The Court of the Khabarovsk Territory sentenced almost twenty participants in the powerful common criminal community, which is the same age as the Russian state. The convicts entered one of the brigades of the powerful gang and trained robbery and other crimes in the Verkhnebureinsky district. By the age of 18, the leader of the brigade Vladimir Pulkin was sentenced to 18 years in a maximum security colony.

The Investigative Committee under the prosecutor’s office of the Russian Federation will replenish the number of articles on which the Georgian side is accused of a criminal case on genocide and mass killings of Russian citizens in South Ossetia in August 2008. According to the official representative of the department, Vladimir Markin, the UPP has evidence of a number of crimes committed by Georgian military personnel, which had not previously been charged.

The odious British comedian Sasha Baron Cohen will not be invited to the Academy Award ceremony. The organizers of the show were frightened that the next actor’s trick would offend the multimillionaire James Cameron, one of the main candidates for the title of the director of the year, reports the New York Magazine .

The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill has visited the National Research Nuclear University ( Moscow Engineering Institute - MEPhI ), Interfax reports. The visit began with the consecration of the house church in honor of the Smolensk Icon of the Mother of God, based on the founder of the institute Igor Kurchatov and the first Russian nuclear physicists. “What is happening now is a response to our entire recent history. Temples are not created by order ... not like fashion ...

In the Derbent district of Dagestan on Wednesday evening, unknown people opened fire on law enforcement officials, two employees were injured, RIA Novosti reports with reference to a source in law enforcement agencies. According to him, the incident occurred near the village of Mammadkal. The police tried to stop the car for verification. Fire was open from the car. The attackers disappeared. The area of ​​the scene is numb, the search for criminals is underway, the source said.

The assistant to the US Secretary of State for Public Relations and the press, Philip Crowley, admitted that his recent commentary on Libya was unsuccessful, but did not apologize for the official Tripoli. “Without a thought, I made comment on last Friday about Libya's statements,” said the American diplomat at a briefing on March 3, as ITAR -TASS reports.

According to the results of 2009, the share of non -residents in the total authorized capital of all Russian credit organizations amounted to 24.53% against 28.49% at the beginning of the year. According to the Central Bank given by Kommersant , a decrease in the share of non -residents in the capital of Russian banks began in the second quarter of 2009 and in the next three months decreased from 31.19 to 27.56%, and according to the results of the third quarter to 26.75%.

The American authorities began to investigate recent events in the John F. Kennedy control tower in New York, when a young boy gave the team several airlines, BBC reports. On the sound recording of negotiations of several pilots from the dispatch, a children's vote is heard, giving command to pilots who are preparing for departure. The boy, whose age and age is not called, was in the tower with his father, who works there as a dispatcher.

Russian Renault F1 Team driver Vitaly Petrov will make his Formula 1 debut at the first stage of the Grand Prix in Bahrain on March 12. Petrov completed pre-season training at the Catalunya circuit near Barcelona, ​​Spain, where he spent the final two test days as part of his team. On February 25, the Russian drove 73 laps and showed the eighth time among 11 pilots.

In the Ministry of Sports, Tourism and Youth Policy of the Russian Federation, structural and personnel changes will be held, and the preparation of Russian athletes for the 2014 Winter Olympics will be conducted in Sochi in “manual mode”, the head of the Ministry of Examination Vitaly Mutko said on Thursday. “Neither I nor the Ministry of Sports - we are responsible for the performance of the Russian team at the Olympics in the Vancouver.

The investigation came to a person, possibly involved in the disappearance of records from video surveillance cameras in the Moscow Square area Gagarin, where on February 25, a resonance accident occurred with the participation of the Vice President of Lukoil Anatoly Barkov. RIA Novosti learned about this on Thursday from a source in law enforcement agencies. He did not reveal any details, noting that now a check is being conducted on this fact.

Microsoft announced that at the moment the new Windows 7 operating system is showing truly outstanding sales indicators. Since July 2009, Soft Giagant has already been able to sell 90 million copies of the new OS, which became the most accumulated operating system in the history of a software giant. According to Haker.ru, one of the leaders of the company said at the technological conference, which was sponsored by Morgan Stanley.

Scientists found in Tanzania the petrified remains of the oldest animal, forming one evolutionary branch with dinosaurs. This find suggests that the ancestors of dinosaurs separated from the ancestors of other animals about 10-15 million years earlier than it was believed, reports

The Kirovsky District Court canceled the decision of the city election commission on the registration of Anton Romanov as a candidate for mayors of Irkutsk, on Thursday in the district court said. According to surveys, he is more than half ahead of the official candidate of the party in power - ex -Mayor of Bratsk Sergey Serebrennikov.

A whole series of deaths occurred over the past day in the police and a detector in various regions of Russia. The day before in the Amur Region, a man born in 1966, delivered to the police, died suddenly. He died in the corridor of the ATS building in the Mazanovsky district of the region. The cause of death is currently unknown. He got to the police for the appearance of intoxicated in a public place, RIA Novosti writes with reference to a source in the regional law enforcement agencies.