The St. Petersburg businessman Sergei Kolesnikov, who told President Dmitry Medvedev about the corruption construction of the palace worth more than a billion dollars for Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, clarified the details of the scandal in an interview with Novaya Gazeta . He stated that the success of any large business in Russia today depends on whether its highest power supports. No large projects that have not been related to the authorities have recently been developing.

The Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Russian Federation (FAS) and the Federal Financial Market Service (FSFR) will try to qualify Sergei Mavrodi's plans for the creation of a new financial pyramid as a fraud in the financial market. This was reported to reporters by the deputy head of the FAS Andrei Kashevarov.

The European Union does not have sufficient resources to save Spain in case of exacerbation of its debt problems, and then the euro as a single currency will most likely come to an end, the 2010 Nobel Prize for the Economics of 2010, Christopher Pissaries, said the Finmarket agency . “If a collapse in Spain comes in the image and likeness of Greek, I don’t think that the European Union is enough resources to save it.

The former mentor of the Saturn football club, Andrei Gordeev, became the head coach of the Donetsk Metallurg. According to the official website of the Ukrainian team , a contract with a 35-year-old Russian specialist is designed for three years. “More recently, the leaders of Metallurg invited me to head the team, and I gladly accepted this invitation,” Gordeev said. “I moved to Donetsk with the coaches who worked with me in Saturn.

Russian intelligence officers detained in the United States continue to be employed in state -owned companies - following Andrei Bezrukov , who, according to some reports, became the adviser to the President of Rosneft on international projects, in December, Natalya Pereverzeva, who lived in the United States under the name of Patricia, writes, writes the Kommersant newspaper in December.

Catholics of different countries gave different thematic directions that came in 2011. The Catholic Church in France devotes it to the family. The Family 2011 initiative includes a detailed program, the purpose of which is to attract all members of the family hearth, reports.ru reports. The goal is a dialogue with modern culture.

Representatives of the famous singer Alexander Rosenbaum denied the media information that he was hospitalized in St. Petersburg, RIA Novosti reports. “I just talked with him on the phone. Alexander Yakovlevich is in his office in St. Petersburg. He is alive and absolutely healthy,” administrator Olga Titova told the agency.

Cardiologist Konrad Murray, former by Michael Jackson’s personal doctor, was put on trial on charges of unintentional murder of the king of pop music on June 25, 2009. This decision was announced by the judge of the Supreme Court of Los Angeles, Michael Pastor, BBC reports. He chaired six meetings , after listening to the testimony of about 20 witnesses and experts.

Russian senator Boris Spiegel, robbed during rest in Israel, was hospitalized on Tuesday at the Yoseftal Eilatian hospital. Later, by ambulance, he was taken to the ASUTA hospital, in the center of the country, reports Newsru ISRAEL with reference to medical sources. This information was also confirmed by the surroundings of the spigel, the site notes.

In the Kamchatka Territory, police detained a man who, by staging a robbery, tried to receive the salary of his civilian spouse. Before the New Year, the woman was fired, and then her roommate came to the office with Kalashnikov’s toy automatic. The attack on the office of a commercial company in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky was committed on Tuesday.

The deadlines for providing military personnel with permanent housing should be strictly observed, in 2012 there should not be a single waiting list, said President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev. During the visit to the Chukes microdistrict on Wednesday, the head of state, Moscow Region Podolsk, got acquainted with the plans for the construction of housing for military personnel.

The authorities of St. Petersburg allowed a rally on January 15 in memory of the football fan Yegor Sviridov, who was killed in Moscow last December. The action will be attended by activists of another Russia, supporters of the movement against illegal immigration (DPNI), football fans, the organizers of the event reported. "The administration agreed to us a rally.

A former assistant to the city prosecutor, who is suspected of organizing a custom -made murder of his companion, was arrested in the Moscow region. The attacker wanted to assign his share of the business, but was exposed by the third co -owner of the company. A 31-year-old resident of Podolsk was taken for preparing an attempt on a businessman. It is one of the co -founders of Novotex, which specializes in the production and supply of fabric, writes the newspaper Moscow Komsomolets .

As a result of the flood, from which the north-east of Australia continues to suffer , about 20 thousand houses can be flooded, Mnsbc.com reports. Brisben - the third largest city in the country, where about two million people, the capital of the province of Queensland lives, will suffer primarily. Thousands of people are evacuated both from the skyscrapers of the business center and from residential suburbs.

The day before, the Bank of Russia published the results of monitoring the average arithmetic value of the maximum percentage rates on ruble deposits of ten largest banks for the first decade of January.