The investigating authorities of the SCP of the Russian Federation in Yakutia opened a criminal case against the head of the traffic police department of the Ust-Aldan district of the republic on suspicion of corruption crimes, Interfax reports with reference to the Investigative Department. According to the investigation, the head of the traffic police department illegally issued 2 driver’s licenses: one - a resident of Yakutsk, the second - one of his relatives.

A group of leaders of the largest creative unions and heads of media companies sent an appeal to President Dmitry Medvedev with a protest against attempts to "be forced to the public property of all ...

VMhy Holdings, owned by Andrei Vdovin, Kirill Yakubovsky, Pavel Maslovsky and Peter Hambro, intends to buy part of the Parex Banka assets, the Vedomosti newspaper writes. On March 1, VMHY applied to the Latvian privatization agency (the main owner of the bank), Andrei Novikov transferred the managing director of the Pepfin Holding through the representative.

At the past ceremony, Oscar one of the most box office films in the history of the Avatar movie lost to the low -budget painting “Lord of the Bury” director Katherine Bigelou, the ex -wife of James Cameron. When asked why the Avatar was left without the main awards of the ceremony, the British Time experts found four answers at once.

Belarus has every chance to reach leading positions in the field of gambling business, said the country's President Alexander Lukashenko. “Against the backdrop of the changes in Russian and Ukrainian legislation, we have every chance to reach leading positions in this area. But it is necessary to act carefully, thoughtfully and competently, with benefit for the country,” ITAR -TASS quotes Lukashenko’s performance at a meeting on the concept of gambling business development on Tuesday.

A former employee of the Novorossiysk police, Major-Razoblachik Alexei Dymovsky, who left the recently from the pre- trial detention center, told the details of his opinion. It turned out that in the investigative isolator he followed the post and began to write a book, the Moscow Komsomolets newspaper reports on Tuesday. “I began to write there the book“ Notes of the prisoner. ”But at the exit, I was selected all the notes, sketches, poems,” said Dymovsky.

In the capital, a verdict was sentenced to a relative of the famous actor Oleg Yankovsky, who is found guilty of storing and trying to sell drugs . The convicted Denis Yankovsky is the grandchildren of the now deceased artist Oleg Yankovsky. The Presnensky District Court sentenced the 26-year-old man to four years in prison, RIA Novosti reports. The trial period for the convict is three years. It is noteworthy that the case in the Presnensky district court was heard in a special order.

The Obama administration weakened the ban on the sale of Iran, Cuba and Sudan developed by American software companies for computers. The goal is to help citizens of these countries get Internet access.

The Supreme Court of Russia on Tuesday refused to make a decision on the cassation appeal of Vladimir Grechushkin and his wife Aerime-Sofia Baskaya, Right.ru . The criminal case, which caused a large public resonance, was instituted on January 26, 2009, after under the bridge over the river, the infantry in the Lyubertsy district of the Moscow Region found the spouses guilty.

The United Russia party may demand the withdrawal of Mironov from the post of chairman of the Federation Council after regional elections, his single -party people say. They suspect that EP did not abandon their plans , Interfax reports. “The question may be raised that he is heading a party that does not enjoy the trust of the population,” the head of the Fair Russia faction in the State Duma Nikolai Levievich said at a press conference on Tuesday.

Employees of the metropolitan traffic police used ordinary cars passing along the Moscow Ring Road as a "live shield" to detain armed criminals. But the Audi car with criminals rammed private cars and disappeared from the scene. The owners of broken cars found out why they were ordered to block the road, only after that. The traffic cops also announced that money for damages will not receive money for compensation for damage.

Russia considered a provocative report of the special representative of the UN Secretary General on the rights of internally displaced persons Walter Kelin, prepared according to the results of a trip to South Ossetia and presented at the 13th Session of the Human Rights (HRC) in Switzerland, ITAR-TASS reports.

Solemn events dedicated to the International Women's Day were held in Venezuela. At the central official act in the National Pantheon, where the remains of Simon Bolivar and other heroes of the national liberation struggle of the XIX century rest, President of the country Hugo Chavez announced the creation of the female front of the two hundredth anniversary.

The mobile operator of Vimpelcom OJSC, working under the Beeline trademark, will introduce a monthly fee for those subscribers who use prepaid tariff plans. This was reported on the official website of the company . The tariff will be 5 rubles a day. The message states that from March 16 this money will be levied from subscribers "in the absence of activity" within 90 days. More detailed information in the company promised to publish on the day of introduction of altered conditions.

During the Second World War, the British counterintelligence arranged a “performance”, issuing a little -known actor for the commander in chief of Her Majesty General Bernard Montgomery. The purpose of the Copperhead ("Copper Head") was to convince Hitler that the allies intended to attack from the Mediterranean Sea and thereby on the eve of the landing of the allied troops in Normandy to divert his attention from La-Channel.