The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation opened a criminal case on the murder of a three -year -old adoptive boy from Russia Maxim Kuzmin. A criminal case was instituted on the grounds of a crime under Part 2 of Art. 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (murder), the department’s website says.

The former owner of the Spartak football Moscow Andrei Chervichenko skeptically spoke about the prospects of the United Championship of Russia and Ukraine, about which there are too many conversations today. “I can say unequivocally that I am against this kind of idea,” Chervichenko said Sportbox.ru . “It seems to me that this whole project smacks of populism. Each country has its own tournament, which needs to be developed and trying to make it stronger - why mix them in one pile?

A large public campaign on the Internet: the site "Lenigations. NO" collects signatures in protest against the so -called "law on serfdom." We are talking about the presidential bill , which the State Duma adopted in the first reading last Friday. Already more than seven thousand people left their signatures on the site. The speed of collecting signatures is growing every hour. At about 15:00, the site began to work with interruptions, possibly due to attack on the page, - reports New Gazeta .

The Ministry of Education and Science will change the approach to evaluating the effectiveness of domestic universities. After the first monitoring caused a flurry of criticism, the main criterion is proposed not to make the knowledge of graduates, but their success in finding work. The number of those who soon after receiving the diploma ended up on the labor exchange will indicate to officials to universities that breed overwhelmers, which means requiring reorganization.

“This kind of surprise can be explained by the “mountain traditions” of collective voting or scientifically controlled vote counting. The elections of deputies to the State Duma on December 4, 2011 took place in Dagestan as usual: the turnout was 91%, United Russia received 83%, voting at home was less than 1%. Statistical tests gave strange results for Dagestan, but could not serve as a basis for serious suspicion.

Three state television channels - "Russia 1", the first and NTV - on Sunday showed the stories about "abuse" in the energy sector, which is supervised by Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich in the government of Dmitry Medvedev.

In China, two officials were removed from football activities for life, and the Shanghai Shenhua club is deprived of the 2003 champion title for involvement in the organization of contractual matches. The decision was made at a meeting of the disciplinary commission of the Chinese Football Association. Football leaders who were sentenced to prison terms for bribes in June were sent to life disqualification.

The bill, which would toughen penalties for drunk driving, was withdrawn from consideration by the State Duma not just because of ordinary improvements, but because of the fundamental issue of zero ppm. RBC Daily claims that the presidential administration proposed slowing down the initiative, thus interfering in the conflict between supporters of returning to the law the minimum permissible level of alcohol in the blood of a driver - 0.2 ppm - and the “zero-violents” led by Medvedev.

Tyumen police officers opened a criminal case on a large-scale fraud in connection with the activities of the MMM-2011 financial pyramid, the regional prosecutor's office reports. The founder of the MMM pyramid Sergey Mavrodi in early 2011 announced the launch of a new project - MMM -2011 ("We can do a lot"). In May 2012, he suspended payments to the participants of this pyramid, announcing the creation of a new project - MMM -2012.

The US State Department is aware of the death of an adopted child from Russia in Texas and promise assistance to Russian diplomats in establishing contacts with local authorities. This, according to ITAR-TASS, said the official representative of the American Foreign Ministry. "We know about the situation. As far as we know, the Texas authorities are investigating. We recommend applying for clarifications to them," he said.

The head of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Sergei Lavrov, on Tuesday in Brussels, began negotiations with the supreme representative of the European Union on Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Katherine Estron. The main topic of discussion is expected to be a patient for Moscow to cancel visas with the EU countries.

The midfielder of the Italian Napoli Marek Gamshik, after the home match of the Italian championship against Sampdoria, was robbed under the muzzle of a pistol. At the end of the game, which ended with a score of 0: 0, the football player of the car to go to the airport for his wife, after which he was met by two armed people. The bandits boldly broke the window of the car and demanded that Gamshik give the wristwatch, while directing the pistol at the athlete.

In the administrative building in the south-west of Moscow, where the Semenov RAS Institute of Chemical Physics and the Emanuel Institute of Biochemical Physics are located, an Interfax reports with reference to a source in law enforcement agencies. "The fire occurred on Kosygina Street, house 4, where the roof of the administrative building caught fire.

Detained in the case of the murder of the 37-year-old deputy of the Lipetsk City Council, Mikhail Pakhomov, whose body was found in a barrel with a cement in the suburbs, admitted to investigators that the goal of "bloody hunting" for him was to receive a debt of 80 million US dollars, according to the website of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation.

The bailiffs arrested the property of the General Director of the Mikhailovsky Theater and the chairman of the board of directors of the JFC group Vladimir Kekhman and hold part of his salary on a large debt account, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the representative of the FSSP of Russia. Earlier, the FSSP Office in St. Petersburg reported that Kekhman is a debtor for several enforcement proceedings, among the collectors - Sberbank.