serving a sentence in a pre -trial detention center, will only be able to look at the literary prize from afar, which was awarded to him by the Banner magazine, Interfax reports. Recall that the former oligarch and writer Lyudmila Ulitskaya became the laureates of Littlepremia Globus for her joint journalistic work “Dialogues”.

The hearing in the case of John (Ivan) Demyanyuk in the court of Munich was postponed due to illness of the defendant. The accused complained about his chest pain, and although the doctors did not find anything serious from him, it was nevertheless decided not to bring Demyanyuk to the court, the presiding judge Ralph Alt said. When the process resumes, it is not yet clear, ITAR-TASS reports.

The head of the traffic inspectorate, Moscow Region Sergey Sergeyev, stated at a press conference on Wednesday, which negatively refers to the traffic police sitting with the radars in ambushes, and also demonstrated to reporters the futility of drivers to hide with the help of special tricks of car numbers from video recording cameras.

The capital of Nepal Kathmandu is mostly threatened with an earthquake in the world. This was reported by the Internet site of the American magazine Forbes . The magazine published the results of a study by the American company GEOHAZARDS (GHI), which determined the 20 most seismic cities in the world.

The leader of the Fair Russia party, the speaker of the Federation Council Sergey Mironov intends to defend his idea about the transfer of the January holidays at the beginning of May. “I remain with my opinion that the Russians long January holidays are useless, and I will ensure that these holidays are postponed to the beginning of May,” Mironov said.

The asteroid 2010 AL30 the day before approached the ground at a distance of less than a third of the distance to the moon and struck the astronomers with its unusual orbit. Scientists cannot understand what it was: there is even an opinion that earthlings observed not a natural body, but a simple cosmic garbage or even a “forgotten” space block in orbit.

The Iraqi court sentenced 11 people on Thursday to the death penalty, ITAR-TASS reports. He was charged with on August 19 bloody terrorist attacks in Baghdad. On that day, 106 people were killed in the Iraqi capital, about 600 were injured. The authorities accused the al-Qaeda terrorist organization of the explosions and supporters of the Baas Lossed Party, which was headed by the overthrown and executed President of Iraq Saddam Hussein.

The leader of the Russian national football team and the London Arsenal Andrei Arshavin was in the list of the best playmakers of the 2009 world according to the International Federation of History and Football Statistics ( IFFHS ), which headed the Barcelona midfielder and the Spanish national team. The Russian took 13th place based on the results of the experts from 81 countries.

Deputies from Bloc Yulia Tymoshenko (BYUT) on Thursday left an extraordinary meeting of the Verkhovna Rada in protest against the actions of the first vice-speaker Alexander Lavrinovich from the Party of Regions, who refused to submit to the first issue a bill on amendments to the election law.

The struggle against the falsifications of history was stained: the Russian government rejected the bill on liability for the denial of victory in the Second World War. It gave a negative conclusion to the bill on amendments to the Criminal Code, according to which the perpetrator could receive a term of three to five years. Disagreements arose between members of United Russia, the newspaper Vedomosti writes.

Special services conduct a special investigation of the circumstances of the mysterious incident in the constant representative office of Russia in NATO. The residence of the Russian Permanent Representative of Dmitry Rogozin in Brussels recently was filled with the smell of gas, on Thursday the Lifenews website reports. It smelled the most in the room where the Christmas tree stands.

The whereabouts of Russian tourists missing in Haiti, which the Russian Embassy in Venezuela unsuccessfully tried to find on the island’s destroyed earthquake. As it turned out, 44-year-old Oleg Dzhuraev with his wife and son, with whom the connection disappeared after the earthquake, waited for the disaster in another part of the island. As reported, relatives of the missing family turned to the Foreign Ministry.

At a meeting of the Government Presidium on Wednesday, Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Kudrin announced the first results of the budget execution in 2009. Thanks to relatively high oil prices, it turned out to be much less expected. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin praised the Ministry of Finance. The most interesting quotes from the media on this topic are given by "headlines.ru" .

A 22-year-old resident of New York became the main suspect in the case of the murder of his peer due to messages in his Twitter microblog. Kayim Dance was shot dead on December 1 last year near his house in Harlem. During the investigation, the police found out that a few days before the death of Dansi had a fight in a blog with his friend-a 22-year-old resident of the same region of New York, Jameg Blake.