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.

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.

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 .

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 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 ...

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.

The head of the Investigative Committee under the prosecutor's office of the Russian Federation, Alexander Bastrykin, proposed a "number of measures to increase the effectiveness of counteract crime in the North Caucasus region." In particular, as Interfax reports, at the expanded college of the Prosecutor General’s Office on Thursday, he proposed "re -register all vehicles with the introduction of new license plates in the region." In addition, the head of the UPC believes, it is necessary to

The European Union represents political obstacles to the establishment of a visa -free regime between the Russian Federation and the EU. This opinion, as Interfax reports, expressed by the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Andrei Nesterenko at briffing in Moscow. “There are no objective obstacles to the abolition of visas.

On Thursday, March 4, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will hold a meeting of the government at which the automotive industry development strategy until 2020 will be approved, the Kommersant newspaper writes. The document was prepared by the Ministry of Industry and Trade and Boston Consulting Group, as well as the automakers themselves, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Economics, and its main provisions were made public at the end of last year.

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.

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.

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.

The successful launch of the intercontinental ballistic missile "Sineva" was made on Thursday from the Barents Sea Barents. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the official representative of the information department and the press service of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. Starting the "Sinev" took place at 7:50 in Moscow from the side of the Tula underwater missile cruiser.