The Moscow City Court terminated the criminal case against the heads of the Altyn jewelry holding, accused of the contraband of gold, including the vice president of the company Antonina Babosyuk . According to Interfax , this was thus satisfied the corresponding application for the defense of the defendants in the case. According to the court’s decision, preventive measures were canceled in relation to all the defendants in the case.

The Russian Orthodox Church is called upon to prevent civil confrontation in Russia in connection with the disagreement of part of the company with the results of the counting of votes in the parliamentary elections.

Investigators completed the work in the criminal case of the death of the judge of the Nagatinsky district court of Moscow, Ekaterina Chernyavskaya, who suddenly died in the hospital of the Presidential Administration as a result of anaphylactic shock. The woman found the doctor guilty of the death of a woman who has introduced a drug that caused a strong allergic reaction, Kommersant writes.

Ukraine and Russia plan to create two joint ventures on the basis of the Ukrainian GTS. The first of them is supposed to transfer the main (transit) gas pipelines and underground storages of gas of Ukraine, writes the Ukrainian edition of the Mirror of the Week . According to the publication, Ukrainian negotiators were against the inclusion of Ukrainian PPGs at this stage in the gas transmission joint venture.

Billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov, who announced his readiness to go to the presidential election , must submit to the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation a petition for registration of a group of voters who nominated him as a candidate. Thus, he will take the first step so that the CEC considers the issue of its registration, according to Monday in the Central Election Commission, RIA Novosti reports.

The explosion at the plant of metal structures thundered in the Iranian city of Izd, the administrative center of the province of the same name. According to Newsru Israel , this happened the night before, but the Israeli media, citing the Iranian official news agency IRNA, reported an explosion on Monday. According to the source, the victims of the explosion, the causes of which remain unknown, became at least seven people, more than ten were injured of varying severity.

The authorities in Seoul announced that the South Korean border guard was chopped by one of the crew members of the Chinese fishing vessel, which was illegally in South Korean waters. Another coast guard employee of South Korea was injured, BBC reports. The incident occurred at dawn on Monday 85 kilometers from the island of the Sochon in the Yellow Sea. Nine crew members of the Chinese trawler were detained.

On Monday, the Central District Court of Novosibirsk was fully acquitted by the deputy chairman of the Government of the Novosibirsk Region Viktor Gergart, who was accused of abuse of powers and embezzlement.

Mostotrest OJSC received the right to conclude a contract for the reconstruction of the transport interchange at the intersection of the Moscow Ring Road with the Leningrad highway, the cost of work is 4.85 billion rubles, the company said. The term of work is 16 months from the date of signing contract.

Two lithographic prints of erotic drawings made by the ex-soloist of Beatles John Lennon sold two thousand dollars each during the online auction held in the United States, RIA Novosti reports. The lithographs signed by the author of original drawings were printed in 1970. In 14 drawings, Lennon depicted his honeymoon with his wife Yoko, including frank bed scenes.

The hockey player of the Atlanta near Moscow will be called to the police as part of the audit of the incident that occurred in the Moscow Center. This was reported by ITAR-TASS in the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Moscow. On Saturday, at about 5 a.m., traffic police officers noticed a Mercedes car in the center of the capital, which grossly violated the rules of the road .

A Muscovite inadvertently drove over her 19-year-old daughter in a foreign car in the southwest of the capital, Marina Molokova, a representative of the Department of Internal Affairs of the Southwestern District of Moscow, told Interfax .

A temporary president appeared in Tunisia. It was Montsef Marzuki, human rights activist and opposition, who came to power as a result of the "revolution of January 14" . Recall that the authoritarian president Zin Al-Abydin Ben Ali was overthrown and fled to Saudi Arabia.

Modest 13.7 million dollars of cash fees for the premiere was enough for the romantic comedy "Old New Year" directed by Harry Marshall to become the new leader of the North American box office, who led the film "Twilight. Saga. Dawn: Part 1", OpenSpace , referring to the Hollywood Reporter .

In the Nizhny Novgorod region, a criminal case was opened against a 22-year-old woman suspected of killing a police officer. The girl shot the lieutenant colonel at her birthday, when the drunken guard of order began to brag about her with her gun. A 40-year-old deputy head of one of the departments of the Urensky police department was a victim of careless handling of weapons, the official website of the regional investigative department reports.