The British TV channel Sky News added oil to the fire of rumors about supposedly preparing grandiose fraud to ensure the victory of the presidential candidate from United Russia Vladimir Putin in the first round of elections. The investigation conducted by the Moscow correspondent Amanda Walker showed that since the traditional stuffing, in which one person simply lowers a pack of pre-filled ballots into the urn, becomes dangerous due to the activation of observers, new sublilers are invented.

In the capital, an attack on a candidate for municipal deputies Peter Miloserdov, a graduate of the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University, was committed, blogs said and he confirmed himself. It is claimed that the politician was beaten on the street during agitation before the elections to the Moscow City Duma.

Iran’s ambassador to Russia, Seyed Mahmoud Reza Sajadi, accused of the Russian State Bank of VTB 24 of his intention to block the accounts of the Iranian embassy, ​​which cooperates with him. “Today at 15:00 the embassy employee, responsible for working with banks, went to the Bank of VTB 24, with whom the embassy cooperates.

The head of the Presidential Council of Human Rights, Mikhail Fedotov, recommended the Voice association, which again encountered claims from the prosecutor's office because of its SMS CIK service, change the name of the project. "It seems to me the wrong name for the project -" SMS -CIC. "It could be called somehow otherwise that there was no association with the Central Election Commission," Fedotov told Interfax .

The bill on the return of the minimum permissible for drivers of the level of alcohol in the blood can be submitted to the State Duma until the end of the spring session, the first deputy chairman of the Committee on Constitutional Law, the leader of the movement of freedom of choice Vyacheslav Lysakov told RIA Novosti .

In the Novosibirsk region, the police are dealing with the circumstances of the road incident with shooting, in which one person was seriously injured. Attackers fired at the traumatic weapons of Omsk Rotiglors when they did not give their way. Currently, police officers of the Dzerzhinsky district of Novosibirsk are conducting a pre -investigation check, Interfax reports with reference to the Central Internal Affairs Directorate in the Novosibirsk Region.

The NTV television company decided to make from the Friday broadcast the show of the documentary "I, Putin. Portrait" German director Hubert Zaypel, who was supposed to be released just a few hours before the so-called "Day of silence", when any political agitation is prohibited, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the press service of the television channel. "" The appearance of the documentary "I, Putin. Potin.

Andrey Malgin “The documents that came to me shed light on the scale of abuses that allow a narrow circle of people, with the support of leading international law firms, to earn fabulous money at the expense of Norilsk Nickel shareholders. Contrary to the interests of minority shareholders and secretly from government authorities, these people withdraw assets to accounts in foreign banks, hiding their schemes behind a web of offshore companies registered with nominees.

The financial crisis in the euro zone has ended, but the economic is continued, at the end of the Spring Summit of the European Union, French President Nicolas Sarkozy. “We are overlooking the page with great relief - the financial crisis in the euro zone ended, although the economic crisis is not yet,” he emphasized. The current European Union summit was the first since the last August, which is not extraordinary and anti -crisis, added Sarkozy.

The Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation examined on Friday the complaint of the ex-head of the MFIs Menatep Platon Lebedev to the norm of the law on parole and determined that the lack of guilty from the convicted person does not interfere with parole. At the same time, the lawyers of Lebedev and the ex-head of the Tax Code of Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky doubt that this decision of the country's highest court will change something in the fate of their customers.

The EU summit provided Serbia with the official status of a candidate for joining the EU. This was stated by the EU President Herman van Rompey re -elected for a second term . "The European Council granted Serbia the status of a candidate country to the European Union," he said. Serbia was the last of the Balkans states to receive the status of an official candidate for joining the European Union.

The football agent Viktor Halapurdin, who previously represented the interests of the midfielder of the Russian national team and the Makhachkala Anji, Yuri Zhirkov, sued his former client, demanding to pay almost 109 million rubles. On Friday, the Savelovsky court of Moscow will begin to consider the claim, reports the Moscow Komsomolets . According to the newspaper, 58-year-old Halapurdin represented the interests of the midfielder for almost 10 years.

The auction house Sotheby's bypassed the revenue from the 2011 sales revenue of his main competitor Christie's, raising $ 5.8 billion. For Christie's, this figure is only a little lower - 5.7 billion dollars. “Sotheby's revenue from private sales amounted to $ 814.6 million, showing an increase of 65% compared to the previous year,” said Bill Ruprecht, president and executive director of the trading house. And Christie's private sales brought $ 808.6 million.

On the Internet, perhaps, an answer appeared how the so -called "videos from the future" are prepared, which outrage the head of the CEC of Vladimir Churov, law enforcement agencies and the pro -Kremlin bloggers. An anonymous user posted a series of rollers on YouTube. According to the explanation, the webcam installed in the Moscow polling station No. 75 accidentally recorded the process of shooting the roller-provocation.

The Russian company VTB Capital and the most titled Bulgarian football club Levski announced the conclusion of an agreement on cooperation, the VTB Capital press release said. According to the Bulgarian media, the new general sponsor intends to annually invest about 1.5 million euros in the team. “We are convinced that this agreement will put the beginning of extremely successful cooperation,” said the Executive Director of Levski Iv Tonev.